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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Banerjee, Vasabjit; Willison, Charley; Greer, Scott L.(Sage, 2025)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mogoboya, Boitumelo(University of Pretoria, 2024-05)
This study explored the sociocultural adaptations of Black students in South African private high schools. The specific objectives of the study were to: (1) explore the positive and negative sociocultural experiences of ...
Phasha, Noluthando Yvonne(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-20)
The ongoing technological development and advancements have led to changes to the audit profession in South Africa and an alteration of the audit professionals’ work life. This dissertation investigates the impact this ...
Wiele, Simone Sarah-Jane(University of Pretoria, 2023-10-17)
The affective dimension of belonging is theorised to involve feelings of being valued, safety, and agency. However, when applied to the lives of young South African women this conceptualisation falters and reveals its ...
PURPOSE : This paper illustrates how Guba and Lincoln’s parallel criteria for establishing trustworthiness, can
be adapted and applied to qualitative research on indigenous social protection systems. It provides insights ...
Van der Waal, Rodante; Mayra, Kaveri; Horn, Anna; Chadwick, Rachelle Joy(Wiley, 2023-05)
Obstetric violence, a term coined by activists in Latin America to describe violence during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, is a controversial feminist term in global health policymaking as well as in obstetric and ...
Although foreign policy between great power patrons and their client states is often studied, those of client states and third states within the context of patron-client relations receive little attention. We address this ...