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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Tripartite Alliance: a marriage of (in)convenience?
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2012-06)
Since its formation in 1985, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) had played a
significant role in the political landscape of South Africa. From the start, COSATU appeared to be in
support of the then ...
Public participation in town-planning applications: Tlokwe Local Municipality as a case study
(Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, 2013)
English: Although public participation is deemed important in South Africa, negative perceptions of its legitimacy are widely acknowledged. Inclusive town-planning processes, as instruments to address inequality, have a ...
South Africa’s constitutional development: a matter of Machiavelli’s Prince and Hobbes’ Leviathan rather than Montesquieu’s Spirit of the laws?
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2010-09)
The democratisation and constitutional development of South Africa from a dominant parliament to a new constitutional order with a supreme constitution, was a significant development in the country’s constitutional ...
Changing local politics in South Africa: the power relationship between local government and the people
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2013)
The South African Freedom Charter (1955) states that “The people shall govern” and the African
National Congress (ANC) (1991) stated in “Advance to national democracy” that “the immediate
issue on the agenda is the ...
The long walk to economic freedom after apartheid, and the road ahead
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2017)
As South Africa moves further away from the political transition of 1994, the economic history of the post-apartheid era is coming up for debate. The optimism generated by the ANC’s early successes must now, after more ...
The United States of America's post-1990 foreign policy towards West Africa: the case study of Ghana
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2017)
This explorative study uses Ghana as a test case to critique the post-Cold War foreign policy of the United States of America (hereafter referred to as the US) towards West Africa. It does this by contemporaneously locating ...
The inoperative community of law students: rethinking the foundations of legal culture
(University of the Free State, 2014)
In this article I contemplate the possibility of a relationship between democracy and the
democracy to come experienced from within an inoperative community of law students.
The reason for this contemplation is to ascertain ...
Silence after violence and the imperative to ‘speak out’
(University of the Free State, 2015)
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Fiscal crisis, social protest and state violence in Swaziland, 2009-2012
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2016)
By 2010, Swazi society was experiencing severe economic hardship since the country was experiencing the worse fiscal crisis in its history. These economic hardships were partly an aftermath of the 2008 world financial ...
Continuity and change: an evaluation of the democracy-foreign policy nexus in post-apartheid South Africa
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2010)
If foreign policy is viewed as an “intermestic” arena where the external meets the internal, then it becomes possible to see how internal domestic factors drive foreign policy making. In this context the democracy-foreign ...