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    Zimbabweans’ (mostly) tolerant views on citizenship

    Afrobarometer, 2013
    What do Zimbabweans think about Zimbabwe’s citizenship? The current bulletin, based on an Afrobarometer survey, is sought to clarify this important matter, which affects a large proportion of the country’s population.
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    ‘Energetic’ dialogues in South Africa: the US example

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    South Africa and the US have both recently attempted to take concrete action to transform their respective energy futures. This is happening against the backdrop of major shifts in the global energy landscape and South Africa’s own need for new energy partnerships.
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    Urban management: the redevelopment of the Mitchells plain town centre

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    Mitchells Plain is about 20km from the Cape Town city centre. It was built in the 1970s as a township for people classified as ‘Coloured’, who were forcibly removed from areas that had been declared ‘whites only’ under the Group Areas Act.
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    Township renewal: Kwamashu case study

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    The restructuring of local government in South Africa began in the mid-1990s. A number of smaller local councils in the greater Durban area were amalgamated into a single metropolitan municipality, and the boundaries of the city were expanded to incorporate a number of new areas.
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    Improving urban management in township

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    Improving urban management is a crucial precondition for developing South African townships. While the urban management deficit in these areas has deep historical roots, an array of contemporary problems also needs to be overcome if improvements are to be realised.
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    Popular attitudes toward democracy in Mauritius

    Afrobarometer, 2013
    Expert assessments of democracy have always rated Mauritius as a paragon of democracy on the African continent. This briefing paper uses the results of an Afrobarometer survey to find out whether ordinary Mauritians agree with this assessment or not. The paper also demonstrates the opinions of people in other African countries regarding their national democracies. 
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    Packaging township development projects

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    There are no simple solutions for leveraging the project inputs required for the success of township development projects. In most cases, such projects require long planning and implementation periods, the involvement of numerous agencies, and ample persistence and skill.
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    Participatory planning, justice, and climate change in Durban, South Africa

    Environment and Planning A, 2010
    This academic article explores how participatory governance in urban environmental planning was implemented and experience in Durban, a coastal city in South Africa. The author, Aylett, contextualises participatory governance with the literatures on social justice and climate change.
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    Unemployment biggest problem for Basotho, who also endorse illegal migration to get jobs

    Afrobarometer, 2013
    What do Basotho people and other neighbour nations see as the most important problems facing their countries that their governments should address? This bulletin relies on an Afrobarometer survey to find the answers for this question.
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    Governance and democracy attitudes in higher performing African countries

    Afrobarometer, 2013
    Namibia is usually regarded as one of the best performing democracies in Africa. This paper compares public attitudes that are central to democratic life across high performing countries in Africa, focusing particularly on Namibia, yet shedding lights also on small countries such as Mauritius and large countries such as South Africa.

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