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Papers by Fayth Ruffin

Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 2017

Recurring governance crisis has been associated with the Nigerian state since independence despit... more Recurring governance crisis has been associated with the Nigerian state since independence despite its oil wealth. Successive regimes have been tinkering with the nation's resources in a manner that reduces the fortunes of the ordinary citizens in terms of welfare and good living. Personalised leadership style of the political elites dominates the political space with little regard for the welfare of the citizens. This article compared the effectiveness of the political arrangements in the pre-and post-colonial Nigeria. It discovered that the principles that guided the operations of politics in the pre-colonial era were more result-oriented. Leaders were more focused on the need for the promotion of the public good. Post-colonial leaders promoted personalisation of politics. Rather than harnessing extant constitutional powers to police the execution of public policies, public office holders, most especially the lawmakers, exploited their requisite oversight powers to negotiate for pecks and other pecuniary gains for personal benefits. The article concluded that the Nigerian state requires a purpose driven institutions of governance in a form of reinvention and rebranding of the principles associated with the pre-colonial political process and culture to curb the excessive use of executive power to promote impunity.

International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2021

Qualitative research sample size determination has always been a contentious and confusing issue.... more Qualitative research sample size determination has always been a contentious and confusing issue. Studies are often vague when explaining the processes and justifications that have been used to det...

Journal of Social Sciences, 2017

This paper hopes to contribute to insights into political accountability within the education sec... more This paper hopes to contribute to insights into political accountability within the education sector. Drawing on an extensive documentary review of education policies, as well as on interviews with 100 high school purposively selected educators (25 from independent schools, 48 from former Model C schools and 27 from township schools) and six school Principals, all from uMgungundlovu District in KwaZulu-Natal, this paper examines how the post-apartheid government of South Africa has exercised, and continues to exercise its political accountability for the delivery of basic education. Although the African National Congress government has prioritised education in its election manifestos and national budgets, an analysis of the respondents' perceptions of the government's responsiveness to the educational needs of South Africans shows that there is general dissatisfaction among the educators who are at the coalface of delivery. This is due to perceived failure of the government to implement effectively educational policies formulated in the post-colonial South Africa.

After the 2015 attack on foreign nationals in South Africa, the 2017 outbreak of xenophobic viole... more After the 2015 attack on foreign nationals in South Africa, the 2017 outbreak of xenophobic violence attracted wide condemnation across the globe. The image of the South Africa government was put in the global limelight as African migrants and foreigners were attacked in their various locations in the country. A sizeable number of South Africans, especially in the academic community, rose against the attack of African migrants. Anti-xenophobic protests were organized in South African cities with government officials in attendance in a bid to dissociate the state from the attacks. Despite this, South Africa’s foreign relations with some African countries was strained as anti-South African sentiments dominated discourse in the international media and fora. This chapter engages with the spate of xenophobic attacks and contends with the reasons adduced to have sparked the violence. While people have attributed the attacks to series of developments, it is discovered that prejudices again...

Journal of Human Ecology, 2016

The paper uses secondary sources to discuss the importance of African indigenous languages in com... more The paper uses secondary sources to discuss the importance of African indigenous languages in communicating environmental issues. It argues that the desired change in environmental conservation can only be achieved if the information appeals to the cultural values of the recipients. In the context of Africa, African indigenous languages are the best vehicles of communicating environmental information as they are culturally specific. It is therefore recommended that African indigenous knowledge stakeholders including researchers and academics apply them to correct dominant Eurocentric values and misinterpresentation of Africa’s environmental realities. This is important if they are to mobilize African communities for sustainable environmental conservation. They also need to cooperate and coordinate their activities to avoid duplication of efforts in a competitive global knowledge environment.

Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, 2018

The purpose of this chapter is three-fold. First, African indigenous modes of land governance are... more The purpose of this chapter is three-fold. First, African indigenous modes of land governance are considered in selected pre-colonial polities across eastern, western and southern regions. Opposing scholarly arguments are examined in terms of ontological and epistemological standpoints that turn on distinct historicized worldviews toward land governance and ownership. Second, in light of the above, comparative contemporary land governance in environments of post-colonial legal pluralism are explored in Kenya, Ghana and South Africa. In these democratized nation-states, not unlike others on the continent, architecture of traditional leadership and indigenous law were retained along with informal dispute resolution mechanisms. The chapter highlights how such legal pluralism relates to power and social relations pertinent to land access. Third, in both African indigenous knowledge systems (AIKS) and present day epistemological approaches to land governance, implications for gender are highlighted. Gender in AIKS is distinguished from gender in the westernized rule of law orthodoxy that governs land reform and restitution with an aim toward drawing lessons from AIKS for incorporation in contemporary land governance. Evidence from which arguments arise and conclusions made in this chapter is induced from previous case studies and archival records. Seemingly irreconcilable differences that appear to impede land governance given concurrent legal systems are identified and explained. The chapter concludes with recommendations as to how such legal tensions influencing land governance could be approached to benefit all, irrespective of gender, in the subject nation-states and others similarly situated.

Journal of Human Ecology, 2016

The displaced Africans from the transatlantic triangular slave trade took the essence of African ... more The displaced Africans from the transatlantic triangular slave trade took the essence of African indigenous forces of nature including environmental ethics with them and those forces of nature sustained in them. These forces are everywhere in rivers, oceans, lakes, thunder, lightning and graveyards. It is argued that the Òrisa are autonomous forces of nature and may express themselves through divination and mediumship possession. The paper explores the role of several African women displaced in Brazil and Cuba who were selected by the Òrisa to safeguard and expand this Yoruba system. It highlights implications for gender in African indigenous knowledge systems. Finally, the paper concludes with recommendations for environmental ethics and policies that honour the forces of nature and that are central to peace, wellbeing and sustainable development.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES, 2016

Social studies is seen as a more digestible integrated or interdisciplinary subject by the mode a... more Social studies is seen as a more digestible integrated or interdisciplinary subject by the mode at which its contents are drawn from certain numbers of subject disciplines. This study seeks to determine the perceptions of teachers about the concept of integration in social studies curriculum. This descriptive study was carried out with 80 social studies teachers at the junior secondary schools level in Ekiti state, Nigeria. An instrument was used to establish the extent at which the concept of integration is perceived by social studies teachers. The results of the study showed that majority of the social studies teachers are not knowledgeable about the concept of integration, therefore, making its application in the teaching of social studies difficult. The researchers concluded that teachers should be resourceful and innovative in order to make learning more relevant for the benefit of the child being taught in the classroom and the nation as a whole.

International Journal of Public Administration, 2016

ABSTRACT The adoption of the principles of New Public Management by many governments across the w... more ABSTRACT The adoption of the principles of New Public Management by many governments across the world was invariably accompanied by the implementation of performance evaluation. It is generally accepted that performance evaluation optimizes the performance of workers. As part of a broader investigation which employed a mixed methods approach, the study used data from six interviews with high school principals and 100 survey questionnaires with purposively selected high school teachers in uMgungundlovu District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In the analysis of this data, the paper demonstrates that beyond the obvious benefits of performance evaluation such as improvement in performance, there are also unintended consequences such as a narrow focus on measured output, teacher burnout, and falsification of information in order to maximize credit or to avoid punishment. This study illustrates the understandings of high school educators in uMgungundlovu District of the effects of performance evaluation. The findings have important implications for public administration and scholars alike.

In this article, the discourse around humanitarian intervention involving international human rig... more In this article, the discourse around humanitarian intervention involving international human rights law, morality, and politics, is considered, and a right to intervention given the rigours of sovereignty is questioned. Further issues interrogated are: if intervention takes place, should it be authorised by the United Nations or should unilateral intervention by regional organisations or a single country be permissible in the face of mass killings, genocide and similar events; and what factors drive the act or omission of unilateral intervention for humanitarian purposes? The debate around these inquiries is introduced by considering the intermeshing of world politics and international law in a substantially globalising world - with particular reference to state sovereignty and the role of the United Nations. Thereafter, the evolution of humanitarian intervention and its contemporary development is examined - in the specific context of the 2011 humanitarian intervention in Libya. This is done by examining the justifications for such intervention under international law. The legality of the intervention is explored and it is argued that the Libyan experience demonstrates that humanitarian intervention is more about morality and politics than international law. Although the lessons learned from the Libyan conflict are perhaps still unclear, it is concluded that a reformed UN Security Council may well be the global authority with auspices above powerful nation-state interests, and with the wherewithal to give meaning to international law over morality and politics in humanitarian interventions.

Incorporating Business Models and Strategies into Social Entrepreneurship

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2018

This article situates the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Road Entry Point Manageme... more This article situates the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Road Entry Point Management Systems (REPMS) within international supply chain logistics. It exposes the influence of REPMS on the link between movement of goods and optimum supply chain performance. A novel transdisciplinary theoretical framework drawn from supply chain and international relations theories is applied to survey data from respondents at border points that link Zimbabwe to Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia. The 345 respondents are international truck drivers and small and medium entrepreneurs. The authors argue that simultaneity of transformation of two-stop border posts to one-stop border posts is required in a logistical corridor. Findings show that failure to do so disrupts supply chain logistics, impedes international trade and hinders regional integration. Conclusions reveal that, inter alia, SADC REPMS are out of sync with non-state actors and international trade facilitation. Recommendations include cultivation of public-private partnerships for REPMS transformation.

African Journal of Disability, 2020

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2018

The supply of goods follows a chain with constituent parts, and the system's performance hing... more The supply of goods follows a chain with constituent parts, and the system's performance hinges on each constituent part's performance. In international supply chain and trade facilitation, one critical component is shipping of goods across borders. Border delays are inimical to supply chain efficiency. Modernising information communication technology is a widely hailed solution to easing this problem. In this paper, the importance of marrying hard and soft infrastructure for optimum efficiency is buttressed. This is based on empirical evidence from surveys involving 345 participants on four road entry points to Zimbabwe's territorial borders. Participants are truck drivers and small and medium entrepreneurs. Findings trace the perpetuation of delays, to failure to tie together hard and soft infrastructure components of entry point management systems. This consequently disturbs the supply chain of goods in the Southern African development community. Recommendations are made on how road entry point management systems can be improved, in order to enhance regional integration.

Human Rights Documents online

As the international community adjust to implement UN Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) ado... more As the international community adjust to implement UN Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) adopted by the United Nations on 31 October 2000 innovative women peace-builders make inroads across the globe. Negotiating peace and rebuilding societies is nothing new for women--it is a reaffirmation of it not its conception as embodied in the resolution. We have yet to meet a human being not born of a woman or a mother who did not undergo the most personal of physical trauma in negotiating peace while delivering a new life. Resolution 1325 reaffirms and assures that women assume their decision-making role in conflict prevention and resolution as well as peace-building. One of the main themes of the 48th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSD) held in New York in March 2004 was womens equal participation in global conflict prevention management and resolution and post-conflict peace-building. While the shift in human consciousness to fully adopt and incorporate the gender mainstreaming contemplated by resolution 1325 is more easily achieved by some women-driven peace initiatives are occurring. Governmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are also making conscious efforts to implement the resolution. (excerpt)

... Title: Hybrid governance and network management in the globalizing metropolis: a comparative ... more ... Title: Hybrid governance and network management in the globalizing metropolis: a comparative case study examining the impact of law on the business improvement district model in Cape Town and Newark. ... The city is a long-time contested terrain. ...

Alternation: Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa, Dec 1, 2019

This conceptual paper navigates a way to 'indigenise' law school curriculum to disrupt the centra... more This conceptual paper navigates a way to 'indigenise' law school curriculum to disrupt the centralist legal mind and advance access to justice for all. Literature insufficiently shows how to design and implement curriculum and assessment practice in the decolonisation project. Innovatively drawing upon South African legal pluralism to highlight curriculum development beyond borders, the paper distinguishes decolonisation, indigenisation and Africanisation and shows their interactivity through the gaze of African ontoepistemologies, axiologies and cosmologies. Through discourse analysis, interpretivism and experientialism grounding, I argue that failure to Africanise legal education perpetuates a justice deficit in breach of the South African Constitution. The paper concludes that hegemonic privileging of rule of law orthodoxy diminishes usefulness of both non-state community-based justice systems and customary justice systems despite widespread use of the latter two systems. Recommendations include use of 'cultural interface' and 'critical standpoints' (Nakata 2007: 7; Carey & Prince 2010: 207) to generate inclusive strategic law school curriculum development. Assessment practice should involve socio-legal research through indigenous methodologies with findings used to advance epistemic freedom in a transdisciplinary way to spur further curriculum transformation. This can facilitate professional development opportunities for judges and lawyers to allow living African law to develop within its socio-cultural environment and the Bill of Rights.

African Journal of Disability, 2020

Background: Cross-border entrepreneurship is one source of livelihood that is transforming people... more Background: Cross-border entrepreneurship is one source of livelihood that is transforming people’s lives, especially those with limited resources and educational qualifications and those in need of supplementary earnings to complement meagre formal earnings. However, despite strides made to make this avenue worthwhile, this Zimbabwean study shows that hidden hindrances still persist from procedural and structural barriers from road entry point management systems. To people with disabilities (PWDs), the impact of these hidden barriers is severe to the extent of obstructing their optimum progression into cross-border entrepreneurship.

Objectives: This article sought to interrogate some veiled challenges in border management systems affecting PWDs’ quest to venture into cross-border entrepreneurship. This angle has, to this end, been timidly addressed as most organisations and legislation have concentrated on making things work for the majority of the populace.

Method: Qualitative phenomenological method in which researchers’ lived experiences, review of literature, ideas and opinions is complemented by secondary survey data from a road entry point management system study in the Zimbabwean setting.

Results: Cross-border entrepreneurship has potential to transform people’s lives: 1) road and border management systems’ procedural and structural complications present hidden challenges impeding PWDs’ entry and optimum participation in cross border entrepreneurship, 2) people with disabilities are not automatically dependents; in fact, most have dependents looking up to the, 30 social construction of disability persists and must be curbed and 4) there is a need to institute a ‘stakeholders triad approach’.

Conclusion: The existing road entry points’ management systems are not informed by considerations from PWDs, hence the existence of hidden challenges. Cross-border entrepreneurship can open significant livelihood avenues to PWDs. A stakeholders ‘triad-approach’, proposed herein, can solve some of the policy discrepancies as it recommends utilising inputs from PWDs, research and policy-makers.

Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 2017

Recurring governance crisis has been associated with the Nigerian state since independence despit... more Recurring governance crisis has been associated with the Nigerian state since independence despite its oil wealth. Successive regimes have been tinkering with the nation's resources in a manner that reduces the fortunes of the ordinary citizens in terms of welfare and good living. Personalised leadership style of the political elites dominates the political space with little regard for the welfare of the citizens. This article compared the effectiveness of the political arrangements in the pre-and post-colonial Nigeria. It discovered that the principles that guided the operations of politics in the pre-colonial era were more result-oriented. Leaders were more focused on the need for the promotion of the public good. Post-colonial leaders promoted personalisation of politics. Rather than harnessing extant constitutional powers to police the execution of public policies, public office holders, most especially the lawmakers, exploited their requisite oversight powers to negotiate for pecks and other pecuniary gains for personal benefits. The article concluded that the Nigerian state requires a purpose driven institutions of governance in a form of reinvention and rebranding of the principles associated with the pre-colonial political process and culture to curb the excessive use of executive power to promote impunity.

International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2021

Qualitative research sample size determination has always been a contentious and confusing issue.... more Qualitative research sample size determination has always been a contentious and confusing issue. Studies are often vague when explaining the processes and justifications that have been used to det...

Journal of Social Sciences, 2017

This paper hopes to contribute to insights into political accountability within the education sec... more This paper hopes to contribute to insights into political accountability within the education sector. Drawing on an extensive documentary review of education policies, as well as on interviews with 100 high school purposively selected educators (25 from independent schools, 48 from former Model C schools and 27 from township schools) and six school Principals, all from uMgungundlovu District in KwaZulu-Natal, this paper examines how the post-apartheid government of South Africa has exercised, and continues to exercise its political accountability for the delivery of basic education. Although the African National Congress government has prioritised education in its election manifestos and national budgets, an analysis of the respondents' perceptions of the government's responsiveness to the educational needs of South Africans shows that there is general dissatisfaction among the educators who are at the coalface of delivery. This is due to perceived failure of the government to implement effectively educational policies formulated in the post-colonial South Africa.

After the 2015 attack on foreign nationals in South Africa, the 2017 outbreak of xenophobic viole... more After the 2015 attack on foreign nationals in South Africa, the 2017 outbreak of xenophobic violence attracted wide condemnation across the globe. The image of the South Africa government was put in the global limelight as African migrants and foreigners were attacked in their various locations in the country. A sizeable number of South Africans, especially in the academic community, rose against the attack of African migrants. Anti-xenophobic protests were organized in South African cities with government officials in attendance in a bid to dissociate the state from the attacks. Despite this, South Africa’s foreign relations with some African countries was strained as anti-South African sentiments dominated discourse in the international media and fora. This chapter engages with the spate of xenophobic attacks and contends with the reasons adduced to have sparked the violence. While people have attributed the attacks to series of developments, it is discovered that prejudices again...

Journal of Human Ecology, 2016

The paper uses secondary sources to discuss the importance of African indigenous languages in com... more The paper uses secondary sources to discuss the importance of African indigenous languages in communicating environmental issues. It argues that the desired change in environmental conservation can only be achieved if the information appeals to the cultural values of the recipients. In the context of Africa, African indigenous languages are the best vehicles of communicating environmental information as they are culturally specific. It is therefore recommended that African indigenous knowledge stakeholders including researchers and academics apply them to correct dominant Eurocentric values and misinterpresentation of Africa’s environmental realities. This is important if they are to mobilize African communities for sustainable environmental conservation. They also need to cooperate and coordinate their activities to avoid duplication of efforts in a competitive global knowledge environment.

Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, 2018

The purpose of this chapter is three-fold. First, African indigenous modes of land governance are... more The purpose of this chapter is three-fold. First, African indigenous modes of land governance are considered in selected pre-colonial polities across eastern, western and southern regions. Opposing scholarly arguments are examined in terms of ontological and epistemological standpoints that turn on distinct historicized worldviews toward land governance and ownership. Second, in light of the above, comparative contemporary land governance in environments of post-colonial legal pluralism are explored in Kenya, Ghana and South Africa. In these democratized nation-states, not unlike others on the continent, architecture of traditional leadership and indigenous law were retained along with informal dispute resolution mechanisms. The chapter highlights how such legal pluralism relates to power and social relations pertinent to land access. Third, in both African indigenous knowledge systems (AIKS) and present day epistemological approaches to land governance, implications for gender are highlighted. Gender in AIKS is distinguished from gender in the westernized rule of law orthodoxy that governs land reform and restitution with an aim toward drawing lessons from AIKS for incorporation in contemporary land governance. Evidence from which arguments arise and conclusions made in this chapter is induced from previous case studies and archival records. Seemingly irreconcilable differences that appear to impede land governance given concurrent legal systems are identified and explained. The chapter concludes with recommendations as to how such legal tensions influencing land governance could be approached to benefit all, irrespective of gender, in the subject nation-states and others similarly situated.

Journal of Human Ecology, 2016

The displaced Africans from the transatlantic triangular slave trade took the essence of African ... more The displaced Africans from the transatlantic triangular slave trade took the essence of African indigenous forces of nature including environmental ethics with them and those forces of nature sustained in them. These forces are everywhere in rivers, oceans, lakes, thunder, lightning and graveyards. It is argued that the Òrisa are autonomous forces of nature and may express themselves through divination and mediumship possession. The paper explores the role of several African women displaced in Brazil and Cuba who were selected by the Òrisa to safeguard and expand this Yoruba system. It highlights implications for gender in African indigenous knowledge systems. Finally, the paper concludes with recommendations for environmental ethics and policies that honour the forces of nature and that are central to peace, wellbeing and sustainable development.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES, 2016

Social studies is seen as a more digestible integrated or interdisciplinary subject by the mode a... more Social studies is seen as a more digestible integrated or interdisciplinary subject by the mode at which its contents are drawn from certain numbers of subject disciplines. This study seeks to determine the perceptions of teachers about the concept of integration in social studies curriculum. This descriptive study was carried out with 80 social studies teachers at the junior secondary schools level in Ekiti state, Nigeria. An instrument was used to establish the extent at which the concept of integration is perceived by social studies teachers. The results of the study showed that majority of the social studies teachers are not knowledgeable about the concept of integration, therefore, making its application in the teaching of social studies difficult. The researchers concluded that teachers should be resourceful and innovative in order to make learning more relevant for the benefit of the child being taught in the classroom and the nation as a whole.

International Journal of Public Administration, 2016

ABSTRACT The adoption of the principles of New Public Management by many governments across the w... more ABSTRACT The adoption of the principles of New Public Management by many governments across the world was invariably accompanied by the implementation of performance evaluation. It is generally accepted that performance evaluation optimizes the performance of workers. As part of a broader investigation which employed a mixed methods approach, the study used data from six interviews with high school principals and 100 survey questionnaires with purposively selected high school teachers in uMgungundlovu District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In the analysis of this data, the paper demonstrates that beyond the obvious benefits of performance evaluation such as improvement in performance, there are also unintended consequences such as a narrow focus on measured output, teacher burnout, and falsification of information in order to maximize credit or to avoid punishment. This study illustrates the understandings of high school educators in uMgungundlovu District of the effects of performance evaluation. The findings have important implications for public administration and scholars alike.

In this article, the discourse around humanitarian intervention involving international human rig... more In this article, the discourse around humanitarian intervention involving international human rights law, morality, and politics, is considered, and a right to intervention given the rigours of sovereignty is questioned. Further issues interrogated are: if intervention takes place, should it be authorised by the United Nations or should unilateral intervention by regional organisations or a single country be permissible in the face of mass killings, genocide and similar events; and what factors drive the act or omission of unilateral intervention for humanitarian purposes? The debate around these inquiries is introduced by considering the intermeshing of world politics and international law in a substantially globalising world - with particular reference to state sovereignty and the role of the United Nations. Thereafter, the evolution of humanitarian intervention and its contemporary development is examined - in the specific context of the 2011 humanitarian intervention in Libya. This is done by examining the justifications for such intervention under international law. The legality of the intervention is explored and it is argued that the Libyan experience demonstrates that humanitarian intervention is more about morality and politics than international law. Although the lessons learned from the Libyan conflict are perhaps still unclear, it is concluded that a reformed UN Security Council may well be the global authority with auspices above powerful nation-state interests, and with the wherewithal to give meaning to international law over morality and politics in humanitarian interventions.

Incorporating Business Models and Strategies into Social Entrepreneurship

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2018

This article situates the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Road Entry Point Manageme... more This article situates the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Road Entry Point Management Systems (REPMS) within international supply chain logistics. It exposes the influence of REPMS on the link between movement of goods and optimum supply chain performance. A novel transdisciplinary theoretical framework drawn from supply chain and international relations theories is applied to survey data from respondents at border points that link Zimbabwe to Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia. The 345 respondents are international truck drivers and small and medium entrepreneurs. The authors argue that simultaneity of transformation of two-stop border posts to one-stop border posts is required in a logistical corridor. Findings show that failure to do so disrupts supply chain logistics, impedes international trade and hinders regional integration. Conclusions reveal that, inter alia, SADC REPMS are out of sync with non-state actors and international trade facilitation. Recommendations include cultivation of public-private partnerships for REPMS transformation.

African Journal of Disability, 2020

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2018

The supply of goods follows a chain with constituent parts, and the system's performance hing... more The supply of goods follows a chain with constituent parts, and the system's performance hinges on each constituent part's performance. In international supply chain and trade facilitation, one critical component is shipping of goods across borders. Border delays are inimical to supply chain efficiency. Modernising information communication technology is a widely hailed solution to easing this problem. In this paper, the importance of marrying hard and soft infrastructure for optimum efficiency is buttressed. This is based on empirical evidence from surveys involving 345 participants on four road entry points to Zimbabwe's territorial borders. Participants are truck drivers and small and medium entrepreneurs. Findings trace the perpetuation of delays, to failure to tie together hard and soft infrastructure components of entry point management systems. This consequently disturbs the supply chain of goods in the Southern African development community. Recommendations are made on how road entry point management systems can be improved, in order to enhance regional integration.

Human Rights Documents online

As the international community adjust to implement UN Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) ado... more As the international community adjust to implement UN Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) adopted by the United Nations on 31 October 2000 innovative women peace-builders make inroads across the globe. Negotiating peace and rebuilding societies is nothing new for women--it is a reaffirmation of it not its conception as embodied in the resolution. We have yet to meet a human being not born of a woman or a mother who did not undergo the most personal of physical trauma in negotiating peace while delivering a new life. Resolution 1325 reaffirms and assures that women assume their decision-making role in conflict prevention and resolution as well as peace-building. One of the main themes of the 48th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSD) held in New York in March 2004 was womens equal participation in global conflict prevention management and resolution and post-conflict peace-building. While the shift in human consciousness to fully adopt and incorporate the gender mainstreaming contemplated by resolution 1325 is more easily achieved by some women-driven peace initiatives are occurring. Governmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are also making conscious efforts to implement the resolution. (excerpt)

... Title: Hybrid governance and network management in the globalizing metropolis: a comparative ... more ... Title: Hybrid governance and network management in the globalizing metropolis: a comparative case study examining the impact of law on the business improvement district model in Cape Town and Newark. ... The city is a long-time contested terrain. ...

Alternation: Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa, Dec 1, 2019

This conceptual paper navigates a way to 'indigenise' law school curriculum to disrupt the centra... more This conceptual paper navigates a way to 'indigenise' law school curriculum to disrupt the centralist legal mind and advance access to justice for all. Literature insufficiently shows how to design and implement curriculum and assessment practice in the decolonisation project. Innovatively drawing upon South African legal pluralism to highlight curriculum development beyond borders, the paper distinguishes decolonisation, indigenisation and Africanisation and shows their interactivity through the gaze of African ontoepistemologies, axiologies and cosmologies. Through discourse analysis, interpretivism and experientialism grounding, I argue that failure to Africanise legal education perpetuates a justice deficit in breach of the South African Constitution. The paper concludes that hegemonic privileging of rule of law orthodoxy diminishes usefulness of both non-state community-based justice systems and customary justice systems despite widespread use of the latter two systems. Recommendations include use of 'cultural interface' and 'critical standpoints' (Nakata 2007: 7; Carey & Prince 2010: 207) to generate inclusive strategic law school curriculum development. Assessment practice should involve socio-legal research through indigenous methodologies with findings used to advance epistemic freedom in a transdisciplinary way to spur further curriculum transformation. This can facilitate professional development opportunities for judges and lawyers to allow living African law to develop within its socio-cultural environment and the Bill of Rights.

African Journal of Disability, 2020

Background: Cross-border entrepreneurship is one source of livelihood that is transforming people... more Background: Cross-border entrepreneurship is one source of livelihood that is transforming people’s lives, especially those with limited resources and educational qualifications and those in need of supplementary earnings to complement meagre formal earnings. However, despite strides made to make this avenue worthwhile, this Zimbabwean study shows that hidden hindrances still persist from procedural and structural barriers from road entry point management systems. To people with disabilities (PWDs), the impact of these hidden barriers is severe to the extent of obstructing their optimum progression into cross-border entrepreneurship.

Objectives: This article sought to interrogate some veiled challenges in border management systems affecting PWDs’ quest to venture into cross-border entrepreneurship. This angle has, to this end, been timidly addressed as most organisations and legislation have concentrated on making things work for the majority of the populace.

Method: Qualitative phenomenological method in which researchers’ lived experiences, review of literature, ideas and opinions is complemented by secondary survey data from a road entry point management system study in the Zimbabwean setting.

Results: Cross-border entrepreneurship has potential to transform people’s lives: 1) road and border management systems’ procedural and structural complications present hidden challenges impeding PWDs’ entry and optimum participation in cross border entrepreneurship, 2) people with disabilities are not automatically dependents; in fact, most have dependents looking up to the, 30 social construction of disability persists and must be curbed and 4) there is a need to institute a ‘stakeholders triad approach’.

Conclusion: The existing road entry points’ management systems are not informed by considerations from PWDs, hence the existence of hidden challenges. Cross-border entrepreneurship can open significant livelihood avenues to PWDs. A stakeholders ‘triad-approach’, proposed herein, can solve some of the policy discrepancies as it recommends utilising inputs from PWDs, research and policy-makers.