This chapter investigates the conceptual and empirical linkages between social grants and agricultural entrepreneurship among rural households in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Understanding the theoretical ...

School bullying is a complex social phenomenon that negatively impacts the psychosocial well-being of students, as well as the overall culture and climate of schools. Designing appropriate interventions to combat bullying ...

This chapter considers the student protests in East London in the context of their struggle for a right to the city. It reflects on the conditions under which students have been incorporated into the city and the accommodation ...

Questions of the symbolic importance of Fort Hare and Alice, and the university's educational mission and direction as an institution need to be more clearly separated if Fort Hare is to make a more meaningful contribution ...

In public debates and interviews, students generally seem to view universities as places of learning, set apart from the surrounding community, which are supposed to cater to their educational, accommodation, food and even ...

One of the pressing issues in South Africa today is the demand for free, decolonised and quality education. This struggle and the claims for it are not only a South African issue, but one that is intimately connected with ...

The December 2017 ANC 54th Conference resolution to support expropriation without compensation, has ignited vigorous debates, but the ensuing debates have been largely silent about the necessity for coupling land transfer ...

Levels of poverty, inequality and unemployment remain alarming high in South Africa. This is despite political and policy intentions, interventions legislation and active labour market strategies. Can better skills legislation ...

A key objective of the land reforms in South Africa was for the process to lead to the emergence of a cohort of black small-scale commercial farmers who would realize substantive agricultural production levels through ...