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Research outputs: LOCAL GOVERNMENT
2018 Adult education and training: challenges in local municipalities
More than two decades after 1994, challenges in achieving universal literacy and education in South Africa remain. The Local Government Sect...
2018 Interrogating the institutional capacity of local government to support local economic development agencies in KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa
Local Economic Development Agencies (LEDAs) were established as municipal entities with the institutional support of the Industrial Developm...
Download this report2018 Assessing the role of intergovernmental relations in strategic planning for economic development at local government level: a case study of Umkhanyakude district municipality
Despite the several post-apartheid policy interventions that South Africa has introduced, there are still visible traces of the apartheid er...
2017 Challenges facing adult education and training in the local government sector, South Africa: final literature review progress report
This literature report is part of a broader research project intended to examine the challenges which the local government sector experience...