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Racial desegregation and the institutionalisation of ‘race’ in university governance: The case of the University of Cape Town
(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 ...
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 ...
Faith-based organisations, local governance and citizenship in South Africa
(University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009)
Redefining defence in the post-apartheid security imaginary: The politics of meaning-fixing
(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 ...
Revolution in military affairs, missile defence and weapons in space: The US strategic triad
(Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, 2005)
American plans for Missile Defence (MD) and the weaponisation of space should be analysed in the larger framework of the contemporary Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA).1 Soviet military analysts have written about this ...
The Technological culture of war
(Sage, 2008)
The article proceeds from the argument that war is a social institution and not a historical inevitability of human interaction,
that is, war can be “unlearned.” This process involves deconstructing/dismantling war as an ...
Small parties and independents – from also-rans to kingmakers
(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 ...
From religious transcendence to political utopia: the legacy of Richard Turner for Post-Apartheid political thought
(Berghahn Journals, 2010-06)
In recent times South African politics has come to exhibit
features typical of many post-colonial contexts, not least the rise of
acrimonious and confrontational politics based around personalities
and forms of populism. ...
Student involvement in university decision-making: Good reasons, a new lens
(2011-04-04)
This paper proposes a framework for understanding student involvement in different domains of university decision-making based on the various reasons brought for and against student involvement. It briefly outlines the ...
‘From rhetoric to practice: a critique of immigration policy in Germany through the lens of Turkish-Muslim women’s experiences of migration’
(Berghahn Journals, 2009)
The largest group of migrants in Germany is the Turkish people, many of whom have low skills levels, are Muslim, and are slow to integrate themselves into their host communities. German immigration policy has been significantly ...