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Further from the people – bipartisan ‘nationalisation’ thwarting the electoral system
(SUN Press, 2012)
This chapter argues that local government elections offer a unique opportunity in South Africa’s political system for voters to practice forms of democracy that are more local, plural and accountable in character than at ...
Xenophobia, criminality and violent entrepreneurship: violence against Somali shopkeepers in Delft South, Cape Town, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis; Unisa Press, 2012)
Violence against Somali shopkeepers is often cited as evidence of xenophobic attitudes and violence
in South Africa. However, as argued in this article, it is not necessarily the case that such violence
is driven by ...
The Security imaginary: Explaining military isomorphism
(Sage, 2008)
This article proposes the notion of a security imaginary as a heuristic
tool for exploring military isomorphism (the phenomenon that
weapons and military strategies begin to look the same across the
world) at a time ...
Mediation and the contradictions of representing the urban poor in South Africa: The case of SANCO leaders in Imizamo Yethu in Cape Town, South Africa.
(Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2014)
The formal system of local governance in South Africa has the ‘ward’ as its lowest and smallest electoral level — a spatial unit consisting of between 5,000 and 15,000 voters. The ward is equivalent to the ‘constituency’ ...
Party support and voter behaviour in the Western Cape: Trends and patterns since 1994
(Sabinet, 2010)
Since 1994 election outcomes in the Western Cape have been examined
through analyses of the ‘coloured vote’. These explanations, which are
premised on the racially based motivations of voters, feed into the choices,
rhetoric ...
The emergent practice of governance and its implications for the concept of politics
(AJOL, 2007)
This paper explores the implications of the disjuncture between the real-world practice of governance and the popular understanding of politics. There are two ways of addressing this disjuncture. The first is to accept the ...
Judgement and choice in the 1999 South African election
(Taylor & Francis, 1999)
In this article, we set out the basic points of the theoretical
framework of voter choice that underlie the Opinion '99 research project. In
contrast to prevailing theories that have characterized voter choice in ...
Democracy for a bargain: The 1999 election in KwaZulu‐Natal
(Taylor & Francis, 1999)
While the IFP/ANC race for first place in KwaZulu-Natal was the
closest of any in the country, the 1999 election was both freer and fairer than
ever before, and the result was readily accepted by all parties. In short, ...
The decline of ‘militant Zulu nationalism’: IFP politics after 1994
(Taylor & Francis, 1998)
Abstract
This article argues that since 1994, but especially since 1996, the IFP has progressively moved away from the Zulu nationalist rhetoric and confrontational tactics of the transition period which we term the ...
Skills at masters’ level in Geography Higher E: Teaching, learning and applying
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)
The perceptions of ‘skills’ at taught Master's level between course directors (teaching of skills), alumni (learning and use of skills) and employers (the skills requirements) were compared within the field of development ...