South Africa and Governance
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- Questions over the South African immigration detention system
- R. Amit / The Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, 2010
- The Lindela Detention Centre in South Africa is a holding facility for the temporary detention of 'illegal foreigners' while they await deportation. This report argues that despite the authority's efforts to improve operations at the ...
- Assessing voter behaviour as an accountability mechanism in South Africa
- C. Schulz-Herzenberg (ed) / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2009
- Allowing citizens to decide whether or not to extend a government’stenure through regular elections is the principal mechanism of politicalaccountability. It compels politicians to be more responsive to theelectorate’s nee...
- South African civil society taking steps to fight xenophobia
- P. Bond; M. Galvin; M. Jara; T. Ngwane / Atlantic Philanthropies, 2010
- This study examines whether there is a need to reconceptualise civil society organisations (CSOs) in South Africa, given the fragmented and uneven responses of CSOs to the May 2008 violence. The document states that with the end of ap...
- Assessing South African trade policy reform
- B. Browen / South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
- Trade policy reform in the form of trade liberalisation is a very important tool for raising living standards and improving a country’s economy. Such reform on its own, however, is likely to be rejected by the public and t...
- Assessing the role of councillors in service delivery at local government level in South Africa
- G. Paradza; L. Mokwena; R. Richards / Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa, 2010
- Practical experiences of social accountability in Africa
- O. Shisana; M. Claasen (ed); C.A. Lardies (ed) / Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2010
- There are numerous examples of how citizens and civil society groups hold their government, private sector actors and donors accountable. However, these initiatives are often not known beyond the borders of the state or country where ...
- Improving security and justice through security sector reform
- N. Bagayoko-Penone / Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2010
- Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors in post-conflict countries. This issue of insights explores the concept of SSR as a co...
- Is civil society a real vehicle for democratisation?
- G. Cawthra (ed); A. Du Pisani (ed); A. Omari (ed) / International Development Research Centre, 2007
- This study investigates the interface between security, at both the national and regional levels, and democratisation. The paper asserts that security and democratic governance are intertwined. The paper focuses particularly on&n...
- Is civilian control of military and security structures equivalent to democratic control?
- G. Cawthra (ed); R. Luckham (ed) / Zed Books, 2003
- This book examines the governance of security and insecurity in developing and former communist countries that are becoming more democratic. The book asserts that to ensure the military is governed in a democratic manner, it...
- the indivisibility and universality of human rights
- P. P. Popovic (ed); O. V. Vieira (ed) / Sur - International Journal on Human Rights, 2008
- This issue of the Sur Journal on International Human Rights presents a number of papers which critically revisit two issues initially raised 60 years ago by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the indivisibility and the univers...
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