A Descriptive Analysis of the Causes, Challenges and Effects of Skills Deficit on Youth Empowerment in South Africa

Shava, Elvin; Clementine, Maramura Tafadzwa

doi:10.1080/09718923.2016.11893602

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“…However, to the contrary Blaeschke and Hang (2018) argue that although the inter-municipal co-operation increases production, it nonetheless complicates co-ordination of stakeholder interests due to the spread of accountability of a wider spectrum and subsequently lowers the degree of technical efficiency. Contrary to the perspectives on inter-municipal co-operation in Allers and de Greef (2018), Soukopová and Vaceková (2018) the satisfactory delivery of basic resources in conjunction with the private sector (public-private partnership) not only promotes optimisation of technical and management capacity, but also improves performance of services of municipalities (Germà & Gradus, 2018;Shava & Maramura, 2016).…”

Section: Capacity Development Enablers and Disablers In The Context Local Governmentmentioning

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Local Government Capacity Development: A Case Study of a South African District Municipality

Mphahlele¹,

Zandamela

2021

JPAG

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Bojanala Platinum District Municipality (BPDM), in the North West Province is endowed with the extractive economy. The District experiences challenges of capacity development of service delivery structures and programmes. It is in this context that this paper explains how local government responses to challenges of capacity development in the District Municipality. In addition, the paper explores ways in which they can be overcome for enhanced service delivery. The purpose of this study is to examine challenges related to the use of capacity development structures and programmes related to service delivery and explores how to overcome them. The study examines the structures and programmes, facilitators and inhibitors of skills development and performance initiatives within the context of local government capacity development. This study develops a theoretical framing incorporating scholarship on human capital and performance improvement in the context of local government. This framing is premised on the scholarly evidence that capacity development is an enabler of service delivery, influenced by skills development and municipal performance improvement. The research is a single case qualitative case study approach and employs an interpretative paradigm. The paper employs senior managers in the municipalities as the unit of analysis. That study reveals that there are difficulties associated with skills retention and organisational relations. In conclusion, political abandonment, poor communication and stakeholder engagements contribute to weakened inter-municipal co-operation and inadequate use of resources. The interface between learning and skills development contributes to the body knowledge.

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Local Government Capacity Development: A Case Study of a South African District Municipality

Mphahlele¹,

Zandamela

2021

JPAG

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“…As a result, this diagnostic research adopted an exploratory approach to literature review aimed at investigating the theme of the study, focusing on peered review journals which addressed specific research objectives of the study. Existing relevant studies within South Africa are considered alongside other emerging economics to address the current concerns within the education sector of the country [1,2,3,4,5,23,24,25].…”

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“…This is imperative following the concerns of 90 percent of South African CEO about lack of skills needed in various organizations across the country [4]. This situation [3,5,6] was pathetic and detrimental as the teeming youth population are devoid of the needed skills to move the country forward. Meanwhile, the shortage of skilled staff to drive the change stimulated by the 4IR had been because of the failure in the education system in the country [4,3,5].…”

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“…This situation [3,5,6] was pathetic and detrimental as the teeming youth population are devoid of the needed skills to move the country forward. Meanwhile, the shortage of skilled staff to drive the change stimulated by the 4IR had been because of the failure in the education system in the country [4,3,5]. Ignoring this important sector, which aids national capacity building in line with the goal of raising digital citizens, could be detrimental to national imperatives.…”

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Institutionalizing Technologies in South African Universities towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Moloi¹,

Salawu²

2022

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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This study investigated the essentials for institutionalizing technologies for teaching and learning across the three types of universities in South Africa. This was with a view to determining the skills required for teaching and learning in the 4IR era. In order to obtain the data needed for the study, cross-sectional survey design was employed and online interview was conducted on Microsoft Teams and Zoom with the participants to elicit first-hand information. The population consisted of all the Executive Deans/Deans of Faculties in twenty-six (26) South African Universities. A total of twenty-two (22) Universities were purposefully selected to allow fair representation to make the findings generalizable. Seventy (70) Executive Deans/Deans participated in the online data collection via Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Content analysis and descriptive statistics were employed for analyzing data. Findings revealed that the universities in the Republic deployed fifty-seven different technologies to facilitate their teaching and learning activities, and teaching platforms had been supplemented with new technologies such as WhatsApp, Zoom, and MS Teams. Although resistance had been experienced in the past, the teaching staff is competent to moderately competent in the use of existing technologies for teaching because most faculties had provided training in an on-going basis. Improvements in the standard and quality of teaching and learning were observed with the aid of emerging technologies. The study concludes that while Universities are settled to adopt blended learning as the strategy to implement the convergence between human and machines in the era of the fourth industrial revolution, there is a need to have a national policy in place that deals with funding (special grant) to plug the gap on the digital divide.

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“…South Africa is faced with several challenges, including high unemployment and significant differences in the welfare and income of employees (Winkler and Marquand, 2009;Shava and Tafadzwa, 2016). Further, South Africa is more energy-intensive than its international peers, and its greenhouse gas emission level in 2012 was ranked 12th globally, despite the economy being only the 28 th largest by total gross domestic product (SALGA, 2013;Beneke et al, 2016).…”

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Green economy in the wastewater treatment sector: Jobs, awareness, barriers, and opportunities in selected local governments in South Africa

Otieno

Ochieng

2018

J. energy South. Afr.

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The green economy (GE) has increasingly gained international focus, with new strategies aimed at restructuring the economy in an environmentally friendly manner. A study was carried out to analyse existing and potential green jobs and identify green qualifications and skills necessary for the development of the GE. The study was done within the context of the role of local governments in the adoption of green economy strategies in the wastewater treatment sector, in selected local governments across the northern provinces of South Africa. A descriptive survey method with qualitative and quantitative approaches was employed for data collection from twenty-four wastewater treatment plants in eleven local municipalities. The concept of the GE was foreign to several employees, who could not identify green jobs within most sectors of the economy. Only13.5% of the employees of the surveyed plants were involved in directly green jobs. A further 36% were in green-related jobs while the remaining 50.5% were involved in non-green jobs. Barriers to the creation of green jobs and implementation of green practices were the shortage of employees with green and conventional wastewater treatment skills, and lack of training in green skills. Several opportunities for green jobs creation exist, such as the implementation of renewable energy, re-use of treated effluent, and processing of waste sludge into compost. To spur GE growth and create green jobs, the creation of awareness, development of skills and implementation of green technologies should be intensified.

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A Descriptive Analysis of the Causes, Challenges and Effects of Skills Deficit on Youth Empowerment in South Africa

Cited by 11 publications

References 2 publications

Local Government Capacity Development: A Case Study of a South African District Municipality

Local Government Capacity Development: A Case Study of a South African District Municipality

Institutionalizing Technologies in South African Universities towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Green economy in the wastewater treatment sector: Jobs, awareness, barriers, and opportunities in selected local governments in South Africa

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