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Housing an illegitimate aristocracy : an urban profile of a coloured community in Greenwood Park from the 1950's to the 1970'sFrancis, Lynette Crysta-Lee 01 1900 (has links)
There is no historiography on Durban coloureds . This work is an attempt to change that . This dissertation is an urban study of a small coloured community in Greenwood Park (GWP) during the apartheid era - a study in which housing is used as a vehicle to examine this community's response to their changing economic and socio-political status from the 1950's to the 1970's. Because of the absence of historical data , this study relies heavily on the contributions of other social sciences . It also uses oral data to fill the many gaps in the story of this marginal group . Chapter 4 and 5 explores housing as a complex physical and social phenomenon. Chapter 6 explores the GWP community's response to their housing environment . In this chapter, the association between housing and
socio-economic status is explored . From 1950 to the l 970's, housing became the single most defining entity which kept coloureds trapped in the vortex of privilege and oppression . / History / M. A. (History)
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The economic and socio-political factors influencing labour relations within Iscor from 1934 to 1955Langley, William Roy Curtze 11 1900 (has links)
Founded in 1928, Iscor was intended to make South Africa self sufficient in the
provision of steel while providing employment for poor whites. Economic
considerations prevailed when Iscor began replacing expensive white labour with
cheaper black labour. From 1934 to 1948 black labour was employed to curtail
costs. While being replaced by black labour, white employees' salaries and fringe
benefits remained better than those of their black colleagues. Affordable houses
were provided for white employees while blacks were housed in overcrowded
compounds. No medical or pension benefits were made available to black
employees or their families, while white employees enjoyed both. White
employees were provided with what were arguabley the finest sports facilities in
the country while black facilities were neglected. With the National Party victory in 1948 more emphasis was placed on the employment of Afrikaans speaking
white South Africans at the expense of blacks and English speaking whites. / History / M.A. (History)
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Spatial analysis of development projects in Venda : a case study of the Tshivhase tea estateAdjei, Alexander 01 1900 (has links)
The research was undertaken to investigate the impact of the Tshivhase Tea Estate on the
space economy of Venda, the people and area ofMapate, and Duthuni, among whom the Tea
Estate is established. The approach is based on principles. Principles of development theory
are combined with appropriate spatial models. The development reality of Venda, together
with many other development projects are analysed. Does the tea estate address the rural
poverty problem? Findings are presented from a case study of Tshivhase and this proved the
lack of growth and development impulses to alleviate the poverty of the rural people among
whom it is located.
Development is considered in terms of its possible simultaneous diffusion of economic activity
and modernisation in all four dimensions of the spatial system : political, socio-cultural,
economic and physical. / Department of Geography / M.A. (Geography)
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The Swiss missionaries' management of social transformation in South Africa, 1873-1976Masumbe, Benneth Mhlakaza Chabalala 11 1900 (has links)
This research surveys the Swiss missionaries' management of social transformation in South Africa
(1873-1976). It has as its major focus the management of schools, hospitals and churches as the
primary institutions of social change in society. The researcher's realisation that more often than
not, the changes brought to bear on proselytes by the change forces take time to manifest
themselves vividly induced him to extend the scope to include the dawn of the new political
dispensation in this country in 1994. This need not surprise the readership as the triadic approach,
which is synonymous with historial analyses compels researchers to avail readers of what happened
in the past, present as well as what is likely to occur in future. In other words, readers will encounter
the ethnic nationalism engineered by different change agents in this country and the repercussions
thereof, and the schism within the Swiss Mission in South Africa/Evangelical Presbyterian Church
in South Africa that started in 1989 and became reality by 1991. Finally, the thesis also appraises readers of what should be done in periods of rapid social change. / Educational Studies / D. Ed. (History of Education)
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Education and development : an exploratory study of the impact of GEAR in GautengMazibuko, Sibonginkosi Godfrey 11 1900 (has links)
The importance of formal education in socioeconomic development is an established fact.
Formal education leads to better living standards through improved productivity, health and earnings. However, opportunities to acquire quality education are a function of a country's economic policy.
This study inquires into the capacity ofthe South African macroeconomic strategy of Growth, Employment and Redistribution( GEAR) to afford people the opportunities to get quality education. The study shows close linkages between GEAR and structural adjustment
programmes( SAPs). The study argues that SAPs and thus GEAR tend to have negative impact on the poor as social spending is reduced and education gets affected. This study concludes that
GEAR is likely to impoverish the public formal education system, particularly in poorer communities. / Development Studies / M. Admin. (Development Administration)
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Socio-economic factors that affect livestock numbers : a case study of smallholder cattle and sheep farmers in the Free State province of South AfricaOgunkoya, Folasade Temitope 05 1900 (has links)
The study was conducted across the four district municipalities in the Free State province of South Africa. The objective of the study was to determine socio-economic factors that affected livestock numbers among smallholder cattle and sheep farmers in the Free State province of South Africa. The research was qualitative and quantitative in nature. Proportionate random sampling method was used to collect data. The population comprised of smallholder cattle and sheep farmers that kept at least 30 livestock. Data between the 2008 and 2012 farming seasons were collected by administering well-structured questionnaires to 250 smallholder cattle and sheep farmers. Data collected were captured and analysed using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS version 22 of 2013) to obtain frequency, cross-tabulation, descriptive statistics and ordinary least square (OLS) regression. Descriptive statistics results indicated that lack of camp systems, drought prevalence, increased feed costs, poor veterinary interventions, insufficient breeding stock, high cost of fuel and transportation, lack of equipment, diseases, stock theft and pilfering, and insufficient grazing land were the prevalent factors that affected cattle and sheep farming in the province.The OLS regression results indicated that the variables that significantly affected livestock numbers were district, household size, livestock numbers in 2008, planted pastures, grazing land condition, grazing land acquisition, service, advice / training, veterinary services, purchase of dosing products and sales per year. The results also indicated that the majority (96.8%) of the smallholder cattle and sheep farmers would like to increase their livestock numbers. It was therefore recommended that extension and veterinary services should be strengthened in the study area. In addition, it was recommended that smallholder livestock farmers should be encouraged to plant pastures to reduce pressure on the natural veld and make forage available throughout the year. Lastly, as a recommendation, government should provide subsidies with distribution policies that will ensure that all smallholder livestock farmers can benefit. / Agriculture and Animal Health / M. Sc. (Agriculture)
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Funding the watchdog role : an exploratory study of the current funding climate for civil society organizations in Africa: the case of National Education Coalitions supported by the Global Campaign for EducationsOdaga, Geoffrey 05 1900 (has links)
Strengthening civil society participation in development is a prerequisite to enhance access to opportunities and political influence by the poor. An active civil society can improve development accountability. In fact, Africa cannot improve its governance without investing in the role of civil society. This study examines the problem of resource mobilization for NECs in four Africa countries; assessing factors and strategies, which influence their ability to mobilize resources. Utilizing qualitative and quantitative methods, the study found that effective NECs exist in all four countries. The success of these NECs depended on “being strategic” about resource mobilization. The lack of resources mobilization strategies was a key factor in all four NECs. This often meant lack of proactiveness in resource mobilization. In its recommendations, the study presents a model aimed to encourage CSOs to organize and manage resource mobilization in ways that generate income for today, tomorrow and the future in order to sustain their watchdog role in educational development process. / Development Studies / M.A. (Development Studies)
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Risk Analysis in Post-Conflict African Countries: Sierra Leone as a Case StudyStoro, Christine 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA (Political Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Political risk analysis is considered one of the essential ingredients in decision making
processes when investing abroad. The Iranian Revolution and the oil crisis in the 1970s
accentuated this need as investors increasingly felt the need for a proper assessment of the
risks involved in establishing a business in other countries.
Negative images of African countries combined with conventional risk models which are not
able to accurately assess the political risk realities of post-conflict African countries, may be
one of the reasons for why African countries struggle to attract a substantial amount of FDI.
This study suggests that alternative risk models which are more African-orientated may aid in
improving this situation.
This study has analysed the political risk of Sierra Leone using a conventional risk model, and
an African-orientated political risk model. The aim of this study was to assess whether
conventional political risk models need to be adjusted to be able to more accurately assess the
political risk of post-conflict African countries. The main research question guiding this study
was:
Are conventional risk models able to objectively rate the political risk of post-conflict
countries in Africa?
The conclusion of this research was that African-orientated political risk models are able to
more accurately assess the political risk of a post-conflict African country such as Sierra
Leone. This is mainly due to the soft variables used in a political risk model and also the
relationship between the variables included in the models. The African-orientated political
risk model needs to be analysed further, but this research has made clear the need for a reevaluation
of existing political risk models to be better equipped when analysing post-conflict
African countries. This will not only benefit African post-conflict countries in improving their
risk ratings, but also provide foreign investors with a more accurate identification of the
potential political risks facing an investment in post-conflict African countries. It was
acknowledged in this study that the political risk analyses of Sierra Leone were not conducted
by someone who has inside information of the political risk models used which is a limitation
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for the results of this study. It is, however, possible to detect potential weaknesses with each
political risk model and possible areas of improvements. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Politieke Risiko Analise word as een van die belangrikste bestandele in die besluitnemingsproses
geag wanneer daar oorsee belê word. Die Iranese Rewolusie en die Olie krisis in die
1970’s het hierdie nood beklemtoon, aangesien beleggers toenemend die belang van deurdagte
assesering van die risikos in verband met die oprigting en instandhouding van besighede
in ander lande erken het.
Negatiewe opvattings van Afrika lande, tesame met konventionele risiko modelle wat nie
geskik is on akkurate asseserings van politike risiko realiteite op te lewer, is dalk van die
redes waarom Afrika lande sukkel om groot Direkte Buitelandse Beleggings te lok. Hierdie
studie stel voor dat alternatiewe risiko modelle wat meer Afrika-gesind van aard is die situasie
kan help oorbrug.
Hierdie studie het die politieke risiko situasie van die Sierra Leone analiseer aangaande‘n
konvensionele riskio model en met behulp van’n Afrika-georienteerde politieke risiko model.
Die studie het gepoog om te assesseer of die konvensionele modelle van politieke risiko
gewysig moet word om in staat te wees om meer akkuraat te oordeel in verband met politieke
risiko in post-konflik Afrika lande. Die hoof navorsingsvraag wat die studie gedryf het is die
volgende: Is die konvensionele risiko modelle in staat om objektief te werk te gaan om die
politieke risiko van post-konflik lande in Afrika te meet?
Die gevolgtrekking van hierdie navorsing is dat die Afrika-georienteerde politieke risiko
modelle meer gepas is om die politike risiko van post-konflik lande soos Sierra Leone te
meet. Dit is hoofsaaklik die geval weens die sagte veranderlikes wat gebruik word in’n
politieke risiko model asook die verband tussen die veranderlikes wat in die model ingesluit
word. Die Afrika-georienteerde politieke risiko model moet verder uitgebrei word, alhoewel
hierdie navorsing dit duidelik maak dat die belang bestaan vir‘n herevaluering van die
bestaande politieke risiko modelle om beter toegerus te wees om analise van post-konflik
Afrika lande uit te voer. Dit word erken dat hierdie studie van die politieke risiko van Sierra
Leone nie uitgevoer was deur iemand wat‘n intieme kennis van politieke risiko modelle het
nie. Dit is uiteindelik wel moontlik on potensiele swak plekke in die mondering van elke
politieke risiko model uit te sonder, en moontlike areas van verbetering voor te stel.
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Who mines what belongs to all? A historical analysis of the relationship between the state and capital in the South African mining industryZogg, Philipp Emanuel 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the relationship between the state and mining capital in South Africa
since the beginning of gold mining. It provides a historical analysis centered around the
notion that neither state nor capital have been able to dominate each other wholly but
retained their respective relative strength and independence. By applying a qualitative
approach, this thesis seeks to determine whether this notion still holds true today, how the
relationship between the state and mining capital has evolved over time and by what
factors was it determined. I suggest that structurally the nature of the state-capital
relationship continues to endure fifteen years after apartheid.
Accordingly the thesis is organized in terms of two critical junctures, one in the 1920s
and one in the long 1970s when the balance of power between the state and mining
capital experienced a number of shifts. Recent developments in post-apartheid South
Africa seem, as of now at least, to represent more of a continuation of the shift that
materialized in the long 1970s rather than a new conjuncture of its own or one in the
making. Contrasting these findings with the adamant calls of the ANCYL for a
nationalization of mines indicates that nationalization as the ANCYL foresees it does not
seem to be informed by a historical understanding of the mining capital-state relations
and that it is ceteris paribus unlikely to materialize. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die tesis ondersoek die verhouding tussen die staat en mynbou kapitaal in Suid-Afrika
sedert die begin van die goudwedloop. Op grond van ’n historiese oorsig word daar aan
die hand gedoen dat nòg die staat nóg mynbou kapitaal mekaar oorheers het en dat
hierdie tendens vyftien jaar na apartheid steeds voortduur.
Die magsbalans tussen die staat en kapitaal word egter gekenmerk deur twee
uiteenlopende periodes, naamlik die Twintiger jare en die langdurige Sewentigs.
Verwikkelinge in post-apartheid Suid-Afrika suggereer ’n voortsetting van die dinamika
van die Sewentigs. Volgens onlangse uitlatings deur die ANC Jeugliga blyk dit asof die
beweging nie bewus is van die kompleksiteit van hierdie historiese verhouding nie en dat
dit dus hoogs onwaarskynlik is dat nasionalisering in terme van ANC Jeugliga beleid die
lig sal sien.
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The link between poor public participation and protest : the case of KhayelitshaMchunu, Ntuthuko Albert 12 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MPA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The upsurge in the number of public protests in most South African municipalities, including the City of Cape Town, continues unabated. While public protest is a democratic right, provided for in the Constitution (RSA 1996), the violent nature and persistence of protests at municipal level are a cause for concern. The associated violence often leads to the destruction of both public and private property, disruptions in economic activities, loss of lives and severe injuries to innocent victims.
The prevalence of public protests continues despite the fact that the new democratic dispensation ushered in a paradigm geared for transforming local government from a racially-segregated institution into a democratic and autonomous sphere of government, with a broad developmental mandate. This new dispensation gave birth to the “invited spaces” of participation, which are aimed at providing scope for the public to influence, direct, control and own the development and decision-making processes.
In order to determine factors that contribute to public protests in Khayelitsha the study adopted a qualitative research paradigm. Personal interviews, focus group discussion and participatory observation were some of the research methods used to collect primary data.
The study indicates that lack of authentic and empowering public participation opportunities in the decision-making processes of the City of Cape Town alienates the public and leads to public disengagement from available municipal processes.
It has been during this period of alienation that the public have been “inventing own spaces” of participation, in the form of public protests demanding that public voices be heard. The study also indicates that poverty, unemployment and glaring gaps of social inequality, reinforced by comparison to available examples in the neighbourhood, are root causes of public protests.
The new public participation model that has been developed from this research should be adopted by South African municipalities as an essential public participation strategy. It empowers the public to negotiate a new “social contract” with the authorities primarily based on the public’s terms. It is only when authentic and empowering public participation is practised by municipalities that violent public protests can be minimised. Such authentic and empowering public participation provides latitude for the public to influence, direct, control and even own their “own” development and decision-making processes. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die toename in voorvalle van openbare protes in byna alle Suid-Afrikaanse munisipale gebiede, insluitend die van die Stad Kaapstad, duur onverpoosd voort. Terwyl openbare protes weliswaar ’n demokratiese reg is wat in die Grondwet (RSA 1996) verskans word, is die huidige ingeburgerde en gewelddadige aard daarvan rede tot ernstige kommer. Hierdie gewelddadigheid lei dikwels tot vernietiging van sowel openbare as private eiendom. Ook ekonomiese aktiwiteite word ontwrig; daar is lewensverlies en ernstige beserings aan onskuldige slagoffers .
Die hoë voorkoms van openbare protes duur voort, ondanks die feit dat die nuwe demokratiese bestel ’n paradigmaskuif ten gunste van transformasie in die plaaslike regeringstelsel beteken het. Alles was in plek om weg te beweeg van rasgesegregeerde instellings na ’n demokratiese, outonome regeringsfeer met ’n breë, ontwikkelingsgedrewe mandaat. Hierdie nuwe bedeling het “genooide ruimtes” vir deelname geskep, wat geleentheid sou skep om invloed en rigtinggewende beheer te verkry oor daardie prosesse van besluitneming wat deelnemers se eie lewens raak.
Om die faktore te bepaal wat tot openbare protes in Khayelitsha bydra, is ’n kwalitatiewe navorsingsparadigma gekies. Persoonlike onderhoud, fokusgroepbespreking en deelnemende waarneming is van die navorsingsmetodes wat ingespan is om primêre data te versamel. Hierdie navorsingstudie het bevind dat, ondanks die “genooide ruimtes”, daar steeds ’n gebrek aan egte en bemagtigende openbare deelnemingsgeleenthede in die besluitnemingsproses van die Stad Kaapstad bestaan, en dat dit die publiek vervreem en daartoe lei dat burgers hul aan die beskikbare deelnemingsgeleenthede onttrek.
Gedurende hierdie periode van vervreemding het die publiek van Khayelitsha hulle eie “geskepde ruimtes” ontwikkel. Dit was gegiet in die vorm van openbare protes, waar die stemme van die algemene publiek gehoor kon word. Die studie het ook aangedui dat armoede, werkloosheid en opvallende voorbeelde van sosiale ongelykheid (te vinde in die onmiddellike omgewing) aanleidende faktore vir protesaksie was.
Die nuwe openbare deelnemingsmodel wat uit die navorsing ontwikkel is, kan aan alle Suid-Afrikaanse munisipaliteite ’n onontbeerlike geleentheid bied om ’n doeltreffende openbare deelnemingstrategie te ontwikkel. Dit bemagtig die publiek om ’n nuwe onderhandelde “maatskaplike kontrak” met die owerhede, hoofsaaklik op die publiek se terme, te sluit. Slegs wanneer die publiek aan egte, bemagtigende openbare deelname blootgestel word, sal daar sprake van ’n vertrouensverhouding met die owerhede wees en sal gewelddadige protesaksie tot die minimum beperk kan word. Sodanige egte en bemagtigende openbare deelname skep ruimte vir die publiek om hulle “eie” ontwikkeling te beïnvloed en mede-beheer te bekom oor die besluitnemingsprosesse wat daarmee gemoeid is.
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