School of Government: Recent submissions
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Participatory approach an opportunity or a hurdle to water reforms: " Experiences from save catchment council, Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)For generations, participation has been a mainstay of academic writing and teaching. By the 1970's, the policy statements of the major international donors and implementing agencies all emphasize the importance of ... -
Administrative neutrality in a democratic state: A critique of current approaches and considerations for post-apartheid South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 1997)The ideal and practice of administrative neutrality has been problematic in the public services of liberal democracies since the middle of the 19th century. Either the ideal was interpreted very narrowly to exclude public ... -
Local government and human resource development: A case study of the City of Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2001)In order to make the Masakhane campaign (see definition of terms used) a success, local governments are required to improve service delivery to the previously marginalised communities. Many departments are not able to ... -
Employment policies and practice in the public service: The case for affirmative action
(University of Western Cape, 1998)South Africa IS apartheid legacy of racial and class inequalities demands drastic and purposeful intervention. This is necessary because, blacks and women have, for decades, been discriminated against on the basis of ... -
The use of South Africa's nature areas in the promotion of tourism and economic development
(University of Western Cape, 2001)South Africa has developed an extensive network of parks, nature reserves and conservation areas, the stated purpose of which is to both promote and protect nature and, particularly in the case of state-owned resources, to ... -
Local Government Capacity for Policy Implementation in South Africa: A Study of the Saldanha Bay and Swellendam Municipalities in the Western Cape Province
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)Local government in South Africa is an autonomous policy implementation arm of the government system. The purpose of this study was to examine the institutional, organisational, and human resource capacity challenges the ... -
In the Best Interest of the Child: Food Choices and Body Mass Index of Adult and Children Living in Urban Peripheral Townships in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)The increase in overweight and obesity worldwide is described as a global health epidemic. A great proportion of this epidemic is now found in low- and middle-income countries with higher levels of prevalence, particularly ... -
An interrogation of the adequacy of New Public Management in effective social service delivery Case of Mutare City Council, Zimbabwe
(University of Western Cape, 2020)Local authorities, if well managed, are a key public sector institution indispensable for effective and efficient service delivery which in turn is critical towards meeting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at local ... -
An analysis of the affirmative action policies and strategies of Oostenberg Municipality
(University of Western Cape, 1999)Local authorities in the Western Cape have all initiated affirmative action policies to address past discrimination and ethnic inequalities, however ineffectual they may have been up to now. The debate arises; what kind ... -
Accommodating domestic tourists in township environments: A comparative study of Kampala (Uganda) and Cape Town (South Africa)
(University of Western Cape, 2005)The topic of this mini-thesis evolved out of the author's internship at the Centre for Tourism Research in Africa and his own background in Kampala/Uganda. Both the Western Cape and the Kampala regions ~d as significant ... -
Land restitution and the implementation : A study of the Schmidtsdrift land restitution case
(UWC, 2001)In South Africa land dispossession and land appropriation were legally instituted with the promulgation of the 1913 and 1936 Land Acts and the 1950 Group Areas Act that saw the forced removal of the majority of Black South ... -
Intergovermental fiscal relations in South Africa: A study of the effectiveness and efficiency of the emerging intergovermental fiscal system
(UWC, 2002)The study is based on intergovernmental fiscal relations in South Africa. The focus area is on the current fiscal arrangements. The equitable sharing of nationally collected revenue - the manner in which finances are ... -
Gender equity in parliament: a study of the institutional constraints that women members of parliament experience in the South Africa parliament that hamper their effective participation
(University of Western Cape, 2004)South Africa has undergone a process of dramatic change since the first democratic elections of 1994, notably so in the area of gender equity in public life. The struggles and demands of women during the constitutional ... -
In-service training in Local Government: The Role of the National Qualifications Framework - some preliminary evidence from Greater Cape Town
(University of Western Cape, 2000)The purpose of this study is to investigate what the municipalities within the greater Cape Town area are doing regarding Education, Training and Development within their different departments in relation to the National ... -
The implementation of skills-development legislation in the Western Cape : A study of the naval dockyard Simon's Town
(University of Western Cape, 2007)This study investigates the extent to which skills development is implemented within the naval dockyard Simon's Town within the context of the NSDS and the various forms of legislation. In March 2001 the Department of ... -
Exploring plausible futures and its implications for the governance of local food systems using local actors’ expertise in the Witzenberg region.
(University of Western Cape, 2020)Despite having a significant agri-food sector, South Africa is faced with strong food security issues related to high inequalities and the legacy of the apartheid regime. The South African food system finds itself at risk ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of youth development programmes in Cape Town: A case study of the Chrysalis Academy, Lavender Hill (2007-2017)
(University of Western Cape, 2020)The importance of the youth to the future of a country is acknowledged in the frequently used maxim that the youth of today represents the leaders of the future. If we want future leaders of high quality, it stands to ... -
The politics of accountability within the collaboration schools: Measures, processes and emerging issues
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)At the beginning of 2016, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) initiated a public-private partnership called the Collaboration Schools Pilot Project (CSPP). This pilot targets underperforming schools bringing in ... -
Implementation of the National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) with special reference to the Department of Correctional Services
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Youth unemployment has become a national crisis in South Africa. The South African government has put policies in place to combat this challenge. Among the policies that have been implemented to address the problem of ... -
Evaluation of the effects of micro, small and medium enterprises finance policy on job creation in Nigeria
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The researcher attempted to assess the effectiveness of Bank of Agriculture (BOA) microloan scheme on job creation among micro and small enterprises. This is in view of the unprecedented rise in the unemployment rate in ...