• Are Africa`s elections underscored by Accountability and the social contract? 

  Maphunye, Kealeboga J. (2015-11-19)

  Do Africa’s elections enhance the social contract (relationship between ruler and subject)? Are they a pertinent yardstick for assessing public accountability and the social contract in Africa? In Africa, reference to ...
• Africa’s troubled transitions: Going nowhere very fast 

  BENYERA, Everisto (2023-11-21)
• Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation: A Comparative Analysis of Reports Produced for Local Governments in South Africa and South East Queensland, Australia 

  Meissner, Richard (Unisa Press, 2023-03-01)

  Climate change is dominating social, political and economic agendas. Because of the salience of the issue, scientists, researchers and consultants have developed a plethora of climate adaptation strategies. In this article ...
• Ideology matters in unravelling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 

  Meissner, Richard (The Conversation, 2022-05-23)
• Green policies are in place for South Africa’s major port city: but a key piece is missing 

  Meissner, Richard (The Conversation, 2022-04-21)
• Considering the “other” in wildlife crime mitigation: A South African strategy case study 

  Meissner, Richard; Gonçalves, Duarte P (Criminoligal Society of Africa (CRIMSA), 2022-01-17)

  Actors’ worldviews are critical when developing strategies; not every actor holds the same problem perception and solution. This is the case with wildlife trafficking. Not only does the state have an interest in safeguarding ...
• State capture’s impact on South African water sector reform 

  Meissner, Richard (Water Alternatives, 2021-04-15)

  South Africa's water laws and reform policies were once the envy of the world. Today, water infrastructure is deteriorating rapidly and millions more people have no access to a clean water supply than was the case a few ...
• Indigenous paradiplomacy and the Orokawe hydroelectric dam on the Kunene River 

  Meissner, Richard; Warner, Jeroen (Berghan Publishers, 2021-03-01)

  What role can non-diplomats play in managing and altering power relations in transboundary river basins? We answer this by investigating the lobbying eff orts of indigenous peoples to stop the construction of the planned ...
• Southern African transboundary waters: Non-state actors in the Inkomati- Usuthu water management area and the Okavango river basin 

  Meissner, Richard (Taylor & Francis, 2024-01-29)
• Cape Town's “Day Zero” water crisis: A manufactured media event? 

  Warner, Jeroen; Meissner, Richard (Elsevier, 2021-07-17)

  Day Zero was a purposefully designed narrative in political communication to change middle-class water consumption behaviour in a highly visible metropolitan context of persistent drought. As an “affective fact”, however it ...
• eThekwini’s green and ecological infrastructure policy landscape: research paradigms, theories and epistocrats 

  Meissner, Richard (Springer, 2022-01-23)

  The purpose of this paper is to indicate how dominant research paradigms, social theories, and an epistocracy influence the governance of green and ecological infrastructures within a South African local government ...
• Nexus disrupted: Lived realities and the water-energy-food nexus from an infrastructure perspective 

  Bruns, Antje; Meisch, Simon; Ahmed, Abubakari; Meissner, Richard; Romero-Lankao, Patricia (Elsevier, 2022-05-27)

  In recent years, the water-energy-food nexus gained traction in science and policy debates to address the relationships between water, energy and food sectors. Inspired by Political Ecology thinking, we advocate for ...
• Interrelated transformative process dynamics in the face of resource nexus challenges: an invitation towards cross case analysis 

  Lotz-Sisitka, Heila; Pahl-Wostl, Claudia; Meissner, Richard; Scholz, Geeske; Cockburn, Jessica; JALASI, EXPERENCIA; Stuart-Hill, Sabine; Palmer, Carolyn (Taylor & Francis, 2024-02-11)

  The need for more attention to the social and human dimensions in global change sciences and natural resources management requires in-depth understandings of transformative approaches and processes. More inclusive and ...
• Exploring social processes in transformation: the case of a collaborative water partnership in South Africa 

  Pringle, Catherine B.; Meissner, Richard; Biggs, Reinette; Pahl-Wostl, Claudia; Stuart-Hill, Sabine; Sitas, Nadia (Taylor and Francis, 2023-06-05)

  We explore the social processes supporting transformation towards collaborative water governance in the uMngeni catchment, South Africa. Using Holling’s adaptive cycle as a heuristic of phases (conservation, release, ...
• Political leadership as a quality: a critical study of John Garang in promoting peace and reconciliation in South Sudan 

  Modise, Sydney Shuping (2022-01)

  The purpose of this research is to look into John Garang's political leadership qualities and his role in promoting peace and reconciliation in South Sudan. The research argues that he used his vision and inspiration to ...
• Thabo Mbeki and Black public intellectuals: the politics of tolerance and criticism in post-1994 South Africa 

  Seemela, Ontlotile (2021-06)

  This study’s primary aim is to examine how black public intellectuals engaged with Thabo Mbeki publicly, in post-1994 public discourse. The concept of black public intellectuals used here relates to the capacity of critics ...
• Frantz Fanon’s conception of decolonization : violence, tabula rasa, and new humanism 

  Ndayisenga, Zenon (2021-09)

  his study uses Africana existential phenomenology as the theoretical foundation to comprehend Frantz Fanon’s conception of decolonisation. His conception of decolonisation is respectively and tri-dimensionally based on the ...
• Is the International Criminal Court Unfairly Targeting Africa? Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean States 

  Benyera, Everisto (Politeia, 2019-03-03)

  Africa, Latin America and Caribbean countries share many common features including a history of colonisation, the ongoing fight against human rights abuses and the resultant pursuance of sustainable peace and justice. One ...
• An assessment of the level of independence of electoral management bodies and their effects on democratisation in africa: the case of Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo 

  Gabie, Carmel Tshamalamala (2019-09)

  The basic problem in this study is to determine whether the electoral management body (EMB) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is sufficiently independent and whether it complies with most of the criteria of an ideal ...
• The paradox of political legitimacy?: Zimbabwe’s global political agreement of 15 September 2008 and the subsequent government of national unity 

  Matemba, Doreen (2017-07)

  It is increasingly becoming apparent that elections, as component parts of democratic processes, do not always guarantee a smooth transfer of power and stable democratic cultures in many contemporary polities. Whenever ...

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