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Conflicts between conservation and community livelihoods: lessons from KwaNibela and iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa
No full textZwelakhe Thulasizwe Mascot Maseko and Inocent Moyo explore the conflicts between conservation and community at KwaNibela and the iSimangaliso Wetlands Park in South Africa. The authors present how the park conservation strategies have a negative impact on the socioeconomic wellbeing of the people in KwaNibela due to the limited access to natural resources and lack of economic opportunities of this community.
Grassroots actors, border interactions and regional integration in the Southern African region and SADC
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Conflicts between conservation and community livelihoods: lessons from KwaNibela and iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa
No full textZwelakhe Thulasizwe Mascot Maseko and Inocent Moyo explore the conflicts between conservation and community at KwaNibela and the iSimangaliso Wetlands Park in South Africa. The authors present how the park conservation strategies have a negative impact on the socioeconomic wellbeing of the people in KwaNibela due to the limited access to natural resources and lack of economic opportunities of this community.
Resistance and Resilience by Informal Traders in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: Beyond Weapons of the Weak
No full textZimbabwe's unemployed youth: On waithustlinghood, struggle for survival and political activism
No full textThis paper examines the extent to which Zimbabwe's economic crisis compelled its citizens, particularly the youth, to engage in urban informality in order to make a living. In addition to this, the Zimbabwean youth in question have also turned to political activism, which has taken a complex trajectory in that it has assumed oppositional politics as well as politics of patronage. The former hope that a change in the political dispensation in Zimbabwe would lead to a change in the economic fortunes of the country. The latter feast on gains of political patronage for as long as it lasts. The central contribution of this paper therefore, is a nuanced illumination of the unemployment-urban informality-political activism nexus in an African context
On Decolonising Borders and Regional Integration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region
No full textThis paper uses insights gained from a qualitative study of informal cross border actors on selected Southern African Development Community (SADC) borders to argue for the decolonisation of these borders. It is asserted that, although SADC citizens enjoy a 90-day free visa in member states, this should not be simplistically taken to mean that there are “open borders” and free movement of persons in region. The recognition that a border “open” to formal actors may be closed to informal cross border actors based on issues of power and class is the foundation for the decolonisation of these borders, a process which should articulate to the regional integration project in the region. Such a decolonisation of borders should recognise in policy and/or border management regimes all cross-border actors, especially non-state actors, who are criminalized and rendered invisible through cross border discourses and policies. This point is worth emphasizing, because most people who cross African borders may not be the formal actors such as multinational corporations (MNCs) and/or their proxies who are favoured by cross border policies, but ordinary people such as informal cross border traders and border citizens, who need decolonised borders for them to enjoy freedom of movement, rather than being depoliticized and relegated to the subaltern who cannot speak, let alone move
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