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    • Politics and higher education in East Africa from the 1920s to 1970 

      Mngomezulu, Bhekithemba Richard (Sun Media Bloemfontein, 2012)
      The development of higher education in East Africa has a long history. For many years, the process was characterised by political wrangling, negotiations and compromises by black and white constituencies. What eventually ...
    • 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 ...
    • Small parties and independents – from also-rans to kingmakers 

      Africa, Cherrel; van Rooyen, Garth (SUN Press, 2012)
      Small parties and independents play an important role in South Africa’s democracy. It is on the level of the local that these small parties and independents have some chance to make indents in terms of winning a few wards ...
    • The tale of two publics: Media, political representation and citizenship in Hout Bay, 

      Piper, Laurence; Anciano, Fiona.; von Lieres, Bettina (HSRC Press, 2017)
      This chapter makes the case that access to the spaces of public debate in post-apartheid South Africa is about the challenge of political representation as much as it is about the challenge of access to communication ...
    • Tenderpreneur (also tenderpreneurship and tenderpreneurism) 

      Piper, Laurence; Charman, Andrew (UCL Press, 2018)
      ‘Tenderpreneur’ is a South African colloquialism for a businessperson who uses political contacts to secure government procurement contracts (called ‘tenders’) often as part of reciprocal exchange of favours or benefits. ...