An Afrocentric critique of sub-state actors in South Africa’s foreign policy: Case of Limpopo province

Maphaka, Dominic

doi:10.4102/apsdpr.v8i1.359

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“…South have been identified to include multidimensional factors like the climate catastrophe, rising unemployment, poverty and an ever-growing urban population which hampers the ability of provincial governments to fulfil their service delivery obligations by solely relying on internal fiscal allocations from the National Treasury. By engaging in paradiplomacy, provinces seek to attract trade and investment by marketing themselves as desirable destinations or unique cultures worthy of exploring and experiencing (Magam, 2018;Maphaka, 2020;Magam, 2021).…”

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Paradiplomacy as a capacity building strategy for good governance at the local level in South Africa

Wilson

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Governance in South Africa is plagued with a lot of challenges. This study names inept capacity as a primary challenge of governance as it is linked to a panoply of malaise from corruption to underdevelopment. The aim of the study is to explore how building good governance capacity can become part of the multipronged long-term solution to local governments' distress. The argument is that capacity development for good governance at the local level should underpin reformation policies and efforts. Extensive evidence show that international organisations and donors provide support to developing countries in a manner that seeks to build institutional capacity and improve the quality of governance. As a manner of optimising such supports, this study makes a case that donors can collaborate with subnational entities to coproduce capacity and governance solutions tailored to the concerns of local communities through paradiplomacy. Paradiplomacy is global cooperation at a local level, with correlating positive impacts at a local level. Because of globalisation, supranational (e.g., The African Union, SADC, The European Union) authorities have emerged as crucial players in international relations; more so, territorial sovereignty gives way for more informal types of horizontal cooperation and structured interdependence between nation-states. Global problems have local impacts as such, but policies promulgated at supranational levels are often ineffective at the local level.This study adopts a qualitative approach as it interviewed key respondents from the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (KZN-CoGTA) to explore workable solutions by making case for how best to address the issue of reduced or deficit capacity among government actors. Such a problem has given rise to a plethora of challenges when it come to the implementation and efficient execution of policies in South Africa. The study found that as the state ceases to be the only actor in public action, paradiplomacy presents itself as a tool for enhancing local intuitional capacity and concomitantly improve the quality of governance in South Africa.

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Paradiplomacy as a capacity building strategy for good governance at the local level in South Africa

Wilson

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Manifestations of corruption within the Kwazulu-Natal municipalities: A thorn in the flesh

Ndlovu¹,

Mutambara²

2023

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Corruption is regarded as a global phenomenon that no country is immune to, and it has been a well-known fact that it is prevalent in less developed countries (Enste & Heldman, 2017). In the South African public sector, evidence points to corrupt activities, such as state capture, real political interference in massive contracts, and political deployments (amaBhungane, 2017; Newham, 2014). Therefore, this study sought to investigate manifestations of corruption within KwaZulu-Natal municipalities. The quantitative research method was used to collect and analyse numerical data. A structured questionnaire was adopted to collect the data from 225 respondents. The result showed that the common manifestations of corruption in the KwaZulu-Natal municipalities were fraud and bribery, financial mismanagement, abuse of power, procurement irregularities, appointment irregularities, and unethical behaviour. Among indicators, items fraud and bribery had the most significant impact on corruption, followed by mismanagement of funds, abuse of resources, procurement irregularities, appointment irregularities, and unethical behaviour. The study is significant because it sheds more light on the various forms of corruption in KwaZulu-Natal municipalities. The study helps South African organisations to detect different forms of corruption and take appropriate mitigation measures. The study expands on limited empirical research on the common manifestations of corruption in the South African public sector.

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An Afrocentric critique of sub-state actors in South Africa’s foreign policy: Case of Limpopo province

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Paradiplomacy as a capacity building strategy for good governance at the local level in South Africa

Paradiplomacy as a capacity building strategy for good governance at the local level in South Africa

Manifestations of corruption within the Kwazulu-Natal municipalities: A thorn in the flesh

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