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(Athabasca University Press, 2024-02)Higher education in the correctional environment is endorsed globally as the most effective tool for rehabilitation. Studies from the Global North have researched correctional education and its accessibility, but few of ...
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Breadwinners behind bars - the lived experiences of incarcerated female breadwinners in South Africa (Criminological and Victimological Society of Southern Africa, 2023-12)Similarly to their overseas counterparts, incarcerated South African women are overrepresented among the poor, have less access to education and assume the principal burden of care and unpaid labour in the home. They are ...
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(Sage, 2024)The percentage of female offenders who are single mothers of minor children is a growing concern among the total incarcerated population in South Africa and globally. This study aimed to explore how expectations about ...
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(VCU Scholars Compass, 2023)Education in the correctional environment is endorsed as an effective rehabilitative tool linked to reducing recidivism and improving reintegration. Unfortunately, while researchers from the Global North are particularly ...
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(Unisa Press, 2024-02)The outbreak of COVID-19 has had negative impacts on many communities across the globe, and, in particular, these impacts have disproportionately affected women. Indeed, preliminary research and reporting on the effects ...
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(Center for African Studies, University of Florida, 2023-07)A growing deterioration of the security situation in Nigeria is provoking debate about the subsisting federalized but ineffective policing structure. The general deterioration of security is also manifesting in the growth ...
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(Wiley, 2023-09)As part of its strategy to win African votes for election to the UN Security Council (2008–12), Canberra sought to leverage its soft power potential by presenting Australia as having “no colonial baggage” in Africa while ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2022)This article explores the evolution of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ as a concept and geopolitical social construct. Since 2007, the concept has been framed predominatly to fit the geostrategic concerns of global North powers. ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2022)v44i2.4416The past decade and a half, ever since former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s ‘Confluence of the Two Oceans’ speech in front of the Indian parliament in August 2007, has seen the rapid evolution of the concept ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2022)China’s perspective of the Indo-Pacific as a set of strategies initially developed by Japan but mainly driven by the United States (US), appears to be shifting. Beijing originally viewed such approaches as directly ...
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(Adonis and Abbey, 2023-04)Industrialisation is vital for developing countries‘ quest for sustainable growth, development, and transformation. This article examines the SADC region‘s stated objective of industrialisation and regional integration ...
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(Adonis and Abbey, 2022-12)It is crucial to examine the historical conflict mediation role that SADC played in Zimbabwe given the country’s continuous political instability and economic catastrophe. Zimbabwe held its first all-race elections in 1980, ...
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(Routledge, 2022)Southern Africa has a long and complex history of migration. This article argues that overall, the mechanisms for governing migration and the practice of migration in the region ignore prevailing theoretical and ideological ...
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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. ...