ABSTRACT
It will be readily acknowledged that as a concept, governance has existed as long as any form of human organisation has existed. The concept itself is merely one to encapsulate the means by which that organisation conducts itself. Recently however the term has come to the forefront of public attention and this is probably because of the problems of governance which have been revealed at both a national level and in the economic sphere at the level of the corporation. These problems have caused there to be a concern with a reexamination of what exactly is meant by governance and more specifically just what are the features of good governance. It is here therefore that we must start our examination.
