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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 ... -
Young people’s experiences with an empowerment-based behavior change intervention to prevent sexual violence in Nairobi informal settlements: A qualitative study
(Johns Hopkins University, 2021)Young people in sub-Saharan Africa face one of the world’s highest burdens of sexual violence. Previous impact evaluations indicated that a 6-week empowerment-based behavioral intervention in Nairobi informal (slum) ... -
Youth futures and a masculine development ethos in the regional story of Uttarakhand
(SAGE Publications, 2017)Research on the Uttarakhand region, which became a new state in 2000, has focused largely on agrarian livelihoods, religious rituals, development demands, ecological politics and the role of women in regional social ... -
Youth unemployment in South Africa revisited
(Taylor Francis, 2013)One of the most pressing socio-economic problems of the South African economy is high youth unemployment. Recent studies only briefly examined how the youths fared since the transition by comparing the 1995 October Household ... -
Zambia’s Customary Landholding Certificate and Tenure Options for Women
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Zimbabwe's new land crisis: Large-scale land investments at Chisumbanje
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)Zimbabwe’s investments in agriculture, after a contested Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) underpinned by often violent land occupations (these were largely contained by the state by 2005), have triggered a ... -
Zimbabwe’s contested large-scale land-based investment: The chisumbanje ethanol project
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform from 2000 onward yielded significant land transfers, but led the country to face debilitating production challenges and lack of investment in agriculture. Since then, Zimbabwe has not ... -
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 ...
