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Imithetho yomhlaba yaseMsinga: The living law of land in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal

Cousins, Ben (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

This report describes the ‘living law’ of land in one part of Msinga, a deep rural area of KwaZulu-Natal. It presents research findings from the Mchunu and Mthembu tribal areas, where a three-year action-research project ...
The impact of land restitution and land reform on livelihoods

Hall, Ruth (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)

This report investigates emerging trends evident in the limited literature available on the impact of land restitution on livelihoods, and suggests ways of thinking about, and planning for, livelihoods. The report has ...
Impact of WTO policies on developing countries: issues and perspectives

Rena, Ravinder (Ottawa United Learning Academy & Denfar Transnational DevelopmentOttawa United Learning Academy & Denfar Transnational Development, 2012)

About two thirds of the WTO’s around 150 members are developing countries. They play an increasingly important and active role in the WTO because of their numbers, because they are becoming more important in the global ...
International comparative study of strategies for settlement support provision to land reform beneficiaries

Tilley, Susan (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)

This paper provides some insights into international experience and attempts to distil the key areas of strategic value for consideration in developing a national strategy for support provision to land reform beneficiaries ...
Joint ventures and livelihoods in emerging small-scale irrigation schemes in Greater Sekhukhune District : Perspectives from Hereford

Tapela, Barbara (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2005-09)

This report is based on research carried out between June 2003 and April 2005 in the Greater Sekhukhune Cross-Border District Municipality, which straddles the boundaries of the Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces. This ...
Linking service delivery and protest in South Africa: an exploration of evidence from Khayelitsha

Nleya, Ndodana (Unisa Press, 2011)

The notion of service delivery protests in South Africa has perhaps become a cliché in South Africa. While there was a lull in protest activity (excluding industrial action) in the first decade of democracy, the second ...
Livelihoods and sharing: Trends in a Lesotho village, 1976–2004

Turner, Stephen (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape & Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc. (CARE), 2005-10)

The study compares the livelihoods and inter-household sharing mechanisms in a Lesotho village across a 28 year period. The report examines the complex socio-economic structures and systems that are in place in the rural ...
Livestock and the rangeland commons in South Africa’s land and agrarian reform

Hall, Ruth; Cousins, Ben (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Taylor & Francis, 2013)

Land and agrarian reform has the potential to expand South Africa’s rangeland commons and enhance their contribution to the livelihoods of the rural poor, yet to a large extent this has been an opportunity missed. ...
Mainstreaming of HIV and Aids into South African fisheries policy

Isaacs, Moenieba; Hara, Mafaniso (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2008-11)

This research investigated the drivers and the impact of HIV and Aids in fishing communities in South Africa, in order to assist the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism: Marine and Coastal Management ...
Money and sociality in South Africa's informal economy

Neves, David; du Toit, Andries (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

This article examines the interplay of agency, culture and context in order to consider the social embeddedness of money and trade at the margins of South Africa’s economy. Focusing on small-scale, survivalist informal ...
Nasruddin's key: poverty measurement and the government of marginal populations

du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape., 2011)

This paper considers the role of ‘measurement’ and other forms of poverty knowledge in a context where the nature and direction of global economic growth is creating ‘surplus populations’ suffering various forms of ...
Non-alignment in the current world order. The impact of the rise of China

Pretorius, Joelien (Institute for Strategic Studies at the University of Pretoria, 2008)

The relevance of the Non-Aligned Movement has been in question since the end of Cold War bipolarity. In the post-Cold War order, whether interpreted as cosmopolitan, unipolar, multipolar or globalised in nature, there are ...
Not waiting for Jackie O: lessons for public participation advocacy in South Africa

Piper, Laurence (Unisa Press, 2011)

This article explores the significance of an important event, namely, the Pioneers of Participation workshop held in November 2009 in Cape Town, for public participation advocacy in South Africa. By tracing the shifting ...
Pan-African initiatives in global governance

Gottschalk, Keith (2013)

As recently as 2009, a five hundred page textbook on international relations did not even mention the African Union in its index. The same applied to the Wikipedia entry on international organizations until a colleague of ...
Policy options for land reform in South Africa: New institutional mechanisms?

Cliffe, Lionel (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-10)

Since the 2005 Land Summit, new approaches to land reform have been on the agenda, yet there remains little clarity on the way forward. The main focus has been on means of accelerating the redistribution of land through ...
Popular mobilisation, party dominance and participatory governance in South Africa

Piper, Laurence; Nadvi, Lubna (Zed Books, 2010)

This chapter seeks to explore the character of popular mobilization in South Africa, mostly at the local level. This is done through exploring the interaction of two independent processes. The first concerns the ...
Racial desegregation and the institutionalisation of ‘race’ in university governance: The case of the University of Cape Town

Luescher-Mamashela, Thierry (Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2009-12)

The racial desegregation of the student bodies of historically white universities in South Africa has had significant political implications for student politics and university governance. I discuss two key moments in ...
Reconsidering the origins of protest in South Africa: some lessons from Cape Town and Pietermaritzburg

Nleya, Ndodana; Tapscott, Chris; Thompson, Lisa; Piper, Laurence; Esau, Michelle (Unisa Press, 2011)

Protest politics in South Africa has a long history and has been deployed differentially in different historical moments. Whereas protests formed an important vehicle during the fight against apartheid, their rebirth and ...
Redefining defence in the post-apartheid security imaginary: The politics of meaning-fixing

Pretorius, Joelien (University of the Free State, 2008)

This article traces the politics of meaning-fixing with respect to the role of the defence force as apartheid declined from the mid-1980s, as it was negotiated from a current to a past organising principle of the “security ...
Report on review of the current status of the pilot Certificate in School Business Administration (CSBA) 2008-2009: Guidelines for CSBA 2010

Naicker, Visvanathan; Combrinck, Theodore; Bayat, Abdullah (University of the Western Cape: School of Business and Finance, 2010)

Executive Summary: By almost any measure, most South African public schools, and schools in the Western Cape, are underperforming academically. For a number of years, there has existed a wide degree of consensus among ...

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