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Tenderpreneur (also tenderpreneurship and tenderpreneurism)
(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. ...
Power in action: Democracy, citizenship and social justice by Steven Friedman
(2019)
Steven Friedman has long been one of South Africa’s premier public intellectuals, making invaluable
and thoughtful contributions on the political issues of the day. In Power in Action, he zooms out from
everyday issues ...
Book review: Building a capable state: service delivery in post-apartheid South Africa
(SAGE, 2019)
Written by long-standing research practitioners Ian Palmer and Nishendra Moodley,
as well as one of South Africa’s leading academic urbanists, Professor Sue Parnell,
Building a Capable State tackles the hard
question ...
Why treating water scarcity as a security issue is a bad idea.
(The Conversation Africa, 2018)
Helen Zille, the Premier of the Western Cape in South Africa, has made two startling
claims about the water crisis in the province. She says there will be anarchy when the
taps run dry, and that normal policing will be ...
Resisting informal settlement upgrading in Cape Town: The battle between developmental and informal governance
(Academia, 2019)
The paper explores the peculiar politics of popular resistance to the upgrading of an informal settlement in Imizamo Yethu, Cape Town, following a major fire in 2017. The paper traces the politics around the response to ...
Informality disallowed: State restrictions on informal traders and micro-enterprises in Browns farm, Cape Town, South Africa
(Pan-African University Press, 2019)
This chapter examines the impact of regulations and law enforcement
on the economic activities of informal traders and micro-entrepreneurs
in marginalised communities on the urban periphery. Our case site is
Browns Farm, ...
Explain initially the main driving forces of this globalisation process of manufacturing since the 1980’s? Use thereafter a multinational company (MNC) to illustrate what main positive and negative factors a company takes into consideration when deciding where to locate its production facilities?
(Academia, 2017)
Globalization constitutes the economic shift in companies from domestic (home) to global (host) economic
systems. Global trade liberalization facilitates globalization through free-trade, reduced tariffs and quotas
with ...
Nuclear Politics of Denial: South Africa and the Additional Protocol
(Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013)
South Africa was one of the first states to conclude an Additional Protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2002, allowing the IAEA greater right of access to safeguard nuclear activities and material. ...
Expert advocacy for the marginalised: how and why democratic mediation matters to deepening democracy in the global South
(Institute of Development Studies, 2011)
Summary: The paper argues that the practice of democratic mediation is an increasingly
common, yet under-researched, component of engagements between citizens
and public authorities across the globe. While the actors who ...
The 2013 Election in Zimbabwe: The end of an era
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
The July 31st 2013 Elections in Zimbabwe ushered in a renewed period of political
domination by ZANU(PF) and its President, Robert Mugabe. This election followed five years
of a SADC- facilitated Global Political Agreement ...