Political South Africa was a country colonised by England and achieved independence on May 1910. The first all-race multiparty election took place in 1994. This event is now seen as the formal end of apartheid. In 2009, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) won its third consecutive election, electing Jacob Zuma as President. Corruption is extremely prevalent in the country. Experts calculate that the country may have lost as much as R675 billion as a result of corruption since 1994. Indeed
Political instability is likely to shorten policymakers’ horizons leading to suboptimal short term macroeconomic policies. It may also lead to a more regular switch of policies, creating instability and thus, negatively affecting macroeconomic performance. Considering its damaging repercussions on economic performance the extent at which political instability is universal across countries and time is quite surprising. The political environment of a country, which is often closely linked to its history
about in class, therefore I decided to share the effects poverty and education are causing individuals living in Sub- Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa has the hearts of many foreigners who are yet to visit this place. It is one of the largest geographical area and a place full of different people and different cultures. There are about 44 countries located in the south around the Saharan Desert (Pariona, 2017). How well do we understand poverty? Poverty is a word that has a variety of meanings
poles of personal troubles and social issues together (ed. Stewart & Zaaiman 2014:xvi). Social Factors refers to elements within society which we experience collectively. Such as corruption, fraud, human trafficking, xenophobia, gender inequality, poverty and many more (ed. Steward & Zaaiman 2014: xvi). Social Factors change over time and are therefore not limited. One cannot be blamed for social factors as it is not a sole or personal trouble. Personal troubles are difficulties related to individuals
Poverty seem to be the biggest problems in most local communities and the world at large, it is estimated that more than twenty per cent of the population worldwide lives in poverty yet there is no international census on guidelines for measuring poverty. A number of people die each day because of poverty it is an issue that is overlooked by many and most societies do not pay much attention to it but if it continues this way it is going to get worse. Poverty is a problem that has been around for
increasing unemployment rate in South Africa since 1975 - in spite of the business cycle upswings in the periods 1978 - 1981, 1983 - 1984, 1986 - 1989 and since the middle of 1993. Unemployment growth appears to be at regular and normality. This demonstrates that a huge part of the South African unemployment doesn’t respond much to cyclical changes in the level of production and economic activity. However, this unfortunately means that the majority of the South African unemployment rate is of permanent
: ABSTRACT The paper focuses on bilateral strategic cooperation between India and Africa highlighting that some of the fastest-growing economies in the world are now in Africa. It has analyzed the overall trade dynamics between India and Africa in select sectors, where two dimensional scatter diagrams (average export growth and average export value) are used to identify the countries which are poised for economic growth
OUT OF SITE, OUT OF MINED: MINES BRING BENEFITS BUT THEY ARE NOT EQUALLY SPREAD South Africa is known for its extraordinary abundance of rich minerals. Furthermore, the future of South Africa is dependent on mines as they bring in money for the country. Therefore, Mining is a very profitable sector and it also creates employment opportunities; factors which help improve the socio-economic standards of the country. However, despite these benefits, the nature of mining has a negative long-term effect
those influences for affecting the life and development of an organism”. Resultant for this is individual organisms or communities, is to eliminate the external or inherent factors in the system. Upon visualization it looks simple but practically distinction between organism and environment is complicated. Factors affecting environment are natural and manmade. The natural factors are global warming, depletion, acid rain, volcanic eruption, earthquake etc. Whereas manmade factors colonization, industrialization
THE RELEVANCE OF THEORY FOR CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK PRACTISE IN BOTSWANA AND AFRICA INTRODUCTION The below assay is aimed at critically appraising the relevance of theory for clinical social work practise in Botswana and African context. First in the article there will be definition of the key terms of the question; relevance, theory and clinical social work respectively. The definition of terms will henceafter be followed by a discussion about what social work is, its history in Botswana, what theories