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A decade of performance management at local level : the case of the Saldanha Bay Municipality : 2005 to 2015
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)South Africa is plagued by municipal service delivery protest actions on a perennial basis. This observable fact is confirmed in the municipal audit reports of the Auditor General (AG) for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 financial ... -
Decentering nationalism: Representing and contesting Chimurenga in Zimbabwean popular culture
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This study seeks to uncover the non-coercive, intricate and insidious ways which have generated both the 'willing' acceptance of and resistance to the rule of Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe. I consider how popular ... -
Decentralisation and constitutionalism in Africa: A comparative analysis of South Africa and Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Since the early 1990s, the move towards decentralisation has been given prominence in African constitutions. Countries that embarked on ambitious decentralisation processes had to make the necessary constitutional reforms. ... -
Decentralisation and local governance in the Lilongwe district of Malawi
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)This research measured the impact of decentralisation on the promotion of good local governance in the Lilongwe District Assembly. The study explored the condition of local governance by examining the status of the facets ... -
Decentralisation and Recentralisation in Anglophone Southern Africa: Factors driving the EBB and flow of power
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Literature on multilevel government is replete with the virtues of decentralisation as a governing model. As a result, the discourse of decentralisation has found its way into the constitutions, legislation and policy ... -
Decentralisation as a tool in managing the ethnic question: a case study of Uganda
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Decentralisation in SADC countries :transformation and challenges of decentralisation
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)This study focussed on the transformation of the institutions of local government from deconcentration, delegation to devolution. This transformation can be looked at starting with the institutions inherited from the ... -
Decentralisation in Uganda : a critical review of its role in deepening democracy, facilitating development and accommodating diversity
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)Uganda, like many African countries in the 1990s, adopted decentralisation as a state reform measure after many years of civil strife and political conflicts, by transferring powers and functions to district councils. The ... -
Decentralisation in Zambia: An analysis of local democracy.
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Zambia has had a system of local government whose origin can be traced back to the colonial era. This system of local government, which is comprised by local authorities, did not have constitutional recognition. The 1996 ... -
The decentralisation of primary health care in the metropolitan region of Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)In the interest of holistic integrated management, all functions and resources of primary health care should be transferred to the local authority through the process of decentralisation. Thereby placing all such services ... -
The decentralisation of primary health care in the metropolitan region of Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)In the interest of holistic integrated management, all functions and resources of primary health care should be transferred to the local authority through the process of decentralisation. Thereby placing all such services ... -
Decentralisation, development and accommodation of ethnic minorities: the case of Ethiopia
(University of Western Cape, 2012)Decentralisation of political, financial, and administrative powers to sub-national units has been, and remains to be, a major trend in both developing and developed states. Very often decentralisation is not optional ... -
The decentralised drug-resistant TB programme in South Africa: From policy to implementation
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)South Africa is one of the high burden countries for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) globally. A policy supporting decentralised DR-TB treatment provision was introduced in 2011 but to date implementation has been ... -
Decentralised human resource management in a district health system: case studies in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)The effective management of the public health workforce, in the context of decentralisation and the District Health System, is pivotal to the delivery of primary health care and, ultimately, improved health. This research ... -
Decentralization in Namibia: a case study of the Hardap Regional Council
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)The main objective of this study was to examine how the process of decentralization has affected the rendering of essential services in Namibia, through a case study of the Hardap Region. The main aim of this research was ... -
Decentralized health care services delivery in selected districts in Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)Decentralization of health services in Uganda, driven by the structural adjustment programme of the World Bank, was embraced by government as a means to change the health institutional structure and process delivery of ... -
Deciphering a potential cytoprotective role of novel heat shock responsive proteins using a proteomic approach
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)Myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack, is a condition where the blood supply to the heart tissue is cut off, starving the tissue from oxygen and nutrient supply, with consequent lethal damage to the heart ... -
Deciphering the determinants of molecular physiological responses to drought and heat stress in sorghum lines contrasting in stress tolerance via a proteomics approach
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Sorghum is an important crop in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The predicted rise in global temperatures will increase the probability of exposing sorghum to heat waves in combination with drought. Thus, production ... -
A decision-making framework for groundwater management in arid zones (with a case study in Namaqualand).
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)The main aim of the work on which this thesis is based was to develop a framework for sustainable management of groundwater resources in arid zones with emphasis on Namaqualand in the north western region of South Africa. ... -
A decolonial study of indigenous teaching and learning methods of knowledge transfer in Gabon’s rural communities
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Gabon is a country with an important ancestral cultural heritage that constitutes a set of epistemological and ontological systems that can be traced back to the 15th century. Europeans, with their colonising mission, ...