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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...