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A review of land-use planning laws in Kenya: Challenges and opportunities for urban landscape identity and memory in new developments and renewals
Get PDFLand use plays a crucial role in delivering the diverse goods and services essential to urban life, encompassing housing, transportation, recreation, and other amenities. Effective land-use planning is facilitated by comprehensive laws and policy regulations that coordinate various urban projects. These regulations must adequately address critical elements of urban landscape identity and memory, particularly in the context of new developments and renewal initiatives. However, such elements are often inadequately considered, jeopardising continuity and coherence within urban environments. Existing literature has noted the significance of urban landscape identity and memory but has insufficiently emphasised their integration into the legal and policy frameworks governing urban development and renewal, which is vital for sustaining rapidly evolving urban landscapes. This review article focuses on land-use laws and policies in Kenya, employing qualitative research methods that include a content analysis of secondary data sourced from government documents and official repositories. The findings reveal that key aspects of urbanism and sustainable development related to urban landscape identity and memory are not adequately reflected in current legislation. Consequently, this article urges the incorporation of these aspects into existing land-use laws. The insights generated by this study are particularly relevant for policymakers and authorities responsible for overseeing urban development and renewal, ensuring adherence to comprehensive land-use regulations
Measures to address challenges of communal property associations in South Africa: The case of Elandskloof, Western Cape province
Get PDFCommunal property associations (CPAs) were introduced in South Africa to provide a governance system that affords communal settlements functional and sustainable land governance. However, CPAs are characterised by numerous land governance challenges. For instance, the lack of institutional capacity within communities results in political decay, consequently jeopardising the sustainability of governance structures. Through the study area of Elandskloof in the Western Cape province, the article analyses the resilience of a communal settlement during its transition to a CPA. The aim is to identify measures to address the problems encountered during the transition process. The study is based on a qualitative design to gather the community members’ experiences, perceptions, and behaviours relating to the transition to a CPA. The data-collection approach includes in-depth interviews, observations at a community meeting, and intercept interviews of residents. The data are thematically analysed based on three main themes (psychological, sociological, and philosophical) to show how each aspect influenced the transition to a CPA. The findings indicate that adopting an adaptive or transitional governance approach combined with fit-for-purpose land administration would offer a structured way of managing the social and organisational changes needed to implement effective and sustainable land administration reforms
The death of Alexander the Great
No full textThe circumstances of Alexander\u27s death are reviewed. Since contemporary sources vary in their accounts of the reason for his death, they are briefly reviewed and assessed. The account of Alexander\u27s final illness is then as recorded by the two major sources, namely the King\u27s Journal and the Liber de Morte Testamentumque Alexandri Magni. The theory that he was poisoned is rejected, as is the hypothesis chat he drank himself co death. His final illness shows symptoms characteristic of malignant tertian mala[ia (Plasmodium falciparum), possibly precipitated by recent wounds, exhaustion and heavy drinking
Die weg na \u27n omgewingsgeografie
Get PDFTerwyl geografie se organisasie in subdissiplines sederc die 1880s toe dir \u27n universiteitsdissipline geword her feiclik onveranderd gebly her, her die dissiplinestruktuur en navorsingsryle veral na 1960 vinnig en wesenlik verander. Die omwenteling her fisiese geografie, die tradisionele basis van· die dissipline, onder druk geplaas. Binne geografie her die sg kwancifiseringsrevolusie van die 1960s fisiese geografie so van die res van die dissipline vervreem dar fisiese geograwe nie die geleenthede war van buice die dissipline deur die omgewingsrevolusie van die 1970s geskep is, kon benuc nie. Hui belangstellings word tans opgevang deur \u27n nuwe, groeiende omgewingsgeografie wat ruimer, buigsamer en deurlaatbaarder as sy voorganger is. Die arcikel orienteer omgewingsgeografie in die wereld van wetenskap en doen \u27n raamwerk vir opleiding en beoefening aan die hand
Landelik-stedelike interaksie en plaaslike owerheidsbestuur in die Stellenbosch-distrik
Get PDFDie onderskeid cussen landelike en scedelike gebiede in vele werelddele is besig om ce vervaag weens die coenemende inceraksie cussen die twee groepe gemeenskappe. Die is veral die aard, omvang en vlak van integrering cussen dorpe en hul omringende landelike gebiede wac definiciewe implikasies vir toekomscige plaaslike bescuur van die gebiede hec. Hierdie arcikel lewer verslag oor die mate van landelikstedelike interaksie en konvergering in die landdrosdiscrik van Stellenbosch. Aspekce wat ondersoek is, sluit in demografiese kenmerke, opvoedkundige kenmerke en ekonomiese akriwiceice. Die is duidelik dat daar reeds berekenisvolle konvergering cussen die dorp en die omringende landelike gebied plaasgevind bet. Die geografiese eenheid van die disrrik en die gepaardgaande inceraksie cussen landelike en stedelike gebiede regverdig wel verdere ondersoek mer die oog op moontlike inlywing van die landelike gebied by die dorp
Economic and social background of the Tswana
Get PDFStudies of variow economies have identified three component processes involved in production: the acquisition of narural resources, labour and cools; che organisation of work tasks, and the distribution of produce. In masc cases, however, analyses of production have neglected co examine all forces with a bearing upon production. This does not mean, however, chat production forces are the determining base of an economy. Rather such an approach provides a dearer understanding of the coral organisation of production. The purpose of chis article, therefore, is co consider the following: characteristic branches of production within Tswana society in South Africa, the social relations of production and surplus extraction among masika (lineages), and the organisation of bogwera (initiation schools) as political/militar
\u27n Verkennende studie van Anglo-Boereoorlog-fiksie
Get PDFSkrywers van verhale oor die Anglo-Boereoorlog maak daarop aanspraak dat die noodsaaklik is om verhale oor die oorlog te boekscaaf om te verseker dat die lief en leed van die gewone mense aan die vergetelheid onrruk word. In hierdie arcikel word \u27n oorsig gegee van hoofsaaklik Afrikaanse ABO-fiksie war sedert 1903 die lig gesien het. Eerstens is gelec op die verskillende metodes war fiksieskrywers gebruik om die skeidslyne tussen fiksie en geskiedskrywing op re hef. Tweedens is op skrywers se uiceenlopende sieninge oar die swartes se deelname aan en belewing van die oorlog gelet. Uic die ondersoek na die mitologisering van die Boere blyk die dac, terwyl sommige skrywers eer aan die Boerevegters en -vrouens bring, ander hulle as neerloos, lafharrig en barbaars beskryf. Die invloed van die oodog op die verhoudinge tussen Boer en Brit, blank en swart, bittereinder en hensopper, joinermans en - vrouens word nagespeur. Laastens is aandag gegee aan die uitbeelding vanmBoerevrouens ten tyde van die ootlog. Op enkele uitsonderings na word die vrouens veridealiseer - hulle word as die ruggraat, die stukrag van die Boeremagte uitgebeeld
Decentralisation or recentralisation: international lessons for South Africa
Get PDFDecentralisation is seen as an approach chat will enhance the quality and the effectiveness of public administracion. However, although in the recent decades developed and developing countries have shown this tendency cowards decentralisation, the present indicacions are chat some governments are retracting these efforts and prudent steps are being taken towards recentralisation. What was regarded as the major advantages of decentralisation are nowadays disputed issues. In chis article decentralisation as applied in South Africa will be evaluated in the light of international tendencies and recommendations made regarding prerequisites for an effective decentralised system of governance
The psychological experience of resource-based learning (RBL) within the South African higher education context
Get PDFSouth African higher education is currencly characterised by massification, globalisation, an increase in non-traditional students entering the system and a paradigm shift from lecture-based to resource-based education (RBL). During the transformation of the South African higher education system, RBL was proposed by theneducation ministry and in various policy documents as a mode of delivery which could meet che challenges of learners\u27 expectations, the realities of che work place, and the need co maintain a high standard of graduates. Such an experience of change is difficult, due co its complexity and pace. In chis article accencion is focused on facilitators\u27 and co-ordinators\u27 psychological experiences of higher educational change in an RBL programme
African theological education and its curriculum responsiveness towards African Union’s Agenda 2063.
No full textThis article considers the development of African theological education with the new imperative to support the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the need to engage global processes of development. By employing the strategic focus of curriculum design and content that focuses on African realities, theological education can support this transformative agenda. Expanding access to quality theological education aligns with Agenda 2063’s emphasis on quality education. However, for African theological education to remain relevant and effective, beyond denominational myopia and internal ecclesial concerns, it must gain significant traction in the political, social, and economic spheres of modern-day Africa. Atheology of transformation to prepare the Church as an agent of change can be instructive. To consider this task, this article reflects on integrative curriculum design as a means that educates for the required competencies, including ethical leadership, with an outward focus