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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Government of national unity"”.
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A theopolitical study concerning the interrelation between the Government of National Unity and religion in post-apartheid South Africa (1988-1999) with specific reference to the Dutch Reformed Church and the Anglican Church
The year 2004 marked South Africa's celebration of ten years of democracy as encapsulated by guaranteeing a better life for all. The gap between the rich and the poor as well as moral degradation challenges the euphoria of our young democracy. The South African government's commitment to …
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Working with the enemy : the military integration process in transitional South Africa and the factors that shaped a new defence force
Against the backdrop of South Africa's political transition from Apartheid to a democratic system of governance during the early 1990s, the South African military underwent a distinct transformation of its own. During the military's transition seven disparate forces that had previously been vying …
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Confronting black low cost housing delivery in the Western Cape Metropolitan Area : a critical appraisal
This thesis presents a critical evaluation of the current responses being made by the new Government of National Unity towards solving the low cost housing and community development crisis. This crisis is largely confined to the black low-income residential areas and is manifest in a shortage of …
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Experiences of Unemployed Indigenous people Living with Disabilities in Soshanguve Township, South Africa - An Exploratory Study
This study explores the experiences of unemployed indigenous people living with disabilities (PWD) in post-apartheid South Africa. The promise of a better life for all made by the government of national unity in 1994 remains a pipe dream as most South Africans are still living on the margins of the …
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Towards the democratization of instructional leadership in South African schools: current trends and future possibilities.
The Department of Education of the South Mrican Government of National Unity has accepted democratic governance as one of the principles of its education and training programme. At school level, especially at historically black schools, there is also an increasing demand for meaningful involvement …
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Kenya and the ICC: the politics of the 2007 post-election violence
… election. The incumbent was Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU). His political opponent was Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). The vote was peaceful and described by many in positive terms; that is, a continuation of the positive democratic transition that …
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The real cost of the Government Mortgage Indemnity Scheme : an application of the option pricing theory
The legacy of apartheid in the social and economic fabric of South Africa is pervasive. More than two million households, with an average of five persons per household, are living in shacks or in hostels. Thus, the South African Government of National Unity as its most urgent priority has …
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An investigation into the impact of the privatization of public utilities on the affordability of and access to basic services to poor households in developing countries: lessons for Rwanda
… presented as rationale for the privatisation of state owned enterprises. The first relates to the problem of the financing of higher levels of public expenditure; the second is based on the viewpoint that private ownership is more efficient than public ownership; whilst the third claims that …
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The analysis of anti-racist perspectives and policies of the new education dispensation in South Africa
… in education which has been adopted by the Government of National Unity (GNU). The changes that have taken place in education since 1994 inform this research. The study therefore purports to reveal some of these changes as they relate to anti-racism. In the early 1990s the open school system …
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Transformation of the Public Service under Fiscal and Constitutional Constraints: An Analysis of the Relationship between Human Resource Development and Representativeness.
The essence of the study is to examine progress in the transformation of public service under fiscal and constitutional contraints. The thesis focuses on the implementation of affirmative action and human resource development programmes. The emphasis is on linking the transformation of the public …
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A comparison of science teachers' and engineering students' rankings of science and technology related global problems
… a scale for measuring the ranked priorities of scientists, and others, with respect to twelve major global problems related to science and technology in 1984. In 1993 this scale was re-administered to samples of 76 Cape Town science educators, 55 Transkei science educators and 129 chemical …
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Public participation in the drafting of the 2013 Zimbabwean Constitution: The role and significance of the populace
The defining moment of Zimbabwean constitutional reform came in 2008 after the disputed and violence riddled elections of 2008 when the three main political parties entered into a transitional Government of National Unity and were tasked with the establishment of a new constitution which was …
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A rhetorical analysis of the budget speeches of South Africa : 1985, 1993, 1994, 2002
The annual national Budget Speeches made by the Ministers of Finance of South Africa are epideictic (ceremonious) speeches that praise the government's economic policy for the coming year, recommend it to the nation, and also present the proposed Budget to the world. This speech contains …
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Worker participation in the new South Africa
The economies of Third World countries, almost without exception, are plagued by problems such as high inflation and mass unemployment, resulting in widespread poverty and an inevitable economic downward spiral. Within this context, the immediate task of any new post-independence government, is to …
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Reconceptualising South Africa's international identity : post-apartheid foreign policy in a post-cold war world
With the ending of the apartheid regime and the transition to power of a government of national unity, South Africa is now a legitimate member of the international community. It has joined the Organisation of African Unity, the British Commonwealth, and the Southern African Development Community, …
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Development and validation of a questionaire as a screening tool for developmental disability in 9 month old infants : September 1996 - January 1997
… development. This has occurred both on an international level and, since the inception of the Government of National Unity (GNU) in South Africa, nationally, provincially and locally through various development programmes. Development in a child concerns the sequential acquisition of cognitive, …
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The compulsion of the apartheid regime, its demise and the advent of a new political dispensation in South Africa, 1948-1996
… Act which set aside eighty-seven per cent (87%) of the most fertile land for white South Africans, leaving behind only thirteen per cent (13%) to be shared by the majority black Africans. This unequivocally generated a socio-political crisis in the country. Despite a plethora of literature on …
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The compulsion of the Apartheid regime, its demise and the advent of a new political dispensation in South Africa, 1948-1996
… Act which set aside eighty-seven per cent (87%) of the most fertile land for white South Africans, leaving behind only thirteen per cent (13%) to be shared by the majority black Africans. This unequivocally generated a socio-political crisis in the country. Despite a plethora of literature on …
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The Polish community in Scotland
… too few in number to organise themselves on a national basis. After the defeat of the 1830-31 `Powstanie Listopadowe' (the November Rising) some members of the `Wielka Emigracja' decided to settle in Scotland. Next, following the defeat of the 1863-64 `Powstanie Styczniowe' (the January …
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Fostering foreign direct investment in the `new' South Africa in the context of a changing world trading system: challenges, opportunities, policies
The focus of this thesis is on foreign direct investment (FDI). This is an aspect of international trade that has recently become increasingly important, not only to developing and developed countries in general, but to South Africa in particular; notably so when this country was admitted back to …