Sustaining Cape Town

Sustaining Cape Town
Author: Amy Davison
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1920338306

Although cities constitute the key contributors to unsustainable development, especially due to their ecological and equity impacts, they are also viewed as the vehicle for the transition to a sustainable future for humanity both in terms of technologies as well as policies and lifestyle changes. This book introduces the theoretical principles which underpin the required transition to sustainable cities in general and Cape Town in particular. The subsequent fourteen chapters tackle more specific areas of interventions and the key constraints towards realisation of related transition interventions in the city of Cape Town.

South African Language Rights Monitor 2007

South African Language Rights Monitor 2007
Author: Mariana Kriel
Publisher: UJ Press
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1920383182

During 2007, language-related issues were sources of acrimonious conflict in South Africa. In Durban, the eThekwini Municipality embarked on a street-renaming process that sparked widespread controversy. In Pretoria and Potchefstroom, Afrikaner activists continued their campaign against the renaming of their hometowns as ‘Tshwane’ and ‘Tlokwe’. In Ermelo, a high school decided to take the provincial education department to court in an attempt to regain its Afrikaans-only status.

Parched - The Cape Town Drought Story

Parched - The Cape Town Drought Story
Author: Gisela Kaiser
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 303078889X

The book presents the history of water supply to Cape Town, leading up to the worst ever drought recorded, through political turmoil impacting on drought interventions and resulting in the adoption of an integrated water strategy. Regions reliant on water supply from rainfed dams have always been vulnerable to the impact of drought. This is exacerbated by the uncertainty of future rainfall, which is never guaranteed, and reliance is placed on modelling using historic data. While weather has always been variable, climate has been generally reliable. With anthropogenic activity causing changes in climate, the validity of modelling based on history is currently not fully trusted. Unless the storage capacity is sufficient to carry through numerous seasons of poor rainfall, even with water restrictions to match demand and supply in times of depleted rainfall, the risk of reservoirs running dry remains a threat.

OECD Territorial Reviews: Cape Town, South Africa 2008

OECD Territorial Reviews: Cape Town, South Africa 2008
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2008-08-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9264049649

This report provides a platform for the development of a forward-looking, cross-cutting regional development strategy in Cape Town, South Africa and proposes new "second generation" governance reforms to consolidate previous achievements and respond to emerging obstacles.

The Fires Beneath

The Fires Beneath
Author: Seán Morrow
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 748
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1776090403

The life of Monica Wilson is a story of groundbreaking scholarship, passionate creativity and personal tragedy during South Africa’s bitter and divided twentieth century. As a young anthropologist in the 1930s, Monica immersed herself in the lives, work and beliefs of African communities in southern and East Africa, while carefully observing the effects of historical change. At the core of her existence was her intellectual collaboration and intense personal relationship with her husband, the brilliant but clinically depressive Godfrey Wilson, who took his own life in 1944. After Godfrey’s death, Monica raised their two children and built a career as a leading academic, at Fort Hare, Rhodes University College and the University of Cape Town. In a political environment where black academics were under constant threat and ideas were censored, she outspokenly advocated racial equality and freedom of speech, her publications emphasising a common South African identity and implicitly challenging apartheid ‘separate development’. This fascinating biography moves between the Eastern Cape, Cambridge, Tanganyika, Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia and Cape Town. It explores the relationship between anthropology and history, and the tensions between liberalism, Christianity, Marxism and apartheid ideology. Drawing on the letters and diaries left by Monica and Godfrey Wilson, this is a powerful story about politics, race, war, faith, love and loss.

Cape Town After Apartheid

Cape Town After Apartheid
Author: Tony Roshan Samara
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816670005

Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa.

Leadership and Legitimacy

Leadership and Legitimacy
Author: Susan Brown
Publisher: African Minds
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2007
Genre: Economic development
ISBN: 1920219056

One of the essential functions of national leadership is to continuously construct a national sense of identity and mutual trust, and another is to ensure the effectiveness of institutions, both of delivery and democracy. In both these ways, this has been a hard year.

Playfair Cricket Annual 2020

Playfair Cricket Annual 2020
Author: Ian Marshall
Publisher: Headline
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1472267559

The 73rd edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual is packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2020. West Indies and Pakistan are the visitors this coming season, and here you'll find comprehensive Test match and limited-overs records and career records to help you follow the action, County cricket is covered in unrivalled depth, with biographies of all players registered to the counties at the start of the season, full coverage of last summer's events and a fixture list for all major domestic matches in 2020. There are also sections on women's cricket and the major domestic T20 competitions from around the world, which in 2020 will include The Hundred. For any cricket fan, the season is never complete without a copy of Playfair to guide you through it all.

South African Human Resource Management

South African Human Resource Management
Author: Ben Swanepoel
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Total Pages: 876
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780702177507

Book & CD. This fourth edition makes it clear that all who are interested in the sustainability of South Africa -- and Africa -- must put human resource management (HRM) at the very core of the management of organisations generally. The content is aligned to outcomes that are geared towards analytical and critical thinking about the theory and practice of HRM in South Africa. The African context is addressed, and ample information about HRM aspects 'elsewhere in Africa' is provided. This edition breaks away even further from the traditional structure of so many standard HRM textbooks. It challenges a broadening of the 'agenda' and scope of HRM work: HRM is not only about managing employees, but also about managing the work and the people who do the work of and in organisations. This may involve alternative ways of getting the work of organisations done superiorly. This book will help you to apply HRM effectively to achieve its ultimate aim, namely to add value to people, to organisations and to society. This comprehensive book is organised around themes such as: Developing an appreciation for the context of HRM in South Africa; Strategising, designing and planning as preparatory HRM work; Sourcing work talent; Facing the countrys people empowerment challenge; Meeting the reward and care challenge; Handling labour and employee relations challenges; Championing change and transformation; Managing HRM-related information, including HRM and sustainability reporting. Based on most recent theoretical developments, the emphasis is on the practical applications. Samples of relevant documents are included, and an accompanying CD contains a wealth of relevant resources as well as a continuing, integrating case study that serves as a basis for these applications, and individual and group activities. As a package, South African Human Resource Management will be extremely valuable to both current and aspirant managers, and human resource practitioners.

Effects of Higher Education Reforms: Change Dynamics

Effects of Higher Education Reforms: Change Dynamics
Author: Martina Vukasović
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-12-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9462090165

Higher education is in transition. On the one hand, over the last decades it has become politically and economically more important and thus also an object of reforms. On the other hand, higher education has become less special and is no longer able to justify its unique governance arrangements. This volume presents a collection of contributions that go beyond reform agendas as such and focus on the effects of reforms at all relevant levels in higher education systems. It is organised in four themes – education, research, governance, and academic profession – with a variety of levels of analysis, theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches and geographical foci. The topics in focus include the possible impact of latest national and European initiatives, changes in the primary processes (education and research) on the levels of institutions, professions and for individuals as well as higher education dynamics in contexts often overlooked in the literature (e.g. Africa). The aim is to ‘take stock’ of the growing knowledge basis with respect to higher education with a special focus on the influence of reforms on the key aspects of higher education.