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Local economic development, industrial policy and sustainable development in South Africa : a critical reflection on three new policy frameworksRivett-Carnac, Kate 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MPhil (School of Public Management and Planning))--Stellenbosch University, 2008. / This dissertation considers the coherence of the prescriptions contained within three
recently released government frameworks: the National Framework for Sustainable
Development, National Industrial Policy Framework and National Framework for
Local Economic Development. A central assumption in this regard is that a level of
coherence in policy prescriptions is necessary for effective and complementary
implementation. Each of these frameworks has been developed in the context of
renewed commitment from the South African state to halve unemployment and
poverty by 2014. It is likely therefore that the frameworks will affect resource
allocation with outcomes which will have impacts on South African society at large.
Thus coherence is an important consideration.
The analysis is undertaken against the background of:
- a limited literature review on policy-making (within the broader policy studies field),
- a discussion of the political economy of South Africa, and
- a consideration of certain key debates within the global ‘development’ discourse.
This includes particular reference to the concepts of ‘sustainable development’,
‘industrial development’ and ‘local economic development’ within that discourse.
In addition, in order to gain some insight into the policy-making processes that were
followed in the production of each of the frameworks, a limited number of key
informant interviews was conducted. These interviews highlight certain elements and
factors that impacted on the final policy products and the compromises that were
reached around policy content.
The body of the analysis - a comparative content analysis of the frameworks - is
undertaken through a discussion of the manner in which the frameworks deal with
four cross-cutting themes. These four cross-cutting themes are: eco-system
considerations, social considerations, economic considerations and institutional/
governance considerations. This comparative reading of the frameworks exposes
certain divergent policy prescriptions and confirms that disagreement exists within
government itself on the country’s desired development path.
The conclusion then discusses what is required to put in place a coherent policy
making system in South Africa. It is proposed that the accommodation of policy
coherence should not come at the expense of diversity and the expression of
‘profanity’ (contestation). The value of deliberative democracy, pluralism and
complexity are highlighted in this regard. A number of recommendations are made.
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Local governance and traditional leadership : a case study of Umgungundlovu, Umzinyathi, Uthukela, and Amajuba Districts in KwaZulu-Natal.Ndlela, Rejoice Nomusa. January 2008 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to examine aspects of rural local governance within the
democratic local government system in the Umgungundlovu, Umzinyathi, Uthukela and
Amajuba districts of KwaZulu-Natal. This study could feed into the management and
policy making systems of the Department of Local Government and Traditional Affairs of
the Province. It would also inform a practical traditional administration centre model. It
also intends to provoke a debate on issues of rural local governance in particular within
the democratic local government system in South Africa.
The study looked at the evolution of the institution of traditional leadership over the
years. Policy issues with regard to the functioning and structuring of traditional
leadership institutions in local governance were used as a basis for this discussion.
Different items of legislation relating to local government and traditional leadership in
South Africa generally and in KwaZulu-Natal in particular were analysed to give insight
into the issues of rural local governance. It was found that traditional leaders have
always worked hand in hand with government and that the government has and still is
making deliberate efforts to keep traditional leadership under its control by paying their
salaries and controlling all processes and systems in the functioning of traditional
authorities. National and Provincial policies were found to be giving government (both
National and Provincial) too much discretionary powers regarding the roles and
functions of traditional leaders.
The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Local Government and Traditional Affairs (DLGTA)
had transformed tribal courts into Traditional Administration Centres (TACs) in line with
the government's call to bring government services closer to the people. There are sixty four
TACs in the Umgungundlovu, Umzinyathi, Uthukela and Amajuba districts of
KwaZulu-Natal. This study reviews the level of functionality of these TACs over a period
of 6 months. The activities of all TACs were monitored and recorded daily for the
duration of the study. The study revealed that the TACs were generally not being used
to their full potential. A combination of well equipped centres coupled with motivated and
committed support staff is crucial for the effective functioning of TACs.
The
study also looked at different community centre models and compared them with
the traditional administration centre model to help develop a practical traditional
administration centre model. The study further recommends that TACs be linked to the
Multipurpose Community Centres (MPCCs) either as extensions or satellites thereof. In
terms of ownership, it is recommended that TACs be handed over to the local
municipalities in order to ensure proper maintenance and sustainability thereof.
As part of rural local governance, the study also investigated synergistic partnerships
between the institution of traditional leadership and municipalities. This was done
through focus group discussions with government officials, traditional councils, municipal
councillors and community members. The focus group discussions also revealed the
level of understanding on the roles of traditional councils and municipal councillors by
different groupings i.e. government officials, traditional councils, municipal councillors
and community members. The study concludes that conflict between traditional leaders
and municipal councillors is inevitable and that it is difficult but not impossible to form
functional linkages between the two. South Africa has seen remarkable improvements in
the transformation of the institution of traditional leadership in terms of composition,
functions and legal manifestations. There is a reasonable understanding on the roles of
municipal councillors but traditional councils seemed not to be clear about their roles
and policy issues in general. Many subjects believed that direct intervention by National
and Provincial governments was desirable if sound local governance was to be attained.
The study also recommends that agency agreements be entered into between
traditional councils and municipalities and between traditional councils and provincial
governments to allow traditional councils to perform certain functions on behalf of
government departments and municipalities. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.
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Democratic transition in South Africa : a case study of the public participation in development planning on local authority level in the West Coast RegionSmith, Antoinette Rachélle 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2000. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The theme of this study is the practice of participatory democracy and its link to
local development. The context is the current policy trend to consider the local
authority as the core development agent. Governance is seen as a partnership
between civil society and local state authority. The mechanism for linking
democracy and development is the concept of integrated development planning.
This study investigates the integrity of the process of public participation as
reflected within integrated development planning. The democratic transition in
South Africa forms the backdrop of the study. South Africa, a relatively newly
formed democracy, has put legislation, political and social structures in place to
support the transformation it intended. The question that remains and that is
being researched in this study, is whether the lOP is a sincere attempt on the
side of the government to install authentic participation on the part of the local
community or is this another scheme for political expediency?
The study reflects the transition to democracy on social and political level and on all
levels of governance. In the case of local government, it describes the
transformation of the role of local government to that of development agent in its
jurisdiction of governance. A case study approach is used. The democratic
transition in the field of local government and its application in a specific rural
development region are selected as case material. The West Coast Development
Region, a demarcated development region of the Western Cape, has been chosen
as a testing ground for a number of reasons, but most importantly, because this
region has taken the lead to implement the newly passed policy of integrated
development planning in South Africa. The region also offered the most favorable
circumstances for the study as it has been subjected to systematic and sustained
development and capacity building inputs from the state since the elections in 1994.
These include capacity building of ROP forums and Spatial Development Initiative.
An empirical study of the process of public participation within the integrated development planning in this region was done after the first round of the process in
1997/1998. A group administered questiormaire is used to measure the knowledge
and attitudes of participants who attended the workshops that were held by the
local authority as medium of participation. Two measurements, one at the start of
the workshop and one at the end, provided comparable data on changes in
attitudes and levels of knowledge. The results indicated definite change in
knowledge levels, but did not impact significantly on the attitudes of participants.
The findings are presented here and form the basis of a wider study in local
democracy and development to be proposed. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die tema van hierdie studie is die praktyk van deelnemende demokrasie en die
verband met plaaslike ontwikkeling. Die konteks is die huidige beleidsrigting wat
die plaaslike owerheid as die sentrale ontwikkelingsagent beskou. Regering
word gesien as 'n vennootskap tussen die burgerlike gemeenskap en die
plaaslike staatsowerheid. Die meganisme om demokrasie en ontwikkeling met
mekaar te verbind, is die konsep van geintegreerde ontwikkelingsbeplanning.
Hierdie studie ondersoek die integriteit van publieke deelname soos dit
manifesteer in geintegreerde ontwikkelingsbeplanning. Die demokratiese
transformasie van Suid Afrika vorm die agtergrond van die studie. Suid Afrika, 'n
relatief nuutgevormde demokrasie, het wetgewing daar gestel om die
voorgenome demokratiese oorgang te ondersteun. Die vraag wat gevra en
ondersoek word in hierdie studie, is of die geintegreerde
ontwikkelingsbeplanning 'n opregte poging is om ware deelname aan die kant
van die gemeenskap te bewerkstellig of is hierdie nog 'n skema vir politieke
gewin. Die studie reflekteer die oorgang na 'n demokrasie op sosiale en politieke
vlak sowel as in alle vlakke van regering. In die geval van plaaslike regering,
word transformasie in die rol van die plaaslike owerheid na die van
ontwikkelingsagent in sy regsgebied beskryf. 'n Gevallestudie benadering word
gebruik. Die demokratiese oorgang op die gebied van plaaslike regering en die
toepassing daarvan in 'n spesifieke ontwikkelingstreek word gebruik as
gevallestudiemateriaal. Die Weskus Ontwikkelingstreek, 'n afgebakende
ontwikkelingstreek van die Wes-Kaap Provinsie is gekies as toetsingsgebied om
verskeie redes. Die belangrikste hiervan is omdat hierdie streek die leiding
geneem het om die nuutgeproklameerde wetgewing van geintegreerde
ontwikkelingsbeplanning in Suid Afrika te implimenteer. Die streek het ook die
mees gunstige omstandighede gebied vir die studie, aangesien dit sedert die
1994 verkiesing onderwerp is aan volgehoue en sistematiese ontwikkelings- en bemagtigende insette deur die staat. Dit sluit onder andere in
kapasiteitsbouprogramme vir HOP forums en 'n ruimtelike ontwikkelingsinisiatief.
'n Empiriese studie is gedoen oor die proses van publieke deelname in die
ge'integreerde ontwikkelingsbepanning in die streek kort na die voltooiing van die
eerste rondte daarvan in 1997/1998. 'n Groepgeadministreerde vraelys is
gebruik om die kennis en houdings van deelnemers wat werkswinkels bygewoon
het, te toets. Hierdie werkswinkels is deur die plaaslike owerheid gehou as
medium van deelname. Twee metings, een aan die begin en een aan die einde
van elke werkswinkel is geneem. Dit het vergelykbare data om veranderings in
kennis vlakke en houdings aan te dui, gebied. Die resultate het aangedui dat
daar defnitiewe veranderings in kennis plaasgevind het, maar dit het nie
beduidende verskil gemaak aan houdings van deelnemers nie. Die bevindinge
word hier aangebied en vorm die basis van 'n wyer studie in demokrasie en
ontwikkeling wat aanbeveel word.
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The politics of planning in Eastern Cape local government: a case study of Ngqushwa and Buffalo City, 1998-2004Hollands, Glenn Delroy January 2007 (has links)
This thesis examines the political implications of the integrated development planning process embarked upon by South African municipalities in the period 1998-2004. Through the use of case study methodology that focuses on the Eastern Cape municipalities of Buffalo City and Ngqushwa, the conventions of municipal planning are examined. This inquiry into municipal planning draws upon official government documents and reports and publications from the nongovernment sector. The thesis is particularly focused on the claims made in policy documents and related secondary sources and compares these to more critical reports and publication as well as the author's personal experience of the integrated development planning process. Of key interest is the possibility that planning serves political interests and the material needs of an emerging municipal elite and that this is seldom acknowledged in official planning documentation or government sanctioned publications on the topic. The primary findings of the thesis are as follows: • That the 'reason' of expert policy formulations that accompanied integrated development planning has weakened political economy as a prism of understanding and separated itself from the institutional reality of municipal government • That the dominant critique of planning and other post-apartheid municipal policy is concerned with the triumph of neoliberalism but this critique, while valid, does not fully explain successive policy failures especially in the setting of Eastern Cape local government • That function of policy and its relationship to both the state and civil society is usually understood only in the most obvious sense and not as an instrument for wielding political power • That planning still derives much of its influence from its claim to technical rationality and that this underpinned the 'authority' of the integrated development planning project in South Africa and reinforced its power to make communities governable.
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An assessment of the effectiveness of public consultation: the case study of selected ward committees in the Northern Bay MunicipalityArends, Darrin January 2011 (has links)
Since 1994, the South African local government has been obligated to consult with its citizenry in respect of the processes of relating to service delivery. The South African Government has developed a wide range of legislation that ensures that communities are consulted on a continuous basis with regard to how services need to be rendered. Communities have a right to be consulted and to give input into issues affecting them. Public consultation as envisaged in the South African legislation has, however, not yielded the desired results which is evident in the spate of service delivery protests over poor or non service delivery. Therefore, this study seeks to analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of pubic consultation in the Northern Areas of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. The researcher used qualitative research methods since it would provide the reader with more insight into how public consultation is implemented in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. The communities, senior municipal officials, and councillors have been interviewed in a structured manner and a content analysis has been made of the minutes of the ward committees in the Northern Areas, the annual reports of the Municipality’s Oversight Committee and a range of other reading material. A number of findings has been made during this research project with the most pertinent being the non-compliance to certain sections of legislation by the Municipality. The communities in the Northern Areas generally felt that efficient and effective public consultation would reduce the number of service delivery protests in that part of the Municipality. A number of interventions need to be made by the political leadership with regard to public consultation and more resources need to be committed towards those processes.
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