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Item Preservation, conservation, and advocacy: a study of the Parktown Westcliff Heritage Trust (PWHT) in heritage management, 1965-2011(2012-08-31) Mutumi, Prue P.J.This study is based on the Parktown Westcliff Heritage Trust (PWHT). The study focuses on the preservation, conservation and advocacy activities of the Trust in heritage management. It analyses how the Trust has managed to survive for over 40years and how it has adapted to the changes in legislation over time. Of particular salience, the study focuses on 3 historical moments in which the PWHT intervened to save buildings and landscapes from destruction. These moments span from 1965 to the present and they include the destruction of the Parktown Ridge from 1965 onwards, inner city-Newtown 1980 and the Beyers Naude Square in 2004. The moments selected for analysis, explore how the PWHT has managed to survive through two distinct political systems namely, apartheid and democracy. The analysis presented in this report draws attention to the application and interpretation of legislation and policy at both local and national levels in heritage management.Item Are civil society organisations effective agents of mobilisation for development in 21st century South Africa? case study of the people's budget campaign.(2009-01-30T12:26:02Z) Egoh, Modi A.ABSTRACT From the 18th century, a considerable element of legislative democracy has been that of national budgeting. This has been substantially critical in assuring legislative statute over the government which has been controlled by kings. Predictably, the notion of public participation in budgetary processes has been disparate by governments in Africa. Due to its technocratic and elitist design, it is mostly a complex issue to recognise the making of national budgets by ordinary citizens in South Africa. However, topical developments have shown that the processes of creating national budgets should consider civil society’s role particularly in evaluating the impact of budgets on the poor. It is against this technocratic and elitist architectural backdrop of the state, regarding public budgeting and implementation, which this study employs the People’s Budget Campaign as a unique civil society organisation advocating for an alternative budget process in South Africa. This research has used a qualitative method in analysing data collected from primary and secondary sources, semi-structured interviews, as well as direct and participant observation of PBC activities.