South Africa Reborn: Building A New Democracy

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Heather Deegan ◽  
Heather Deegan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Democracy

The Role of University Leadership in Advocating Social Justice in South African Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 1527-1544
Author(s):  
Naziema Begum Jappie
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Black Population ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Role Players ◽  
New Democracy ◽  
South African Higher Education

Higher education institutions in South Africa are undergoing remarkable changes. Traditionally, universities have been governed on a scholastic, academic, and research basis. This promoted an authoritarian and autonomous governance system, which clearly justified separate education under apartheid. The new democracy in South Africa vowed to change the system to ensure equity, diversity, and justice in education. Universities had to transform to benefit the underprivileged, disadvantaged, Black population of the country. This resulted in universities having to conduct their activities in a corporate style and, as such, required a commitment by all stakeholders to succeed. University leaderships are important role players who are pivotal in ensuring that social justice prevails. This chapter will investigate the role of leadership in shaping vision and mission in addition, ensuring policy implementation at the various higher education institutions.

scholarly journals Land and justice in South Africa

2010 ◽  
pp. 135-139
Author(s):  
Siobhan O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
New Democracy

When Nelson Mandela took office on 10th May 1994 as South Africa’s first democratic president, he pledged that out of “an extraordinary human disaster” would come “a society of which all humanity will be proud”. Since then, South Africa has been praised for overcoming racial division and hatred in a peaceful manner while developing economic growth. This positive picture of post-apartheid South Africa has been compromised in recent years by rising crime, xenophobic violence, unemployment, and service-delivery protests. My research looks at how the new democracy has redistributed land and why less than 1% of the population still own the majority of the land. To understand the slow pace of land reform, I have examined the policies of the ANC, the polarised public debates on land reform, and the constraints on economic transformation. In order to achieve justice and ultimately reconciliation, problems with redistribution must be addressed. This requires not ...

The South African Sexual Offences Act and Local Meanings of Coercion and Consent in KwaZulu Natal: Universal Human Rights?

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith L. Singleton
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
South African ◽  
Sexual Coercion ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Sexual Offences ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
New Democracy

Abstract:In 2007 South Africa's Parliament passed the Sexual Offences Act, which had been debated since 1999. The law includes a statutory provision with new legal definitions of rape and consent. Influenced by Western human rights ideology and vocabulary, the Sexual Offences Act represents one form of discourse in South Africa about sexual coercion and consent. By using ethnographic methods, this article examines the wide disparity between some of the state discourses about coercion and consent and local beliefs and practices about the meanings of these terms in the Zulu township of Mpophomeni. Proponents of South Africa's new democracy often ignore poor young women's and men's local understandings of rape and of the violence they encounter on a daily basis. Against this background, the article offers recommendations to improve the current law and its effectiveness.

South Africa reborn: building a new democracy

2000 ◽  
Vol 37 (09) ◽  
pp. 37-5321-37-5321
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Democracy

scholarly journals The pedagogical role of multicultural leadership in post-apartheid South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon E. Dames ◽  
Glenda A. Dames
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Multicultural Leadership ◽  
New Democracy ◽  
The Relationship

Practical theology in the 21st century is faced with increasing diversity that requires a new pedagogy to address multicultural challenges. Multiculturalism serves as a subversive agency for monocultural and ‘silent minority’ landscapes. It might also contribute to the development of an identity pedagogue for the three public spaces of theology, specifically in South Africa, where this new democracy seeks a new culture of humanity and has to deal with the dichotomy of a multicultural society and a resistant monocultural ‘laager’ mentality of minority races. Despite the promising start to its democracy, South Africa has many social challenges and practical theology has a role to play by reflecting on how we understand and embody the relationship between faith, culture and public life. To this end, this article seeks to reflect critically on spirituality, leadership and social transformation praxis in search of meaning-forming multicultural praxes.

scholarly journals Daughters do not affect political beliefs in a new democracy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Clayton ◽  
Daniel de Kadt ◽  
Nicolas K Dumas
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Equivalence Testing ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Partisan Identification ◽  
New Democracy

Having a daughter shapes parents' attitudes and behaviors in gender-egalitarian ways, a finding documented in multiple industrialized democracies. We test whether this travels to a young middle-income democracy where women's rights are tenuous: South Africa. Contrary to prior work we find no discernible effect on attitudes about women's rights or partisan identification. Using a unique dataset of over 7,500 respondents and an equivalence testing approach, we reject the null hypothesis of any effects of 5 percentage points or greater at conventional levels of statistical significance. We speculate that our null findings relate to opportunity: daughter effects are more likely when parents perceive economic, social, and political opportunities for women. When women's customary status and de factor opportunities are low, as in South Africa, having a daughter may have no effect on parents' political behavior. Our results demonstrate the virtues of diversifying case selection in political behavior beyond economically wealthy democracies.

scholarly journals Development Of An Integrated Operating Framework For Strategy Execution In Gauteng Municipalities In South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1057
Author(s):  
J. H. Leibbrandt ◽  
C. J. Botha
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Strategy Execution ◽  
Gauteng Province ◽  
Survey Question ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
New Democracy

The establishment of a new democracy has created high expectations amongst all the different communities of South Africa. The demand for basic essential services by the previously disadvantaged communities has increased drastically, whilst at the same time, communities from developed areas are expecting and demanding an acceptable level of maintenance and services in their respective areas. Municipalities are in serious distress with regular service delivery protests, huge service delivery and infrastructure backlog challenges (e.g., electricity, roads, housing, water, and sanitation), poor financial management and the inability to execute approved strategies, plans, and programs. This article focused on the municipalities in the Gauteng Province of South Africa and the main objective was to answer the survey question: What prevents Gauteng municipalities to successfully execute its strategies and what can be done to address the situation? The research objectives were firstly, to review the literature and determine the key enablers required for successful strategy execution; secondly, to analyze the findings of the empirical research and to make recommendations towards the improvement of strategy execution within Gauteng municipalities. The third and final objective was to develop an integrated operating framework for strategy execution in Gauteng municipalities. The article concluded by making recommendations towards the improvement of strategy execution within municipalities and developing an integrated operating framework for strategy execution. The results of the literature review as well as the empirical research were taken into account during the development of the integrated operating framework.

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