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The choice of atomic power for electricity in South Africa
(2013)
South Africa needs to both increase its electricity generation, and to incrementally transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources. The most cost-effective strategy would be a mix of imported hydropower, solar power, ...
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 ...
Pan-African initiatives in global governance
(2013)
As recently as 2009, a five hundred page textbook on international relations did not even mention the African Union in its index. The same applied to the Wikipedia entry on international organizations until a colleague of ...
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 ...
Astronaissance: Communicating astronomy & space to the African imagination
(2013)
Astronaissance neatly conceptualizes the crossover between the African Renaissance, the re-emergence of Astronomy in Africa, and the rise of cognate space sciences and astronautics.
Story-telling, painting, engraving, ...
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 ...
Enforced informalisation: the case of liquor retailers in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
After a decade of unsuccessful efforts to migrate informal businesses to South Africa’s formal economy there remains little understanding of the dynamics in this sector, especially as regards micro-enterprises. International ...
Unpacking race, party and class from below: surveying citizenship in the Msunduzi Municipality
(Elsevier, 2012)
On the basis of a 2008 survey conducted in the Msunduzi municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province, the paper begins an exploration of the character of popular politics and citizenship in South Africa. Embracing a ...
The Zuma watershed: from post-apartheid to post-colonial politics in South Africa
(Routledge, 2010)
Introduction: It is common cause that the rise of Jacob Zuma in South African politics signals change; what is contested is the nature and extent of that change. For example, Zuma's champions in the Congress of South African ...
Politics and higher education in East Africa from the 1920s to 1970
(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 ...