scholarly journals Contestations and complexities of nurses’ participation in policy-making in South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 25327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prudence Ditlopo ◽  
Duane Blaauw ◽  
Loveday Penn-Kekana ◽  
Laetitia C. Rispel
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Policy Making

Teaching and Learning Regimes

2019 ◽  
pp. 69-98
Author(s):  
Paul Trowler
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Liberal Ideology

Chapter 4 unpicks the different moments of teaching and learning regimes, illustrating them through two case studies. One concerns a merged university in South Africa dealing with difficult issues around merging disciplines and curricula in a context of continuing structured disadvantage. The second centres on a Danish university in which discourses were shifting in line with an increasingly dominant neo-liberal ideology permeating national policy-making. As well as illustrating the different moments of teaching and learning regimes in transition, these case studies are used to enrich the depiction of social practices as both bundled and nested. This is very significant both conceptually and for understanding and enacting change processes.

scholarly journals Water footprint assessment to inform water management and policy making in South Africa

Water SA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 300 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Pahlow ◽  
J Snowball ◽  
G Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Water Footprint

Historical Research and Policy Making in South Africa

2000 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Delius ◽  
Stefan Schirmer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Research And Policy

scholarly journals The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer: The Impact of Foreign Aid Experts on Policy-making in South Africa and Tanzania

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Koch ◽  
Peter Weingart
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Expert Advice ◽  
Hierarchical Relations ◽  
External Actors ◽  
Development Paradigm ◽  
The Impact

With the rise of the knowledge for development paradigm, expert advice has become a prime instrument of foreign aid. At the same time, it has been object of repeated criticism: the chronic failure of technical assistance a notion under which advice is commonly subsumed has been documented in a host of studies. Nonetheless, international organisations continue to send advisors, promising to increase the effectiveness of expert support if their technocratic recommendations are taken up. This book reveals fundamental problems of expert advice in the context of aid that concern issues of power and legitimacy rather than merely flaws of implementation. Based on empirical evidence from South Africa and Tanzania, the authors show that aid-related advisory processes are inevitably obstructed by colliding interests, political pressures and hierarchical relations that impede knowledge transfer and mutual learning. As a result, recipient governments find themselves caught in a perpetual cycle of dependency, continuously advised by experts who convey the shifting paradigms and agendas of their respective donor governments. For young democracies, the persistent presence of external actors is hazardous: ultimately, it poses a threat to the legitimacy of their governments if their policy-making becomes more responsive to foreign demands than to the preferences and needs of their citizens.

scholarly journals SOUTH AFRICA AND REGIONAL STABILITY IN THE MBEKI ERA: THE NEXUS BETWEEN PERSONALITY AND GEO-POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CONCERNS IN FOREIGN POLICY MAKING

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olajide Olayemi Akanji
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
African National Congress ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Regional Stability ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Election Monitoring ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
National Congress

This paper examines the role that South Africa during Mbeki’s presidency played in peace and security issues of Southern African Development Community (SADC). The paper infers that South Africa under Mbeki adopted a peace-building approach, comprising mediation, negotiation, peacekeeping, promotion of democracy and election monitoring, in addressing peace and security challenges in the SADC. It however argues that it was the person of Mbeki, shaped by his leadership and revolutionary experiences in the African National Congress (ANC) during apartheid era, alongside South Africa’s economic strength that underlined and shaped its approach and contributions to SADC peace and security.

Presidencies and Policy in Post-apartheid South Africa

Politeia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vusi Gumede
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Policy Coordination ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Thabo Mbeki

From a policy perspective, the question naturally arises as to whether there have been major changes in policy making and associated issues in South Africa since 1994. Arguably, the first five years or so focused on institutional reforms and legislative interventions. In the late 1990s the South African government established specific processes and institutions for policy development and coordination.  In 2005-6, specific processes and institutions for long-term planning and monitoring and evaluation were formally established. The paper examines the evolution of policy making and coordination in South Africa since the late 1990s, it also reflects on monitoring and evaluation as well as long-term planning. The erstwhile Policy Coordination and Advisory Services (PCAS), which had been the main engine of policy (coordination and other aspects) in post-apartheid South Africa that was established towards the end of 1997 in the Office of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki (at the time) was disbanded in 2010. The PCAS, popularly known as the Policy Unit, coordinated all policies and reforms, and led in planning as well as monitoring and evaluation, among other responsibilities. From 2010, functions were institutionalised or strengthened (e.g. government departments have been established to deal with planning as well as monitoring and evaluation). There have not been major shifts and/or changes in policy coordination, planning as well as monitoring and evaluation since the late 1990s. However, there appears to be a shift in emphasis to focusing more on implementation. This might have been one of the biggest mistakes of the Jacob Zuma administration because capacity for policy thinking is critical. It would seem that the Thabo Mbeki administration focused specifically on policy. The Nelson Mandela administration, which was a Government of National Unity, was largely focused on various policy, legislative and institutional reforms with very limited capacity for policy making, coordination and monitoring and evaluation as well as long-term planning. 

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