Books and Book Chapters (Political Studies)
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/436
2024-03-28T23:26:32ZPolitics and higher education in East Africa from the 1920s to 1970
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/7155
Politics and higher education in East Africa from the 1920s to 1970
Mngomezulu, Bhekithemba Richard
The development of higher education in East Africa has a long history. For many years, the process was characterised by political wrangling, negotiations and compromises by black and white constituencies. What eventually became the federal University of East Africa (UEA) in 1963 was a saturation point of a process initiated by British authorities as part of the colonial thinking about imperial integration from the 1920s – an initiative that was later embraced by East Africans in the late1950s. During the inter-war period the British Colonial Office started formulating a standard policy on African education for its African territories. As part of this initiative, on 24 November 1923, the Duke of Devonshire, Secretary of State for the Colonies, appointed a Commission under the chairmanship of W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and tasked it to investigate and report on matters of Native Education in the British Colonies and Protectorates in Tropical Africa. The main goal was to advance the progress of education in those Colonies and Protectorates. The Commission concluded its work and submitted its Report to Devonshire early in 1925. The latter subsequently published the Report as Command Paper No. 2374 in March 1925. This marked the early stages of the process of developing higher education in East Africa.
One of the key recommendations of the Ormsby-Gore Commission was that the time was opportune for some public statement of principles and policy which would prove a useful guide to all those engaged, directly or indirectly, in the advancement of native education in the African continent. Thus, although the primary focus of the Ormsby-Gore Commission was not East Africa per se, this memorandum laid a solid foundation for the development of higher education in East Africa.
2012-01-01T00:00:00ZInformality disallowed: State restrictions on informal traders and micro-enterprises in Browns farm, Cape Town, South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/5840
Informality disallowed: State restrictions on informal traders and micro-enterprises in Browns farm, Cape Town, South Africa
Piper, Laurence; Charman, Andrew; Petersen, Leif
This chapter examines the impact of regulations and law enforcement
on the economic activities of informal traders and micro-entrepreneurs
in marginalised communities on the urban periphery. Our case site is
Browns Farm, Philippi, a township in the City of Cape Town, South Africa,
where a micro-enterprise census and business operator survey was conducted
in 2011 (Charman et al, 2015). The chapter argues that despite the signi¿cant
number of informal businesses in South African townships, the state continues
to pursue efforts that either prevent formalisation or circumscribe informal
activities. At the heart of our argument is the assertion that the informal
economic practices of the urban poor constitute a ‘lived economy’ whose
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZTenderpreneur (also tenderpreneurship and tenderpreneurism)
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/5835
Tenderpreneur (also tenderpreneurship and tenderpreneurism)
Piper, Laurence; Charman, Andrew
‘Tenderpreneur’ is a South African colloquialism for a businessperson who uses political contacts to secure government procurement contracts (called ‘tenders’) often as part of reciprocal exchange of favours or benefits. The term is a portmanteau of ‘tender’ (to provide business services) and ‘entrepreneur’. Today, ‘tenderpreneurs’ are associated with corruption, nepotism and clientelism. This is because the award of many tenders is driven by informal interests and/or political affiliation, rather than the requirements of formal procedure. The informality of ‘tenderpreneurship’ thus resides in these extra-legal social and political relationships.
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZThe tale of two publics: Media, political representation and citizenship in Hout Bay,
http://hdl.handle.net/10566/5831
The tale of two publics: Media, political representation and citizenship in Hout Bay,
Piper, Laurence; Anciano, Fiona.; von Lieres, Bettina
This chapter makes the case that access to the spaces of public debate in post-apartheid South Africa is about the challenge of political representation as much as it is about the challenge of access to communication technologies. These representational issues centre on the racialised and partisan nature of state-society relations framed, in part, through identity discourses and, for many poor citizens, patronage politics linked to local governance. In the urban setting this often also takes a spatial form linked to the neighbourhood or community, and involves local leaders who invoke the exclusive right to mediate for poor and marginalised groups in the name of liberation nationalism and service delivery – elsewhere termed the politics of the ‘party-society’.
2017-01-01T00:00:00Z