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19 May 2013
                       
 
 
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03 Apr 2013
 
 
The South African non-profit sector: Struggling to survive, needing to thrive
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
At present, South Africa has an extensive and lively non-governmental sector which boasts roughly 100,000 registered non-profit organisations (NPOs) and an estimated 50,000 unregistered ones.(2)...
 
 
08 Jan 2013
 
Blue industrialisation: Issues in aquaculture and Africa
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
A hallmark of modernity is the mastery of nature by man to fulfil needs, and the harnessing of technology to overcome the problem of scarcity.(2) Innovations in agriculture thousands of years ago...
 
 
06 Nov 2012
 
Shedding light on the shadow economy: Business and strategy in Africa’s informal markets
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
The large informal sector in African economies communicates a demand-supply equation for entrepreneurs that promises profit through hidden opportunities in all facets of economic activity. From...
 
 
07 Sep 2012
 
Counter-trade: The case of offsets in the defence industry
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
This paper explores counter-trade as a practice that articulates the ‘market state’ and its attendant economics. In analysing offset agreements as a specific exemplar of counter-trade, the...
 
 
21 Aug 2012
 
Primary health care implementation: A brief review
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
The goal of any health care system is to provide universal access to appropriate, efficient, effective and quality health services, in order to improve and promote people’s health. In most...
 
 
02 Jul 2012
 
Justice denied: Reality and rhetoric in the African Court on human and people’s rights
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
Following the end of World War II, the African continent experienced a swift process of decolonisation. Attempting to bridge the gaping power vacuum, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was...
 
 
22 Jun 2012
 
The price of health: Exploring cost-effectiveness analysis in public health
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
With the current global burden of health problems, proper allocation of limited resources is essential. A challenge facing public health professionals is determining how to successfully execute...
 
 
04 Jun 2012
 
Globalisation and transnational organised crime in South Africa
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
It is argued that in an increasingly borderless world, transnational criminal groups have developed the ability to manoeuvre, prosper and become a dangerous threat to the world system. Increasing...
 
 
30 Mar 2011
 
Academia versus activism: South African feminist debates since 1990
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
Feminist movements have long debated the effectiveness of academic conferences and writing versus the need for immediate political action.(2) This debate took on a life of its own in South Africa...
 
 
04 Jan 2011
 
Democratic development in Africa: A tale of one step forward, two steps backward
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
Emerging from the throes of colonialism in the 1960s, many analysts theorised that the nascent African states, as opposed to their Asian counterparts, were most likely to record substantial...
 
 
12 Nov 2010
 
Community-based conservation or nature-based participation? Protecting nature and people in Africa
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
One of the main sites of the people-ecology interface is ‘protected areas' in the form of nature parks, game reserves and heritage sites. While these areas protect the ‘stock' of biodiversity...
 
 
20 Aug 2010
 
Sustenance for servitude: Cultivating resilience amongst rights-based development practitioners
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
Contemporary development theory has evolved to incorporate a vision of progress that goes beyond an emphasis on economic indicators as a barometer of the welfare of society.(2) Instead, holistic...
 
 
13 Aug 2009
 
South Africa: Conceptualizing a Politics of Human-Oriented Development
ADAM HABIB
This paper reflects on what needs to be done for a human-oriented development agenda in South Africa? It investigates the broader structural political condition, especially the configuration of...
 
 
15 Jul 2009
 
Reflections on the Development State for South Africa
ADAM HABIB
A wealth of scholarship has been built up over the last decade or two on the development states of East and South East Asia. This literature has different orientations. Some have a policy bent and...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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