Browsing Journals by Subject "Politics"
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Citizenship education for Lesotho’s context: towards a stable democracy
(AOSIS, 2019)This article represents a contextual analysis that seeks a lasting solution to Lesotho’s current democratic instability, which has typified its political landscape since independence. This article analyses the literature ... -
Fashion and family business entrepreneurs: Jaff and company, 1931 - 1980.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2009)• Opsomming: Sam Jaff was deel van ʼn merkwaardige geslag entrepreneurs wat die klerebedryf in Suid-Afrika gevestig het. In 1931 vestig hy die vroueklerefabriek, Jaff and Company, in Johannesburg, wat vinnig in ‘n ... -
The politicisation of health in Zimbabwe: the case of the cholera epidemic, August 2008-March 2009
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)In this article the case of the August 2008 to March 2009 cholera epidemic is used to examine the intersections between health and politics in Zimbabwe. The focus is on the different narratives deployed by the mainstream ... -
Politics and historical blockbuster exhibitions looking at the Staufer exhibition in Stuttgart in 1977.
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2009)The Staufer exhibition in Stuttgart in 1977 was a historical blockbuster exhibition, which established a type of state exhibitions in public's consciousness and in historical culture. It contributed to the rising interest ... -
The politics of performative ontology in information systems
(2013)This article argues that information systems (ISs) and information system ontologies (ISOs) are powerful devices that perform reality in profound ways. The development and use of ISOs are forms of ontological politics ... -
The politics of service delivery in South Africa: the local government sphere in context
(AOSIS, 2016)The post-1994 democratic developmental South African state opted for a strong local government system which has been constitutionalised, in terms of Chapter 7 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 108 of ... -
The strong state and embedded dissonance: History education and populist politics in Hungary
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)The hopefulness that accompanied the establishment of the Republic of Hungary in 1989 was soon tempered by divided politics that seemed unable to address systemic economic woes facing the nation. Though the 1956 Revolution ...