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This study recorded the research output of all participants for the IADR (South African Division; SA) Colgate Prize for 1967-2004 to establish whether, in their later careers, prize winners had a greater research output than runners-up. Using a list of all entrants, each individual was classified as winner or runner-up and by gender, race, and research field of presentation. The publication output for each individual was obtained from PubMed. A Poisson regression set at P<0.05 compared publication numbers between winners and runners-up. There were two groups of entrants: 101 participated once, and twenty-two participated twice or thrice. Winners had significantly more publications than runners-up, more so for the multiple entrants (winners 27.5±22.4; runners-up 16.5±25.5) than single entrants (winners 16.0±40.8; runners-up 12.0±27.7). The number of individuals participating in the Colgate Prize has declined, but representivity for race and gender is improving. This is the first study to establish that SA IADR Colgate Prize participants fulfil the long-term IADR ideal of research promotion among young investigators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces that papers are invited across all fields of economics for the Biennial Conference of the Economic Society of South Africa to be held from August 30-September 1, 2017 at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.

Over the past decade, strategy and international business scholars have increasingly turned their attention to assessing how alterations in institutional arrangements in former centrally planned economies influence enterprise-level strategies. Little is known about the strategic responses of organizations operating in countries going through institutional transformation related to social issues. Since the first democratic elections in 1994, the South African government has focused on addressing the inequalities of the past through what is known as Black Economic Empowerment (empowerment of historically disadvantaged black people). In this paper, we investigate the approach used by the Amalgamated Banks of South Africa (ABSA) Group Limited, one of the top four banks and an important player in the South African financial services sector, in formulating and implementing strategy to ensure successful and sustainable organizational transformation. A key component of ABSA's Black Economic Empowerment strategy is incorporation of transformation as a business imperative and not merely as a compliance requirement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports on a two-pronged qualitative research study that used leaders' life stories and the case research method to understand the leadership of change in 14 South African organizations. We describe how leaders led the changes required to balance the imperatives emanating from South Africa's socio-political changes and return the country to the international business arena, as well as the challenges created by years of inequality and neglect of the socio-economic development of the majority of its population. We found that the leaders' life stories played a significant role in how they perceived and responded to the change situation. Four themes summarizing the actions of the leaders - namely, their efforts to embrace change, to provide hope, to connect change to African values and culture, and to champion diversity - are described. The results of the study suggest that leaders' life stories can be an important source of information about how they perceive, interpret, and respond to change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We investigate the interest rate pass-through in the four Common Monetary Area (CMA) countries of the South African Customs Union (SACU). We employ an empirical pass-through model that allows for thresholds, asymmetric adjustment, and structural changes. We show that CMA bank lending markets exhibit quite some degree of homogenization as the pass-through is often fast and complete. Deposit markets are somewhat more heterogeneous by showing differing degrees of interest rate stickiness and asymmetric adjustment. Policy makers should therefore be concerned about imperfect competition which may be at the heart of the remaining cross-country differences in monetary transmission in the CMA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Analyzes the patterns of industrial specialization and the center-periphery dimension of location in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Examination of the determinants of regional specialization and industry location; Measures of similarities-dissimilarities and concentration-dispersion of manufacturing employment.

Reports on the Black Rhino Range Expansion project, which aims to increase the land available for the conservation of the rhino population in South Africa. Role of Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife in the project; Other conservation efforts in KwaZulu-Natal.

The article addresses how South African non-governmental organisations (NGOs) approach the management of their development activities and the influences upon their approaches. Based on interviews, field visits and programme documents from 40 organisations working in South Africa, the article explores the extent to which NGO programme priorities and adopted management practices arise out of donor conditions, succeed in their stated aims and generate other unintended consequences. Four aspects of contemporary NGO management dynamics are explored: logical frameworks, participatory processes, impact enhancement and financial probity. While donor requirements in these four areas generally impose heavy costs on South African NGOs and poorly achieve their stated aims, the research documents cases, in which local managers were able to work effectively and learn within these constraints, found ways around the more intrusive requirements, or challenged donors to change their policies to permit more equitable donor-recipient relationships and better development practice. However, an unintended impact of tighter funding requirements is an observable differentiation within the South African NGO sector, with smaller community-based organisations excluded as larger professional organisations establish more enduring links with international development organisations. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It Is important for students, researchers, and research funding organizations to be able to rank academic institutions, as future employment opportunities and research funding are determined by the quality of the institution. This article ranks fourteen South African academic Institutions according to the number of their frontline researchers as Identified by a large scale peer evaluation, and according to their research output. The two rankings are found to be highly correlated. It is argued that the high correlation provides evidence for the value ot "publication counts" as a proxy for research quality and that research output is an efficient and easily obtained predictor of university rankings according to peer reviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses homosexuality in South Africa and how it is viewed there. Information on the Gay and Lesbian Organization of Witwatersrand (GLOW); Reference to the funeral of GLOW founder; Description of what transpired at the funeral; Details on apartheid and male sexuality in South Africa; Impact of modernity on sexuality in South Africa.

The article offers developments related to political organizations in South Africa as of May 2008. Twelve African Union (AU) heads of state and government meeting in Arusha, Tanzania agreed on issues aimed at pushing forward the process of setting up the AU government. The Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC) has pledged to crack down on terrorism in the sub-region.