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Post-Apartheid South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This book provides a comprehensive review of recent economic developments in South Africa and the structural and policy challenges facing the authorities. Individual papers examine a range of topics such as unemployment and the labor market, recent trends in the private saving rate, the role of foreign direct investment in the development of South ...
M. Nowak, Luca Ricci
openaire   +1 more source

The Institutional Work of Ethics: How Business Ethics Consultants Build Ethical Infrastructure

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As organisations increasingly turn to external experts for moral guidance, critics warn that this trend risks “outsourcing” business ethics. Evaluating this concern, however, requires a clearer understanding of what those experts actually do. Drawing on 17 semi‐structured interviews with business ethics consultants, this study investigates how
Tong Li, Marco Meyer
wiley   +1 more source

Post-apartheid Education and Building ‘Unity in Diversity’: Voices of South African youth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The challenges facing nation-building and overcoming the legacy of apartheid in South Africa are immense. This thesis examines the crucial role of education in this effort.
FLEETWOOD, TAMLYNN
core  

From the COVID‐19 Pandemic to Crises: Lessons for Canadian Climate Governance

open access: yesCanadian Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was the most significant governance stress test in recent Canadian history, revealing both the capacities and constraints of Canadian public administration under acute uncertainty. This article examines Canada's pandemic response as a diagnostic case for understanding governance capacity relevant to long‐duration ...
Colin Dring
wiley   +1 more source

‘She Knows How to Play With People Properly’: Using PhotoVoice to Conceptualise Capabilities for a ‘Good’ Life With Young Children in Mahikeng, Rural South Africa

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The capabilities approach has informed policy globally, shifting focus away from traditional economic indicators and toward improving people's freedoms and opportunities to be and do what they value in life. However, there is limited research engaging children in conceptualising and measuring capabilities that are important to them for a ‘good’
Gerard Joseph Abou Jaoude   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-apartheid transnationalism in black South African literature: a reality or a fallacy?

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017
The quest of this paper is to probe whether globalising post-nationalism impacts on post- apartheid black South African English literature in a manner that suggests a blurring of distinctive African identities.
Lesibana Rafapa
doaj  

Inverted Eurocentrism: The Consumption of Decolonization in the Global North and a Radical Decolonization Agenda

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Global North and elite spaces in the Global South, the concepts of Eurocentrism and decolonization have come to be associated primarily with identity and location rather than with capitalism and political economy. This article argues that the reason for this can be traced to what Samir Amin calls ‘inverted Eurocentrism’, which entails a
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
wiley   +1 more source

How Partisanship and Racial Trust Translate into Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa

open access: yes, 2018
With the downfall of the authoritarian Apartheid government in 1994, South Africa has begun to establish itself as a more democratic nation. This paper examines levels of interpersonal trust in post-Apartheid South Africa by using data from “trust games”
Arbuckle, Ryan
core   +1 more source

Seeking feasible reconciliation: A transdisciplinary contextual approach to reconciliation

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
In South Africa scholars in the broad field of practical theology are currently faced with a daunting challenge: to rethink the reconciling role of the institutional church in the light of continued challenges facing reconciliation within post-apartheid ...
Christoffel H. Thesnaar
doaj   +1 more source

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