Mozambique Doing Business - South Africa

  Public involvement in water management  A review of the literature on broader development process reveals that the ongoing development debates discourages top down policies that underestimate the potential of the people and their role in the development process (Briant & White, 1982; Burkey, 1993). Current thinking is the philosophy that grassroots support provides valuable insights into local conditions and more importantly resuhs in sustainability and self- reliant development (Chamber, 1997; Carney, 1998). Community participation and involvement in development projects facilitates the implementation of the planning process, reinforces accountability of decision-makers and develops a sense of self-worth, responsibility and empowerment (Oakley, 1991; Penderis, 1996). In a way, the literature review reveals many experiences, success stories and practical examples of successful policies that are informed by majority decisions. Several broad areas of theory suggest that in...

   Electricity Demand and Growth South Africa has enjoyed electricity production surplus for years due to overinvestment in electricity generators by Eskom. This eliminated the need to build new electricity generators and through which Eskom achieved the position of being the world’s cheapest producer of electricity, Kohler (2008). However, this situation has now ended and South Africa is in urgent need for additional power capacity. Between December 2005 and May 2006 outages were experienced in the Western Cape, in early 2007 outages were experienced across the country and in January 2008 daily load shedding events were experienced. The recent large-scale power outages and load-shedding events have been contributed by a declining reserve margin (see Figure 2). An acceptable reserve margin would be between 15% and 20%.  Various factors contributed to the supply problem Kohler (2008) and Eskom Annual Report (2007), which are: Policy uncertainty, planning confusion and inve...

  Problems facing organised pharmacy Inconsistent pricing under uncertainty  In the thick of legal disputes and ongoing negotiations, the Medicines Amendment Act has clearly failed to do what it originally sought: to ensure that consumers pay the same price for the same medicine at any pharmacy. Corporate chains are able to follow the 26% / R26 cap from 2004 while others, mostly community retailers, make additional mark-ups to stay in business. Kobie Visagie, Clicks manager, relates that the chain has always adhered to the 26% / R26 plan without charging extra administration fees. Vaughan Clark, owner of two independents in Hout Bay, uses a flat 38% mark-up.14 “Business,” he says, “wouldn’t be able to survive on anything less.” The independent manager in Muizenberg uses a tiered structure with rates higher than those proposed by government thus far. He cites the Medicines Amendment Act as the beginning of a “disruptive effect.” Though no pharmacy has ever been forced to change...

  Evolution of rural development in South Africa   The National Rural Development Strategy and the Rural Development Framework  The National Rural Development Strategy (NRDS) of 1995 and the Rural Development Framework (RDF) of 1997 were the first concerted attempts to institute a rural development programme in the post-apartheid era. The NRDS was a “rights-based” 25-year vision that sought to free rural communities from poverty by creating productive jobs through supporting commercial activities, diversified agriculture, providing infrastructure, ensuring rural-urban spatial linkages, building local capabilities and promoting close collaboration amongst local government, civil society and private sector (Integrated Rural Development Sector Strategy: Draft Version, 2022). One of the limitations of the strategy is that it did not account for local institutional realities such as traditional leadership governance and customary relations could influence the direction of...

  SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT ARE BEING FACED BY THE SA TRANSPORT SECTOR The transport department is facing a challenge of deficiency in terms of capacity and reliability of transport this results in economic costs such as lower quality of life and reduced opportunities (Rodrigue&Notteboom, 1998).Inefficient transportation increases costs. The second challenged being faced is congestion caused the provision of free or low cost transport infrastructure to users .Nevertheless congestion can also be viewed as an indication of a growing economy were infrastructure and capacity have difficulties keeping up with the rising movement demands. South Africa is in desperate need of a sustainable and viable public transport system. According to the South Africa National Taxi Council taxis transport roughly 15-16 million commuters daily which is about 71% of the community public labour force. This industry is plagued with safety and health issues and a record of poor driving and death .This...

  Civics involvement in the 1994 elections  Civics and the African National Congress have taken common position on many issues. One of the common positions they took was when they warned the government against treating the local government negotiating forum (LGNF) as its advisory committee (The Star, 24 September 1993). The Local Government Negotiating Forum (LGNF) was given the task of negotiating urban management models suitable for the transition and of reaching agreement on models for submission to the elected constitution-making body. The following are examples of the common position taken by the civics and the ANC: Civic associations with the ANC in particular embarked on mass action to force the government to accede to the demands which they were making. The ANC supported the demands of the civics while the civics also supported the demands of the ANC. In its leaflet the ANC called on the people to make the apartheid system more and more unworkable and to make the count...