Government failure and state incapacity: the South African public sector in the 1990s
- Authors: Dollery, Brian , Snowball, Jeanette D
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71343 , vital:29835 , https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430309511164
- Description: In their editorial introduction to the 1994 Special Issue of the South African Journal of Economic History devoted to a sectoral analysis of the South African economy during the 1980s, Stuart Jones and Jon Inggs described this period as a "lost decade", with per capita incomes even lower in 1990 than they had been in 1980. Moreover, "no other Western country experienced a comparable decline in the 1980s and South Africa herself had never experienced anything like it since the formation of Union in 1910". Thus, from the perspective of economic growth, the decade of the 1990s could not have had a less auspicious beginning.
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- Date Issued: 2010
A solution community: ways that work
- Authors: du Toit, Peter
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159112 , vital:40268 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146301
- Description: It begins in the Southern African country of Zambotswa in a place called Anytown. Population: 540 000. The owner-editor of the Anytown Farmers' Weekly (AFW) has died and the Big Media Company, with its substantial assets across the country, has bought out his struggling paper.
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- Date Issued: 2003
Capital E for events: ways that work: useful solutions
- Authors: Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: vital:38359 , http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146297
- Description: You would think being located in a small town in one of the most impoverished provinces in South Africa would be a drawback for making media. But a small town is a reachable, convenient laboratory environment for student journalists - and never more so than when the National Arts Festival comes to Grahamstown during the winter vacation.
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- Date Issued: 2003
Press vs public enemy no 1:
- Authors: Berger, Guy
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159083 , vital:40266 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146291
- Description: Our journalism about poverty is pitiful. It's a story about the poverty of our journalism. But let's start with the not-so-bad news: unlike many other countries, we do report poverty. Also, unlike many other places, we don't blame the victims - rather, we tend to be sympathetic.
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- Date Issued: 2003
The writing is on the wall: ways that work
- Authors: Amner, Roderick J
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159102 , vital:40267 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146296
- Description: When I proposed to 26 third-year journalism students that our writing class take inspiration from an idea pioneered in places as unfashionable and inhospitable as the former Soviet Union and Nepal, I should have expected the icy stares. But happily, within five weeks, this winter of classroom discontent, had begun to thaw into a tentative spring of journalistic and pedagogical innovation.
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- Date Issued: 2003
Why we need Di Versity the Superjourno:
- Authors: Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158740 , vital:40224 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC146308
- Description: Training and education is a serious subject, and there are thousands (millions) of words to be said about it. But when you're putting a magazine together you need visuals too, and how do you illustrate this subject?.
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- Date Issued: 2003