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Lague, Peter Ernest. "The language textbook in a post-apartheid education system." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14348.
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Bibliography: leaves 107-141.Using the English language textbook as its focal point, this study attempts to determine the extent to which educational publishers are in a position, through their practices, to assist in the transformation of South Africa. The centrality of language to both the creation of individual consciousness and to the shaping of society inform this investigation. Regarded as integral to these processes is the premise that education is the primary terrain into which language, and its fundamentally moulding potential, is locked. Furthermore, the impact of not only the transition in south Africa, but also of the fluidity of the wider global backdrop on both language and education are acknowledged as crucial influences on all spheres of private as well as public life. In this context, the study endeavours to locate and define those elements which comprise and inform the practices of educational publishing. It attempts to demonstrate that the broader socioeconomic, political, educational and cultural processes, from which educational publishing takes its signals, severely restrain its capacity for participation in social transformation. The study concludes with some recommendations for the publishing of English language textbooks in a post-apartheid terrain, and suggests a few areas of research pertinent to such an undertaking.
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Naidoo, Kumaran. "Class, consciousness and organisation : Indian political resistance in Durban, South Africa, 1979-1996." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310296.
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Parr, Jennifer Simone. "Integration in South Africa: a study of changes in the community health system." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4154.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDIn the thesis, I analyse a facilitated pilot project of integration of health care services at the community-level. The importance of the thesis is justified by three reasons: firstly integration and the creation of a district health system, as envisaged under Primary Health Care, is promoted as the solution to the health inequalities inherited from Apartheid in South Africa. However, many pilot integration projects have failed and analysing a failed project from an anthropological perspective provides valuable insight. Secondly a renewed interest in Primary Health Care, as the World Health Report of 2008 sets out, also makes this a pertinent pursuit from an international viewpoint. Thirdly the human experience is often ignored in health reform literature. I argue that anthropology can provide valuable insight into integration processes in a health system. Because anthropology explores the human experience, it provides a detailed understanding of the changes in a community health system and their impact on all role players. The data presented in the thesis were collected in an ethnographic communitylevel study in one township urban South Africa between October 1999 and October 2002. This makes this it a historical piece of work to a degree. I describe and critically analyse the facilitated process from the start of the project in October 1999 till its disintegration in failure in June 2001. I also describe and analyse the findings from community research conducted in 2002. For the analysis, firstly I build upon Scott’s concepts of dominance and resistance from his book Dominance and the Arts of Resistance to construct a framework. I argue that to understand a change process fully requires considering the historical context, the international arena, the present context and the facilitator.
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Johnson, Ian Lyndon. "Multilingualism and linguistic landscapes across space and time in the public railway system in South Africa: A multisemiotic analysis." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6647.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDDuring apartheid, the infrastructure in South Africa was built by the government and was designed to keep Blacks away from White areas. This infrastructure comprised inter alia the public railway system which was intended to benefit mainly the White minority population, as it momentarily allowed Blacks to provide the cheap labour needed in White areas and businesses. While Whites predominantly resided within the suburbs adjacent to the railways, Blacks were relegated to the outskirts of the cities to areas which became known as townships and homelands. Racial segregation was rigorously enforced and consequently, the signs displayed in trains and on railway infrastructure primarily served to demarcate spaces and places that were designated for use by either Whites or Blacks, respectively. Against this backdrop, the main aim of this research was to present an ethnographic, multisemiotic study of the linguistic landscape (LL) of the public railways in post-apartheid South Africa across space and time. The study focussed on the languages used on signs displayed in the individual research sites. A mixed-methods research design was employed which entailed consideration of both quantitative and qualitative data. Thus, data was collected during ethnographic fieldwork over a six month period and was analysed using a multimodal/multisemiotic approach. The results reveal insights into the social structuring of languages and the mobility of linguistic and semiotic resources across regional and national boundaries in space and time since the end of apartheid.
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Artz, Lillian Melinda. "An examination of the attrition of domestic violence cases within the criminal justice system in post-apartheid South Africa." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491983.
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Medico-legal research has found that four women are murdered everyday by their intimate partners in South Africa (Mathhews et aI., 2004). At least a third of these women sought assistance from the criminal justice system. Previous research on the implementation of South Africa's Domestic Violence Act [DVA] has found that there are critical attrition points in the criminal justice system where cases of domestic violence simply 'fall out' (Artz & Smythe, 2005a, 2007). Despite reporting incidents to the police and applying for protection orders, a significant proportion (over 50%) of victims do not return to court to have their temporary protection orders finalised by the courts (Artz 1998,2001). Against this background a study was undertaken with MOSAIC, a domestic violence intervention organisation in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The objective of the study was to identify the factors that contribute to domestic violence victims' withdrawal from the legal process before they ·finalise their protection orders. The research was conducted in four magisterial districts, namely, Bellville, Wynberg, Philippi and Khayelitsha. Over a three month period 365 victims of domestic violence were interviewed about their reasons for not returning to court to finalise their protection orders. Using an 'eclectic' theoretical framework, which draws on feminist jurisprudence scholarship and feminist empiricism, this research explores the personal, social and structural barriers that affect women's decisions to proceed with or retract from the criminal justice process. In the analysis of these barriers, it challenges feminist research and criminal justice practice to reconsider the nomenclature of the 'non-cooperative victim'. The transitional context of South Africa is critical to this analysis. It is argued that the construct of the non-cooperative victim both excludes the cumulative impact of victims' interactions with the criminal justice system and perpetuates the myth that women are intentionally and consciously obstructive; conduct which, in terms of research designed to explore 'victim non-cooperation', is enthusiastically scrutinised. It calls for a rigorous examination of 'system uncooperativeness' and highlights the critical failings of the criminal justice system that directly contribute to victim reluctance to proceed with finalising protection orders. Supplied by The British Library - 'The world's knowledge'
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Soko, Milford Sibusiso. "Re-engaging with the global trading system : the political economy of trade policy reform in post-apartheid South Africa, 1994-2004." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/50693/.
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The thesis examines the political economy of trade policy reform in post-apartheid South Africa. It challenges mainstream accounts of contemporary trade policy in South Africa, which have advanced a solely economic rationale to explain the policy choices made by the ANC governments since 1994. The thesis argues that, far more than these accounts concede, international and domestic political economy considerations have also played a central part in the ANC governments' calculations to undertake trade reform to the degree it has. Trade reform in South Africa has been the linchpin of a global adjustment strategy pursued by the domestic political elites by which they have sought to fulfill South Africa's global, regional and domestic political and economic objectives. At the global level, the South African state has vigorously pursued trade liberalisation in order to shed its past image of international pariah and reintegrate itself into the global economy on the basis of outward-oriented growth. Restoring South Africa's international political respectability has been as important as reversing its economic marginalisation in the international division of labour. At the regional level, the South African state has used trade policy reform as a foreign economic policy tool not only to rebuild political and diplomatic relations with African countries strained during the apartheid era - but also to advance its hegemonic ambitions, particularly in Southern Africa, as well as reinforce the region's ability to engage with the forces of economic globalisation. The extent to which South Africa's regional hegemonic ambitions can be achieved, however, lies ultimately with how adeptly the country can reconcile these regional aspirations with its domestic pressures. At the domestic level, trade reform has been deployed by the decision-making elites not only to lock in the government's austere macroeconomic policy but also to curtail the power of domestic interests that have benefited from trade protectionism in the past. In return for their co-operation, the South African state has allowed these interests, notably business and labour, enhanced institutional representation in economic policymaking. In this sense trade policy has been employed to serve domestic as much as foreign political and economic policy ends.
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Arendse, Lorette Elizabeth. "'The school funding system in post-apartheid South Africa: Is the right to adequate basic education accessible to the rich only?'." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1746.
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Magister Legum - LLMThe financing of public schools in South Africa is dependent on school fees to a great extent. However, the legislative process governing the charging of school fees perpetuates the entrenched inequality in the education system and violates the constitutional rights of those learners who are unable to afford school fees and other educational costs. This study examines the impact of the school funding system on the right to basic education of these learners, who are in most instances black and/or poor.
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Ndou, Siphiwe Davidson. "The effect of capacity building training programmes on municipal practitioners in selected municipalities within the Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo Province." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1814.
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Thesis (MPA. (Public Administration)) -- University of Limpopo, 2015Local governments are obliged by the Constitution of South Africa to deliver services and development to local communities in their demarcated areas. This constitutional mandate comes at a time where South African government entered into a new regime of government indebted to fix the ill of the Apartheid systems. The government of the post-1994 had to eradicate the inequality offspring of segregation policies of the past that resulted in most of the black communities without access to decent local government services and systems. The provision of services by local government became constrained by skills gaps and distribution across a wider community that had to be included in cascading services. The question of capacity in local government formed a critical part of the transformation of government in South Africa. Never the less local government has been swept by service delivery protest since the 2004 with a sharp increase from 2008 till current. Further pressures that indicate capacity challenges are with the inability of municipalities to deal healthy with financial resource. This challenged is confirmed by the steady poor reports by the auditor general year-in-year-out. These challenges exist where there is a concentrated financing reservations and advocacy of capacity building training programmes, which in turn shows to be failing to address capacity challenges in local government. The study investigated the effects of capacity building training programmes on municipal practitioners in selected municipalities within the Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo province. The focus of the study is to establish the implication of capacity building training programmes on the capacity of officials to discharge their official duties in the municipalities. The study also dealt with the need for a methodological model that could be used to develop capacity building training programmes. Competency-Based Training was studied in pursuit for recommendation as a model for capacity building in local government. The study was grounded within the boundaries of the systems thinking with bias to the complex systems thinking. To fulfil the purpose of the study data was collected through qualitative and quantitative methods. Analyses were made using the Statistical Package for Social Science. The findings of the study revealed that though there are positive effects of capacity building training programmes in local government there is much to be done especial the alignment of capacity with the strategic positioning of the participating municipalities.
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Jensen, Jannie. "Grapes of Wrath : A burden of liquor carried by farm workers - a heritage borne by children." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-18200.
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The thesis deals with the difficulties concerning alcohol use and misuse among Coloured farm workers within the heart of the wine industry in South Africa. The current extent of alcohol use and misuse in the rural areas of the Western Cape Province is commonly referred to as the legacy of the dop system. The dop system was a legislative practice whereas farm workers were provided with small portions of cheap wine throughout the workday. The practice was racially targeted towards Coloureds and thus contributed to the creation of a dependent labour force and extensive alcohol-related difficulties among Coloured farm workers. The dop system was formally abolished in 1961 but the practice proceeded into the 1990s. Alcohol related difficulties do however tend to continue without signs of change. The main purpose of the study is to investigate how current difficulties of alcohol use and misuse affect children’s life outcome and educational opportunities. It has also been important to investigate various aspects of living and working conditions in the farm villages that may be linked to alcohol issues. Another aim is to determine contributing factors to the continuance of alcohol use and misuse despite the abolition of the dop system. The work has been conducted according to the method of oral history theories in order to provide a bottom up approach, thus allowing the perspectives and the stories of the farm workers themselves to come forth. Coloured farm workers in the region are largely affected by socio-economic concerns and uncertainty in regards of labour. Inexpensive and readily available alcohol in illegal liquor outlets, so-called shebeens, is a driving force to the consumption of alcohol. Farm workers are partly isolated upon the farm villages and commonly have limited opportunities of unionizing. This makes it crucial to let the farm workers and their families express how alcohol difficulties are manifested in and affecting their daily lives.
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Lind, Erika. "Housing the nation? : post-apartheid public housing provision in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa /." Uppsala : Dept. of Social and Economic Geography [Kulturgeografiska institutionen], Univ, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3948.
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Kefale, Kende. "The paradox of differentiation : Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory and the impossibility of unilateral control - the case of apartheid." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8952.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-65).The German sociologist, Niklas Luhmann, proposed a social theory that could describe a society at a far more abstract level than is customary. Based on his study of general systems theory and drawing on the works of biologists and mathematicians, Luhmann formulated his theory of social systems which he hoped would move social theory away from the discourse of oppression. In developing his theory, one of the conclusions he arrived at was that unilateral control (or domination) was impossible as a permanent feature of a system. This paper demonstrates (a) how such unilateral control cannot be a defining structure of a society although it appears temporarily from time to time and (b) how Luhmann's social systems theory provides a theoretical framework to understand the impossibility of unilateral control. By using Luhmann's theory of differentiation, this paper will show how the unique evolution of the Apartheid subsystem led to the temporary success of its efforts at unilateral control. It will also be shown how the same unique differentiation could not allow for this kind of control to persist over time - hence the paradoxes of differentiation. The paper concludes by indicating the dangers of superficial abstractions based on temporary states of a system, and advocates a level of abstraction more concerned with action than experience.
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Fourie, Jade Melissa. "The relationship between social support, self-esteem and exposure to community violence on adolescent's perceptions of well-being." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3937_1331889850.
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Violence is considered to be one of the most critical and threatening global problems plaguing the world today, leaving a trail of devastating consequences to societies, economies, cultures, families and individuals (Desjarlais &
Kleinman, 1997). Adolescents who grow up in a context of violence learn distorted ways of thinking, acting, living and interacting. Aggressive tendencies and violent behaviour become internalised and adopted as acceptable ways to resolve conflict situations. Chronic, continuous exposure to violence results in physical, psychological and emotional disturbances, such as depression, anxiety, lowered self-confidence, sleep disturbances, decreased attention and concentration spans. This study addressed the form of violence known as community violence, i.e. violence that children experience within their communities (either as witnesses or as victims). This study investigated the effects of this negative environmental experience and investigated potential mediating and moderating variables that could influence the harmful effects of such experiences. The variables considered as mediating and/or moderating variables were social support and self-esteem. The theoretical framework adopted for this study was Bronfennbrenner&rsquo
s Bioecological Systems theory.
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Fourie, Jade Melissa. "The relationship between social support, self-esteem and exposure to community violence on adolescentʹs perceptions of well-being." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1944_1331890691.
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Violence is considered to be one of the most critical and threatening global problems plaguing the world today, leaving a trail of devastating consequences to societies, economies, cultures, families and individuals (Desjarlais &
Kleinman, 1997). Adolescents who grow up in a context of violence learn distorted ways of thinking, acting, living and interacting. Aggressive tendencies and violent behaviour become internalised and adopted as acceptable ways to resolve conflict situations. Chronic, continuous exposure to violence results in physical, psychological and emotional disturbances, such as depression, anxiety, lowered self-confidence, sleep disturbances, decreased attention and concentration spans. This study addressed the form of violence known as community violence, i.e. violence that children experience within their communities (either as witnesses or as victims). This study investigated the effects of this negative environmental experience and investigated potential mediating and moderating variables that could influence the harmful effects of such experiences. The variables considered as mediating and/or moderating variables were social support and self-esteem. The theoretical framework adopted for this study was Bronfennbrenner&rsquo
s Bioecological Systems theory.
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Milongo, Moukongo Paterne Gervilen. "Comparaison du rôle de la société civile dans le processus de démocratisation en Namibie et au Congo Brazzaville au cours de la période 1989-1994»." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO30005.
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On peut considérer que le démarrage du processus de démocratisation en Namibie a lieu en 1989 et au Congo Brazzaville en 1990 : pour le premier il s’agit, de la libération du joug sud-africain avec l’accession à l’indépendance et la mise en place d’un régime démocratique, pour le second la chute d’un régime de parti unique et l’instauration du multipartisme puis de la démocratie. Cette phase de bouleversement a été rendue possible par la mobilisation des forces sociales, notamment les organisations syndicales.La recherche consiste ici à considérer le rôle de ces forces sociales dans ce processus et à s’interroger sur leur nature, en particulier pour déterminer si elles constituent une société civile. Ainsi les Eglises jouent un rôle déterminant, et ce dans les deux pays. Au moment de l’ouverture démocratique, les associations se multiplient. La mise en place des premières institutions est marquée par une course au pouvoir, et se révèle la plus critique pour la société civile, dont le positionnement même est mis à mal ; les organisations sont soumises à rude épreuve. Certains meneurs des mouvements de contestations se retrouvent à la tête de partis politiques, dans un environnement à haut risque. Les rivalités ethniques ou tribales et le régionalisme s’enracinent dans la conscience populaire.Si la Namibie va poursuivre son chemin vers la démocratie, malgré la faiblesse de la société civile et les blessures du passé, le Congo va sombrer d’abord dans une guerre civile avant de chercher le chemin de la paix. La société civile anéantie au moment du conflit revient sur le devant de la scène à travers le Conseil œcuménique des Eglises mais échoue à consolider la démocratieOne can acknowledge that the democratisation process in Namibia started in 1989 and in Congo Brazzaville in 1990: for the first one it meant freeing itself from the South African rule as the country conquered its independence and established a democratic regime, for the second one, it meant the fall of a one-party rule and installing a multiparty system in a move to democracy. This upheaval phase was made possible through social forces mobilisation, especially trade unions. Our research consists in looking into the role played by these social forces in the process and in questioning their nature, particularly in order to determine whether they form some civil society. In both countries, churches are instrumental in the process. When democracy is introduced, associations flourish. As the first institutions are set, a struggle for power is engaged that soon proves to be critical for civil society, as even their position is challenged ; organisations are under deep stress. Some leaders of these social movements join or head political parties, in a high-risk context. Ethnic or tribal rivalries, as well as regionalism roots in the people's consciousness. If Namibia continues its path to democracy, despite the weakness of civil society and the wounds from the past, the Congo will first fall into civil war before searching for a way towards peace. Civil society, which has collapsed during the conflict, comes back to front stage through the Ecumenical Council of Churches but fails to consolidate democracy
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Spiess, Clemens. "One-party-dominance in changing societies the African National Congress and Indian National Congress in comparative perspective ; a study in party systems and agency in post-colonial India and post-apartheid South Africa /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=97250981X.
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Spieß, Clemens [Verfasser], and Subrata K. [Akademischer Betreuer] Mitra. "One-Party-Dominance in Changing Societies: The African National Congress and Indian National Congress in Comparative Perspective: A Study in Party Systems and Agency in Post-Colonial India and Post-Apartheid South Africa / Clemens Spieß ; Betreuer: Subrata K. Mitra." Heidelberg : CrossAsia E-Publishing, 2006. http://d-nb.info/1218726458/34.
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Nepfumbada, Ntevheleni. "The Post-apartheid South African Economy in the global economic system, 1994-2004." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1038.
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Shivambu, Nyiko Floyd. "South Africa's negotiated transition from apartheid to an inclusive political system: what capitalist interests reigned supreme?" Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/17051.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, Political Studies, 2014.South Africa’s negotiated transition from apartheid to an electorally inclusive political has many interpretations, because it was contested by various classes, strata and fractions of capital. Like all capitalist states, the apartheid state was a contested state, whose policy direction and ultimate reformation was contested not only by the contending classes in a capitalist system, by fractions of capital within the dominant and ruling class. As a result, mining, finance and aspirant black capitalist interests reigned supreme over the transition from apartheid to an inclusive political system and notably reigned supreme over the ANC-led liberation movement’s economic aspirations. This is reflected in the structural socio-economic problems of inequalities, unemployment, under-employment and therefore poverty which preceded and succeed the ‘end of apartheid’. Failure to comprehend this phenomenon will be disastrous for future economic policy making, because from all ideological and political streams, there should be a recognition in South African political economy that massive labour absorptive industrial development and expansion of local agricultural production are the most viable options to create sustainable jobs, and therefore reduce high levels of poverty and inequalities. Continued ideological and political dominance of mining capital is in the South African context a curse, because such impacts on the many vital policy positions the state should pursue, particularly its macro-economic policies.
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Malowa, Molatelo. "Judicial interpretation of indigenous law as inferior legal system on socio-economic rights in post-apartheid South Africa." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50675.
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The significant issue in customary or indigenous law is that in its original form, it is unwritten. Application and interpretation of rules is done by the tribal authorities at a time when the matter is being tried; and precedents are kept in memory of attendants and those who had orally heard the application of rules.1
In terms of common and/or foreign law the legislators or the parliamentarians, politicians, lawyers, counsel and moreso presiding officers have throughout been responsible for the judicial interpretation of law on socio-economic rights.2 Apparently the legislators, politicians, lawyers, litigants, presiding officers’ interpretation and application of common law during apartheid South Africa had influenced the way indigenous law is interpreted. The interpretation of judicial officers in the post- apartheid cultural jurisprudence is conservative or narrow in approach.3 This did not allow the indigenous law, though influenced, to be applied and interpreted within its own ambit, but through common law’s ambit.4
There is responsibility on the post-apartheid South African government to ensure that the cultural jurisprudence of previously marginalized citizens is not organized.5 There must be development equality of indigenous legal system during judicial interpretation.6 The indigenous law which governed the lives of African people in pre-apartheid era is still in existence and all the rights emanating from it, to an extent that it is consistent with the Constitution.7 The judicial interpretation of indigenous law on cultural jurisprudence should be developed on the same par with other legal system like common law development as evident on right regarding allocation of fishing quotas.8 The presiding officer’s failure to interpret indigenous law on equal level with other legal systems may constitute unconstitutionality. Furthermore it may amount to lack of equality in protection and benefit of law to indigenous people from their legitimate expectation of enjoyment of cultural jurisprudence in post-apartheid South Africa.
Provision is made for recognition of indigenous law by sections 39,9 21110 and 21211 of the Constitution wherein among others judicial officers when interpreting that legal system they must consider that fact. However there seems to be no actual consideration of Constitutional recognition of indigenous law on cultural jurisprudence through judicial interpretation on equal par with other legal systems.12 In some instances the judicial officers quote section 39 of the Constitution in alleging recognition of indigenous law without practically implementing that recognition.13 There is hurry to allege indigenous law’s contradiction with the Constitution without proper judicial interpretation been done, especially on gender issues.14 The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJ & CD) in February 2012 released a discussion document. The document is entitled ‘Transformation of the judicial system and the role of the judiciary’.15 The purpose of the document was among others to develop judicial interpretation of indigenous on cultural jurisprudence; probably to be on an equal standing with other legal systems.
The government‘s eagerness to enact a Traditional Court Bill16 is another indications of a need for development f indigenous laws. The judicial interpretation of indigenous law on cultural jurisprudence will minimize inferiority or what may be seen as lesser recognition if empowering legislations are enacted. Inferior judicial interpretation may be inexistence due to ignorance of indigenous legal systems or its misunderstanding of it, but not necessarily mala fides.17 The document released by the DOJ & CD incorporates a section within it which is entitled ‘Plural legal system and the problem of legal impression’.18 The document is an initiative that shows awareness by the government that judicial interpretation of indigenous law on cultural jurisprudence is undermined or inferior. Judicial interpretation of common law has developed in pre and post-apartheid South Africa than the indigenous law legal systems.19 This query lack of indigenous law development on satisfactory level is understandable because recognition and protection of indigenous people’s legal system is essential for equal benefit of the law to all.Mini-dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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Pheme, Pitsi Petrus. "The influence of black conscious on post colonial protest poetry: a conscientisation in Mtshali's selected poems." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/3448.
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Thesis (M.A. (English Studies)) -- University of Limpopo, 2020This mini dissertation examines the influence of the Black Consciousness Philosophy on Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali’s Post-Colonial protest poetry. This is done in the form of analysing selected poems to highlight the influence that the Black Consciousness Philosophy had on the poems that Mtshali wrote about the experiences of black people under a suppressive apartheid system. The aim of this study was to explore how Mtshali’s poetry exposed the extent to which black people had been socio-economically deprived and misled to a negative and false belief of their inferiority and subservience. The title of the mini dissertation, suggests that Black Consciousness poetry claims to have had an influence on the protest poetry of Oswald Mtshali. The poems were analysed to ascertain this. The poems were examined with the express aim of identifying and understanding their themes and the socio-economic context from which they emanate.
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Timm, Jeffrey. "A study of the decentralised business nodes of the post-apartheid city of Durban : toward a new business district as part of the greater Durban business system." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/7787.
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This dissertation revolves around the topic of office decentralisation. The literature review chapter
first discusses a systems approach to planning, and how it is the relationships between the objects
within a system that makes the system as a whole useful. This chapter also discusses theories relating
to city planning with reference to Kevin Lynch in terms of city elements as well as city planning
typologies. Edmund Bacon’s theory of how movement systems of cities become powerful forces in
terms of how the city is used and viewed is also discussed.
Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City concept is discussed due to its intentional decentralisation but also
for the manner in which nodes are linked. New Urbanism is touched on because many sprawling cities
are turning this type of development in attempt to reduce the outward push of low density
developments. Seeing that Apartheid city planning was informed by Modernist city planning, both of
these concepts are looked at critically in relation to one another. This is to form the background on
what impact office decentralisation has had on South African cities, and whether the locations of such
decentralised office nodes have been in the correct locations in order to provide access to jobs to those
who were marginalised during the years of Apartheid.
With this background, office decentralisation is discussed in general, touching on office building
typologies, the effect transportation technologies had on city planning, what causes office
decentralisation, and the issue of office decentralisation in South African cities. Examples of how
office decentralisation has been used as urban renewal projects have been discussed because it is of
the opinion of the author that this needs to occur more often, especially in South Africa.
Precedent studies of three cities which have undergone office decentralisation have been discussed in
the next chapter. One is a South African city; one is another African city; and one an international
city. This chapter discusses briefly their past, and the issues decentralisation is causing for the cities,
as well as their solutions to the issues.
Durban is used as a case study in the next chapter where decentralised office nodes have been
identified and analysed. The challenges this decentralisation brings to the city are then discussed and
possible solutions drawn from the abovementioned precedent studies have been suggested.
These solutions were tested in a questionnaire which was sent to a selected group of working people.
The results of which are discussed and analysed in chapters 5.Thesis (M.Arch.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.
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Muthivhi, Azwihangwisi Edward. "A socio-cultural case study of a primary school system in Venda, South Africa." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/5902.
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The present study examines the relationship between the practices of schooling
and classroom teaching and learning on the one hand and learners’ cognitive
development and functioning on the other. The study uses innovative system of
ideas in developmental and educational psychology, originally formulated by Lev
Vygotsky to investigate the interrelations between learning, instruction and
development.
Carried out in a rapidly changing socio-cultural context of Venda, South Africa,
the study examines the realities of schooling practices that exhibit both continuity
with the past practices of society and some profound transformations that
together lead to a multi-dimensional and a complex picture of cognitive
development in learners. By examining the relations between the cultural
practices of schooling and its socio-historical context on the one hand, and the
consequent psychological process on the other hand, the present study offers an
opportunity for exploring processes that may be more opaque in relatively stable
socio-cultural contexts of schooling.
The observations on the history of schooling in South Africa in general, and in
Venda in particular, support the theoretical formulation that particular practices of
schooling, themselves originating from and continuing larger social-historical
processes, represent contexts in which learning and development take place and
are shaped. The empirical investigations revealed that even the socio-cultural
contexts of schooling characterized by strong ruptures, such as in South Africa,
nonetheless carry on some vestiges of their past practices that affect today’s
learning and development of learners.
The study concludes, extending the prevailing theoretical formulation, that the
social and cultural setting of schooling in Venda is multifaceted; manifesting
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instances of indigenous practices, the traditions of past missionary practices, as
well as the traditions of the past, apartheid schooling. By taking into account
these socio-cultural influences, the study provides crucial insights into the
regularities of cognitive and conceptual developmental processes taking place in
conditions of rapid social change in the course of the schooling of today’s
children in Venda. The study furthers our understanding about the regularities of
the socio-cultural and historical processes of schooling in conditions of rapid
social change, and concludes by proposing ways of improving contemporary
educational practice in South Africa, grounded in sound psychological knowledge
and research about school transformation and classroom teaching and learning
improvement.
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Mthembu, Ntokozo Christopher. "Black African township youth survival strategies in post-apartheid South Africa : a case study of the KwaMashu township within eThekwini Municipality." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22136.
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Text in English, Appendice 9 (pages 253-264) the isiZulu version of the corresponding English version.The discourse on youth in South Africa’s post-apartheid era attempts to explore black African youth as agents for social change in their locale. Various perspectives define methods that are utilised by the youth to overcome the social challenges in this era. A case study approach was adopted in conducting this research. The role(s) played by the youth to influence social change were also investigated. The term youth in this research, refers to black African youth between 18 and 29 years of age, living in the township of KwaMashu in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. This investigation attempted to unravel the contributions made by youth towards community development, as well as the strategies that they adopted to secure their day-to-day livelihoods. In addition, various stereotypes and attitudes connected to youth were examined and were also documented. This study also investigated the role played by social agencies such as government institutions, education sector and also non-governmental and faith-based organisations in relation to the empowerment of young people in defining their futures. This investigation enabled the exploration of the impact of contemporary cultural value system(s) in shaping youth’s identities and their perceptions. The findings revealed that there is a need for relevant stakeholders and policy makers to consider interventions that will ensure support of youth initiatives, to curb the scourge of unemployment and poverty. It also recommends that the academic sphere needs to consider the decolonisation of the curriculum towards an Afrocentric Indigenous Knowledge orientation to enhance the aspirations of the Constitution of South Africa. The study also discovered evidence that suggests that the youth have a critical role to play in the development of their locales. Finally, the findings of this research acts as the baseline that could assist future studies in identifying possible themes that can provide [a fuller] understanding of the role played by black African youth in different social settings, i.e. township life, academic and political spheres in the post-apartheid era.
Sociology
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Olivier, Michèle Emily. "International law in South African municipal law: human rights procedure, policy and practice." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/743.
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The object of this thesis is to investigate the application of international law in
municipal law, and more specifically to focus on international human rights law. A
determination of the sources of international human rights law constitutes the point of
departure. Treaties are the primary source of international human rights law, followed
by customary law. Recent authority indicates that the formation of customary human
rights law differs from that of customary international law in general. There are,
however, also international documents on human rights not falling within the scope of
the traditional sources as embodied in section 38 of the Statute of the International
Court of Justice. Non-binding sources of law, or soft law - most notably the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights - are shown to play an important role in the formation of
both treaties and custom and directly influence state practice.
Theoretical explanations expounding the application of international law in the
domestic law of states are examined, assessing their suitability for effective
implementation of international human rights instruments. Since the application of
international law in municipal law depends on, and is regulated by rules of domestic
law, the relevant rules of legal systems which may, due to historical factors or
regional proximity, impact on South Africa, are examined. State practice points to two
primary methods of dealing with international law obligations in domestic law, namely
transformation (associated with the dualist theory) or direct application (associated
with the monist theory). The specific method of incorporation adopted by a state is
often closely related to that state's constitutional system. The advantages and
disadvantages associated with each particular method are related to the intricacies of
individual legal systems. From an internationalist perspective the often misunderstood doctrine of direct application, has the advantage of making the
intended protection afforded by human rights treaties to individuals directly
enforceable by domestic courts with a minimum of state intervention.
The position of international law in South Africa is assessed against this background.
South Africa's constitutional history under British rule followed British law requiring
legislative transformation of treaty obligations, but permitting customary law to be
directly incorporated into common law. The position of international law became
constitutionally regulated in South Africa with the introduction of a constitutional
democracy. Drafting errors and practical difficulties experienced with the 1993
Constitution, were largely ironed out by the 1996 Constitution. The post-apartheid
Constitutions introduced changes and new dimensions compared to the pre-1993
position of international law, including: the consideration of international law when
interpreting the constitutionally protected human rights; the involvement of the
legislature in the treaty-making process; and provisions for both transformation and
direct application of treaties subject to the provisions of the Constitution. Customary
international law is confirmed as forming part of South African law, and courts are
obliged to interpret legislation in accordance with international law.
An analysis of court decisions after 1993 reveals the following broad trends:
(i) The impact of international law as part of South African law is still largely
overlooked.
(ii) The majority of references to international law by the courts are to international
human rights agreements and decisions by international tribunals under
section 39 of the Bill of Rights.
(iii) The distinction between international law and comparable foreign case law, as
directed by section 39, is often blurred.
(iv) No distinction is made between international hard and soft law when deciding
on human rights matters.
(v) Courts have refrained from applying international human rights obligations
which form part of South African law because they are self-executing or form
part of customary international law.
(vi) Binding international human rights obligations are only referred to for
comparative purposes.
(vii) The term "treaty" is interpreted in accordance with the definition of the Vienna
Convention on the Law of Treaties. The intention to create legally binding
obligations is therefore implicit.
It has been the policy of the post-apartheid South African government to ratify or
accede to the major international human rights agreements as swiftly as possible.
The execution of this policy has, however, met with numerous problems. As a result,
South Africa has to date not become party to the International Covenant on
Economic Social and Cultural Rights. Many treaties to which South Africa is a party
have not yet been incorporated into South African law and compulsory reports on the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention
on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights are overdue.
Despite the post-apartheid euphoria about the creation of a human rights culture in
South Africa and the formal commitment by government to give effect to international
human rights instruments, much remains to be done before South Africa can be
regarded as formally complying with international human rights standards.Law
LL. D. (Law)
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Oluwayemisi, Messigah Georgina. "Soweto township youth experience of unemployment." Diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25572.
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Background: The South African youth is confronted by unemployment. Ironically, even
the youth of Soweto Township experience the harsh realities of unemployment, despite them
playing a significant role to fight the apartheid regime. Therefore, the study explores the
experiences of the youth of Soweto with regards to unemployment.
Method: This study adopted a qualitative research approach and case study design. The
purposive sampling method was used to select the sample. The sample consisted of ten
unemployed youth of Soweto Township. The unstructured interview was utilised to collect
data.
Results: One of the main findings in this study was the fact that unemployment has impacted
negatively on young people in Soweto Township. Unemployment has led to psychological
effects and isolation amongst the jobless youth of Soweto.
Conclusion: There is a need for great job opportunities for the youth in South Africa to
grow the economy. This could also reduce crime among young people since it is well known
that some of the young people have engaged in criminal activities due to unemployment.Psychology
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Ballim, Faeeza. "The evolution of large technical systems in the Waterberg coalfield of South Africa: from apartheid to democracy." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/23949.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Johannesburg, March 2017.This thesis follows the development of a particular set of large technical systems in South Africa from the late apartheid era into the age of democracy. During apartheid technological prowess, upheld by the network of state corporations or parastatals, bolstered the authoritarian rule of the white minority government in South Africa. The economic and political liberalisation of the late 1980s challenged the power of the parastatals and altered the underlying rationale of infrastructure development. In particular I describe the transformation of Iscor and Eskom, two of the country’s major parastatals, and their activities in the Waterberg coalfields, an isolated region on the country’s north-western border. While Eskom’s activities in the region began in the 1980s they gained public notoriety with the construction of the Medupi power station two decades later. The obstacles that Eskom faced at Medupi represent the main challenge of developing large technological infrastructures in the democratic, post-colonial order, where the fruits of infrastructure development demand to be spread beyond the bounds of an elite minority. But the eventual completion of some power generating units in 2015 at Medupi demonstrates that failure is not inevitable. I argue that this success is due to the fact that the autonomous parastatal network negotiated the political and economic liberalisation of the early 1990 by incorporating the changing socio-political conditions into its operations. The parastatal network retained a momentum, in the sense first described by the historian of technology Thomas Hughes, which was also a product of the “locked-in” nature of investment in the infrastructure project. Because of the large capital investment required for the infrastructure development, proceeding tenaciously against the odds to see the project to completion was cheaper than retreat for those involved.
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Vahed, Yasmeen. "Fear of crime, social cohesion and home security systems in post-apartheid South Africa : a case study of ward 33, Durban." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/11250.
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This study investigates the causes of fear of crime amongst residents of Ward 33 in KwaZulu-Natal, and
the impact of this fear on their behaviour; the relationship between social cohesion and fear of crime; how
residents are trying to make themselves safer in their own homes; and whether these measures are indeed
producing feelings of greater safety and security. The research methodology employed for this dissertation
is mainly qualitative, in particular the use of storytelling and photographs, which were used as a “canopener”
to get respondents to discuss their security choices as well as the choices made by others. The
findings indicate that the sources and extent of fear of crime vary amongst residents. Fear of crime
emanates from the physical and social environment as well as the kinds of information shared within
communities. Embedded within the narratives is a strong association of race with crime, which is deepening
divisions in the ward. The findings also question whether greater heterogeneity automatically reduces
social cohesion. As far as home security is concerned, the northern part of the ward is generally more
affluent and this is reflected in the more diverse security measures adopted by residents. In discussing the
principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), which is based on the idea that
crimes are less likely to occur when properties are visible, residents’ attitudes tended to vary according to
their respective fear of crime, their financial status, and specific location within the ward. A theme running
consistently through the literature and in some of the narratives is the effect of geography on how residents
and potential criminals view an area. The regeneration of some parts of the ward and neglect of others
shows the differential outcomes when local community members choose whether or not to be proactive and
participate in such projects.Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2013.
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Losch, Juanita Judith. "The challenges experienced by white teachers in the transition to democracy." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27563.
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Abstracts in English, Afrikaans and XhosaThis research aimed at investigating the challenges white teachers face in the socialisation of diverse learners in a former Model C school in the northern suburbs of Cape Town. The research involved a literature review conceptualising democracy, human rights, diversity, equality and socialisation, in addition to the concepts of white fragility and the theoretical perspective of Bourdieu’s ‘habitus’. The empirical investigation consisted of interviews to gather data. The findings revealed the perspectives of the teachers and their understanding of the socialisation of diverse learners in a democracy. Based on these findings, recommendations were made for the school and the Department of Basic Education to develop a system to incorporate in schools, in order to enhance socialisation and the transformation of former Model C schools. As the title states, this study was focused on the challenges white teachers experience relating to the transition to democracy. The context of a former Model C school is a complex scenario, where the values and norms of a dominant culture have formed, and continue to form, a critical part of the school climate and culture. The research findings revealed that since the transformation process started in 1994, ‘ex-Model C’ schools have assumed different characteristics and encountered challenges depending on their demographical location. Teachers need to address both social and educational aims, especially as the findings suggest that the schools, and particularly the teachers, are unclear about how diversity contributes to norms and values. This reflects in the tendency to remain focused on a dominant white culture, with which the teachers identify as ‘normal’.
Hierdie navorsing het ten doel gehad om die uitdagings wat wit onderwysers ten opsigte van die sosialisering van diverse leerders in ʼn gewese model C-skool in die noordelike voorstede van Kaapstad trotseer, te ondersoek. Die navorsing het ʼn literatuuroorsig behels waarvolgens demokrasie, menseregte, diversiteit, gelykheid en sosialisering gekonseptualiseer word, benewens die konsepte van wit broosheid en die teoretiese perspektief van Bourdieu se “habitus”. Die empiriese ondersoek het bestaan uit onderhoude om data in te samel. Die bevindinge het onderwysers se perspektiewe en hul begrip van die sosialisering van diverse leerders in ʼn demokrasie onthul. Op grond van hierdie bevindinge is aanbevelings gedoen vir die skool en die Departement van Basiese Onderwys rakende die ontwikkeling van ʼn stelsel om in skole te inkorporeer ten einde sosialisering en die transformasie van gewese model C-skole te bevorder. Soos wat die titel aandui, het hierdie studie gefokus op die uitdagings wat wit onderwysers ervaar ten opsigte van die oorgang na demokrasie. Die konteks van ʼn gewese model C-skool is ʼn komplekse scenario, waar die waardes en norme van ʼn dominante kultuur ʼn noodsaaklike deel van die skoolklimaat en -kultuur gevorm het (en dit is steeds die geval). Die navorsingsbevindinge het getoon dat sedert die transformasieproses in 1994 begin het, “eks-model C”-skole verskillende eienskappe aangeneem het en uitdagings teëgekom het afhangende van hul demografiese ligging. Onderwysers moet sowel sosiale as opvoedingsdoelwitte bereik, veral aangesien die navorsingsresultate daarop dui dat daar onduidelikheid onder die skole, en veral die onderwysers, is oor hoe diversiteit bydra tot norme en waardes. Dit blyk uit die neiging om gefokus te bly op ʼn dominante wit kultuur waarmee die onderwysers identifiseer as “normaal”.
Olu phando lujolise ekuphandeni imingeni ejongene nootitshala abamhlophe ekuhlanganiseni ngokwezentlalo abafundi beentlanga ezahlukeneyo kwisikolo esasifudula siyiModel C kumahlomela edolophu asemantla esixeko saseKapa. Uphando lwenza uphononongo loluncwadi oluchaza ngedemokhrasi, amalungelo oluntu, ukungafani, ulingano noqheliso lwezentlalo, kwakunye nobuthathaka babamhlophe neenkalo zokucinga ngokwethiyori ka Bourdieu ekuthiwa yi’habitus’. Uphando olusekelwe kubungqina baquka iindliwano ndlebe ekuqikeleleni idatha. Okufunyanisiweyo kwadiza iimbono zootitshala nendlela abaluqonda ngayo uqheliso lwezentlalo lwabafundi abangafaniyo kwimeko yedemokhrasi. Okufunyanisiweyo kwakhokelela ekwenziweni kweengcebiso kwisikolo nakweSebe Lemfundo Esisiseko ukuba kuphuhliswe inkqubo yokubandakanya ezikolweni, ngenjongo yokukhulisa uqheliso lwezentlalo nenguqu yezikolo ezazifudula ziziModel C. Njengoko nesihloko sisitsho, esi sifundo sagxininisa kwimingeni ejongene nootitshala kwixesha lenguqu eya kwidemokhrasi. Imeko yesikolo esasifudula siyiModel C yimeko enzima, apho iinqobo zokucinga nezithethe zenkcubeko eyongameleyo zibumbe, kwaye zisaqhuba ukubumba inxalenye emandundu yesimo sentlalo nenkcubeko yesikolo. Okufunyaniswe kuphando kwadiza ukuba okoko kwaqala inkqubo yenguqu ngowe-1994, izikolo ezazifudula ziziiModel C zaba neempawu ezahlukileyo kwaye zajongana nemingeni ngokuxhomekeke kwiindawo ezimi kuzo. Ootitshala badinga ukuhlangabeza iinjongo zentlalo nemfundo, ngakumbi, ngokokutsho kophando, izikolo, ngakumbi ootitshala, bengacacelwanga kukuba ukungafani kuncedisa njani kwiinqobo zokucinga nezithethe. Oku kubonakala kumkhwa wokungagungqi kwinkcubeko yabamhlophe neyongameleyo, le ootitshala bayithatha ngokuba ‘yeyesiqhelo’.
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Gani, Shenaaz. "Factors influencing the financing of South Africa's National Health Insurance." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19998.
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With the advent of the new National Health Act, health care in South Africa is at a critical point as this will be the first time in history that a National Health Insurance is being implemented in this country. Globally National Health Insurance has been around for more than a hundred years, however some countries with long established national health schemes are currently grappling with funding issues surrounding their health systems. South Africa should take note of these issues as it embarks on this journey.
The objective of this study was to perform a literature review on how South Africa’s National Health Insurance can be funded taking cognisance of the history of the country and experiences of other countries.
It is imperative for each country to achieve optimal health care funding to ensure the success and long-term sustainability of National Health Insurance. The analysis of the problems experienced by other countries revealed that balancing the three main funding options namely, allocated from the national revenue fund, user charges and or donations or grants from international organisations, is critical as the funds needed in a system to achieve coverage at an affordable cost is dependent on the current state of health care in a country. Considering South Africa’s history and current inequality in society and health care it is clear that the majority of funding for the National Health Insurance should be supplied by the national revenue fund. The required funds can either be raised by increasing existing taxes or introducing a new tax specifically aimed at financing the National Health Insurance. The use of user charges is important however, although not purely for a revenue collection point, but from a cost control point of view as well. Some studies have revealed that the lack of user charges results in a misuse of the system.Financial Accounting
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Katuu, Shadrack Ayub. "Managing records in South African public health care institutions : a critical analysis." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19058.
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The historical evolution of South Africa’s health sector, dating back to the 17th century, is significantly
different from that of other African countries. Throughout the four centuries of development there have
been numerous advances in health policy, legislative instruments and health system progress. Against
this background this dissertation critically analysed the management of records in public health care
institutions in South Africa. The study did this by addressing three objectives: assess the legislative,
policy and regulatory contextual framework of South Africa’s health care system; assess the
effectiveness of records management within public health care institutions; and identify appropriate
interventions to address the challenges facing records management in the health care system. The
study used purposive sampling to identify respondents with diverse expertise in three main sectors: the
public sector, the private sector as well as in academic and research institutions. Using interview
research technique the study solicited data that was analysed in order to provide a composite picture in
addressing the research objectives.
The analysis of data revealed three overarching themes. First, there is substantial legislative and
regulatory dissonance in the management of health records in the country. While there are extensive
legislative, regulatory and policy instruments that could be used to manage records, many lack
coherence with records management issues such as records retention. Second, understanding the
complex interplay of different legal and regulatory instruments is a critical first step, but it remains the
beginning of the process towards building a sophisticated implementation process. For this process to
be successful, study respondents argued that records compliance would have to be the backbone of all
other compliance processes. Third, while there were substantial areas of weakness in the management
of records in South Africa’s public health sector, there have been a number of pockets of excellence.
These include the efforts towards complying to access to information legislation by the Limpopo
Department of Health and Social Development as well as the successful introduction of Enterprise
Content Management systems in health care institutions by the Western Cape Department of HealthInformation Science
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Pfaffe, Joachim Friedrich. "Contextual pedagogy : the didactics of pedagogical emancipation within the context of disempowered and marginalised societies." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15764.
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The thesis deals with the theoretic concept of Contextual Pedagogy and its application in the context of a disempowered and marginalized society, the Ju/'hoansi ("Bushmen") of Nyae Nyae in North Eastern Namibia.
Contextual Pedagogy derives from the notion of Contextual Theology and is thus initially based on a pedagogical analysis of the KAI ROS-Document, whereby its sociopolitical content and its inherent methodology are being transferred into a context of pedagogy. Referring to theoretical concepts of Critical Theory and Liberation Pedagogy, Conditional Fields are being identified in a first analysis which determine
and explain the pedagogical situation in a colonial context of Apartheid South Africa. During a three-year qualitative field research, central aspects of Contextual Pedagogy are being applied within the framework of the development of a post-colonial and community-based school programme in Nyae Nyae, the Village Schools Project. This school programme comprises a curriculum for a teacher training course as well as a curriculum for Grade 1-3 learners in five selected villages of Nyae Nyae, and is based on the dynamic processes between the communities, the Student Teachers and the author as their Teacher Trainer and Village Schools Co-ordinator. A further theoretical evaluation and reflexion of the field research gives rise to a pedagogical superstructure of Contextual Pedagogy, which also investigates the notions of power, empowerment and over-empowerment within a context of development work. By doing so, the previous Conditional Fields of pedagogic work within a theoretical framework of Contextual Pedagogy become extended in relevance for a pedagogical context of a post-colonial society with special reference to marginalized subjects. In conclusion, the finalization of the research project and its subsequent handing-over process to the Namibian government analyzes the paralyzing effects of an excessive bureaucracy, and the resurgence of conservative and colonial thought in the young and fragile democracy of Namibia.Educational Studies
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Phaiphai, Thanyani. "An analysis of teachers' experiences in Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement implementation in intermediate and senior phase primary schools : Vhembe district." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27540.
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This thesis explored teachers’ experiences in curriculum implementation in primary schools in the Vhembe district. Curriculum implementation prompts thinking and learning of new things in the teachers’ day-to-day workplace. Primary school teachers are pillars of strength in contributing to the children’s future success. The thesis presents a contribution to the knowledge of curriculum implementation at the school level through a case study and a qualitative research approach as it aimed to comprehend and describe teachers’ practices and experiences on the implementation of the curriculum, which is a social phenomenon that includes ideas, thoughts, and actions. The thesis takes an appropriate starting point in arguing that curriculum implementation prompts thinking and learning of new things in the teachers’ day-to-day workplace. The context of the argument is primary school teachers’ lived experiences in South Africa in the face of curriculum change. The researcher critically argues that South Africa is amongst many countries that experienced curriculum challenges and resorted to change and one of the changes was in the form of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) which signalled a shift in teaching approaches. In this new way of teaching, teachers seem lost and therefore apply traditional teaching methods. Teachers are expected to apply curriculum changes and develop new skills through qualification improvement, but it is questionable whether the challenges that the teachers themselves recognise as important are taken into cognisance.
The researcher elaborated eight recommendations in relation to the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement. Some of the recommendations are summarily as that education curriculum advisors from the Limpopo Department of Education be appointed to visit all schools to aid and assess the implementation. It is also recommended that the Department of Basic Education must retrain all primary school teachers for a week during school vacation. These recommendations are of paramount importance and the Limpopo Department of Education should consider them as a priority. As the government can intervene by funding the implementation of the CAPS in the training and reskilling of teachers.Curriculum and Instructional Studies
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Spieß, Clemens [Verfasser]. "One-party-dominance in changing societies : the African National Congress and Indian National Congress in comparative perspective ; a study in party systems and agency in post-colonial India and post-apartheid South Africa / vorgelegt von Clemens Spieß." 2004. http://d-nb.info/97250981X/34.
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Schäffler, Margaret Mary. "The integration of black and coloured sisters in the congregation of the King William's Town Dominican sisters of St Catharine of Sienna : the past, the present and the future." 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17670.
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The Dominican Sisters of St Catharine of Siena arrived in South Africa in 1877. White
women joined the congregation. In 1928 the first black woman entered the congregation
but because of the policies affecting the different race groups in South Africa, the full
integration of black and coloured women was not achieved until 1983. Chapter 1
introduces the topic of the integration of the black and coloured sisters. Chapter 2 traces
the origin of the congregation and looks at its development. A brief overview of the story
of the black sisters is given in Chapter 3. In the next chapter archival sources are used to
understand what happened. Interviews that were conducted with some of the sisters
involved in the story are given in Chapter 5. In Chapter 6 there is a look at the current
situation and some of the implications for the future as the process of integration continues.Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology
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Mbuli, Bhekizizwe Ntuthuko. "Poverty reduction strategies in South Africa." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2293.
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Between 45-57% of South Africans are estimated to be engulfed by poverty. In an attempt to identify policy instruments that could help change this status quo, the various strategies that have been implemented in countries (e.g. China, Vietnam and Uganda) that are known to have been relatively successful in reducing poverty are reviewed. In the process, this dissertation discusses the literature regarding poverty, with a particular emphasis on the definition, measurement and determinants thereof. Furthermore, South Africa's anti-poverty strategies are discussed. It turns out that these have met limited success. This is largely due to insufficient pro-poor economic growth, weak implementation/administration at the municipal level, slow asset redistribution, high income/wealth inequality, low job generation rate by SMME's, high HIV/AIDS infection rate, public corruption and inadequate monitoring of poverty. Therefore, if meaningful progress towards poverty reduction is to be achieved, the government needs to deal with the foregoing constraints accordingly.Economics
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Moola, Sabihah. "Communication dynamics in producing effective patient care : a case study at Stanger Hospital’s diabetes clinic in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/20679.
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Text in EnglishInteractive health communication between the health-care professional (HCP) and patient relationship for diabetes health-care positively contributes to patient-centred care. Hence individual patient concerns are addressed and catered for in the medical system. The purpose of this study was to analyse in-depth how HCP-patient relationships and HCP-HCP teamwork dynamics positively contribute to effective diabetes patient care and treatment adherence. Different health communication models and theories were reviewed and a conceptual framework was developed from the literature. A qualitative case study approach was used to collect data at Stanger Hospital’s diabetes clinic. Data was collected using three different methods, namely in-depth interviews with HCPs and patients individually, observations conducted at the clinic analysing both the HCPs and patients, and finally, documentation that emerged as a third data collection method where patient files and diabetes educational material were analysed at the clinic. Triangulation by means of the three methods ensured that reliable, valid and credible data was collected in the field. Diabetes health-care and treatment management are affected by the social context/social system which includes family and culture. These social factors are acknowledged as core in the literature. However, a single comprehensive health communication model did not exist solely in this regard. The data indicated that at the Stanger Hospital’s diabetes clinic, patient-centred (individual tailor-made treatment plans) care was only implemented after patients had defaulted treatment for reasons linked to their social circumstances. The findings of the study indicate that teamwork was favoured in the HCP-HCP relationship at the diabetes clinic, and that this made a positive contribution to effective diabetes patient care. HCPs were overburdened at the clinic since patient numbers were high and there were staff shortages. The patients’ empirical data indicated that interactive communication positively contributed to their medical concerns being catered for at the diabetes clinic, but this tended to occur only after non-adherence. Patients required care and support from HCPs in order to learn to accept diabetes and manage their illness.
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Deane, Tameshnie. "Affirmative action: a comparative study." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2012.
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Racial and gender inequality, as well as other forms of discrimination has been a part of the South African, American and Indian histories for a very long time. Even today racial disparity is still very evident in the South African and American societies whilst discrimination based on caste is still prevalent in the Indian society. This is illustrated by continued racial discrimination and the remaining signs of societal segregation. Due to continuing disparities amongst the people, it became necessary to implement affirmative action programmes. Focusing in particular on education and jobs, affirmative action policies require active measures to be taken to ensure that blacks and other minorities enjoy the same opportunities for career advancement and school admissions that had been the nearly exclusive province of whites in SA and the USA, or for the forward castes in India. Affirmative action has been both praised and denounced, as an answer to racial inequality. One of the key issues that arise when affirmative action is discussed is whether or not affirmative action in fact promotes equality and atones for past prejudices. Another concern is whether the current affirmative action policy is the right policy to use. The issues surrounding affirmative action seems to be universal as are the circumstances. Perhaps the most widespread similarity among the programmes in these very different countries has been that group preferences and quotas are almost always discussed. The debate on affirmative action exists because it is a very divisive issue and it affects different groups of people in different ways, and some groups or persons seemingly benefit more from affirmative action than other persons or groups. In addition, it causes people to be classified into groups, and at the same time, strives to break down group barriers. It is an issue that is difficult to resolve because people have varied ideas about how the problems of racial inequality and historical discrimination should be addressedJurisprudence
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Du, Toit Petrus Jacobus Vivier. "Nie-gewelddadige aksie (NGA) en die ontwikkeling van swart plaaslike regering : 'n histories-kritiese ontleding, 1982 tot 1994." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16715.
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Text in AfrikaansSuid-Afrika het as gevolg van apartheid vir etlike dekades oor 'n gedeeltelik legitieme plaaslike regeringstelsel beskik. Die probleem is dat die land se apartheidsregering afsonderlike stelsels vir blankes en swartes in aparte woongebiede in stand gehou het, welke beleid vir meeste Suid-Afrikaners onaanvaarbaar was. Swart plaaslike owerhede wat swart plaaslike regering moes bedryf, was nog polities nog ekonomies lewensvatbaar. Die rede hiervoor is dat hul enersyds deur die gemeenskap verwerp is en andersyds nie voldoende inkomstebronne gehad het om plaaslike owerheidsdienste finansieel onafhanklik te lewer nie. Stedelike swart gemeenskappe was aan 'n, vir hulle, onaanvaarbare apartheidsgestruktureerde swart plaaslike regeringstelsel onderworpe. Swart plaaslike owerhede was voorts as gevolg van hul ekonomiese nie-lewensvatbaarheid, gekniehalter in die lewering van plaaslike owerheidsdienste asook die daarstelling en instandhouding van kapitale ontwikkelingsprojekte. Stedelike swartes was dus blootgestel aan gebrekkige dienslewering in aparte, onderontwikkelde "slaapdorpe" waar hulle noodgedwonge moes woon. 'n Vraag waarna gevolglik gekyk word, fokus op die kenmerke van 'n ideeeltipiese model van plaaslike regering wat die gedeeltelik legitieme stelsel behoort te vervang. As gevolg van die onaanvaarbaarheid van die swart plaaslike regeringstelsel was swart plaaslike owerhede sedert die vroee tagtigerjare die teikens van aksioniste teen hierdie apartheidsproduk. Aksioniste het nie-gewelddadige aksie (NGA), geskoei op die Gandhiaanse filosofie en metodiek van Satyagraha, aangewend ten einde swart plaaslike owerhede te vernietig. NGA (wat dikwels ook tot gewelddadigheid gelei het), het tot gevolg gehad dat die owerheid later noodgedwonge 'n nuwe plaaslike regeringstelsel vir die totale Suid-Afrikaanse samelewing, met alle deelvennote moes beding. Onderhandelings het vervolgens meegebring dat 'n oorgangsproses na legitieme (demokratiese) plaaslike regering vir alle Suid-Afrikaners ingevolge die Oorgangswet op Plaaslike Regering, 1993 (Wet No. 209 van 1993) geaktiveer is. In hierdie proefskrif is gevolglik vasgestel: (1) welke invloed die politieke bedeling (apartheidsbedeling) op die ontwikkeling van stedelike swart gemeenskappe en die bedryf van swart plaaslike regering gehad het; (2) wat die aard en effek van NGA op die ontwikkeling van swart plaaslike regering was; en (3) hoe geldig die onderhandelde plaaslike regeringstelsel is, vergeleke met die ideeel-tipiese model wat geidentifiseer is.
As a result of apartheid South Africa possessed a partially legitimate local government system for several decades. The problem is that the country's apartheid government maintained separate systems for whites and blacks in separate residential areas, a policy that was unacceptable to the majority of South Africans. Black local authorities who had to maintain black local government were neither politically nor economically viable because they were rejected by the community and lacked sufficient sources of revenue to render financially independent local government services. Urban black communities were subject to what, for them, was an unacceptable apartheid-structured black local government system. Black local authorities were also prevented by their economic nonviability from delivering local government services effectively and from instituting and maintaining capital development projects. Urban blacks were therefore subjected to poor service delivery in separate, underdeveloped "dormitory towns" where they were forced to live. An issue to be considered in this regard concerns the characteristics of an ideal-typical model of local government that should replace this partially legitimate system. As a result of the unacceptability of the black local government system local authorities became the targets of activists who waged a campaign against this product of apartheid since the early eighties. Activists used non-violent action (NV A), based on the Gandhian principle of Satyagraha, to destroy black local authorities. As a result of NVA (which often led to violence) the central government was eventually forced to negotiate a new local government system for the whole of South African society with all stakeholders. Negotiations led to a process of transition to legitimate (democratic) local government for all South Africans as promulgated in the Local Government Transition Act, 1993 (Act No. 209 of I 993). Consequently the following has been established in this thesis: (1) the influence of the political dispensation (apartheid dispensation) on the development of urban black communities and the maintenance of black local government; (2) the nature and the effect of NV A on the development of black local government; and (3) how valid the negotiated local government system is, compared to the identified ideal-typical model.
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