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problem in SA; position of the bantu int he present political structure;

position of the bantu in the SA economy; and the extra-union native. (2) The

bantu areas - origin of the native areas; geographical description; the

population of the bantu areas; christian missions; health; social problems and

services; administration; land tenure; agriculture; mining; secondary

industries; tertiary activities; labour; and income and standard of living. (3)

Development of the bantu areas - determination of policy; basic principles;

agricultural development; irrigation farming; sugar-cane growing; development of

forestry; mining development; development of secondary industry; implications of

industrial development; possible industrial areas; urban development; the

development of tertiary economic activities; land tenure; ecclesiastical

development; health; welfare services; education; administration and

information; carrying capacity; consolidation of the bantu areas; and tempo of

development. (4) Execution of the development proposals - proposed planning and

development organisation; and financial requirements of the development

programme. (5) Recommendations and possible implications.

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230. Anonymous Disaster management: policy. 1995.

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Keywords : DISASTER MITIGATION; POLICY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Notes : Draft for discussion only. The purpose of this document is to outline

the national policy framework for disaster management necessary to counter the

disaster threat, addressing the total disaster management continuum. The aim is

to provide management with support services in order to ensure effective

national disaster management so that the general quality of life of the RSA

community is thereby enhanced. The objectives are that by the year 2000, the

RSA as part of its plan to achieve sustainable development, should have in

place: comprehensive national assessment of risks from natural hazards and

person-made threats with these assessments taken into account in development

plans; mitigation plans at national and/or local level, involving long-term

prevention and preparedness and community awareness; and ready access to global,

regional, national and local warning systems and broad dissemination of

warnings.

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231. Anonymous United Nations convention to combat desertification in those

countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification, particularly in

Africa, UNEP, 1995.pp. 4-71.

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Keywords : UN CONVENTION; DROUGHT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; CONSERVATION;

POPULATION

Notes : The objective of this Convention is to combat desertification and

mitigate the effects of drought in countries experiencing serious drought and/or

desertification, particularly in Africa, through effective action at all levels,

supported by international co-operation and partnership arrangements, in the

framework of an integrated approach which is consistent with Agenda 21, with a

view to contributing to the achievement of sustainable development in affected

areas. Achieving this objective will involve long-term integrated strategies

that focus simultaneously, in affected areas, on improved productivity of land,

and the rehabilitation, conservation and sustainable management of land and

water resources, leading to improved living conditions, in particular at the

community level. In order to achieve the objective of this Convention and to

implement its provisions, the Parties shall be guided inter alia by the

following: they should ensure that decisions on the design and implementation

of programmes to combat desertification and/or mitigate the effects of drought

are taken with the participation of populations and local communities and that

an enabling environment is created at higher levels to facilitate action at

national and local levels; they should, in a spirit of international solidarity

and partnership, improve co-operation and co-ordination at subregional, regional

and international levels, and better focus financial, human, organisational and

technical resources where they are needed; they should develop, in a spirit of

partnership, co-operation among all levels of government, communities, non-

governmental organisations and landholders to establish a better understanding

of the nature and value of land and scarce water resources in affected areas and

to work towards their sustainable use; and they should take into full

consideration the special needs and circumstances of affected developing country

Parties, particularly the least developed among them.

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232. Anonymous Down to earth: a simplified guide to the Convention to Combat

Desertification, why it is necessary and what is important and different about

it, Centre For Our Common Future, 1995.

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Keywords : UN CONVENTION

Notes : This is a simplified guide to the Convention to Combat Desertification,

why it is necessary and what is important and different about it.

Ref ID : 938

233. Anonymous Climate change 1995: impacts, adaptations, and mitigation.

Contribution of working group II to the second assessment report of the

intergovernmental panel on climate change. Summary for policymakers.Anonymous

Nairobi, Kenya?UNEP. :iii-22, 1995.

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Keywords : CLIMATE CHANGE; POLICY; CLIMATE

Notes : In June 1993 Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change (IPCC) was asked to review the state of knowledge concerning the impacts

of climate change on physical and ecological systems, human health and

socioeconomic sectors. It was also charged with reviewing available information

on the technical and economic feasibility of a range of potential adaptation and

mitigation strategies. This is a summary for policymakers, and provides an

overview of the Working Group's full report. It reviews the developments in our

scientific understanding since the first IPCC assessments of impacts and

response options in 1990, and the supplemental IPCC assessments of 1992.

Uncertainties are described, with an eye for identifying both policy

significance and research opportunities. In presenting this information,

Working Group II has sought to communicate its findings in a way that is useful

to decisionmakers, research managers, and researchers.

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234. Anonymous Characterization and mapping of the groundwater resource for

KwaZulu-Natal Province. 1995.

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Keywords : KWAZULU NATAL; FORESTRY

Ref ID : 1318

235. Anonymous Sub regional investigation analysis (SRIA) for the Herschel

District. overview report.Anonymous :1-(+- 150), 1995.

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Keywords : POVERTY; POLICY

Notes : Historically, planning in SA was centralised, top-down and it

perpetuated poverty. The concept of Sub Regional Investigation Analysis (SRIA)

has been devised to enable the recipients of development to become an integral

part of their own planning and policy formation, while at the same time

strengthening local government and locating development institutions (CBO's,

NGO's and local / regional government) within a broad developmental framework.

The framework for information collection for the Herschel SRIA has concentrated

on 4 main sectors and the relevant state policy: land; administrative systems;

district economy; and natural resources. To this end, it has followed a number

of steps: client communties have been contacted and sub-regions have been

defined; draft terms of reference have been established; terms of reference have

been discussed with communities; data collection and interviews with key

stakeholders in the area, leading to preliminary analyses, have been undertaken;

participatory field studies have been conducted; and there has been a

presentation of findings in accessible format to client communities and they

have been assisted in the strategic planning process.

Ref ID : 517

236. Anonymous A profile of agriculture in South Africa, Pretoria:Department of

Agriculture, 1995.

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Keywords : AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS

Ref ID : 960

237. Anonymous White paper on agriculture.Anonymous Pretoria:Department of

Agriculture. :iii-37, 1995.

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Keywords : AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; POLICY; LEGISLATION

Notes : The primary directive of any Government policy is to reflect the values

and norms of society. Generally speaking a society's value system is relatively

stable, while its norms change more readily. Any change in norms necessitates a

continued process of policy evaluation. This document is the first step in the

Department of Agriculture's endeavour to portray the necessary policy principles

or strategies in support of its mission while pursuing the agricultural vision.

The second step in this process of policy evaluation is to evaluate the basis of

the abovementioned principles and all existing agricultural legislation and

programmes in order to amend existing, and establish new legislation and

programmes as deemed necessary. The third step is that of implementation.

Ref ID : 962

238. Anonymous Land reform pilot programme.Anonymous Department of Land Affairs.

:1-12, 1995.

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Keywords : LAND REFORM; POLICY; SUBSIDIES

Notes : The state acts as a facilitator in the pilot programme by providing:

guidelines, norms, standards, and policy for the use of the budgeted resources -

within which people can make choices according to local conditions and

requirements; grant finance for land purchase allocated as a set budget within a

geographically bound area to assist people to purchase land in terms of their

locally-negotiated plans; planning grant finance and planning facilitation

provided so that people who want land can assess the conditions and make

informed choices on the use of available resources; access to credit for land

purchase; access to grant finance within housing subsidy limits to ensure that

land reform beneficiaries' basic needs are addressed in terms of their own

planned priorities; mediation resources to enable people to resolve conflicts

over access to land at local level; and training to increase skills in planning,

management and resource use. If the pilot programme mechanism proves viable, it

will be possible to scale up budgets for land redistribution to each

district/locality area over the country over time.

Ref ID : 533

239. Anonymous Proceedings of a two-day workshop on the theme "The

interrelationship between soil erosion, sediment transport and the living

environment, 7-8 November 1995 at the Council for Geoscience (Geological

Survey), Silverton, Pretoria.Anonymous Anonymous Pretoria:Water Research

Commission. , 1995. 11-07-1995.

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Keywords : SOIL EROSION; SEDIMENTATION; LAND DEGRADATION

Ref ID : 1039

240. Anonymous The rural development strategy of the government of national

unity: a discussion document. Pretoria, South Africa:Republic of South Africa.

Government Gazette (365):2-56, 1995. 16679.

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Keywords : RURAL DEVELOPMENT; POLICY; POVERTY

Notes : The Rural Development Strategy strives to set out to provide the

mechanism by which rural people and their elected representatives on rural

District Councils and Local Councils can take charge of the development process

in their own areas. It is the government's vision that by the year 2020 SA's

rural people will have: dignity, security, freedom from poverty; full and

productive employment; a more diverse agriculture; greater integration between

towns and the rural areas, especially on market days; a more logical spatial

network of towns, services, roads and transport systems; close availability to

water and sanitation and to fuel; accessible and democratic local government

structures; fewer, healthier, safe and well-nourished children, with access to

well resourced schools; and a healthy and productive environment. It is aimed

that this will be achieved through: building rural local government; improving

services to farmers and entreperneurs; promoting economic development; building

social and environmental sustainability; building rural infrastructure;

education, training and capacity-building of rural people; promoting good

planning at all levels of government, based on good information about the rural

areas; and fair and equitable access to social welfare.

Ref ID : 1040

241. Anonymous The urban development strategy of the government of national

unity: a discussion document. Pretoria, South Africa:Republic of South Africa.

Government Gazette (365):2-56, 1995. 16679.

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Keywords : RURAL DEVELOPMENT; POLICY; POVERTY

Notes : The design and implementation of an Urban Strategy is vital to create

better performing cities and towns. The Urban Strategy has seven basic goals:

to create efficient and productive cities with less poverty and sustained by

dynamic economies; to reduce existing infrastructure and service disparities; to

provide better housing and shelter and greater security of tenure for urban

residents; to encourage affordable growth of local economies; to tackle spatial

inefficiencies, especially the mismatch between where people live and work; to

improve the quality of the urban environment; to transform local authorities

into effective and accountable local government institutions; and to establish

safe and secure living and working environments.

Ref ID : 1122

242. Anonymous The role of soil conservation in the RDP. Silverton, South

Africa:The Association of Soil Conservation Engineering Technology. , 1996.

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Keywords : SOIL CONSERVATION; STATISTICS; AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL

DEVELOPMENT; CONSERVATION

Notes : All living forms depend on natural resources for their survival. Soil

conservation forms the basis of all conservation actions. Conservation involves

issues such as protection, reclamation and utilisation of soil. The

Reconstruction and Development Programme in agriculture and other sectors has an

interest in promoting these areas of conservation. Industrial technicians have

the task of protecting the natural resources in all South Africa's communities.

Although the private sector has some responsibility in this regard, the State

has a major responsibility, especially in areas such as training and employment

of industrial technicians. Capital invested in soil conservation is

simultaneously an investment in the future.

Ref ID : 961

243. Anonymous State of agriculture in South Africa. National Department of

Agriculture. Pretoria:National Department of Agriculture. :iii-10, 1996.

Reprint : In File,

Keywords : AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE; PRODUCTION

POTENTIAL; POLICY; ZIMBABWE

Notes : This article looks at: production and marketing prospects; institutional

transformation; regionalisation of functions; a broadening access to agriculture

thrust; international relations (including plant and quality control,

renegotiations of the Southern African Customs Union Agreement, The World Trade

Organisation, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development IX, The

Southern African Development Community, the Indian Ocean Rim Initiative,

Negotiations with the European Union, SA-US Binational Committee, and the Cairns

Group); the formulation of an agricultural tariff policy; bilateral trade

agreements with Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique; deregulation (including co-

operatives, marketing, The Marketing of Agricultural Products Bill, 1995, and

development of free market instruments); agricultural finance (including

agricultural financing by the Agricultural Credit Board and assistance to the

smallholder sector); food security; disaster management (early warning systems);

veterinary services (including vaccines, importation of fresh meat, export of

animals and animal products, and identification networks); sustainable

utilisation of resources; communication; and peace and stability.

Ref ID : 947

244. Anonymous Discussion document - Towards a new environmental policy for

South Africa.Anonymous Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. :1-102,

1996.

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Keywords : ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; POLICY

Notes : This is the full discussion document - Towards a new environmental

policy in South Africa. The purpose for the document is that the Consultative

National Environmental Policy Process (Connepp) will use the document to consult

with people in developing a new environmental policy for South Africa. The

objective of the document is to assist in the consultation process by: sketching

the present situation; identifying the key issues for priority attention;

presenting possible policy options; enabling people to put forward other issues

and policy options to ensure effective environmental management in the future.

Ref ID : 1246

245. Anonymous Agricutural Digest of South Africa 1995/96, Pretoria:National

Department of Agriculture, 1996.pp. 1-52.

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Keywords : AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AID

Notes : This booklet deals with the following topics: agricultural production ,

the organisation of agriculture; agricultural training; financial aid to

farmers; organised agriculture; and general information including the SA Stud

Book Association and breeders' societies, agricultural co-operatives, foreign

representatives in the RSA, NGO's and useful agricultural addresses.

Ref ID : 1569

246. Anonymous 1996 Audit of Gender related data sources: A report.Anonymous

Halfway House:Development Bank of Southern Africa, Development Information

Business Unit, Publications Division. , 1996.

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Keywords : GENDER ASPECTS; GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES; POLICY; POLITICAL ASPECTS

Notes : The report records information obtained from 49 organisations and

institutions. Twenty of these are government-related, and 29 organisations and

institutions within civil society. Between them these agencies house more than

fifty gender-relevant data sources, on each of which the report provides some

basic information. The insitutional section includes information about planned

research and databases additional to the currently available sources. Other

chapters in the report cover CEDAW, some of the more important indicators

required both for CEDAW and development planning more generally, and some of the

conceptual difficulties in developing gender-sensitive research. The audit

generated both more and less than was invisioned at the outset. In terms of

number of data generators and data-sets, the results are positive and there are

more such indicators than expected. In terms of the quality of data, the

results are less positive. Perhaps most disappointing was the reported lack of

gender information in government departments. The relative wealth of data

generated by non-governmental sources, both commercial and other, is positive.

This audit must be seen as a work in progress. In the long term, the database

should contribute to ensuring that there is better information when further

reports are required.

Ref ID : 946

247. Anonymous Our land: Green Paper on South African Land Policy.Anonymous

Pretoria:Department of Land Affairs. :i-87, 1996.

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Keywords : LAND REFORM; AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; POLICY; POVERTY

Notes : It is argued that for reconstruction and development to proceed, land

policy needs to deal effectively with the following factors in both urban and

rural environments: the injustices of racially-based land dispossession; the

inequitable distribution of land ownership; the need for security of tenure for

all; the need for sustainable use of land; the need for rapid release of land

for development; the need to record and register all rights in property; and the

need to administer public land in an effective manner. The case for

government's land reform policy is thus four-fold: to redress the injustices of

apartheid; to foster national reconciliation and stability; to underpin economic

growth; and to improve household welfare and alleviate poverty.

Ref ID : 1585

248. Anonymous Caring for Southern Africa's Resources: The SADC Environment and

Land Management Sector. Maseru:Charlie Fine Printers. , 1996.

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Keywords : DESERTIFICATION CONTROL; VELD MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Notes : This is a pamphlet which describes the mission and work of the SADC

Environment and Land Management Sector. It's mission is to promote

environmental sustainability.

Ref ID : 146

249. Anonymous Draft White Paper for a Population Policy. Pretoria, South

Africa:Republic of South Africa. Government Gazette (376):1-72, 1996. 17529.

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Keywords : POPULATION; POLICY; GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES

Notes : Population, development and the environment are intricately

interrelated. An analysis of the human development and population situations in

South Africa indicates that there are a number of population concerns that must

be resolved in order to achieve equitable and sustainable human development.

The policy has been developed in the context of democratisation and within the

framework of the Constitution. The proposed direction of the population policy

is in line with the approach and recommendations advocated by the United Nations

International Conference on Population and Development held in September 1994.

The vision of the policy emphasises the attainment of a high and equitable

quality of life for South Africans. A range of strategies, complying with the

multi-sectoral nature of the population has been identified as that which should

be operationalised to achieve the objectives of the policy. The implementation

of the policy will be the responsibility of the government at all levels and in

all sectors as well as the private sector, civil society and all South Africans.