Browsing by Author "Chetty, Pria"

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    South Africa
    (Juta, 2010) Schonwetter, Tobias; Ncube, Caroline; Chetty, Pria; De Beer, J; Armstrong, C; Oguamanam, C; Schonwetter, T
    South Africa is the world’s 25th-largest country by surface area, and 24th-largest by population. It is located at the southernmost region of Africa and divided into nine provinces: Limpopo, North West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern Cape. South Africa’s colonial past dates to the 16th century. Slavery was widespread by the 17th century and was not abolished until the mid-19th century. Racial discrimination was rampant during the apartheid era between 1948-94, when South Africa was governed by the National Party. After protracted negotiations, the first democratic elections were held under an Interim Constitution in 1994. This negotiated transition from apartheid to democracy has been hailed as both ‘one of the most astonishing political achievements of our time’ and ‘a miracle’. Since 1994 the government has been led by the African National Congress (ANC), which won democratic elections in 1999, 2004 and 2009. Since 1994 the government has pursued democratisation, socioeconomic change and reconciliation.
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    South Africa: ACA2K Executive Policy Breach
    (2009) Schonwetter, Tobias; Ncube, Caroline; Chetty, Pria
    Access to knowledge generally, and to learning materials more particularly, is of crucial importance to developing nations because it is one of the keys to unlocking sustainable development. The African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project is probing the relationship between national copyright environments and access to knowledge in African countries. The project is supported by Canada’s IDRC and South Africa’s Shuttleworth Foundation and managed by the LINK Centre at the Wits University Graduate School of Public and Development Management (P&DM) in Johannesburg. It currently has research nodes in eight African countries. These are Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda.