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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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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(Wiley, 2024-05)The shifting nature of contemporary global politics highlights the growing contestation about power and how it is distributed, with multipolarity as its hallmark and distinguishing feature. Amid the shift to multipolarity, ...
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(Routledge, 2023)The colonial disruption of organic state formation in Africa through the imposition of an alien state system adversely influenced state-building in the continent with consequences for good governance, belonging, and ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2023)This research joins people-centered approaches to development in understanding how social relationships are integrated into the efficacy of human development organizations in South Africa during a crisis. It positions ...
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(Routledge, 2024)This study explores the plight of ethnic minorities and marginals and their increasing quest to obliterate their subordinate status and attempts by the dominant groups to maintain the status quo in Nigeria. Such interactions ...
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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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(University of Pretoria, 2023-11-10)China, as a rising power in the global system, has been increasing its naval presence in the Indian Ocean and the establishment of the country’s first-ever naval base in Djibouti further raised concerns from the dominant ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-11-06)The COVID-19 pandemic occurred at a time that multilateral cooperation was confronted with legitimacy, accountability, and representation deficits. It was in this environment that South Africa and India presented a proposal ...
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