Given South Africa's social and economic development challenges, general human resources management (HRM) practices may not be adequate to address the challenges of transformation and executing the expected developmental role. A review of the literature and practices regarding the envisaged role of the Public Service in what is characterized as a developmental state is undertaken here, and the existing inadequacies with respect of attracting and retaining skilled employees are highlighted. The argument is offered that talent management should be adopted as a complementary HRM practice to achieve Public Service objectives. This is necessary in the context of a shortage of skills and the need to redress past racial biases in the Public Service.

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Integrative leadership is a requirement for 21st century socio-economic development, noting the increasing levels of complexity that arise where electronic communications technologies and new media influence the course of such development. Continuous monitoring and evaluation is a necessary contributor to integrative leadership, as increasingly integrative thinking needs relevant and timely research data and analysis to inform such e-Ieadership. This paper presents an outline of the information society and e-government monitoring and evaluation framework designed for the Gauteng Provincial Government in South Africa, and explains its applicability to innovations in e-Ieadership as a means to fostering the evolution of an information society.

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The state of research on e-government evolution in Africa is ripe for analysis. The article analyses e-government research and scholarly publishing through an assessment of the key features of the research and the community spearheading its emergence. This exploratory study seeks to map the terrain of e-government research in Africa at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. For this purpose, 50 articles were identified using the Scopus citation database, and were subjected to content analysis. This work is intended to encourage continental e-government researchers to further explore and analyse the e-government phenomenon from varying starting points, perspectives, disciplinary orientations and research traditions, and to pave the way for a greater understanding of the dynamics, nature and key features of e-government on the continent.