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Community food projects as tool for promoting sustainable development at Sedibeng district municipality
(North-West University, 2006)The total number of households in Sedibeng District Municipality is estimated at 224 307. Sedibeng District Municipality experience high level of unemployment and poverty (51% of the people of Sedibeng District Municipality ... -
A critical analysis of the process of taxi recapitalisation policy
(North-West University, 2006)The taxi industry in South Africa has had a chequered history by being informally organised and with activities fraught with problems of violence, accidents, deaths, unroadworthy vehicles, taxi evasion and unbecoming ... -
A critical evaluation of the link between integrated development planning and the budget at Emfuleni local municipality
(North-West University, 2007)Integrated Development Planning (IDP) has revolutionized planning for government as whole, and more specifically for local government. Since 1996, IDP has become a tool for municipal planning and budgeting to enable ... -
Developmental mandate of district municipalities in the Free State : challenges in promoting environmental rights
(North West University, 2010)Promotion and existence of a clean environment is a sine qua non for sustained life expectancy. The ushering in of the 1996 Constitution introduced a developmental local government in terms of which the objects of local ... -
Disability management in the public service : the case of the Gauteng Provincial Administration
(North-West University, 2009)Cabinet has on two instances set specific transformation targets to be achieved by Public Service departments as part of its transformation agenda. A 2% target was set for the employment of people with disabilities in the ... -
Effectiveness of internal control mechanisms in monitoring financial resources at the Gauteng Department of Education
(North-West University, 2013)There is a need to strengthen the internal control systems and mechanisms in the public sector in order for public institutions to maintain clean financial reports. This study focused on the effectiveness of the implementation ... -
The effects of on-the-job training on service delivery at Emfuleni local municipality
(North-West University, 2008)For the Emfuleni Local Municipality to successfully realize its fiduciary mandate of providing service. effectively and efficiently to the public, it is of paramount importance that the employee of the municipality have ... -
Employee assistance programmes as mechanism for enhancing performance at Emfuleni Local Municipality
(North-West University, 2007)The role of local government is to ensure that all citizens have access to the basic services. Thus, the Emfuleni Local Municipality has the Constitutional obligation to provide an effective and efficient people-centered ... -
An evaluation of land use and management systems by local municipalities within the Sedibeng District
(North-West University, 2006)This study primarily serves to outline the process and issues that are likely to confront land use management within South Africa. Although cities do not share similar problems of decline, they too suffer the consequences ... -
An evaluation of the administration of social grants as poverty alleviation strategy at the Sedibeng District Municipality
(North-West University, 2006)This research is directed at investigating the extent and depth of poverty in South Africa with special reference to poverty in the Sedibeng District Municipality A literature survey that explores the symptoms and causes ... -
An evaluation of the developmental role of local government in fighting poverty in the Free State
(North-West University, 2006)Three hundred years of colonialism, and fifty of internal colonialism, had hardwired a duality into the system, whereby two domains coexisted: on one hand, a globally integrated world of production, exchange and consumption, ... -
An exploration of revitalization strategies for rural areas : the case of the Northern Free State
(North-West University, 2013)Rural areas, globally, are characterized as poor regions, with two-thirds of the world’s poor people residing in rural areas. In South Africa, 70 percent of the poor population or 3.6 million households, live in rural ... -
Financial reporting as a tool for promoting accountability at Metsimaholo Local Municipality
(North-West University, 2012)Sound financial management is a growing concept in the public sector, especially in local government. The South African government has put in place policies and mechanisms to create a conducive environment for municipalities ... -
Fiscal decentralization as efficiency tool for supply chain management at Emfuleni Local Municipality
(North-West University, 2011)Decentralization is a buzzword in current discussions on Public Management and its debate has always been a contentious one. The concept involves the restructuring or reorganization of authority so that there is a system ... -
The impact of political legitimacy on the management of veterinary services in the former state of Bophuthatswana
(North-West University, 2007)This study attempts to capture the role and limits of the erstwhile Bophuthatswana state in implementing a set of reforms directed at the contradictions of uneven development, created by itself. This was undertaken on the ... -
An integrated approach to service delivery at Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
(North-West University, 2010)Within the South African framework of transition, constitutional development and of the Municipal Systems Act of 2000, the Integrated Development Planning and budgeting processes represent a significant shift away from ... -
Intergovernmental relations and co–operative governance : the tools to enhance service delivery in the Free State Province
(North-West University, 2013)The purpose of the Intergovernmental Relations Framework Act 13 of 2005 is to facilitate co-operation among the three spheres of government. The implementation of this Act has posed many challenges for departments in ... -
Intergrated [i.e. Integrated] development planning (IDP) as a tool for promoting sustainable development : the case of Emfuleni Local Municipality (ELM)
(North-West University, 2007)The government has taken constructive steps to address the issue of poverty in South Africa. The principal strategy on the government, and for that matter municipalities for poverty alleviation is to promote sustainable ... -
The new role of municipal officials as agents of change towards improved service delivery : the case of Welkom in the Matjhabeng local municipaltiy
(North-West University, 2006)An objective of local government is to ensure the provision of services to communities in a sustainable manner. Thus, the Matjhabeng Local Municipality has the obligation to ensure that public services are rendered ... -
Performance management as a mechanism for effective service delivery at Emfuleni Local Municipality
(North-West University, 2008)Section 38 of the Local Government Municipal Systems Act (32 /2000) tasks municipalities to establish a performance management system that corresponds with resources, circumstances, objectives, indicators and targets as ...
