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Switzerland's relations with South Africa (1994-2001)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The transformation of South Africa from a pariah state to an accepted and admired member of the international community is widely considered a "miracle". Switzerland, like other western nations, pledged ... -
The Clash between Human Rights and Culture: Case Studies of South Africa and Zimbabwe
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Culture is an important aspect of African people’s lives. It informs the way in which communities are structured and how men and women relate to each other. In South Africa and Zimbabwe, looking specifically ... -
The impossibility of masculinity : sexual violence and black lesbianism in post-apartheid South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The construction of masculinity in post-apartheid South Africa is influenced by a number of historical, cultural and environmental factors. In a heteronormative patriarchal society, men have become obsessed ... -
Christian ethics in South Africa : liberal values among the public and elites
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2018)This article uses statistical data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and the South African Opinion Leader Survey to examine liberal values and attitudes among the following samples of South Africans: Afrikaans, English, ... -
Populism and liberal democracy: three case studies
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study used an exploratory case study design to examine the wave of populism that occurred in 2016. During 2016, numerous notable populist events in Liberal Democracies occurred. These include Rodrigo ... -
Queer Logics: From Homonationalism to Homopopulism
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In 2016 and 2017 Europe and North America witnessed the coming out of a rumoured backlash against the liberal democratic internationalist post-WWII world order. This led to and intensified a resurgence ... -
A critical analysis of problem representations in basic education policy in the democratic South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis critically analyses problem representations identified within basic education policy documents, dated between 1995 and 2015. These policy documents are identified in the thesis as: the White ... -
Christian ethics in South Africa : liberal values among the public and elites
(Department of Old and New Testament - Stellenbosch University, 2018)This article uses statistical data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and the South African Opinion Leader Survey to examine liberal values and attitudes among the following samples of South Africans: Afrikaans, English, ... -
International electoral observation in Southern Africa: Botswana experience
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: International electoral observation has become a customary normative practice deeply embedded in Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) democratisation agenda. Consequently, the phenomenon ... -
The role of MNCs in China and Brazil’s foreign policy towards developing states in Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: While most international political economy (IPE) literature has been concerned with the relations between multinational corporations (MNCs) and the host states in which they operate, this study sought ... -
The sexual politics of international norm dynamics: The contemporary governance of marriage equality
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the last two decades marriage equality has emerged to become the dominant issue in contemporary (homo)sexual and queer governance in the so-called Western world. At the same time, there has been an ... -
Women in the informal economy: Precarious labour in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: High levels of unemployment, widespread poverty and growing inequality in South Africa have led to an emphasis on employment as a solution to these problems. In the current post-apartheid era, various ... -
The political engagement of the major world religions. Religion: Not Quite “The Opium of the Masses.”
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The world is becoming more religious, not less as was previously expected. However, the world’s religions differ and do not have the same teachings and values. At the same time it is important for democratic ... -
Struggle(s) for Self-determination: Afrikaner Aspirations in the Twenty-first Century
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The question of self-determination is not a new one. Struggles for autonomy have drawn interest both from within and outside academia, and as a phenomena is not confined solely to history. Contemporary ... -
Beating the resource curse: Transparency in Kenya's upstream oil and gas sector
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In 2012 Tullow Oil plc discovered commercial quantities of crude oil onshore Kenya. Additional commercial discoveries have subsequently been made and estimates suggest that Kenya’s oil reserves are ... -
Return of the city state? an assessment of city international relations
(University of Southern California, 2017)Cities have ever been part of the international relations system but have not been adequately examined by international relations theory as a subnational actor that can act independently of the nation-state. It has allowed ... -
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human rights: A normative account of the business and human rights norm in the Malawian sugar industry
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study delves into the business and human rights norm that in recent years has been drawn ever closer to center of non-state, and particularly transnational corporations (TNCs), governance debates. ... -
How the ANC, the DA and the EFF construct South Africa as a nation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The ‘nation’ is a powerful social construct. How it is understood has significant consequences for a society and its people. Actors compete for the ability to define the ‘nation’ as a means to spread their ... -
South African land reform as peacebuilding: integrating perspectives from social identity theory and symbolic politics in a peacebuilding conceptual framework
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study considers land reform as an essential part of the South African transformation. In particular it considers land reform as having the potential to impact social relations and therefore as an ... -
Political Risk in the Agricultural Industry in the SADC region: the Cases of Mozambique and Zambia
(2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Amidst the decline in investment returns of traditional sectors such as the oil and gas industry, investment in the agricultural sector is increasingly proving to be a viable alternative. In the Ernst & ...
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