COVID-19 and the Pivotal role of Grandparents: Childcare and income Support in the UK and South Africa

In the UK, a series of high-profile healthcare ‘scandals’ and subsequent inquiries repeatedly point to the pivotal role culture plays in producing and sustaining healthcare failures. Inquiries are a sociotechnology of accountability that signal a shift in how personal accountabilities of healthcare professionals are being configured. In focusing on problematic organizational cultures, these inquiries acknowledge, make visible, and seek to distribute a collective responsibility for healthcare failures. In this article, I examine how the output of one particular inquiry – The Report of the Morecambe Bay Investigation – seeks to make culture visible and accountable. I question what it means to make culture accountable and show how the inquiry report enacts new and old forms of accountability: conventional forms that position actors as individuals, where actions or decisions have distinct boundaries that can be isolated from the ongoing flow of care, and transformative forms that bring into play a remote geographical location, the role of professional ideology, as well as a collective cultural responsibility.

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Pivotal Role of Call Centre Managers from an Outsourced Telecommunications Company: A Case in Gauteng, South Africa

Journal of Communication ◽

10.1080/0976691x.2016.11884898 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 197-207 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sumei van Antwerpen

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Pivotal Role ◽

Call Centre ◽

Telecommunications Company

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Transnational Activism and Domestic Politics: Arms Exports and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in the UK–South Africa Relations (1959–1994)

Foreign Policy Analysis ◽

10.1093/fpa/orab023 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Domestic Politics ◽

Transnational Activism ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Advocacy Network ◽

Arms Exports ◽

The Uk

ABSTRACT In 1964, the UK government imposed an arms embargo on South Africa, which it maintained until the end of the white minority rule. What explains this embargo? Using mainly archival evidence, this paper demonstrates that domestic political dynamics in the United Kingdom mediated the influence of the transnational anti-apartheid and anti-colonial struggles on the British government. The United Kingdom imposed and maintained this embargo due in part to a domestic advocacy network, whose hub was the Anti-Apartheid Movement. The paper provides a comprehensive explanation of an important issue in British foreign policy, the anti-colonial struggle, and Southern Africa's history. There are theoretical implications for foreign policy analysis concerning the role of advocacy networks, interactions between local and global activism, the role of political parties’ ideology and contestation, the effects on foreign policy of changes in a normative environment, the effects of norm contestation, and normative determinants of sanctions.

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International perspectives

Mental Health Services and Community Care ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447350590.003.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 95-110

Author(s):

Ian Cummins

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Initial Period ◽

The United States ◽

Gauteng Province ◽

International Perspectives ◽

The Usa ◽

The Uk ◽

Fiscal Considerations ◽

The Impact

This chapter will examine deinstitutionalisation in Italy, the United States, and post-apartheid South Africa. In examining the different drivers and outcomes of policies in these areas, similar themes to the UK experience emerge. These include: the role of scandals in the pressure for change, the role of fiscal considerations in the development of policy, an initial period of optimism and the impact of scandals. In Italy, the work of the psychiatrist, Franco Basaglia was seen as a possible blueprint for wider reforms. Basaglia’s work became very influential amongst radicals and the anti-psychiatry movement. The USA was at the forefront of the deinstitutionalisation policy. The links between the closure of psychiatric facilities and the expansion of the use of imprisonment have been most closely examined in this context. Finally, the chapter examines the total policy failure that led to the deaths of one hundred and forty-four patients in Gauteng Province, South Africa in 2014

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Perceived qualities of a 'good' chairman: A challenge for corporate governance in South Africa

South African Journal of Business Management ◽

10.4102/sajbm.v31i2.735 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 65-75

Author(s):

Mike Bendixen ◽

Adèle Thomas

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Corporate Governance ◽

Good Governance ◽

Board Members ◽

Chief Executives ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Country Comparison ◽

The Uk ◽

Depth Interviews

Corporate governance is increasingly being viewed as essential to sound business practice. The recommendations of the Cadbury Committee in the United Kingdom will respect to the role of a chairman are similar to those later formulated in the King Report on Corporate Governance in South Africa. In the present study, the perceived qualities of 'good' chairmen are investigated among chairmen, chief executives and main board members in the UK and South Africa. In both the UK and in South Africa the same robust methodology was used, enabling an inter-country comparison of results. The UK study comprised 60 in-depth interviews followed by a mailing of 2418 questionnaires to which 274 main-board members responded. In both cases, in the analysis, four-factor and four-cluster solutions emerged. Not surprisingly, the results for the two countries are quite different from each other and different profiles of preferred chairmen were found. In the case of the UK, the most preferred profile supports the execution of roles recommended for good governance while in South Africa, the least preferred profile appears to be the most appropriate.

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UK parasite trends, emerging threats and the role of the veterinary nurse

The Veterinary Nurse ◽

10.12968/vetn.2020.11.2.60 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 60-64

Author(s):

Ian Wright

Keyword(s):

Echinococcus Granulosus ◽

Angiostrongylus Vasorum ◽

Pivotal Role ◽

Front Line ◽

The Face ◽

Vector Borne ◽

Risk Of Exposure ◽

The Uk

In recent years, the threat posed to both pets and people by parasites has grown, fuelled by a milder climate and increased pet movement. Fleas and ticks are growing in numbers and infest pets all year round. Angiostrongylus vasorum has rapidly spread North up the country and Echinococcus granulosus is potentially being spread through abattoirs. In addition to this, pet travel and importation is increasing in the face of a widening distribution of vectors and vector-borne pathogens abroad. This is increasing the risk of exposure and the risk of bringing novel infections back to the UK. Veterinary practices remain on the front line of keeping pets and their owners safe from these threats and veterinary nurses play a pivotal role in giving accurate advice to clients. This article summarises information given to nurses at the recent parasite CPD day held by The Veterinary Nurse and sponsored by Bayer, considering the current parasitic threats to UK cats and dogs and how to address them.

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