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Land policy in Southern Africa : towards human security? : a case study of South Africa and Zimbabwe.
(2011)Crises of food production, poverty and deepening inequality are common problems around the world and constitute the distinctive features of the global social landscape including the poorer regions. In the poorer regions ... -
Land reform in South Africa : dismantling the historical legacy of the racially skewed land dispensation.
(2013)In some parts of the African continent, colonialist left a long time ago but the legacy they left exist to this day. In one way or the other they ensured that their legacy lives on even beyond independence of the African ... -
Leadership failure, state collapse and external intervention : investigating instability and conflict in the democratic Republic of Congo, 1960-2010.
(2016)This is a study about leadership failure, state collapse and external intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 1960 to 2010. It is based on research that I undertook, records that I kept and field work ... -
Leadership recruitment and corruption : South Africa in focus.
Corruption as a social malaise is not only multifaceted but variety of definitions tendered to describe this phenomenon tends to ascribe a relativist stance to it. In the sense that corruption is an outcome of a system and ... -
Lesotho's transition to democratic rule : an era of "fragile" democracy.
(2005)Many in Lesotho had hoped that the 1993 elections would restore democratic rule and establish the political stability that had eluded the country since independence. The post-1993 transition to democratic rule created ... -
Local council courts and local conflict resolution : a case of Lubaga Division, Kampala District, Uganda.
(2009)The government of Uganda, on realizing that community conflicts could not be handled entirely by the centre, enacted a Local Councils Act, whose operationalization began on 8th June, 2006. The Act established the Local ... -
Locke, Spinoza and Rousseau on the relationship between religion and the state.
(2008)This dissertation investigates the relationship between religion and the state in Enlightenment Europe as articulated by John Locke, Benedict de Spinoza and Jean Jacques Rousseau. I conduct the study focusing mainly on the ... -
Malawi's transition from neo-colonial rule : from a 'culture of silence to a clamour of voices?'
(2002)The phrase a 'culture of silence' is attributed to Jerry Rawlings in the late 1980s, at a time when he was military head of state in Ghana. The irony is that he appeared to be complaining about the 'culture of silence' ... -
The management of intergovernmental relations in KwaZulu- Natal’s Operation Sukuma Sakhe.
(2016)Governments around the world have come to the realisation that in order to respond effectively to the challenges facing their societies there is a need for coordinated effort. South Africa has not been an exception to this ... -
Managing the challenges of conflict transformation and peace-building in South Sudan.
(2013)Since its independence on July 9, 2011, the Republic of South Sudan, with the assistance of various internal and external stakeholders, has been working towards viable and constructive political and socio-economic change ... -
Measuring press performance in upholding democracy : the case of the South African general election of 2004.
(2004)his project adopts a coherent framework developed to enable assessment of the performance of the press in upholding democracy. The framework was developed by Pippa Norris for a developed world context, but proved by this ... -
Military intervention and international law : a critical analysis of the role of the international community in political uprisings in Libya and Syria.
(2014)The role of the international community in internal crises of sovereign states has been a subject of great debate in international relations studies. The legality and morality (from a United Nations Charter and customary ... -
Military interventions in African conflicts : the Southern African Development Community coalition of the Willing's military intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1998-2002.
(2012)This study focuses on the premise that national interests of governments are the primary motivating factors that inform decisions on military interventions. Military strategy remains a principal tool in the attainment, ... -
The misconceptions of state failure in contemporary African state: a case of Somalia.
Contemporary African states make up a substantial number of states that are regarded to be failing. Somalia is moreover considered as the epitome of a failed state; it has been regarded as a collapsed state since 1991. In ... -
The Msunduzi community participation policy : narrowing the participatory-democratic deficit.
(2009)Since the dawn of democracy in South Africa one of the challenges that has remained elusive to policy-makers has been the issue of how to redistribute the same democratic advances made at national level to more ordinary ... -
National unity or impunity : examining the impact off the Inclusive Government (IG) on the politics in Zimbabwe post 2005.
(2013)Since the colonial period, Zimbabwe has been a territory characterised by contestation. In the 2000s, Zimbabwe entered a period of severe socio-economic conditions; this period was also marred with several cases of human ... -
Natural resources, profit and peace : multinational corporations and conflict transformation in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
(2014)This study is anchored on the premise that contemporary international relations has been characterised by the expansion and growing importance of multinational corporations (MNCs) whose power ... -
The nature of public participation in the decision to implement shale gas mining : a case study of the Karoo Basin.
Since 2008 the African National Congress has been making preparations to legalise Shale Gas Mining in South Africa. Shale Gas Mining and its single process of unconventional oil/gas extraction called fracking, has sparked ... -
Nigeria and the politics of African decolonization in the United Nations 1960-1994 : historical analysis and implications for Nigeria's contemporary political ambitions.
(2014)This study is an investigation of the role of the Nigerian state in African decolonization politics in the United Nations (UN) during the period 1960 to 1994 and its implications for Nigeria’s contemporary political ...