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Theses and Dissertations (Political Sciences): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)This study examines the relationship between international borders and identity, in the context of the Xhosa-speaking people of Tele Bridge in South Africa and Lesotho, who live at the border separating the two countries. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Having been transformed by colonial-apartheid institutions such as the Department of Native Affairs and later the Department of Bantu Administration and Development, ‘traditional leadership’ and ‘traditional authority’ ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-07)The Southern African Development Community (SADC) launched regional mediation to facilitate political settlement and democratic installation in exiting the Zimbabwe crisis between the years 2007 to 2013. Zimbabwe faced ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-04)Since the establishment of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in 2000, relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and African countries have risen at unprecedented levels. China and African countries ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)The global adoption of gender quotas to facilitate women’s participation in the political system has garnered attention beyond its initial objective. Although divided, most studies argue that the objective of quota to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Women and Youth in Africa are disproportionately affected by conflict. Moreover, the role of women and youth in conflict has primarily been as victims in peace processes. The African Union Transitional justice policy seeks ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The Arctic today has changed dramatically since the 1990s. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, during the past decade, the surface area of the Arctic Sea ice has reached its lowest levels since 1850. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)On the 28 October 2018, Brazilians elected right-wing populist Jair Messias Bolsonaro as the 38th President of Brazil. Bolsonaro defeated his opponent Fernando Haddad from the PT, by a significant margin of 55,13% as against ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and this occasion provides a good opportunity for conducting a review that focuses on how far the SADC region has come in its quest to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The discussion on policing in multicultural societies is embedded within a wider context of political responses to diversity in state-building. Historically, nations were characteristically formed based on common ancestry, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)In 2012, South Africans were bombarded with audio-visual material that captured the longest protracted strike in mining historiography, including the killing of unarmed striking mine workers. Shortly after, a plethora of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)This study explores how ‘landlockness’ impacts the maritime domain concerns of Landlocked countries (LLCs). The ocean is home to an abundance of resources and endless opportunities that are key to the security and ...
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A critical afrocentric analysis of South Africa’s SADC-mandated mediation in Zimbabwe, 2007 – 2014 (University of Pretoria, 2022)This study seeks to understand how South Africa has pursued the African agenda through its foreign policy and how it applied it during its mediation in the Zimbabwe crisis between 2007 and 2014. South Africa’s approach was ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Traditional leaders, who are located on the periphery of mainstream governance and decision-making in South Africa, play a crucial role in rural areas, where government presence is absent. However, the role, functions and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Migration significantly affects politics in ways that transcend domestic policymaking, such as in the field of international diplomacy, or the manner in which nations negotiate and manage their affairs with one another and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study sets out to generate a new approach to analysing the level of political will that drives South Africa’s illegal wildlife trade (IWT) policies. It uses complexity thinking to conceptualise the country’s policy ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Mediation processes have witnessed low levels of participation of women. Existing literature ascribes this to prevailing patriarchal environments, cultural norms and gender stereotypes, women’s victimhood in conflict and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The Darfur crisis persists to the present day despite the African Union’s (AU) intervention. This mini-dissertation analyses the failure of the AU’s mediation in Darfur from 2004 to 2006. It uses a decolonial lens to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This dissertation advances a qualitative single-case study of minority populism, selecting the SB as its case, and develops and operationalises a post-Laclauian theoretical framework to address two research questions: How ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Despite vast research on gender-based violence, little is known about the implementation of policies on gender-based violence in minority groups. The aim of this study was to assess the implementation of the KwaZulu-Natal ...
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