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The emergent practice of governance and its implications for the concept of politics
(AJOL, 2007)
This paper explores the implications of the disjuncture between the real-world practice of governance and the popular understanding of politics. There are two ways of addressing this disjuncture. The first is to accept the ...
Community development and engagement with local governance in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2008)
The issue of public participation is receiving increasing attention in South Africa, from both government and civil society sectors. We are witnessing acknowledgement from a wide range of public institutions that insufficient ...
The Inkatha Freedom Party: Between the Impossible and the Ineffective.
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
From the perspective of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), the 2004 election was remarkable in two ways. First, the IFP fared worse than ever. Formed by Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi in 1975, the party is rooted in rural Zulu ...
Faith-based organisations, local governance and citizenship in South Africa
(University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009)
Democracy by accident: the rise of Zuma and the renaissance of the tripartite alliance
(Routledge, 2009)
In party organisational terms, the rise of Jacob Zuma to the Presidency of the African National
Congress (ANC) is a victory for the alliance partners and the struggle-era vision of the ANC as a
popular front, or the ‘ANC ...
Too dependent to participate: ward committees and local democratisation in South Africa
(Routledge, 2009)
Will participatory local government structures help deepen democracy in
South Africa? That is the proclaimed purpose of the ward committee system, the centre-
piece of post-apartheid local government reform, intended to ...