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    Manual A: urban land access: an overview

    Urban LandMark, 2008
    The target group for this manual is the leadership of organised groups of homeless in need of land for housing development in South Africa, and the aim is to describe briefly how to get land for a house. The paper illustrates that land access in the manual means land purchase, land development or land occupation. Consequently, it outlines the five stages involved in land access:
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    ‘Divisible spaces’: land biographies in Diepkloof, Thokoza and Doornfontein, Gauteng

    Urban LandMark, 2008
    This report explores how urban land is endlessly divided and re‐divided within the context of the interaction of formal and informal land use management systems in South Africa. The paper reviews the story of land in three case study sites to shed lights on how urban land has moved through formal and informal systems of land management over time.
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    Manual C: urban land access: options

    Urban LandMark, 2008
    The target group for this manual is the leadership of organised groups of homeless in need of land for housing development. The manual outlines the various options for how and when land can be accessed. In addition, it presents general advices to be taken with on the land access journey. These contain the following:
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    China and Zimbabwe: the context and contents of a complex relationship

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    China’s extensive relations with African countries continue to attract interest and concern, especially as the category of those expressing disquiet about the possibility of this being another kind of colonialism now seems to be growing beyond the usual Western critics to include critical opinion leaders in key African countries.
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    Manual B: urban land access: the steps

    Urban LandMark, 2008
    This manual is targeted at people who are working with or want to work with others to get land to build housing for the group in South Africa. The manual focuses on land for settlement development or urban land. The publication clarifies that its aim is to provide detailed information on each of the five main stages of land access:
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    Getting down to business: lessons from the African Peer Review Mechanism

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    The Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is an initiative aimed at fostering good governance and development in its participating states. As part of its multi-pronged inquiry, it devotes a great deal of attention to investigating corporate governance on the continent. However, thus far corporate governance has attracted less attention than any other area of the APRM.
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    Corporate governance in Africa’s state-owned enterprises: perspectives on an evolving system

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    The African Peer Review Mechanism’s (APRM) Country Review Reports (CRRs) provide a unique overview of central themes in Africa’s political economy, and the insights they provide into corporate governance are particularly useful.
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    Access to urban land: a handbook for community organisations

    Urban LandMark, 2008
    Lack of access to urban land by the poor is one of the biggest challenges facing South African cities. Urban LandMark, a focused NGO, organised a series of workshops across the country to document the experiences and views of community organisations with regard to urban land issues; this paper overviews the outcomes of these workshops.
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    Building an African corporate governance

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Developing a suitable system of corporate governance is an important priority for Africa. Corporate governance is underdeveloped on the continent – outside particular pockets – but the emerging system
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    Will rising democracies adopt pro-human rights foreign policies?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    As democratisation unfolded in countries such as Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa, it was hoped that these states would find common ground with more established democracies. While emerging and established democracies have collaborated in responding to grave human rights abuses in Myanmar, North Korea and Libya, among others, serious cleavages remain.

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