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The need for a new language? How historically disadvantaged institutions grapple with the effects of labelling in Higher Education: the case of the University of the Western Cape
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Tertiary institutions in South Africa have been dichotomised through the colonial structure and apartheid which sought to subjugate some institutions and elevate others. Not only have historically disadvantaged institutions ...
Exporting contradictions: the expansion of South African agrarian capital within Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Agrarian change in South Africa over the past two decades has seen consolidation of the hegemony of large-scale commercial farming and corporate agribusiness within agro-food systems. Constrained domestic demand and growth ...
The biofuels boom and bust in Africa: A timely lesson for the New Alliance initiative
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Policies promoting biofuels development through financial incentives in Europe and in the United States of America are major drivers of the ‘land rush’ in many African countries. Yet, we know that most of the first projects ...
Social protests and water service delivery in South Africa
(2013-09-13)
• To identify the key drivers of water-related social protests, roles of organization and mobilization and dynamics of perceived deprivation.
Land and agricultural commercialisation in Meru County, Kenya: evidence from three models
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
What are the relative pros and cons of different pathways of agricultural commercialisation in Africa? This paper examines aspects of three commercial farming cases, each of which represents one of the three most dominant ...
Social differentiation and the politics of land: Sugar cane outgrowing in Kilombero, Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
The privatisation of formerly state-owned sugar cane estates and mills in the late 1990s led to
the reconfiguration of the ownership structure and production of the Tanzanian sugar industry.
This included the decentralisation ...
The role of social security in respecting and protecting the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa: Summary of findings and recommendations
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This study explored lone mothers’ experiences of social security in South
Africa in terms of whether it protects and respects their dignity. Interviews
were undertaken with almost two hundred low income lone mothers ...
Entering university studies: identifying enabling factors for a successful transition from school to university
(Springer Verlag, 2017)
The South African higher education sector is faced with high attrition and low retention rates. Studies conducted by the Council on Higher Education in South Africa have found that 50% of black students who access university ...
Tourism taxation, politics and territorialisation in Tanzania’s wildlife management
(Medknow Publications, 2017)
Tourism activities occurring on communal lands such as Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are increasing in
Tanzania. This is the result of natural resources governance reforms aimed to empower communities to manage
and ...
Class formation across borders: migrant workers in international borderlands
(2014)
• Agricultural boom in tobacco: introduced commercially in 1994 (+699% 2000-2009)
• Labour intensive, use of HH labour and migrant wage labour (Seasonal L and sharecroppers, atypical)
• 130.000 small scale producers. 1:3 ...