South Africa 2014

Author : Richard Calland
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770222762

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The Zuma Years by Richard Calland Pdf

The face of power in South Africa is rapidly changing – for better and for worse. The years since Thabo Mbeki was swept aside by Jacob Zuma’s ‘coalition of the wounded’ have been especially tumultuous, with the rise and fall of populist politicians such as Julius Malema, the terrible events at Marikana, and the embarrassing Guptagate scandal. What lies behind these developments? How does the Zuma presidency exercise its power? Who makes our foreign policy? What goes on in cabinet meetings? What is the state of play in the Alliance – is the SACP really more powerful than before? And, as the landscape shifts, what are the opposition’s prospects? In The Zuma Years, Richard Calland attempts to answer these questions, and more, by holding up a mirror to the new establishment; by exploring how people such as Malema, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng and DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko have risen so fast; by examining key drivers of transformation in South Africa, such as the professions and the universities; and by training a spotlight on the toxic mix of money and politics. The Zuma Years is a fly-on-the-wall, insider’s approach to the people who control the power that affects us all. It takes you along the corridors of government and corporate power, mixing solid research with vivid anecdote and interviews with key players. The result is an accessible yet authoritative account of who runs South Africa, and how, today.

Author : Bernadine Jones
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030717926

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Elections and TV News in South Africa by Bernadine Jones Pdf

This book takes television news seriously. Over the course of nine chapters, Elections and TV News in South Africa shows how six democratic South African general elections, 1994–2019, were represented on both local and international news broadcasts. It reveals the shifting narratives about South African democracy, coupled with changing and challenging political journalism practices. The book is organised in three parts: the first contains a history of South African democracy and an overview of the South African media environment. The second part is a visual analysis of the South African elections on television news, exploring portrayals of violence, security, power, and populism, and how these fit into normative news values and the ruling party’s tightening grip on the media. The final part is a conclusion, a call to action, and a suggestion to improve political journalistic practice.

Author : Precious N. Ndlovu
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041196071

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Competition Law in South Africa by Precious N. Ndlovu Pdf

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of competition law and its interpretation in the South Africa covers every aspect of the subject – the various forms of restrictive agreements and abuse of dominance prohibited by law and the rules on merger control; tests of illegality; filing obligations; administrative investigation and enforcement procedures; civil remedies and criminal penalties; and raising challenges to administrative decisions. Lawyers who handle transnational commercial transactions will appreciate the explanation of fundamental differences in procedure from one legal system to another, as well as the international aspects of competition law. Throughout the book, the treatment emphasizes enforcement, with relevant cases analysed where appropriate. An informative introductory chapter provides detailed information on the economic, legal, and historical background, including national and international sources, scope of application, an overview of substantive provisions and main notions, and a comprehensive description of the enforcement system including private enforcement. The book proceeds to a detailed analysis of substantive prohibitions, including cartels and other horizontal agreements, vertical restraints, the various types of abusive conduct by the dominant firms and the appraisal of concentrations, and then goes on to the administrative enforcement of competition law, with a focus on the antitrust authorities’ powers of investigation and the right of defence of suspected companies. This part also covers voluntary merger notifications and clearance decisions, as well as a description of the judicial review of administrative decisions. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable time-saving tool for business and legal professionals alike. Lawyers representing parties with interests in the South Africa will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of international and comparative competition law.

Author : Brett Bowes,Steuart Pennington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : South Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119954886

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South Africa 2014 by Brett Bowes,Steuart Pennington Pdf

Author : Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,Viviene Taylor
Publisher : Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781775820727

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Food Security in South Africa by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,Viviene Taylor Pdf

The right to food is guaranteed in South Africa’s Constitution as it is in international law. Yet food insecurity remains widespread and persistent, at levels much higher than in countries with similar levels of per capita GDP and development, such as Brazil. In this book, leading local and international researchers on food security and related policy work have come together to create the first systematic and trans-disciplinary analysis of food security and its multiple dimensions in South Africa and the southern African region. Drawing on Amartya Sen’s entitlement theory to identify the key drivers of hunger, they see food insecurity as a chronic, structurally based condition rather than only resulting from natural environmental disasters, temporary economic shocks and household vulnerabilities. The authors focus on a range of policy options and choices to provide short-term and longer-term solutions to the systemic causes of unemployment, failing rural livelihoods and traditional subsistence production. They also emphasise the linkages between the social and economic dimensions of food insecurity and use an integrative, interdisciplinary approach to analyse the reasons why these conditions persist and what can be done to address them. Importantly the book brings together work undertaken at local and national levels in new ways so that policy-makers, researchers, human rights advocates and social and economic scholars are better able to make the links between macro- and micro-processes of development.

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108425346

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English in Multilingual South Africa by Raymond Hickey Pdf

An innovative and insightful exploration of varieties of English in contemporary South Africa.

Author : Thula Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197681183

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History of South Africa by Thula Simpson Pdf

South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. This book explores the country's tumultuous journey from the Second Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony and diplomatic reports, Thula Simpson follows the South African people through the battles, elections, repression, resistance, strikes, insurrections, massacres, crashes and epidemics that have shaped the nation. Tracking South Africa's path from colony to Union and from apartheid to democracy, Simpson documents the influence of key figures including Jan Smuts, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, P.W. Botha, Thabo Mbeki and Cyril Ramaphosa. He offers detailed accounts of watershed events like the 1922 Rand Revolt, the Defiance Campaign, Sharpeville, the Soweto uprising and the Marikana massacre. He sheds light on the roles of Gandhi, Churchill, Castro and Thatcher, and explores the impact of the World Wars, the armed struggle and the Border War. Simpson's history charts the post-apartheid transition and the phases of ANC rule, from Rainbow Nation to transformation; state capture to 'New Dawn'. Along the way, it reveals the divisions and solidarities of sport; the nation's economic travails; and painful pandemics, from the Spanish flu to AIDS and Covid-19.

Author : Adekeye Adebajo,Kudrat Virk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786723321

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Foreign Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Adekeye Adebajo,Kudrat Virk Pdf

South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa. It was rated the continent's largest economy in 2016 and is the only African member of the G20. It is also the only strategic partner of the EU in Africa. Yet despite being so strategically and economically significant, there is little scholarship that focuses on South Africa as a regional hegemon. This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of South Africa's post-Apartheid foreign policy. Over its 23 chapters - -and with contributions from established Africa, Western, Asian and American scholars, as well as diplomats and analysts - the book examines the current pattern of the country's foreign relations in impressive detail. The geographic and thematic coverage is extensive, including chapters on: the domestic imperatives of South Africa's foreign policy; peace-making; defence and security; bilateral relations in Southern, Central, West, Eastern and North Africa; bilateral relations with the US, China, Britain, France and Japan; the country's key external multilateral relations with the UN; the BRICS economic grouping; the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP); as well as the EU and the World Trade Organization (WTO). An essential resource for researchers, the book will be relevant to the fields of area studies, foreign policy, history, international relations, international law, security studies, political economy and development studies.

Author : Peter Vale,Pieter Fourie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317665762

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Political Science in South Africa by Peter Vale,Pieter Fourie Pdf

In 2013 and in 2014 respectively, the South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS) and Politikon (the South African Journal of Political Studies) celebrate their 40th anniversary. Also, in April 2014 South Africa celebrates twenty years since the advent of the post-Apartheid democracy, and the birth of the ‘rainbow nation’. This book provides a timely account of the birth and evolution of South African politics over the past four decades, but also of the study of Political Science and International Relations in this country. Fourteen political scientists contribute chapters to this volume, situating the study of politics within its global context and recounting the development of politics as a field of study at South African universities. The fourteen contributions evaluate the state of the discipline(s) and suggest conclusions that are surprising and in many instances unsettling, not only with regards to what and how politics is taught, but also how its study has variously gained and lost pertinence for South Africans’ understanding of their own polity as well as its place in the world. The implications are uncomfortable, and pose interesting challenges for South African scholarship, pedagogy and national self-reflection. This book was published as a special issue of Politikon.

Author : Jeffrey Herbst,Greg Mills
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781770104099

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How South Africa Works by Jeffrey Herbst,Greg Mills Pdf

The overwhelming challenge that South Africa faces, and has to date failed to address, is unemployment, which falls especially on African youths who were promised a better future after 1994. If the current unemployment challenge is not addressed, it will be impossible to sustainably lift many millions of people out of poverty. How South Africa Works reviews the country’s major economic achievements over the past two decades. Through numerous interviews with politicians, business leaders and analysts, it examines the challenges and opportunities across key productive sectors – including agriculture, manufacturing, services, and mining – illustrative of the policy challenges that leaders face. It scrutinises the social grant and education systems to understand if South Africa has established mechanisms for people not only to escape destitution but be ready to be employed, and identifies steps that some of South Africa’s most notable entrepreneurs have taken to build world-class enterprises. Recognising the essential challenge to cultivate more employers to employ people, How South Africa Works concludes by offering an agenda and active steps for greater competitiveness for government, business and labour.

Author : R. Sooryamoorthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107185630

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Networks of Communication in South Africa by R. Sooryamoorthy Pdf

This book is an original study on the development of media technologies, communications and social networks in South Africa. It is for those researching the growth of communication technology and new media in Africa, as well as those more widely involved in development studies and economics.

Author : Nico Cloete,Johann Mouton
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781928331070

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Doctoral Education in South Africa by Nico Cloete,Johann Mouton Pdf

Worldwide, in Africa and in South Africa, the importance of the doctorate has increased disproportionately in relation to its share of the overall graduate output over the past decade. This heightened attention has not only been concerned with the traditional role of the PhD, namely the provision of future academics; rather, it has focused on the increasingly important role that higher education and, particularly, high-level skills is perceived to play in national development and the knowledge economy. This book is unique in the area of research into doctoral studies because it draws on a large number of studies conducted by the Centre of Higher Education Trust (CHET) and the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), as well as on studies from the rest of Africa and the world. In addition to the historical studies, new quantitative and qualitative research was undertaken to produce the evidence base for the analyses presented in the book. The findings presented in Doctoral Education in South Africa pose anew at least six tough policy questions that the country has struggled with since 1994, and continues to struggle with, if it wishes to gear up the system to meet the target of 5 000 new doctorates a year by 2030. Discourses framed around the single imperatives of growth, efficiency, transformation or quality will not, however, generate the kind of policy discourses required to resolve these tough policy questions effectively. What is needed is a change in approach that accommodates multiple imperatives and allows for these to be addressed simultaneously.

Author : Students of the 2015 Field Study Program
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326318673

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Regional Sustainability - South Africa 2015 by Students of the 2015 Field Study Program Pdf

Author : J. Tyler Dickovick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781475812381

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Africa 2014 by J. Tyler Dickovick Pdf

The World Today Series: Africa provides necessary information on all the countries on the African continent, including a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Published annually, this work covers the latest changes and news in African affairs.

Author : Oxford Business Group
Publisher : Oxford Business Group
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : South Africa
ISBN : 9781910068182

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The Report: South Africa 2014 by Oxford Business Group Pdf

Indeed, since the end of apartheid in 1994 South Africa has become a major diplomatic player both on the African continent as well as further afield. Despite the size of South Africa’s economy, the country currently faces a number of major economic challenges. As of the end of July 2014 the unemployment rate was at 25.5%, according to data from Statistics South Africa, which was among the highest in the world. While the government’s long-term development plans are generally highly regarded, delivery and execution has occasionally been problematic. While there are major hurdles that must be cleared, given the country’s strong institutions and the rapid pace of economic expansion over the past two decades, South Africa should be able to look forward to 20 more years of peace and steady, sustained economic growth.