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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"African Democracy"”.
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African democracy at a crossroads : structural adjustment, economic crisis and political turbulence in Zimbabwe
Word processed copy. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-76).
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Alternative media and African democracy: The Daily News and opposition politics in Zimbabwe, 1997-2010
… the opposition forces and the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party, The Daily News provided form and solidity to oppositional and civic voices that were previously shut out by the dominant public media. The significance of this study is that existing …
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Public participation, political representation and accountability: the case of violence prevention through urban upgrading (VPUU) in Harare Khayelitsha, in Cape Town
The aim is to deepen the South African democracy at all levels of government. However, as local government is “the closest to the people” it is regarded by government as the most appropriate sphere to implement participatory democracy mechanisms. Pertaining to this, ward committees were introduced …
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Design and Democracy: Transformative Agency within Indigenous Structure
South African democracy is perceived and evidenced to be under duress. This research questions how design, when underpinned by transdisciplinarity and abduction, can articulate and address this problem. <br></br><br></br>The literature is reviewed to map how designed objects, processes, and …
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A Missed Opportunity: The Rhetoric of Social Cohesion in Parliamentary Debates - 1994 – 2014
… for the thesis was the violent actions by South Africans towards foreign nationals, specifically from the African and Indian sub-continent, who had migrated to the country in search of better prospects. Based on the country's history of racial discrimination and oppression, the thesis explores …
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The news media and democracy in Ghana (1992-2000)
… the role played by the news media in a modern African democracy. The issues of democracy and the theories that drive them are mostly either Euro-centric or Anglo-American. The perspective offered by this thesis showed that Africa has a unique system which calls for a hybridised approach to the …
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Preparing for the ‘ethical encounter': investigating the role and type of citizen education to encourage participation in local government
The South African Constitution envisages the South African democracy as both representative and participatory. Post-apartheid local government is designed to bring government closer to the people and create spaces for community and citizen participation. Ward committees and Integrated Development …
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What is the role of the Constitutional Court in Safe-guarding the separation of powers in a dominant party democracy?
… an analysis of the effect of dominant party democracy on South Africa’s traditional trilateral structures of government, with emphasis on the Constitutional Court. A dominant party democracy brings with it negative features, such as the blurring of boundaries of state and party, and the …
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Quality matters : electoral outcomes and democratic health in Africa
… which was eager to uphold Kenya as a model of African democracy. Unfortunately as the polls closed five days later; the Kenyan Electoral Commission had been disgraced, the two main political parties were mired in ballot stuffing accusations, and violence had engulfed Nairobi, Kisumu, and the …
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An analysis of South African Revenue Service powers to request relevant material as it pertains to the so-called ‘lifestyle questionnaire’.
This study focuses on the South African Revenue Service’s (SARS) powers to request “relevant material” as it pertains to the so called ‘lifestyle questionnaire”. It also deals with taxpayer’s rights in terms of the Tax Administration Act No. 28 of 2011 (TAA) and the Constitution of the Republic of …
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Rethinking the role of Indigenous governance practices in contemporary governance in Africa : the case of Ghana
… and imbibing Western values and ideals. Africans, on the other hand, are highly invested in their indigenous culture, socially, so what is the relationship between indigenous culture and contemporary governance. This study focuses on the nature and to what extent indigenous culture …