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The growth of space science in African countries for earth observation in the 21st century
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2013)
The vulnerability of Africa to the impact of climate change, which results in natural disasters and environmental degradation, accelerates hardship and poverty for millions of Africans. However, Africa still lacks the ...
South Africa's space programme - Past, present, future
(Routledge, 2010)
This article introduces and analyses South Africa’s space programme. This divides into three phases. First was the age of amateurs 1947-1962.
Second, between 1963-1993, South Africa’s apartheid ancien regime started ...
The African Union and its sub-regional structures
(Adonis & Abbey Publishers, 2012)
After seven decades of episodic existence through conferences, the Pan-African project became permanently institutionalised with the founding of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963, with a qualitative upgrade into ...
Democracy by accident: the rise of Zuma and the renaissance of the tripartite alliance
(Routledge, 2009)
In party organisational terms, the rise of Jacob Zuma to the Presidency of the African National
Congress (ANC) is a victory for the alliance partners and the struggle-era vision of the ANC as a
popular front, or the ‘ANC ...
Too dependent to participate: ward committees and local democratisation in South Africa
(Routledge, 2009)
Will participatory local government structures help deepen democracy in
South Africa? That is the proclaimed purpose of the ward committee system, the centre-
piece of post-apartheid local government reform, intended to ...
From local survivalism to foreign entrepreneurship: the transformation of the spaza sector in Delft, Cape Town
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2012)
Small, home-based grocery stores, known as spaza shops, are ubiquitous throughout the township areas of urban South Africa, constituting an important business in the informal economy. In recent years, this retail market ...
Some aspects of South Africa’s foreign policy on the civil wars in Côte D’Ivoire, Libya, and Mali
(2013)
During the 1960s, intervention in Africa by both the UNO and former colonial powers such as France was imposed on Africans. After half a century, Pan-Africanists have started to challenge, sometimes successfully, sometimes ...
Clientelism as civil society? Unpacking the relationship between clientelism and democracy at the local level in South Africa
(SAGE Publications, 2017)
This article, building on analyses from the global south, attempts to reframe democratic expectations by considering where previously maligned practices such as clientelism may hold moments of democracy. It does so by ...
Not waiting for Jackie O: lessons for public participation advocacy in South Africa
(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 ...
Reconsidering the origins of protest in South Africa: some lessons from Cape Town and Pietermaritzburg
(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 ...