• Rights-based analysis of basic education in South Africa 

  Chirowamhangu, Raymond (Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, 2024-12)

  The right to basic education is a fundamental human right, the realisation of which is dependent on the holistic fulfillment of all educational needs. The study reflects on the interpretation of basic education by the South ...
• Just participatory research with young people involved in climate justice activism 

  Mayes, Eve; Arya, Dena (Springer, 2024-09)

  This commentary reflects on the tensions inherent in enacting creative, co-produced, and participatory methods with younger co-researchers who are also climate justice advocates. Whilst participatory research with young ...
• “That’s what we think of as activism” : solidarity through care in queer Desi diaspora 

  Bhardwaj, Maya (Routledge, 2024)

  This article examines a framing of solidarity as both activism and community care work in diasporic South Asian (sometimes referred to as “Desi”) communities in the US and the UK. From the vantage point of the researcher ...
• Enhancing gender-responsive social protection among informal and traditionally uncovered workers in sub-Saharan Africa : an assessment of access to maternity protection 

  Mokomane, Zitha; Grzesik-Mourad, Laurel; Heymann, Jody (Wiley, 2024-10)

  A wide and established body of research evidence has consistently shown how the effective provision of social protection benefits and the promotion of gender equality are among the key tools for addressing shocks, ...
• Planned stitching practical suturing : assembling community voices and mobilisation across difference in Johannesburg’s corridors of freedom 

  Makwela, Mike; Dittgen, Romain; Rubin, Margot (Routledge, 2024-10)

  The City of Johannesburg’s Corridors of Freedom (CoF), launched in 2013, were intended to cut across the economically and racially divided city using infrastructure and interventions in the built environment around new ...
• Towards the desired city of compromise : the politics of negotiating large-scale transformation across diversity in Johannesburg 

  Dittgen, Romain; Cochrane, Allan; Robinson, Jennifer (Routledge, 2024-11)

  How to reinvent Johannesburg, a metropolis whose geography of inequality has remained stubbornly entrenched since the end of apartheid? By launching the ‘Corridors of Freedom’ (CoF) initiative in 2013, the municipal ...
• Decolonisation of knowledge production on Children’s Rights in Africa 

  Chirowamhangu, Raymond (African Renaissance, 2024-12)

  This paper provides a critical perspective on the decolonisation of children's rights. The research is a comparative analysis between the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) and the United Nations, ...
• Mineral resource exploitation and landownership rights : understanding the ‘doctrine of custodianship’ in minerals and mining legislation in South Africa 

  Issah, Moshood; Sulaiman, Lanre Abdul-Rasheed; Raji, Abdullateef; Aliu, Fatima; Yusuff, Ridwan Olabisi; Abdulbaqi, Salihu Zakariyyah; Akor, Sunday Joseph; Malik, Nurudeen Adesola (Elsevier, 2025-06)

  Legislation and policy frameworks on mineral resource exploitation and landownership rights in South Africa were heavily influenced by the Roman-Dutch law. These legal frameworks changed from 1795 with the annexation of ...
• Deconstructing a single-actor resource ownership model : a study of the proposed uranium mining in the Karoo region of South Africa 

  Issah, Moshood; Sulaiman, Lanre Abdul-Rasheed; Aliu, Fatima; Raji, Abdullateef; Yusuff, Ridwan Olabisi; Abdulbaqi, Salihu Zakariyyah; Akor, Sunday Joseph; Oluwaseun, Ojogiwa T. (Elsevier, 2025-06)

  This study engages the discourse of ‘eminent domain’ – the power of the state to expropriate communally or individually owned properties for ‘public good’ – as it applies in the mineral extractive sector in resource-rich ...
• Inclusive education pandemic : learning barriers for children with disabilities in South Africa 

  Chirowamhangu, Raymond (AOSIS, 2024-12-06)

  BACKGROUND: Children with disabilities encounter obstacles attaining basic education. Significantly, previous studies on South Africa have shown that up to 70% of the children with disabilities are out of school. Despite ...
• Policing the police : why it is so hard to reform police departments in the United States? 

  Banerjee, Vasabjit; Willison, Charley; Greer, Scott L. (Sage, 2025-02)

  Why has it been so difficult to reform U.S. policing? We provide a theoretical argument that understanding of the entrenched militarisation and accountability problems of U.S. police departments would benefit from using ...
• Accountability, bureaucratic discretion, and civil-military relations 

  Webeck, Sean P.; Banerjee, Vasabjit (Sage, 2025)

  All democracies wrestle with the problem of representation. Most people intuitively understand this through electoral politics, but this connection is less clear when we consider bureaucracy. And when it comes to civil-military ...
• Mobilising in the face of large-scale urban change : a conversation between two community organisers from Johannesburg and London 

  Makwela, Mike; Hayward, Sharon; Dittgen, Romain (Routledge, 2024)

  Large-scale and long-term urban development projects often cause sizeable transformations in the built and social fabric, raising questions about the impacts on existing neighbourhoods and communities, and how they might ...
• When the rainbow is bittersweet : reflections on being queer and Indian in Durban 

  O’Connell, Siona; Ghosh, Debjyoti; Reddy, Vasu (Lectito, 2024)

  South Africa is one of the few countries in Africa that no longer criminalises same-sex sexual activity, and the only one to recognise same-sex marriage under the legal system. Yet, at the same time, several groups in the ...
• Job satisfaction in South Africa : the quest for job quality 

  Mncwango, Bongiwe; Masenge, Andries; Puttergill, Charles (Unisa Press, 2023-12)

  Job satisfaction is a key determinant in ensuring and maintaining a productive workforce. It is an outcome of the interaction between individual personal characteristics, work values, needs and expectations on one hand ...
• Labour market in peril : interference of influential individuals in the integration of Congolese workers into the labour market 

  Inaka, Saint Jose (Sage, 2024)

  The encroachment of certain influential individuals who employ cronyism, patronage, and networking into the recruitment and hiring processes of employees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a widely discussed issue ...
• COVID-19 experience and student wellbeing amongst publicly funded higher education students in South Africa after the first, and second waves 

  Wildschut, Angelique; Wilson-Fadiji, Angelina (Springer, 2024-08)

  Although higher education students have been identified as one of the social groups most affected by the impact of COVID-19, higher education literature appears to focus more on documenting implications for teaching and ...
• Ke mosali oa Mosotho : reflecting on indigenous conceptions of womanhood in Lesotho 

  Mohlabane, Neo (Routledge, 2023)

  This paper challenges the invisibilisation and silencing of indigenous conceptions of womanhood in feminist scholarly work. It argues that “Mosotho woman,” as we know it today, is a colonial construct for it is located ...
• ‘Brandsluts’ : Instagram influencers and conspicuous consumption in post-apartheid South Africa 

  Sana, Vidhya (Routledge, 2024)

  Post-Apartheid South Africa shifted to a culture of consumption, originating with a transition to a neoliberal society [Sana, V. (2022). Bits of bytes and bites of bits: Instagram and the gendered performance of food ...
• Youth in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and higher education nexus : diffusion of innovations and knowledge transfer 

  Arthur-Holmes, Francis; Yeboah, Thomas; Cobbinah, Isaac Joseph; Busia, Kwaku Abrefa (Elsevier, 2023-09)

  Research literature has underscored the growing engagement of youth in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). However, no published study has explicitly investigated the symbiotic exchanges on how youth in ASM transfer ...

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