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(Elsevier, 2022-01)We offer here a brief commentary of the Rome Declaration (May 21, 2021) in light of a recent Report on the Health-Environment Nexus released by the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEALL). Although the Rome Declaration promotes ...
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(Routledge, 2021)The article analyses the Arab Spring protests that started in Tunisia in 2010 and spread into more than thirteen other countries across two continents. Of the more than thirteen countries affected by the Arab Spring, only ...
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(Routledge, 2021)For decades, the most used mainstream model for economic growth and development was that used and promoted by the global north. However, this model has not seen the same results in the developing global south as it has in ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2002)This article presents an evaluation of the African Union which is to be formally established in July 2002. The concept of a security community as originally developed by Karl Deutsch and his associates during the 1950s is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This dissertation analyses Edward Said’s characterisation of the intellectual, which is also referred to as the three positions of the intellectual, to determine its usefulness in defining, identifying, and understanding ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Immigration policies during the era of apartheid were meticulous and to a larger extent favoured foreign labour immigration within the country. The post-apartheid era, saw a shift in immigration discourse triggered by the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)In South Africa, the intelligence services are an important tool in South African statecraft and are subject to intelligence oversight which has been developed from international best practice available at the time of ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2003)In this article the concepts of national security and human security are discussed with specific reference to the African and South African situation. It is concluded that there is still no clear indication of when an ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-10-13)In 2017/18 South Africa experienced the world’s largest ever outbreak of listeriosis, a foodborne disease. Listeriosis emanates when the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes which is common in soil, water and plants; converts ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014-08)This study explores the link between regional cooperation and integration and the root causes of conflict in Africa. Specifically, it focuses on the experience of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The African continent has been plagued with armed conflicts, civil wars, and ex-tended periods of regional instability right from the mid-20th century (Swart and Sol-omon, 2004:1). These conflicts are usually between ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2021-12)The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic cuts across all spheres of human life, and it has exposed fundamental weaknesses in political values, governance systems, public health and social life in different parts of the world. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Abstract Over the past few decades, the illegal trade in wildlife has significantly increased, making it one of the most profitable transnational organised crimes globally. Whilst this illicit activity has gained traction ...
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(Wiley, 2021)The highly concentrated formal agri-food sector holds enormous power in the governance of the food system in South Africa. Yet the concept of food democracy holds that all people should have an equal opportunity to participate ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2021-04)Communities of Practice are sites of social learning for the co-production of knowledge. Building on recent literature on Transdisciplinary Communities of Practice, this article reflects on the experiences of an emergent ...
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(Institut für Afrikawissenschaften, 2021)Namibia has been widely perceived as a successful case of negotiated independence, governed since 1990 by the former liberation movement. For a quarter of a century the movement turned party expanded its political ...
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(Routledge, 2021)In late November 2017 Emmerson Mnangagwa replaced Robert Mugabe as President of Zimbabwe in a ‘military assisted transition’. He declared Zimbabwe ‘open for business’ as the cornerstone of his foreign policy. Hopes were ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Human trafficking is a growing global crime that poses a threat to national and international security. Trafficking transgresses national borders and threatens human security, and, by default, it requires international ...
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(Routledge, 2023)Women played a range of complex roles during the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe between 1961 and 1980. However, although the Zimbabwean post-independence government made attempts to promote gender equity following the ...
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(Routledge, 2021)The ‘coloniality’, porosity, and ‘ungovernability’ of borders in West Africa, have engendered undocumented migration, in which most people engage to visit their kin and for economic reasons such as herding, farming, fishing, ...
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