This introductory article to this special edition starts with the premise that mega international events are inherently political in nature. South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup is not exception in this regard. ...

A more holistic, in-depth, and incisive study of African political leadership has become an important part of scholarship in the study of political leadership. This realization generates a number of critically important ...

Apartheid South Africa‟s nuclear related activities in Southern Africa have a long history. Apart from, inter alia, the development and existence of at least six nuclear devices (which was denied for decades), South Africa ...

A founder member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), South Africa embarked on an ambitious nuclear weapons programme contrary to the IAEA Statute. Against the background of the Cold War, South Africa’s ...

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 ...

Africa is among the most likely vulnerable regions of the world that are to be negatively impacted by climate change. Th e continent’s vulnerability to climate change arises from a combination of many factors, including ...

The relationship between Nigeria and South Africa is couched in the complex interdependence paradigm, in which the two states continue to depend on one another. The umbilical cord that joins the two straddles the economic, ...

The contribution of mass graves to healing and closure has not been fully investigated, especially regarding what kind of contribution mass graves can make to healing and closure, truth finding and apportioning accountability ...

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 ...

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, ...