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    Lifting the shroud of secrecy: fiscal transparency in South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The apartheid regime made decisions and allocated money without regard for accountability and public scrutiny. South Africa’s new constitution now has explicit pro-transparency commitments: accountability is spreading through all tiers of the country’s devolved government. Has South Africa achieved true fiscal transparency? Are there lessons here for the most open of developed nations?
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    Fighting obsolescence: new directions for NGOs in post-apartheid South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In the aftermath of apartheid, South African NGOs, key players in the struggle for justice, have been rejected by donors and the government. How are urban NGOs in South Africa’s largest metropolis reinventing themselves in the struggle against urban degeneration?
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    Out of the enclave? Black farming in post-apartheid South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    South African agriculture is faced with a complexity of equity and poverty issues. Has the post-apartheid focus on boosting efficiency obscured the need to achieve greater equity, diversity and employment? How can economists work with the government and private sector to help reverse the deliberate destruction of black farming in the apartheid era?
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    Information is king? Transforming the new South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can the South African government modernise given its racist and dysfunctional past? Are existing processes up to the challenge? What role should information systems play? How crucial is a culture of information management to successful transformation?
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    Chiefs and lairds: land reform in Africa and Scotland

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Land ownership in Scotland is highly skewed and unlike anywhere else in Europe. Half the privately held land is held by 313 landowners. Scotland, like South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Kenya is coming to terms with the historical legacy of enormous tracts remaining in the hands of rich landowners, in many cases considered ‘foreigners’ by the local population.
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    The role of informal social security in an inter-generational society

    International Social Security Association, 2003
    This paper gives a brief overview of the current formal social security provisioning in South Africa with regards to old age and retirement benefits. It then investigates issues impacting on the ageing population namely unemployment, HIV/AIDS and poverty.
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    How are African hospitals coping with the rising burden of HIV?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How is the HIV/AIDS epidemic affecting healthcare systems in developing countries? Can existing services cope? Two-thirds of people infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa. Research by the UK Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has examined the effect of high HIV prevalence on healthcare services in Kenya and South Africa.
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    Going for gold? TB control programmes for South African miners

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    South African gold miners have very high rates of tuberculosis (TB), even though many mines have TB control programmes which meet cure-rate targets set by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Why do miners still have such a high risk of TB? Are the WHO guidelines meaningful in this setting?
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    Selling safe sex to young people - does youth-targeted social marketing work?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    Young people in sub-Saharan Africa often lack accurate information about sexuality and reproductive health. Social attitudes towards sex make it difficult for them to protect themselves against pregnancy and HIV. How can health promotion programmes increase young people’s self-confidence in their ability to obtain and use contraceptives?
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    Volunteer supervisors in TB treatment programmes - what's in it for them?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Adherence to tuberculosis (TB) treatment can be improved by supervision of pill-taking, known as directly observed treatment (DOT). In community-based TB treatment, patients are supervised taking their medication at home by local volunteers. Their work can produce major changes in mortality and health status, but what motivates these volunteers?

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