This thesis examines the meanings of a social grant in South Africa using a decolonial
interpretive analysis. The main objective of the research is to decode possible meanings of the
social grant programme in South ...
Despite recognising perception as one of the most important factors in the study of climate change and variability, the link between pastoralists’ perceptions, livelihood vulnerability and adaptation strategies to climate ...
Climate change has negatively affected people throughout the world including decimating the socio-economic livelihoods of rural women who rely mainly on agriculture as their backbone. This qualitative study deploys the ...
Zambia is rich in natural, environmental, cultural and heritage resources. However,
full optimisation of these resources to the benefit of the local communities that host
them remains a challenge. A case in point is ...
This thesis is a critical engagement with the political identity and ideology of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) as a political formation in post-apartheid South Africa. Using the concept of ‘thin ideologies’ developed ...
Public participation has been at the heart of democratic South Africa with its ability to afford ordinary citizens a chance to map out their aspirations as far as development projects are concerned. Democratic principles ...
Climate change is increasingly becoming a global challenge and countries are feeling its impacts. Malawi is heavily affected by the impacts of climate change because her economy depends on agriculture which is extremely ...
This study deployed the theory of Afrocentricity as a revolutionary epistemic and methodological framework relevant to challenging the dominance of Eurocentrism in the conception of development as an ideology, process and ...
This study investigated the effects, capacity, and challenges of the food security pack
programme in Mpulungu district, Northern Province, Zambia. The primary sources of data
were farm household surveys, focus group ...
This research examines the perception that Christians in Germany have of poverty in
Africa and the extent to which this thinking corresponds to a holistic understanding of
poverty. The study is examined in the context ...
This thesis examined the non-military contributions of the Zimbabwe military to
development in the period from 2000 to 2020. At the core of the thesis is the novel concept of
‘Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW)’ ...
Globally, poaching has been identified as one of the most urgent threats facing rhino conservation. In the communal lands of north-western Namibia, the loss of the unique desert-adapted black rhino population would have ...
This thesis is entitled “The Role of the Local Competitiveness Facility in Igniting Local Economic Development in Rwanda”. Since 1990, the Local Economic Development (LED) approach was recommended as a self-reliance mechanism ...
The aim of this study was to determine the experiences of young people who had participated in the National Senior Certificate (NSC) Second Chance Programme previously offered by the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) ...
Democracy in South Africa came at a price. The apartheid era did not accommodate or
incorporate democratic and constitutional principles. The year 1996 saw a democratic
Constitution being adopted, having been certified ...
The evidence from both international and local literature reviews shows that, informal settlement upgrading is a global practice. The adoption (although at a minimal scale) of informal settlement upgrading programs and ...
Developmental local government is regarded as a remedy for the deep-rooted structural socio-economic challenges in South Africa. Many of these challenges are a legacy of apartheid and colonialism, so the ascent to power ...
Immunisation is a cost-effective public health intervention that contributes to the
attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). About 40% of children
under the age of five years die from vaccine-preventable ...
The major objective of this empirical research is to identify and explain the level of regional development and analyse the challenges of policy implementation with special focus on Tigray and Gambella Regions from 1995 ...