• Adaptive capacity to reduce disaster risks in informal settlements 

  Ndabezitha, Khulekani E.; Mubangizi, Betty C.; John, Sokfa F. (AOSIS, 2024-06)

  The eMalahleni Local Municipality (eLM) in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, has a number of informal settlements because of the influx of people seeking employment in the municipal area. These informal settlements are ...
• The United Nations Charter and the African Union Constitutive Act : the search for compatibility in addressing African peace and security 

  Moerane, Gomolemo Khumo (Routledge, 2024)

  Collective security by regional organisations continues to be impacted by evolving global security threats. Previously focused at the global level, the shift from interstate conflicts to intra-state conflicts resulted in ...
• Colonialism, genocide and reparations : the German-Namibian case 

  Melber, Henning (Wiley, 2024)

  In 2015 the German government acknowledged that the Empire committed genocide in its colony South West Africa, known since its independence as Namibia. This acknowledgement marked a new reference point in how to engage ...
• Gender-based violence victim support policies in South Africa : an intersectional analysis from the perspective of Indian women in Chatsworth 

  Naidoo, Linda; Wielenga, Cori (Policy Press, 2024)

  This study aimed to assess the implementation of the KwaZulu-Natal 365 Days Policy Framework for the Eradication of Gender-Based Violence, particularly the Victim Support Programme, in the minority Indian community in ...
• Government size, institutional quality and economic welfare in Africa 

  Kunawotor, Mark; Ahiabor, Godson; Yobo, Eric (Emerald, 2024-07)

  PURPOSE : Most African countries operate large government sizes but with little corresponding economic outcomes. Institutional economics however, show that strong institution is fundamental in promoting economic growth. ...
• Rethinking African-European scientific cooperation : the case of the platform for African-European studies 

  Nshimbi, Christopher Changwe; Develtere, Patrick; Debela, Bacha Kebede (University Association for Contemporary European Studies, 2023)

  African universities rely on teaching traditions and scientific theories based on Western epistemologies and ontologies. Interactions between European and African scholars too tend to focus on the deficits in African ...
• Disrupting and re-imagining European studies : towards a more diverse and inclusive discipline 

  David, Maxine; Garcia, Maria; Haastrup, Toni; Mattheis, Frank (UACES, 2023)

  This Special Issue is the culmination of the Diversity, Inclusivity, Multi-Disciplinarity in European Studies (DIMES) project, undertaken under the aegis of the University Association of European Studies (UACES). DIMES was ...
• Unpacking the reported impacts of COVID-19 in rural contexts : evidence from two rural municipalities in South Africa 

  Mubangizi, B.C.; Okem, A.E.; John, Sokfa F.; Ngubane, L.P.; Barry, I.; Adekanla, N.; Nyawo, J.C. (Adonis & Abbey Publishers, 2023-12)

  The COVID-19 pandemic, which has been primarily analysed within urban contexts, has revealed a significant gap in understanding its ramifications within rural areas. This study aims to address this gap by drawing upon the ...
• Editorial 

  Melber, Henning; Thuynsma, Heather (University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2023-12)

  Former national liberation movements (NLMs) in government deserve to be studied on their own and not simply treated as a component of a country’s democracy. Wherever they have managed to seize political power and control ...
• SADC’s Zimbabwe mediation in 2008 as preservation of ZANU PF power 

  Rusero, Alexander Madanha (University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2023-12)

  The historic defeat of the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) in the March 2008 harmonised elections was followed by the unleashing of a violent campaign against the opposition in the run up to the ...
• The realignment of Poqo as the PAC : a remedial to South Africa’s apartheid and post-apartheid liberation historiography 

  Dlanga, Thand’Olwethu (Unisa Press and Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2023)

  Post-apartheid South Africa’s liberation historiography has been constructed and curated in a manner that influences public and collective memory to assume that only one specific liberation movement (the African National ...
• Pastoralist conflict in Ethiopia from 2015 to 2022 : climate change and food insecurity as exacerbating factors 

  Moyo, Mandlenkosi Makhayeni (University of Pretoria, 2024-07)

  This study explores how climate change and food insecurity account for an exacerbation in conflict involving pastoralists in Ethiopia from 2015 to 2022. Because of Ethiopia’s geographical setting, terrain and over-reliance ...
• Why Burundi intervenes in the DRC : self-interest to Pan-Africanist considerations? 

  Wielenga, Cori; Igba, Samuel Ajogwu; Hajayandi, Patrick (Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, 2023-09)

  Questions have abounded as to what Burundi’s motives and interests have been in sending troops and spearheading the intervention in the eastern DRC. With reference to the case of Burundi’s intervention within the framework ...
• ‘Your land or your life’! ECOWAS free movement regime, migration, and resource conflicts in West Africa 

  Aniche, Ernest Toochi; Alumona, Ikenna Mike; Iwuoha, Victor Chidubem; Isike, Christopher; Nnamani, Rebecca Ginikanwa (Springer, 2023-06)

  West African borderlands still depict free labour migration that weaves a complex grid of relations and inter-dependences over the ‘artificial’ borders inherited from colonialism. Migrants consider the sub-region as a ...
• Evaluating South Africa's policy and institutional frameworks to combat terrorism : implications for security sector reform 

  Thekiso, Ramotlhantsweng Michael Gilbert (University of Pretoria, 2024-05-31)

  If the stability of the Southern African region is to be maintained, the ability to combat and prevent terrorism should be of utmost importance to South Africa. The lack of significant terrorist attacks in the region is ...
• Evaluating William Gumede's elements of democratic deficit as an adverse feature of liberation movements in government : the case of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa 

  Van der Walt, Philippus (University of Pretoria, 2024-04-25)

  The research in this dissertation consists of a critical literature study and evaluation of William Gumede’s (2017) elements of democratic deficit as a feature of liberation movements. Examining the political culture of ...
• Namibia after President Hage Geingob (1941-2024) 

  Melber, Henning (Routledge, 2024)

  On 4 February 2024, Namibia’s President Hage Geingob lost his short battle with cancer. His second five-year term in office would have ended on 21 March 2024. Following Sam Nujoma (1990–2005) and Hifikepunye Pohamba ...
• A critical analysis of the US-China geopolitical contest in the Indo-Pacific region : implications for Africa's regional inclusion 

  Mmako, Mmamashilo Herminah (University of Pretoria, 2024-04-02)

  The Indo-Pacific region holds significant and strategic geopolitical importance in the 21st century. It is in the region that the US-China strategic contest is prevalent, driven by economic, security, and geopolitical ...
• Judicialising party primaries : contemporary developments in Nigeria 

  Ihembe, Martin Ayankaa; Isike, Christopher (Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa, 2022-06)

  This article explores the judicialisation of party primaries in contemporary Nigeria, which is a defining feature of the country’s electoral politics. Since the inception of the Fourth Republic, the lack of internal democracy ...
• Understanding the 2022 Kenyan presidential election outcome : insights from Key’s critical elections theory 

  Ihembe, Martin Ayankaa; Ashindorbe, Kelvin; Onwuzuruigbo, Ifeanyi; Alumona, Ikenna Mike (Routledge, 2024)

  The ethnicisation of election and the concomitant diffusion of violence has been widely explored in the literature on Kenyan presidential elections. However, the critical character of the elections has been understudied, ...

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