NATURAL RESOURCES POLICY, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STYLE

Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

One King, two burials: The politics of funerals in South Africa's Transkei

African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented October, 1990King Sabata Jonguhlanga Dalindyebo, deposed Paramount Chief of the Thembus, was buried twice. The first interment took place on 20th April 1986; the second took place on 1st October, 1989. The first interment was secretive, hasty and without salute - a pauper's burial. The second was a visible organisation of grief, a public performance, highly orchestrated, and supremely lavish - a king's burial. The first interment attracted minimal media comment; the second was a well chronicled affair receiving significant attention from both the local and international media. This paper represents some musings upon the contrasting burials of Chief Sabata Dalindyebo. Its primary aims are to explore the kinds of contests which produced the different burial rituals, [or lack thereof] and to subject the rituals themselves to closer examination in a search for their meanings. The most crucial argument advanced in this paper is that the struggles which surrounded the control of the burials of the Thembu King were urgent attempts to appropriate the dead body in a bid to inscribe and to re-write specific political messages on the corpse, and to erase others. Furthermore, the burial of Dalindyebo provided a powerful platform from which these messages could be disseminated to a larger audience

Measuring Up 2006: The National Report Card on Higher Education

Measures the performance of the U.S. and of each state in providing education and training beyond high school. Compares national and state higher education performance with other nations

ASSESSING RURAL COMMUNITY VIABILITY AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

Dynamics of Canadian Welfare Participation

Although Canada is contemplating major reforms of welfare policy, there is scant information regarding the use of welfare. This paper rectifies this situation by documenting the dynamics of welfare participation in British Columbia over the period 1980-1982. We find: most welfare spells are shorter than 6- months (75%). a little more than 10% last longer than a year. almost no welfare cases last 4 years and those that do involve families with children. single parents and older individuals have longer spells. couples (with and without children)and childless single individuals have shorter spells . the fraction of the caseload who are employable has been steadily rising from 38% in 1980-82 to 64% in 1991-92 the fraction of the caseload who are single males has risen by 10 percentage points from 34% in 1980-82, while the fraction of all other types of households have fallen. the age structure of the caseload is virtually unchanged over the decade: over 70% are over age 25. a quarter of welfare recipients are back on the welfare rolls within three months of leaving, while a full 50% return within a year. some couples and single individuals without children exhibit a strong seasonal pattern in welfare return rates . These patterns suggest several conclusions important to policy: first, governments need to focus on helping individuals become self-sufficient and remain off-welfare more than encouraging quicker exits; and second, it may be more efficient for governments to target special programs at single parent families who remain on welfare for a long period of time, taking account of their needs and circumstances