Rights and realities: Limits to women's rights and citizenship after 10 years of democracy in South Africa

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South Africa's seemingly progressive legislations put in place by the South African state to support the promise of the 1996 South African Constitution, have given women citizens the courage and opportunities to challenge legislation in the courts and to improve their access to justice. Workshops conducted with African American women show that it is still difficult for many women to exercise or even understand their newly acquired rights as laid down by the constitution and there is a need to restructure the existing women sensitive laws so as to bring meaningful change to ordinary women's lives.

Government domestic functions, Social policy, Civil rights, African American women, Domestic policy

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Africa and the poverty of International Relations

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The institutionalized division of labor, which structured the emergence of academic principles in the 20th century, led to an absence of poverty from the concerns of International Relations (IR), and an absence of theorizing the international from the discipline of Development Studies (DS). Critical approaches in IR and DS are disabled by a commitment to explanation, hence there is a need to develop a causal explanation of the global political economy of poverty and oppression.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Economic aspects, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Poverty, South African foreign relations

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Travel and transgression: Dan Jacobson's Southern African Journey

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Dan Jacobson's 'Electronic Elephant: A South African Journey' explores the dualities that exist in the landscape of history and the landscape of fantasy. By problematising the boundary between the two landscapes, Jacobson's account of his journey along the 'missionary road' creates productive ambiguities.

Description and travel, Criticism and interpretation, Travel, Southern Africa, Electronic Elephant: A South African Journey (Book), Jacobson, Dan

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