Browsing Masters Degrees (Political Science) by Title
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HIV/AIDS in prison : the public policy challenge for South Africa.
(2001)In South Africa, both the number of people entering prison, and the number of people infected with HIV, are steadily increasing. While reliable statistics are not available on the number of HIV+ prisoners, the characteristics ... -
The Horn of Africa and International Terrorism: the Predisposing Operational Environment of Somalia.
(2008)A fundamental driving factor to contemporary international terrorism is the role of religion. Since the 1980s, there have been not only a rise in the number of Islamist terrorist incidents but also of a more globalized and ... -
Human and non-human flows as a threat to the security of a democratic South Africa.
(1996)Abstract not available. -
The human security paradigm as a challenge for the African Union in promoting peace and security in Africa : a case study of the Sudan/Darfur conflict.
(2009)Using the Sudan/Darfur Conflict as a case study, this work seeks to address how and why the human security paradigm is a challenge for the African Union in its effort to establish long-term peace and stability in Africa. ... -
The impact of corruption in recruitment and procurement within local government and its impact on service delivery, using the KwaZulu-Natal department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs as a case study.
(2018)The dawn of democracy in 1994 may have signalled a new beginning for South Africa politically. Economically, however, it was not going to be the case unless the socio-economic inequalities that the apartheid regime had ... -
The impact of foreign aid in sub-saharan Africa : problems and prospects.
(2003)At face value, foreign aid is generally extended either to contain crises situations or promote development. In Africa, it appears that foreign aid has failed on both counts. One crucial question being asked by experts is, ... -
The impact of NATO interverntion in Kosovo and the changing rules of international humanitarian intervention.
(2012)No abstract available. -
The impact of public policy on competing interests : a case study of the taxi recapitalization programme.
(2009)This study is an investigation of the impact of public policy on competing interests in the case of the South African Taxi Recapitalization Programme. I explore this through a theoretical framework of implementation theory ... -
An implementation analysis of the language policy in basic education in selected schools in eThekwini Municipality.
(2014)The Department of Basic Education (DBE) in its 2013 budget speech announced that from 2014, a new policy will come into effect mandating the learning of an African language in all schools. The advent of the language policy ... -
The influence of Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha on Martin Luther King Jr.
(1991)No abstract available. -
The international political economy of fishery management : the case of pirate fishing off the Senegalese coast.
(2004)In 2002, at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) a plan emerged to restore the approximately 60% of global fish stocks, which have been fished to the brink of destruction, to biologically sustainable ... -
The internationalisation of an internal resistance ethnic minority conflicts and the politics of exclusion in the Niger Delta.
(2011)While a lot of ink has been spilled and numerous papers devoted to the variegated causes of the Niger Delta conflict, what has been conspicuously moot in the literature is their integration into a sufficient explanatory ... -
Intra-political infighting versus service delivery : assessing the impact of intra-political infighting on service delivery in uMsunduzi local municipality.
(2017)This study is concerned with assessing the impact of intra-political infighting on service delivery in Msunduzi municipality. Essential to this study are the challenges facing service delivery in the municipality, as well ... -
Investigating the impact of the taxis recapitalization programme on the transport industry : a case study of the Warwick Avenue taxi rank in the eThekweni Municipality.
(2015)The Taxi Recapitalization Programme1 was implementation in 1999 with the purpose of formalizing and regulating the SA taxi industry. The estimated time of the implementation was 2005. The South African taxi industry has a ... -
An investigation into the compliance of the University of KwaZulu-Natal with article 9 (accessibility) of the convention on rights of persons with disabilities : a case study of Howard College.
(2014)The last treaty from the United Nations at the moment is the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This convention is embodied on the social model of disability which is the model that was designed by ... -
An investigation into the efficiency and effectiveness of the Child Support Grant distribution : a case study of Welbedacht East area in Chatsworth.
(2013)This study investigates the effectiveness of the Child Support Grant (CSG) distribution using the community of Welbedacht East (WE) in Chatsworth as a case study and explores the CSG‟s impact on grant recipients. A detailed ... -
An investigation of recruitment strategies by terrorist and extremist organisations: a case study of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
(2018)Whilst terrorism is a difficult phenomenon to define due to lack of a universally accepted definition when gleaning over the literature, the art of terrorist recruitment itself is a rather complex phenomenon which requires ... -
John Rawls, from the metaphysical "A theory of justice" to the quasi- political "Political liberalism".
(2002)No abstract available.