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First-millennium agriculturist ceramics of the Eastern Cape, South Africa : an investigation into some ways in which artefacts acquire meaningSteele, John 11 1900 (has links)
Artefacts acquire/embody migratory meanings according to
contexts of raw material manipulation, use, discard and
discourse. First-Millennium Agriculturist ceramics and
concomitant private and public significances/use values are
placed within aspects of a deep past Stone Age history of space
and artefact usage in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Some
thought paradigms and cultural contexts are examined as having
directly influenced discourse, what artefacts were foregrounded,
and in which manner writers of southern African prehistory
considered them. Thereafter ceramic artefacts and associated
technologies are focussed upon as being intimate to personal/
community lifeways and worldviews. Domestic and ceremonial
utilityware, figurines and masks, as well as clay usage in
homebuilding and metalworking, and urges to apply a mark to
malleable clay, or deliberately alter and/or bury ceramic
artefacts; are explored as manifestations of medium and usage
well suited to regularly reconfigured meanings . / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / M.A. (Art History)
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Procurement of learner teacher support materials in East London District public secondary schoolsMbuqe, Bongeka 02 October 2020
This study explores the flawed procurement and delivery of Learner Teacher Support Materials (LTSM) in East London district at public secondary schools in the Eastern Cape province. Poor management of the procurement of LTSM has the result that some schools in the country have limited access to LTSM because of late delivery, non-delivery, incorrect and, or delivery shortages. These problems have contributed to under-achievement in the affected schools and in turn undermine the learners’ constitutional rights and educational aims and goals. Like many other provinces, the Eastern Cape also encountered difficulties with the procurement and delivery of textbooks to various public schools.
To investigate the problem, a qualitative and exploratory study was carried out. The data were collected from a sample of 19 participants involved in the three levels of the procurement process; that is, district officials, school principals and the provincial head office officials. The researcher conducted face-to-face interviews using open-ended questions. The research results showed that although the procurement process of LTSM is centralised at the head office level, the other two levels, namely the district office and the school levels, play a significant part. While these levels play an important role in determining and collating the textbook needs, they require additional communication processes and systems to be in place to avoid prolonged timeframes and follow ups that bring about delays of the overall procurement process. Between communication of the relevant guidelines, and collating and submitting book needs information, delays happen along the way at one or more levels and these ultimately lead to either late procurement, late or non-delivery of books to the relevant schools.
The study showed that although there are rules, regulations and various policies that serve as guidelines in the procurement process, the actual implementation and monitoring is flawed. The lack of coherence promotes mistrust and conflict between the relevant stakeholders, which in turn brings about minimal consultation on changes relating to effective management processes during procurement and distribution of LTSM. The study recommends changes that are needed to achieve effective management to alleviate problems encountered during the procurement and distribution of LTSM in the East London district public secondary schools / Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain, Transport, Tourism and Logistics Management / M. Com. (Logistics)
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Towards an understanding of social development by councillors and senior employees of Witzenberg MunicipalityKrieger, Jo-Ann 06 1900 (has links)
No abstract available / Social Work / M. A. (Social Work)
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Two decades in the life of a city : Grahamstown 1862-1882Gibbens, Melanie January 1982 (has links)
[Preface]:In 1862 Grahamstown acquired the dignity, pride and responsibility of full municipal status by its own Act of Incorporation. Ibis Act marked the consolidation of Grahamstown's era of local government by its vigorous and far-sighted Municipal Board of Commissioners, which was established in 1837 and has been examined in depth in K.S. Hunt's thesis on Grahamstown municipal government up to 1862. Clearly, the year 1862 is the logical beginning for a further study of Grahamstown's changing position in the Eastern Cape and its development in the practice of local government during the crucial decades of the 1860's and 1870's. But the choice of 1882 to mark the end of this thesis is in some ways arbitrary. 1882 does not appear to be a turning point, a year of major significance in either the history of Grahamstown or of the Colony as a whole. Besides the convenient time-span of twenty years, there are various factors which, taken together, explain why 1882 is a useful date of demarcation from which to take stock and review Grahamstown's economic, political, social and municipal position after two vital decades in its history. In the civic sphere,the opening of Grahamstown's Town Hall made tangible,in solid Victorian design,a long held ambition of the City Councillors. Buildings, in Victorian attitudes, throughout the British Empire, were regarded as very important civic symbols. One can learn much of Grahamstown Victorian attitudes from the lengthy process of attaining a Town Hall. A much more elaborate ceremony surrounded the opening of the Jubilee Tower, an occasion for assessing the influence of Grahamstown's Settler heritage on the development of the town. Municipal problems concerning finance, water and "native" locations remained thorny questions as they had throughout the period 1862-32. Generally 1882 was a year of transition for Grahamstown and the Colony as a whole. Economically it appeared to start prosperously but 1882 actually marked the beginning of a severe depression which lasted until 1386. It is important to consider how Grahamstown’s economic development relates to the overall economic picture of the Cape Colony at this juncture. Though ostrich feather prices remained high in 1882, the ensuing depression was caused partly by the rapid overexpansion of the industry but most important of all, by a reaction to an inflated era of confidence during the diamond boom years of the 1870's and their consequent easy Bank credit plus intense speculation. Politically 1882 also appeared a year of transition. How to maintain the uneasy peace after the Basuto war remained a constant challenge to Scanlen's ministry. The beginnings of active party conflict in the workings of responsible government were evident only in embryo. The rapid growth of the Afrikaner Bond was to change this. Specifically in relation to the practice of local government in the Cape Colony, the General Municipal Act No. 45 was passed during the Parliamentary session of 1882, enabling any town to seek incorporation. The query is raised as to how far the modus vivendi of the Grahamstown municipality helped frame the clauses of this general Municipal enabling Act. For these various reasons, as well as the additional one that twenty years was found to offer a manageable research unit, 1882 has been decided on as the limit of this thesis. This thesis aims, through a careful examination of Grahamstown's economic, political but particularly civic development, to determine and trace the nature of the Grahamstown community's response to the challenge of the gradual isolation of the 1860's and 1870's. Grahamstown's civic history provides fascinating insights into the structure of the entire community and its attitudes and values. Study has been made of the following major primary sources for the history of Grahamstown 1862-1882: the Grahamstown Municipality records, complete except for incoming letters and housed in the Cape Archives, und the Grahamstown newspapers for the period. The most prolific as well us the most valuable newspaper source of the period is The Grahamstown Journal, a newspaper with a tradition firmly bound up with the formulation of frontier as well as Grahamstown thought, kingpin of the network built up by the successors of Robert Godlonton, the "architect of frontier opinion". It has to be treated with caution as a source because of this very bias. The Council Minutes themselves, meticulously recorded in the Town Clerk's copperplate Victorian script, are scrupulously objective, recording blandly proposers, seconders and fates of motions. What might appear the bare bones of a detailed study of the municipal records yet reflects the economic climate of the town, political opinions, class and race attitudes, civic pride, concepts of public health and charity. The newspapers are a vital addition to the Municipal records themselves. The weekly meetings received faithful, accurate and very copious coverage from press-representatives present at every ordinary meeting. Indeed these reports give a vivid immediacy to the meetings and reveal opinions, pressure groups and lines of conflict within the Council, on issues important and trivial. These, at times lively and enlivening, sometimes stormy meetings, are reported with an authenticity which makes one suspect that often words of speeches were given verbatim - personalities of the Councillors certainly emerge distinctly. Full newspaper coverage is also given to the meetings of the Albany Divisional Council. The annual reports of the Civil Commissioners and Resident Magistrates, which appear in the Parliamentary Blue Books of the period, provide some valuable economic comment on the vicissitudes of life in the eastern frontier districts from 1862-1882. Such information builds useful background for a study of Grahamstown's economic and social development. Efforts have been made to locate probable sources of family papers of one of the most influential Grahamstown families of the period, the Wood family, but to no avail. If any exist they would without doubt have given interesting insight into the business connections of leading Grahamstown men and possibly given an indication of how far civic and political connections linked with religious and family influences in Victorian Grahamstown. Jim's Journal, manuscript in Cory Library, is a record of letters sent home to England by James Butler, while on a visit to the Cape,1876-79 for his health. He provides illuminating glimpses into the day to day life of Grahamstown from a Quaker viewpoint. Taken together, these sources provide considerable insights into the life and times of Grahamstown in the second half of the nineteenth Century. A municipal study examines an area in its totality: it encompasses a study of minutiae within the context of general trends. This fact alone suggests that there are many sources on the history of Grahamstown which have not yet been discovered, but this assessment is submitted on the basis of a thorough study of those which are currently available.
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Towards an understanding of social development by councillors and senior employees of Witzenberg MunicipalityKrieger, Jo-Ann 06 1900 (has links)
No abstract available / Social Work / M. A. (Social Work)
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The evaluation of the entrepreneurial seed fund programme : the case of the Cape Winelands District MunicipalityJanuary, Prudence Constance 05 December 2013 (has links)
The study aims to evaluate the Entrepreneurial Seed Fund Programme (ESFP) of the Cape Winelands District Municipality (CWDM). This Programme aims to provide seed funding to emerging and established businesses in order to start and/or grow their businesses. The Programme provides funding through a grant-in-kind by procuring the goods and equipment that the business needs. The businesses qualifying for the funding are not solely focusing on profit-making; they are addressing social issues through business activities in their communities. The population of the study includes five successful and unsuccessful beneficiaries and a questionnaire was designed in order to determine the contributing factors to the success or failure of the business and if the objectives of the Programme was realised. In conclusion, the ESFP can be regarded as a sustainable programme which contributed to job creation and social upliftment. The ESFP should be strengthened with a small business incubation programme in order to enhance its sustainability. / Public Administration & Management / M. Tech. (Public Management)
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The social sustainability of the Table Mountain cablewayDeysel, Valencia 08 May 2014 (has links)
Social sustainability provides a meaningful approach for industry practitioners wishing to establish a platform to engage communities within enterprise development. It can be said that sustainability requires much more than environmental and fiscal achievements and, with an increased awareness of issues such as equity and power sharing, more corporates are incorporating their strategies in line with social responsibility values. This study therefore takes a closer look at how the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company, integrates this important concept of social sustainability in its business practices.
The tourism industry has in fact grown to such an extent that global economists estimate the progress of international growth at between three and six percent annually. However, this growth can only be measured when businesses take social responsibility factors into consideration.
According to the UNWTO (2011, p 1) UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, opened the Fourth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries stating that the majority of: “…least developed countries (LDCs) are rich in resources. All have young and vibrant populations. These men and women need decent jobs, education, training, so they can make the most of their country’s assets - minerals and other commodities, farmland, rich stores of biodiversity and tourism potential”.
This study therefore focuses on current and future issues pertaining to socially sustainable tourism at the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company in Cape Town, South Africa. In addition, it presents solutions for reducing the negative impacts of tourism, whilst at the same time embracing the benefits of tourism for the area and its local communities.
The outcome of the study found that the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company added little value to social responsibility objectives. The company has made a significant effort in marketing their product through the mass media.
However, there is an overall corporate responsibility barrier. Much still needs to be done to ensure accountability for social responsibility issues, not just within this particular company, but also throughout the tourism industry. / Environmental Sciences / M. Sc. (Environmental Science)
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Factors influencing the success of activity-based costing in the Nelson Mandela Bay metropole manufacturing industryReynolds, Arthur 08 May 2014 (has links)
Past research on activity-based costing (ABC) success factors has predominantly
focused on establishing relationships between known success factors and ABC
implementation success. According to the researcher, there is a lack of exploratory
studies to establish ABC implementation factors especially in a South
African context. This study has explored these factors from literature and
attempted to identify any other factors of importance with the use of semistructured
interviews. A total number of 13 interviews were conducted with
participants from manufacturing organisations in the Nelson Mandela Bay
Metropole using some form of ABC. The findings suggested that ABC may be
more beneficial at larger, more diverse organisations but that smaller organisations
may also benefit from ABC if product costing accuracy could be
significantly improved with ABC and if no major pressure on company resources
is incurred. In addition it seems that ABC should be utilised to the fullest extent
that is practical for the manufacturing organisation and that the use of
supplementary cost-saving mechanisms with ABC may be beneficial. Finally it
is recommended that users be fully trained at ABC and that careful consideration
of an appropriate ABC software package may increase the likelihood of ABC
implementation success. / Management Accounting / M. Phil. (Management Accounting)
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A study of the Drakenstein Local Municipality's five main urban economic sectors with special reference to the municipality's strategic objectivesSlinger, Ronel H. 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA (Public and Development Management)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / 128 leaves printed single pages, preliminary pages i-ix and numbered pages 1-118. Includes bibliography and a list of figures in color and tables. Digitized at 300 dpi 24-bit Color to pdf format (OCR) using a Hp Scanjet 8250 Scanner, and digitized at 600 dpi grayscale to pdf format (OCR), using a Bizhub 250 Konica Minolta Scanner. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: "The South African Constitution (1996) promotes the improvement of liVing environments and
livelihoods for all constituents by means of a developmental approach to local governance" (IDASA,
2005:2). The development role of local government can be understood through the consideration of
four basic drivers which includes planning for development, governance and administration,
regulation and service delivery. The Drakenstein Local Municipality is committed to ensure
sustainable economic growth and development by increasing national and provincial
competitiveness as well as the reduction of poverty. Key to this process is the retention and
expansion of existing businesses as well as the attraction of new investment. The main focus of this
research study is the promotion of business development as it forms part of local economic
development (LED) and is also an integral part of integrated development planning (IDP) at local
government level. The introduction of proposed targeted investment incentives is aimed at
facilitating the implementation of the Drakenstein Local Municipality's strategic development
objectives. The proposed intervention options should be a special effort to attract investment to the
study area which will result in a positive spill-over effect in the Drakenstein Local Municipality's local
economy. Intervention options can be developed in terms of investment incentives that can bring
about job creation, economic development and poverty alleviation in the study area as set out in
their strategic deveiopment objectives.
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The role of higher education in public sector education and training : the case of the School of Government, University of the Western CapeHamza, Enayatulla 12 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MPA (Public Management and Planning))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The provision of Public Administration education and training has been under the spotlight by Higher Education
Institutions (HEIs) since the early 1990’s and has received further prominence by the South African government in recent
years. The 1994 democratic elections has brought about challenges and opportunities for educational and training
institutions, among others, to reflect on their programme content, methodology and clientele and to gear themselves
towards the needs of a “developmental state”. In response to these challenges and opportunities, South African HEIs of
various types and sizes have attempted to introduce or reform Public Administration education and training programmes
to both fit into the new political dispensation and help transform its public service. However, the emergence of these
new education and training programmes have not been without difficulties.
Notable efforts have been the emergence of schools of governments or public management at various tertiary
institutions all of which purport to educate and train public officials for a democratic service. The euphoria that
accompanied the institutional reforms might suggest that all is well, but the reality records that not all programmes have
lived to their ideals. In the light of the above context, this study focuses on the School of Government (SOG), University
of the Western Cape (UWC). The school has been selected due to its formal commitment to the provision of public
service education and training for the post-apartheid civil service. The study focuses on the role of the school, its
leadership, structure, content and processes of education and training programmes for the public service in the country.
The study explores the broad global and national role of HEIs in general, and their particular role in the provision of
Public Administration education and training. The study traces the global and national debates with respect to how public
servants ought to be educated and trained, and illustrates the Public Administration education and training challenges
faced in South Africa. The study also explores the legislative and policy framework governing HEIs and public sector
education and training in South Africa.
The evaluation of the UWC School of Government is based on the adaptation of the IASIA/UNDESA Standards of
Excellence model to measure the role and performance of the case. The case study is measured through the application
of institutional and programmatic criteria. In addition to the institutional criteria, the programme criteria focuses on the
SOG’s programme development and review processes, its programme content, programme management and
administration, and the performance of its programmes. The analysis of the case study is preceded by a historiography
and background of the SOG and its education and training programmes. A critical analysis of the case study is
undertaken in relation to the institutional and programmatic criteria mentioned above. Based on the findings of the study,
the thesis concludes with recommendations relevant to the case study and provides more general recommendations
applicable to institutions involved in the provision of Public Administration education and training. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die voorsiening van Publieke Administrasie onderrig en opleiding is onder die vegrootglas by hoër onderwys instellings
(HOIs) sedert die vroeë 1990’s en het in onlangse jare verdere prominensie verkry by die Suid Afrikaanse regering. Die
1994 demokratiese verkiesing het uitdagings en geleenthede vir onderrig en opleiding instellings teweeg gebring om,
onder andere, te besin oor programinhoud, metodologie en kliëntebasis en om hulself in rat te kry vir die behoeftes van
die ontwikkelingstaat. In reaksie op hierdie uitdagings en geleenthede poog Suid Afrikaanse HOIs van verskillende tipes
en groottes om Publieke Administrasie onderrig en opleidings programme in te stel of te hervorm sodat dit by die nuwe
politieke bedeling inpas en help om die publieke diens te transformeer. Die ontwikkeling van nuwe onderrig en
opleidings programme sou egter nie sonder sy eiesoortige probleme wees nie.
Die ontstaan van Skole vir Openbare Bestuur (SOB) by verskeie tersiêre instellings was aan die orde van die dag en kort
voor lank was voormelde instellings almal daarop uit om staatsamptenare vir ‘n demokratiese staatsdiens op te lei. Die
euforie wat met hervorming gepaard gegaan het, sou die skyn wek dat alles goed en wel is, maar die realiteit toon dat
nie alle programme aan die ideale wat gestel is voldoen het nie. In die lig van voormelde, fokus hierdie studie op die
Skool vir Openbare Regering (SOR) aan die Universiteit van Wes-Kaap (UWK). Die SOR is gekies vanweë sy formele
toewyding tot die onderrig en opleiding van studente vir die publieke sektor in post-Apartheid Suid-Afrika. Voorts sal die
ondersoek fokus op die rol van die Skool, leierskap struktuur, onderriginhoud asook programprosesse vir onderrig en
opleiding in die openbare sektor.
Die studie ondersoek die globale en nasionale rol wat HOI’s in die algemeen speel en in besonder die voorsiening van
onderrig en opleiding in Publieke Administrasie. Verder volg die studie die globale en nasionale diskoerse oor hoe
staatsamptenare opgelei en onderrig behoort te word en illustreer, aan die hand hiervan, die uitdagings waarmee die
onderrig en opleiding van Publieke Administrasie in Suid-Afrika te kampe het. Die studie ondersoek ook die wetlike en
beleidsraamwerk waarbinne HOI’s en die publieke sektor in Suid-Afrika gereguleer word.
Die SOR aan die UWK word dan geevalueer aan die hand van die IASIA/UNDESA Model van Standaarde van
Uitsonderlikheid wat ook die rol en vordering in die gevallestudie meet. Meting van gevallestudie geskied met behulp van
die toepassing van institutionele en programmatiese kriteria. Addisioneel tot die institutionele en programkriteria word
daar ook gefokus op; programontwikkeling en hersieningsprosesse, programinhoud, programbestuur en administrasie
en program vordering binne die SOR. Ontleding van die gevallestudie word voorafgegaan deur ‘n historiese oorsig en
agtergrond van die SOR; en sy onderrig en opleidingsprogramme. In verhouding tot sy institutionele en programmatieka
kriteria, soos vermeld, word die studie onderwerp aan kritiese ontleding en ondersoek. Gebaseer op die bevindings van
die ondersoek, maak die tesis direk-verwante aanbevelings asook algemene aanbevelings gerig op instellings in die
breë wat betrokke is by die onderrig en opleiding van Publieke Administrasie.
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