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Competitive local economic development through urban renewal in the city of Port Elizabeth, South AfricaVoges, Pierre January 2013 (has links)
In 2005, the city of Port Elizabeth, in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM) of the
Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, initiated an urban renewal project of its derelict city
centre areas and the southern part of the old Port Elizabeth port. This, after the newly
constructed Port of Ngqura, 34-kilometres north of Nelson Mandela Bay, was designed to
serve as a state-of-the-art industrial port within a specially established Industrial
Development Zone (IDZ). This has freed the existing southern part of the old Port Elizabeth
port – strategically centred on the doorstep of the city – up for re-development for nonindustrial
purposes, effectively opening it up to retail, residential, office and
tourism/leisure/entertainment development; and causing it to become an extension of the
inner city.
The Urban Renewal Plan and the implementation thereof, address specific local economic
growth-related factors, integrated with urban development challenges applicable to the city.
Since the process began in 2005, significant progress has been made, embracing a long-term
approach incrementally implemented on the basis of a well-researched overall plan. This plan
is hinged on the strong foundation of in-depth, extensive market research in the retail,
residential, office and tourism/leisure/entertainment sectors and aims at the creation of a
strong cluster around these areas of development. The term cluster describes the concept of
groups of inter-connected and related firms, suppliers, related industries, and specialized
institutions in particular fields, uniting in particular a location to - amongst other reasons -
maximise their reach, lower their costs and enhance their business (Porter: 1990: 71). In this
study, the cluster concept is broadened to encompass a constellation of urban developments
around and complementing retail, residential, office and tourism/leisure/entertainment
business. As such, the urban renewal project becomes an important element in the Local
Economic Development (LED) planning of Port Elizabeth.
The practical experience of traditional, rational and urban planning methodology, often
conflicts with the reality of market demand - particularly in the South African case.
Therefore, this study explores an alternative method for approaching urban planning, by
focussing on the bottom-up approach, which essentially takes into account the needs of the
customer – or local community – through a special purpose vehicle: a fresh, alternative
approach to urban renewal that still makes a positive contribution to local economic development.
The Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA) – a separate company formed by the
NMBM to manage the redevelopment of the city – strategy embraced an interventionist
approach to urban renewal as an alternative framework for encouraging overall development
in a particular urban node. The cornerstone of the MBDA’s urban renewal approach is an
overarching philosophy of “private sector investment following public sector infrastructure
investment” (MBDA: 2010: 2). This research is the result of a long-standing interaction
between theory, praxis and reflection. Experiences of practical implementation have been
framed by the MBDA project over a five year period and build the case-study presented.
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Urban planning and urban renewal are used in a pro-active, action-orientated manner, to
achieve sustainable, competitive LED through the development of a viable multi-purpose,
non-industrial retail and leisure cluster in Port Elizabeth.
Port Elizabeth is still known as the Friendly City. This epithet originated from an effective
tourism marketing campaign in the eighties, but as a true description, has become somewhat
diminished by the urban decay of the past twenty years. The Friendly City concept refers to a
city that presents a healthy mix of work, housing and leisure – a combination of lifestyle
offerings that no longer really exist in Port Elizabeth. However, through interventionary
initiatives such as the MBDA’s Urban Renewal Plan, this situation is likely to change as a
result of catalytic urban developments.
Port Elizabeth was built on an internationally competitive motor manufacturing and industrial
cluster, but had few other major industries. As such, the creation of an innovative urban
renewal cluster was critical for the diversification of its economy – not only from a local
economic perspective, but also from a national and international competitiveness point of
view. It is the general feeling amongst city planners, economists and industrialists that the
current industrial base of Port Elizabeth is not sufficient and that a more diversified economy
would have the potential to improve the domestic and global competitiveness of the city.
This interaction between the dual goals of economic and urban development, produces farreaching
effects on the discourses of urban management and planning, as the two compete
and converge to push development forward.
Diversification is, however, not an easy endeavour. Considerations around growth-related
objectives on planning demands – a shift from the rational, linear and government-based
structure of urban management, to an interactive governance of planning and development –
where integrated urban and economic strategies inter-play with planning and implementation,
has become important in the creation of a more diversified economy. In Port Elizabeth, this
approach is referred to as an “alternative method” of urban planning: An approach that
involves a process of guided development through a collaborative bottom-up engagement,
involving local government, public participation and the private sector. The alternative
method of urban planning is further reinforced by the current economic recession, which is,
and will continue to, change property development and its response to the needs of the market
for the foreseeable future. The solution to urban renewal does not only lie in well-targeted,
well-researched public-sector infrastructure investment (that responds strongly to the market
and customer needs), but in a joint participatory process that ensures that the final design of
infrastructure projects is the outcome of what the market requires, as a means to ensure
sustainability and the biggest possible response in private sector investment.
Because of global economic forces, the functional and developmental structure of the
neighbourhood – where the epicentre of the growth system is situated – has become of
paramount significance. This thesis attempts to demonstrate how urban renewal and the
redevelopment of designated, formally idle city buildings and public spaces may serve as a
site for the creation of an urban growth node or urban cluster. A key focus of this study is how new economic and social growth based structures can be
induced to integrate with the process of urban redevelopment. Further demonstrated is that
the agenda for urban management, illuminated in the light of the described practices,
conducts a fundamental re-appraisal in its local economic development context.
Local economic development has been lauded as the saviour of development at a local level
in South Africa. LED, however, has by no means utilized the required level of property
development pragmatism and has thus, throughout the duration of its approach, not
culminated in specific sustainable, capital-driven projects – which is probably one of the
reasons for its overall market failure in South Africa and Port Elizabeth. LED has therefore
become an outdated economic approach that leaves in its wake, the necessity and opportunity
for a fundamental change. Urban renewal and the city’s economic contribution to LED,
requires a completely new conceptualisation of urban renewal in its narrow sense, and urban
design and planning in its broader sense.
Concepts such as redevelopment and urban renewal are frequently used in planning
discourse. Redevelopment is understood to encompass actions of clearing (such as slum
clearance), reorganising or reconstruction. Renewal signifies rebirth, breaking new ground or
innovatively refashioning; a form of re-growing or bringing new and more prolific life. In
this thesis, reference is made to urban renewal as an attempt to influence social and economic
forces in a desired direction, integrated with planning and development. It re-conceptualises
redevelopment as more than a matter of reconstructing an urban arrangement.
These concepts are often used in line with the new governance-based style of urban planning,
such as guided development, development planning and efforts for enabling the feasibility
thereof. This thesis attempts to clarify under what conditions redevelopment is unified with
social and economic regeneration. Its approach intends to scrutinise regional strategies, urban
management and urban planning to generate an understanding of the urban environment as it
relates to growth issues. Many growth-related discourses are discussed in terms of development and innovation. The
grammar of this process, when unified with urban development, is referred to as a Dynamic
Place Initiative (DPI). In the DPI, issues of feasibility (enablement) are unified in formal
government, planning and implementation, restricted to a specific bounded area.
The core focus of interest in this thesis is not primarily concerned with architecture and urban
design, but rather with the principles of how the process may be implemented as a leverage
tool to encourage a range of factors to interact with government agents in an LED-orientated
field of action. This field includes not only the built infrastructure, but also the inherent
economic and social targets that come with such infrastructure. This thesis discusses
economic and innovation theory, as a method of understanding urban development, yet
should be understood as an analysis of urban renewal and urban planning.
The MBDA case study is a brownfield (redeveloped/renovated) development within an
economic cluster of retail, residential, office and tourism/leisure/entertainment. The MBDA
uses greenfield (new) development to complement urban renewal and systems of innovation
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that endeavour to meet customer needs. The development case aims to focus on its customer
(or local community) needs in an all-encompassing approach. Specifically, this includes
guided development - a process using well-defined urban design briefs that ensures urban
designs are complementary in their overall impact and culminate in a dynamic place
initiative.
The situation in Port Elizabeth is not unique. On account of global forces of industrial
transformation, many countries have, and continue to, find themselves struggling with the
renewal of large and redundant inner urban areas that were formerly used for industry and
logistics. A typical challenge in this type of context for renewal is to design development
schemes that will encourage economic growth and revitalisation within these areas. Although
planning, construction and development are systematically methodical activities, economic
and social regeneration are more complex.
Due to the on-going transformation of the economy in South Africa, the urban context is
under constant pressure to change in tandem with pressurised demand for change. The
driving forces in the economy are progressing from a nation-orientated and raw-materialbased
production origin, which formed the industrial society, to a global, regional and
information-orientated urban growth-based structure.
The condition of cities has become one of the qualities – or a prominent part of the overall
quality – of this so-called knowledge economy. The urban environment, the territorially
bounded areas which comprise it and the conditions of the environment within which it
exists, are important factors for competitiveness, at both a city and regional level. Observed
in reverse, competitiveness has also become a critical factor in achieving complex urban
change from a new perspective of economic growth.
Cities are the engines of regional and national growth. The economic success of cities and
CBDs in South Africa is vital and will effectively ensure the much-needed upgrading of CBD
and township infrastructure, using the revenue streams generated during city-centred
economic revival. In South Africa (and likely elsewhere in the world), urban renewal is not
only about aesthetics, but also about providing a foundation for urban planning, functional
architecture and LED. In situations where cities undertake the urban renewal of redundant
areas and buildings, economic competitiveness is foremost on the agenda. In order to understand how the forces of production and growth are linked with urban
development, it is important to consider the new growth-orientated context for planning. An
awareness of these changes and their trends, expressed as a paradigm shift, is reflected in the
current discussions concerning the revision of urban planning in South Africa. This
specifically targets integration between the previously disadvantaged communities and the advantaged communities.
The Strategic Spatial Implementation Framework (SSIF) (2005), often referred to as the
“Master Plan” of the MBDA, is an interventionist plan to ensure that the urban renewal
infrastructure programme has well-researched projects with a strong catalytic impact leading
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to private sector investment and that thus secure the highest possible economic multiplier
impact.
Over the past four years, extensive capital has been deployed in Port Elizabeth’s urban
infrastructure to lay the foundation for an enabling environment for private sector investment
that will culminate in mobilising people to live, work and play in the city again. Public
participation and market research have shown that the demand for residential, office, retail
and tourism/leisure/entertainment will be directed largely by the black population; more
specifically, the “black diamond” middle class anticipated to dominate the future Port
Elizabeth economy (MBDA: 2010).
It was the initial infrastructure programme in the CBD – which included projects that codepended
or linked up with one another, to form a collective whole – which lifted the inner
city to another level. It is these urban projects that culminated in renewed interest in the city,
inter-linking this interest with the retail, residential, office and tourism/leisure/entertainment
customer needs of the city.
In most European countries, as in the case of South Africa, urban planning is in the process of
transformation, from being a method for regulation and control into becoming a channel for
possibilities and enabling development at local level. It is common cause that society needs
to be more involved in a city’s planning processes. Tax payers now increasingly demand the
use of government funds for infrastructure and the improvement of public areas and open
spaces.
In the 1980s, the liberal alternative to meet the shortage of tax money was to rely on private
investment for urban development. The society used its organisational and planning capacity
to encourage market investment through public-private partnerships (PPPs). This strategy is
viable in situations where the level of financial risk is low or where conditions are reasonably
predictable. Private actors refrain from investment in complex settings where the returns are
projected to be far ahead in the future. In South Africa, this is often perceived as a degree of
business fatigue; particularly in respect of public-private partnerships. Urban development
through private sector investment requires leadership. This can come in the form of the precreation
of an enabling environment, i.e. extensive publicly funded basic urban infrastructure
investment.
Consequently, the urban context requires development to a level where investment can be
motivated by core business economic reasoning. In short, other than making social and
political sense, urban planning must adhere to financial and economic sense.
The society is an important actor and one that has far-sighted motives. In Port Elizabeth, as in
the case of many other municipalities, the revenue pool drawn from rates and taxes is simply
insufficient to meet the demands of society. The Dynamic Place Initiative represents an
alternative that unifies the advantages of the two previous planning discourses. Through a
limited agency – such as the MBDA – positioned to guide urban development, the city is
enabled to form advanced, politically-set strategies and at the same time, isolate the financial
risk through the response of private sector investment. It should be emphasised that the private sector enters the realm of urban development through
property actions guided by the planning system. Planning questions ought to be based around
the there and then rather than the here and now. The MBDA has become a conduit for
dealing with these systems gaps, ensuring that urban and port planning is not limited in focus
but speaks to customer needs and makes financial and economic sense. / Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2013 / Town and Regional Planning / unrestricted
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Kódy taneční improvizace: Případ Intuitivního Tance / Codes of dance improvisation: The case of Intuitive DanceOrlova, Kseniia January 2017 (has links)
The idea that dance can be understood as an act of communication and a form of language has been already taken into account by scholars. The hypothesis that will be discussed in this MA dissertation concerns a more specific matter: a semiotic approach to different forms of dance improvisation, and notably the method traditionally labeled "intuitive dance". To understand this phenomena two main concepts will be conveyed: that of "quotation" understood via W. Benjamin's essays on Brecht, and that of "notation", as defined by N. Goodman in his Languages of art. Can we understand dance as a language - id est a quotable and notable code - even in its more intuitive forms? How is it possible to "understand", "quote" and "address" gestures, even in front of a wide heterogeneous audience and without any prefixed choreography but only on the base of a free and in-time creating process? Can we understand improvisation as a complex code? what and how does this code mean? Keywords: improvisation, Intuitive Dance, semiotics, notation, gesture, Nelson Goodman, Walter Benjamin, dance, code
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Christian education in the light of three theological views of manMoore, William Clifton,1916- January 1954 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 287-293).
Abstract: leaves 294-301.
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Some Secrets You Keep: Reconsidering the Rockefeller CommissionConway, Catrina M. 19 September 2016 (has links)
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Architects of revolution? A strategic analysis of South African leftist NGOs in the struggle for a better worldSacks, Jared January 2024 (has links)
It presents a profound paradox that the end of formal apartheid in South Africa and the political ascendancy of Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress have also signalled the disintegration of people’s power and the marginalisation of a once formidable anti-capitalist Left. Those who refused to be defeated and insisted that a better world was still possible asked anew, What is to be done? Their answer was to build a new Independent Left, using the Non-Governmental Organisation as their primary tool.
This dissertation examines two leftist NGOs with distinct political approaches to organising, which have shaped formal anti-capitalist strategies in Cape Town over the past decade. The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), an activist space, policy think-tank, and alternative media centre, has aimed to restore the politics of the united front by bringing together employed and unemployed workers to lead a new eco-socialist Left alternative. Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU), an activist research and legal centre focusing on housing in the inner city, has fostered an inspiring movement of building occupiers and aimed to deconstruct the legacy of the apartheid city. Through a militant commitment to this wider Independent Left community, I have accompanied these organisations in their efforts, seeking to understand the role they can play in improving society.
This dissertation investigates the central question of how to effectively utilize NGOs in the struggle for freedom and equality within the context of neoliberal capitalism. It has become clear that intellectual genealogies and ideological fortitude have laid the political foundation of these projects. Combined with the NGO’s formal and hierarchical structure, key themes that define the practices of these organisations have emerged. Matters of dependency and control, as well as organising and leadership, have been crucial features of these projects. This has engendered tensions within the organisations between technocratic and intellectual modes of rule, as well as resistance to these governing structures. Taken together, this analysis provides a window into the possibilities and limitations that these organisational tools offer for radically reimagining our world.
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Managing the teaching of life orientation by principals at selected former model C secondary schools in the Nelson Mandela MetropoleOosthuizen, Willem Cronje 06 1900 (has links)
Life Orientation, a core subject of the South African secondary school curriculum since 1996, is still not taught successfully in the majority of secondary schools. This study was conducted in former Model C secondary schools in the Nelson Mandela Metropole in order to identify challenges and problems with regard to the management of the teaching of the subject. If the subject were managed properly by principals the Departmental outcomes would have been achieved and problems would not have existed.
In this study the managerial challenges of the teaching of Life Orientation have been identified by means of mixed method research, in terms of the four main management tasks, namely leading, planning, organising and controlling. The views of principals were obtained through a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The data was synthesised, multi-dimensional management problems were identified and recommendations were made with regard to managing the important subject of Life Orientation. / Educational Leadership and Management / M. Ed. (Education Management)
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Managing the teaching of life orientation by principals at selected former model C secondary schools in the Nelson Mandela MetropoleOosthuizen, Willem Cronje 06 1900 (has links)
Life Orientation, a core subject of the South African secondary school curriculum since 1996, is still not taught successfully in the majority of secondary schools. This study was conducted in former Model C secondary schools in the Nelson Mandela Metropole in order to identify challenges and problems with regard to the management of the teaching of the subject. If the subject were managed properly by principals the Departmental outcomes would have been achieved and problems would not have existed.
In this study the managerial challenges of the teaching of Life Orientation have been identified by means of mixed method research, in terms of the four main management tasks, namely leading, planning, organising and controlling. The views of principals were obtained through a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The data was synthesised, multi-dimensional management problems were identified and recommendations were made with regard to managing the important subject of Life Orientation. / Educational Leadership and Management / M. Ed. (Education Management)
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The foreign policies of Mandela and Mbeki : a clear case of idealism vs realism?Youla, Christian 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA (Political Science. International Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. / After 1994, South African foreign policymakers faced the challenge of reintegrating a country,
isolated for many years as a result of the previous government’s apartheid policies, into the
international system. In the process of transforming South Africa's foreign identity from a pariah
state to a respected international player, some commentators contend that presidents Mandela
and Mbeki were informed by two contrasting theories of International Relations (IR), namely,
idealism and realism, respectively.
In light of the above-stated popular assumptions and interpretations of the foreign policies of
Presidents Mandela and Mbeki, this study is motivated by the primary aim to investigate the
classification of their foreign policy within the broader framework of IR theory. This is done by
sketching a brief overview of the IR theories of idealism, realism and constructivism, followed
by an analysis of the foreign policies of these two statesmen in order to identify some of the
principles that underpin them. Two case studies – Mandela's response to the ‘two Chinas’
question and Mbeki's policy of ‘quiet diplomacy’ towards Zimbabwe – are employed to highlight
apparent irregularities with the two leaders’ perceived general foreign policy thrusts. It takes the
form of a comparative study, and is conducted within the qualitative paradigm, with research
based on secondary sources.
The findings show that, although the overarching foreign policy principles of these two former
presidents can largely be understood on the basis of particular theoretical approaches, they
neither acted consistently according to the assumptions of idealism or realism that are ascribed to
them. The conclusion drawn is thus that categorising the foreign policies of presidents Mandela
and Mbeki as idealist and realist, respectively, results in a simplistic understanding of the
perspectives that inform these two statesmen, as well as the complexity of factors involved in
foreign policymaking. More significantly, it is unhelpful in developing a better understanding of
South Africa's foreign policy in the post-1994 period.
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The two presidencies in the new South Africa : implications for consolidation of democracyFukula, Mzolisi Colbert 12 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2001. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Following FW De Klerk's decision on the 2nd of February 1990 to unban black liberation
movements, release of Mandela from prison and the uplifting of the state of emergence, a
process of irreversible change was set in motion in South Africa. This process of change was
captured in the four-year dramatic series of negotiations sometimes referred to as 'talks about
talks' and the real negotiations at Kempton Park, which ensued immediately after De Klerk's
ground-breaking speech in 1990. The negotiations ultimately resulted in the i~interim
constitution of 1993 which served as the basis for the 1994 elections.
The election in turn ushered South Africa into a new epoch of an electoral democracy
characterised by most of the ingredients of a normal democracy. The new born "electoral
democracy" met the seven conditional institutions/ principles for a polyarchy as prescribed by
. Robert Dahl, namely universal suffrage; free and fair elections; right to run public office;
freedom of expression; right to access information; freedom to form organizations of great
variety and responsiveness of the government to voters and election outcomes. But the key
question relates to its consolidation - is it consolidating?
Responding to this question is the gist of this not-so comprehensive comparative thesis, whose
particular focus is the presidency in the new South Africa - both of Mandela and Mbeki. This is
done through the help of the both institutional as well as socio-economic approaches to
democracy. That is, 'without appropriate state institutions, democracy is not possible' (Linz and
Stepan .1996.p14) and without favourable socio-economic conditions, democratic institutions
are unlikely to endure and consolidate.
The institutional analysis puts under spotlight the presidency and decision-making trends,
specifically the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) for the
Mandela's presidential era and the Policy Co-ordination Advisory Services (PCAS) Unit for the
Mbeki's. On socio-economics it looks at how Mandela and Mbeki dealt with the inequality
problem issue. This study will not deal with issues such as ethnic heterogeneity or class issues in relation to consolidation of democracy, except insofar as they illustrate something about
policies on inequalities. It eventually assesses the implications for the consolidation of
democracy in the new South Africa by contrasting Mandela and Mbeki's approaches to the
economy i.e. Mandela's ROP and Nedlac and Mbeki's GEAR and International Investment
Council. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: 'n Proses van onomkeerbare verandering in Suid-Afrika is in werking gestel met FW de Klerk se besluit
op 2 Februarie 1990 om die bevrydingsbewegings te ontban, Mandela en ander politieke gevangenis
vry te laat en die noodtoestand op te hef. Dié proses van verandering het op 'n vier jaarlange
onderhandelingsproses uitgeloop wat aanvanklik getipeer was as "gesprekke oor gesprekke" en daarna
die ware onderhandelings wat by Kemptonpark plaasgevind het. Hierdie onderhandelings het gelei tot
die formulering van die interim grondwet van 1993 wat die basis gevorm het vir die eerste inklusiewe
verkiesing in Suid-Afrika in 1994.
Hierdie verkiesing het Suid-Afrika op die pad van 'n elektorale demokrasie geplaas wat die vereiste vir
alle normale demokrasieë is. Hierdie elektorale stelsel in Suid-Afrika voldoen aan al Robert Dahl se
sewe vereistes vir 'n poliargie, te wete algemene stemreg, vrye en regverdige verkiesings, die reg om
aan openbare instellings deel te neem, die vryheid van spraak, die reg tot inligting, die vryheid om
organisasies te vorm wat betrekking het op die verkiesingsproses. AI hierdie vereistes is noodsaaklik,
maar nie noodwendig voldoende om 'n demokrasie te konsolideer nie. Die vraag is dus of Suid-Afrika
konsolideer.
Om hierdie vraag te beantwoord vereis 'n omvattende ondersoek. Hierdie tesis is egter meer beskeie en
sal slegs konsentreer op die rol van die presidentskap in Suid-Afrika - Mandela en Mbeki, en te bepaal
of die style wat hulle gevolg het en die beleide wat hulle toegepas het konsolidasie in die hand werk of
nie. Daar sal gekyk word na die institusionele aspekte van die presidentskap se besluitnemingstrukture
asook na enkele sosio-ekonomiese aspekte wat relevant vir demokratisering is. Die aanname in hierdie
tesis was "without appropriate state institutions, democracy is not possible" (Linz & Stepan. 1996), maar
sonder gunstige ekonomiese toestande (Przeworski en andere 1996), is die kanse dat 'n demokrasie
volhoubaar is gering.
Die instellings wat beskryf en ontleed word wat op die president se besluitnemingstyle dui is die
National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) wat Mandela betref en die Policy Coordination
Advisory Services (PCAS) wat Mbeki betref. Die sosio-ekonomiese aspekte wat ondersoek is
handel in beide gevalle met hoe hierdie presidente die ongelykheids-problematiek in Suid-Afrika
aangespreek het wat ook op nasiebou betrekking het. Hierdie studie sluit kwessies soos etniese
heterogeniteit en die klassedebat uit, behalwe in soverre dit betrekking het op besluitneming en die
hantering van ongelykheid. Die implikasies vir konsolidasie word uitgespel.
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Nation-building in South Africa : Mandela and Mbeki comparedMokhesi, Sebetlela Petrus. 04 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis deals with nation-building in South Africa since 1994 with a view to
finding out the direction taken by nation-building since then. This issue has been and
it still is a controversial issue in South Africa.
The new dispensation in South Africa occasioned a need for the creation of new
national institutions, leaders and policies for the nation. Hence, an inclusive/liberal
nation-building programme was put in place. Since 1994 this programme has been
carried out by two presidents, namely former president Mandela (1994-1999) and
President Mbeki (1999-2002+) respectively.
Nevertheless, these two leaders do not only subscribe to different philosophies but
also have two divergent approaches to nation-building. Although they are both
individualists, Mandela is Charterist whereas Mbeki is an Africanist. Moreover,
Mandela promoted nation-building through reconciliation and corporatism. Mbeki's
approach to nation-building, on the contrary, emphasises transformation and
empowerment through the market.
These approaches seem contradictory and thus mutually exclusive. This does not
augur weU for fragile democracy of South Africa. Therefore, an attempt will be made
to find out whether this is true and thus finding out the direction taken by nationbuilding.
This will be done by comparing the Mandela and Mbeki approaches to
nation-building. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie werkstuk handeloor nasiebou in Suid-Afrika sedert 1994, met die doelom die
tendense sedertdien te bepaal. Dit was en is steeds 'n kontroversiële kwessie in Suid-
Afrika.
Die nuwe bedeling in Suid-Afrika het dit noodsaaklik gemaak dat nuwe instellings,
leiers en beleide in die nasie tot stand sal kom. Daar is vervolgens op 'n
inklusiewe/liberale nasiebou program besluit. Sedert 1994 was dit uitgevoer onder die
leierskap van twee presidente, te wete Mandela (1994-1999) en Mbeki (1999-2002+)
respektiewelik.
Dié twee leiers onderskryf verskillende filosofieë en het ook verskillende benaderings
tot nasiebou. Beide is individualiste, en Mandela die Charteris terwyl Mbeki weer die
Afrikanis is. Meer spesifiek, Mandela het nasiebou bevorder deur versoening en
korporatisme te bevorder. Mbeki aan die ander kant, plaas weer klem op
transformasie en bemagtiging deur die mark.
Hierdie benaderings skyn teenstrydig te wees. Daarom is 'n poging aangewend om te
bepaal hoe insiggewend die verskille is en wat die tendense is. Moontlik spel dit niks
goeds vir die nuwe demokrasie nie. Dit is gedoen deur Mandela en Mbeki sistematies
te vergelyk.
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