The recent United Nations conference on climate change did not bring substantial and binding resolutions and measures. However, participants, specially the civil society and Non for Profit Organisations, to this gathering all agreed on the imperative to educate their respective citizens on ways...

The problem of poverty alleviation and unemployment remain the primary concerns of the government of the African National Congress (ANC) since 1994. This article aims to profile some official government initiatives to tackling unemployment among black peoples. The article posits a strategic...

During the national liberation struggle the African National Congress's strategic objective was the transfer of state power into the hands of the democratic majority. Since 1994, the focus in this phase of the movement struggle is to build an effective developmental state capable of transforming...

Contemporary Africa is still struggling with the legacies of slavery, apartheid, colonialism and the deleterious impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and now globalisation. Some parts of postcolonial Africa have attempted to set up ministries of economic development. Others have...

This paper develops linkages between entrepreneurship and current policies developed in South Africa to alleviate poverty among marginalised individuals. Entrepreneurship is seen as a process of few peoples. Although some individuals have innate abilities as entrepreneurs, many can also develop...

Entrepreneurship is sometimes seen as a process of few peoples. Although some persons have innate abilities as entrepreneurs, many can also develop this capacity in their life through a learning process. According to Timmons (1999:27), entrepreneurship is a way of thinking and reasoning. At the...