After matriculating from the Settler’s High School in Bellville,
Scarlett Cornelissen studied at the Universities of Rhodes
and Cape Town. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Social
Science from the University of Cape ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Despite their lack of merits and demands, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) did become a defining feature in the short aftermath of the Financial Crisis and a part of the global occupy-movements during the protest ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Rotter’s (1966) locus of control (LOC) is, fundamentally, a theory pertaining to individuals’ perceptions of personal control and their appraisal of the contingency of reinforcements in life. An individual ...
Fineide, Line Viktoria(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Globally as well as nationally, AIDS is politically contested. Since AIDS was first identified
in 1981 there have been several responses to the pandemic, reflecting AIDS’ biomedical,
political and social ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of the study is to identify and analyse conspiracy narratives as popular counter-knowledge and as alternatives to leftist discourse and explanations of the contradictions of a capitalist system ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Changes in world order have caused major shifts in the global positioning of states at the
international level. The end of the Cold War ushered in a new power structure that shifted
from a bipolar ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The HIV-epidemic that is evident in South Africa today is infecting more women than men. This is
mostly due to the vulnerability that women are facing in sexual relationships, where they are not able
to ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The interplay between political risk and emerging markets is current and dynamic. As global interest shifts, investors cannot ignore emerging market behaviour and their influence. However, with great ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Equatorial Guinea has, since the mid-1990s, been an oil-rich state. With the highest
GDP per capita it should be a continental leader in terms of development. Instead, it
ranks in one of the worst ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Brazilian welfare state has developed over time in relation to national and global trends. This study analyses the creation of Latin Americas largest Conditional Cash Transfer program in relation to ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Comparative studies investigating predictors of political participation in new democracies are
rare. This study addresses an identified gap in the literature on predictors of political
participation in ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In 1992, warring factions in Mozambique put an end to 15 years of violence and instability.
By signing the General Peace Accord in Rome, the civil war was officially over, and postconflict
reconstruction ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since its arrival onto the U.S. energy scene in the early 2000s, shale gas has had a significant impact on the global energy market. The fact that the shale gas supply of a single country has had such a ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study applies a modified bureaucratic policy process model to analyse contemporary South African – Japanese relations, particularly in regards to a proposed Economic Partnership Agreement, and the ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The following study examines whether there are contending interpretations of the rule of law
present within the South African democracy. The study proposes that the rule of law forms
part of the societal ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The role and influence of interest groups and non-state actors in the foreign policy process remains an interesting topic for debate. This study explores the role of three South African trade union ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aims to understand the motivations underlying the activities of Chinese agricultural enterprises operating on the African continent as well as the way in which institutional contexts – the ...
Summary: The article first describes the emergence and contemporary practice of health diplomacy; this
is followed by a discussion of niche diplomacy, in particular as it applies to the foreign policy
agendas of emerging ...
Amdahl, Lars Kjeang(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: One of Africa’s longest civil wars ended for the second time in 2005, when the leaders of the government of Sudan and Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and Army signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This case study on East Africa analyses the impact of changing power relations over the last
decade on Egypt’s hydro-hegemony on the Nile River Basin. Covering one-tenth of Africa’s
landmass and providing ...