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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 ...
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 ...
Globalization, the latest mode of production in the world system: How regional powers have intensified and expanded capitalism
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2018)
This article examines globalization as a mode of production, tracing it from the pre-capitalist mode in Africa and linking it to the capitalist mode and, finally, the globalization mode. It is intensified and directed by ...
Deepening democracy: A farm workers’ movement in the Western Cape
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)
This article explores the internal dynamics and external impact of a South African farm
workers’ movement, Sikhula Sonke. It looks at the extent to which this women-led
‘social movement trade union’ has succeeded in ...
"Dubula ibhunu" (shoot the boer): A psycho-political analysis of farm attacks in South Africa
(Scielo, 2014)
Post-colonial archetypes in the collective unconscious of South
African society have actualised themselves powerfully in the
discourses that have usurped the framing of what has come to
be called “farm attacks” in South ...
Party politics, the poor and the city: Reflections from the South African case
(Elsevier, 2012)
Local democracy and ‘spaces’ of citizenship and participation
are at the core of much contemporary research focusing on cities
(Barnett and Low, 2004). This is the case both for researchers interested
in issues of urban ...
Rethinking political crises in the Horn of Africa : local approaches to the territorial border in Ethiopia's eastern borderlands
(2014)
Political crises are often more interconnected in the Horn of Africa than in other parts of the
continent. The region challenges established notions of statehood and the trajectory of
state formation in Africa. This paper ...
Informal settlement upgrading and safety: Experiences from Cape Town, South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2017)
Informal settlement dwellers are disproportionately affected by ill health, violence and many other socio-economic challenges. These are largely connected to the unhealthy and unsafe physical conditions within which they ...
Deconstructing ‘the foreign’: The limits of citizenship for explaining price competition in the Spaza sector in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
An important component of the informal economy in South Africa,
the Spaza sector is portrayed as dominated by foreign nationals who
outcompete South African shopkeepers on price. Indeed, this
business competition from ...