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African Journal of Public Affairs (New)
The African Journal of Public Affairs is a quarterly journal issued on behalf of the African Consortium of Public Administration. The purpose of the journal is to further the understanding of the theory and practice of public affairs by publishing articles of interest to practitioners and scholars in English. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles, review articles, case studies, exemplar profiles, viewpoints and research results from practitioners of all grades and professions, academics and other specialists on the broad spectrum of administrative concerns regarding local, national, regional and international affairs.
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017-03)Parliamentary Portfolio Committees are engine rooms in legislatures, as their key role includes ensuring policy objectives are met through effective implementation by the executive branch and State owned Enterprises ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)In 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, listing the required Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The African Union endorsed the 2063 Agenda, the ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)The purpose of this article is to analyse the importance and the effectiveness of communication tools used by the legislatures in the South African public participation process. Public participation is one of the ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)The operationalisation of good governance principles such as transparency and public participation depends largely on the degree of access that citizens have to government information. This article is based on the notion ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)This article investigates the relationship between democracy and economic growth in five Anglophone West African countries using annual data from 1970 to 2014 and dynamic panel data estimation techniques which control ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)This article aims to enhance the understanding of the separation of powers governance framework in local government. The key objective of this article is to highlight how the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality established ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)Corruption features prominently in assessments of the governance, performance and capacity of South Africa’s public service. However, accounts of corruption too often fail to offer systematic appraisals of its occurrence ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)Curbing corruption has become a key priority for a number of countries and innovative initiatives have been taken towards achieving this goal. Such initiatives have increased through the inauguration of specific ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)The failure of development in Africa, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, since the beginning of the post-independence era, has resulted in intense discourse both in academia and in the public domains. The blame game between ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)Under the nuance environment of a shift from government to governance, the liberationist-democratic dispensation together with the constitutional guarantees of property ownership meant that multiple actors, inclusive of ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)This article argues that brown environmental problems have been given scant attention in urban planning and governance in favour of profit-making and industrial development efforts in South Africa, at the expense of ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)In postcolonial and post-apartheid contemporary Africa, ethics, accountability and democracy are usually divorced. This article argues that the three are inseparable; and, where they are divorced, the consequences can ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)The apartheid government had consciously entrenched a governance system in which local communities did not have a voice in their local development agenda. During the apartheid era, the national government held command ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)After a plethora of legislative and policy frameworks have been passed to integrate traditional leadership system into the modern liberal democratic system in South Africa, incompatibilities of the two became increasingly ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)The article demonstrates that decentralisation has been eulogised as a participatory means to development, which enhances good governance and democracy. Developing countries have embarked on various public sector ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)This article examines the effect of governance on the degree to which clean audits have been achieved in South African municipalities. Its pertinence lies in the context of two endemic public management performance ...
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Governance of corporate social responsibility and return on assets in the South African mining firms (African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)Governance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) remains a permanent subject in the sustainability development debates despite its long history. This article examines issues of governance by establishing the relationship ...