South Africa Essay Examples and Topics

Infertility seems to be a growing issue among many men and woman. Infertility can lead to many issues within relationships and negatively affect a person’s well-being as many people view having children as a milestone in their lives. Infertility can be caused by a variety…

A theoretical expository methodology is utilised by the paper and the literature on the practices of public procurement in South Africa is inspected. Public procurement is progressively perceived as an occupation in which an essential role is played in the effective administration of public resources….

The need for success and power motivated Europe to move towards imperialism. By focusing on China, India, and Africa, this essay will argue that a state’s response to European imperialism in the nineteenth century until WWI grew out of its previous interactions with Europe after…

Introduction The concept of intersectionality intended to mild up dynamics that have frequently been ignored by using feminist actions and principle. The emergence of intersectionality challenged the notion that gender became the primary thing identifying a woman’s destiny. This essay will be focusing on showing…

Purpose of Patel’s Article Patel’s article has three objectives. Firstly, it is aimed at providing insight into selected aspects of poverty and the gendered nature of poverty in a poor urban community in South Africa. This serves to unmask the social and human dynamics that…

Some scholars argue that African communitarianism does not do justice to individuality. Critically discuss this claim. What is communitarianism? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Communitarianism is an ideology which emphasizes the responsibility of the individual to the community and the social importance of the…

It is a common way to say that children are blessings to humankind and that childhood is a significant phase of their development as it holds the key to the fate of their future which is the future of any society. However, it is true…

Introduction Why is our history so important? History tells us where we come from, what happened and what worked and did not work in order to understand why we are where we are at this point. History has a profound influence on our present and…

African literature has a unique place amongst the various literatures of the world. It is political and embodies the collective sentiment of the people of the vast land. The “dark continent”, “the heart of darkness” became the playground of the many European forces that spread…

In diverse societies, witchcraft is used differently, and its level of importance varies due to this. Our definition of witchcraft is: “the manipulation of powerful substances or words to cause harm. It can also frequently be an unconscious activity, which means that the “witch” often…

Introduction According to C. Wright Mills (1959), the Sociological Imagination refers to the ability to understand that one’s own issues are not merely caused by one’s owns beliefs and thoughts, but by society and its structures. An issue that many people, including myself, face and…

Main Facts about Mandela In the 20th century many countries in Asian and Africa were conquered and colonized by the western nations like Dutch, British, Portuguese, Spaniards and French. South Africa was under the Dutch rule before the minority British took over the government. The…

What kind of leader was Mandela? He once said, “It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your…

Introduction African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child (Article 2) adopted in July 1990 defines a child as every human being below the age of 18 (Kalme, 2009). Children are abused each and every day by strangers, their parents, relatives, teachers at…

The African community, with its vast diversity in culture, bears a great number of different ideals which run the different communities. Most, if not all, of the African states are governed differently to the next, but they all still share a somewhat just form of…

This is the discussion of environmental sustainability and resilience objectives. They have been discussed in a manner that places each objective as a sub-topic, where answers of the three questions are answered under each objective sub-topic, which are their feasibility, current state of progress with…

Having Produced over the previous couple of months from Uganda, it might be seemingly that the month-to-month invoice that is reared its thoughts could be addressed by me, affirmed this second. I might discuss conducive KONY 2012 effort and the misguided. Each these are centered…

This essay is going to be about how I am personified by the MBTI test. I will be describing one of my strengths which is being able to connect with others and one of my weaknesses which is being inflexible. One strength I have is…

INTRODUCTION Background According to Cunningram (2016: 01) a tender is a term used to describe a contractor’s priced offer to construct the work. Whereas Hackett & Statham (2016: 65) explains that the purpose of any tendering procedure is to select a suitable contractor at a…

Background Coffee is the most valuable agricultural commodity in international trade and Arabica coffee accounts for 66% of the world’s coffee market. Ethiopia is currently the third largest Arabica coffee producer after Brazil and Colombia, with a production of 321,000 tons during the crop year…

Tobacco is an agricultural crop, most commonly used to make cigarettes. It is grown all over the world and supports a billion-dollar industry. Its leaves are dried and fermented before being put in tobacco products. Tobacco smoke contains more than 4000 chemical substances including particulates…

The story itself is one that many grew up with. It is a story which has been told numerous times where it has led to different variations of it. Regardless of the different variations of the story it can be said that its prophecies led…

There are about 7.1 million people that have HIV and about 110,000 people die from AIDS every year, in South Africa. In the novel, We Kiss Them With Rain, the author, Futhi Ntshingila, goes through many people’s lives in South Africa and their struggles of…

The nature of crime in the apartheid era South Africa can be directed to the colonial forces that were in power. This has been rooted in the notion that violence in South Africa has become normative rather than deviant and it has come to be…

Language is intricately bound up with culture. It is an expressive product of culture that performs diverse functions to facilitate communicative interaction. Idiomatic expressions functions as one of these communicative interactions. This essay investigates one such idiom in its distinct cultural identity. This is done…

Zambia being one of the developing countries has a number of strategies to enable her reach a certain level of standard of living. Poverty has been a serious disease in Zambia and many strategies where put across to see to it that poverty is reduced….

This article discusses how South Africa increase tariff on Brazilian sugar from $566 per ton to $680 per ton, in order to protect local farmer in South Africa. Tariff is defined as the taxes on imported goods. Comparative advantage is defined as a situation when…

Xenophobia in South Africa: Why it’s time to unsettle narratives about migrants This article discusses the prevalence of xenophobia in South Africa. For years, South Africa has not accepted foreign immigrants. Foreign nationals are displaced, attacked, looted, and even killed. Most of them are being…

Introduction In the 1970s Harvard University political scientist John Rawls (1999, p. 4) argued that a society is well-ordered when it is effectively regulated by a public conception of justice in which “(1) everyone accepts and knows that the others accept the same principles of…

Jane Battersby is an urban geographer from England who lives and works in South Africa. She is a researcher at the African Center for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town, where her work is centered around urban food systems in topics such as…

Unemployment is the result of too many people, too few jobs. In other words unemployment is the result of over-population because over-population is defined as a condition where a country’s human population exceeds the carrying capacity of its environment meaning in this case that the…

This paper will argue that the analysis of African origins of humanity in ways of human adaptation from Africa to Eurasia and Australia. In the textbook Patterns of World History disagrees with recent scholarship on Arthur, Byerlee and Tomasell. African origins of humanity in ways…

Diaspora for Development in Africa is quite an interesting read, as it is based on papers selected from a conference on Diaspora and Development that was organized by the World Bank in 2009. In addition, many chapters, although relating to the African diaspora and its…

In South Africa, two unique ideas of joblessness are utilized routinely: the strict (thin) and the extended (wide) definition. The tight definition applies a pursuit of employment test though the wide definition acknowledges as jobless the individuals who did not scan for work in a…

Labor Issues and Immigration By the end of the first quarter of 2018, and estimated 28% of South African adults will be facing unemployment; and while this particular challenge has been present in the South African job market for many years, it rises steadily as…

Introduction The National Development Plan has 14 outcomes and these outcomes were assigned to be undertaken by different expects from different fields. Such as economists, health experts, development experts, sustainable living experts and so forth. The one outcome that stands out the most it is…

We cannot run away from the fact that gender inequality is still the major issue even in the democratic society we are still experiencing it. South Africa is not the only country that is experiencing gender inequality but the globe at large, because even the…

Tittle: Prevalence and characterization of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from goats in South Africa Study rationale STEC remain being the most important foodborne pathogen because of its high prevalence around the globe especially in America, Canada and other countries including South Africa. It causes diarrheal…

PROSHIELD SECURITY COMPANY which was founded on July 1999 by Miss OETejane is honoured to take part in stopping the cancerous crime proposals. Vision: Is to provide quality services and value to clients. Mission: To bring solution to every problem. We have successfully worked with…

South Africa is known to be the world’s multicultural country with 11 official languages and more than 13 cultures co-existing. Though South Africa has integrated and accepted the various cultures and traditions, all these cultures and traditions have specific ways of dealing with social, economic…

The year 1994 marked a socio-political change in South Africa, as well as becoming a clear separation in the cultural experiences of both white and black South Africans. The world celebrated this movement away from a hegemonic, racially dominated society into this new, inclusive Rainbow…

Everything you know about South Africa is probably wrong. Travel Column by Isabella Bouwer A few days ago, I was browsing through the news when I came across an article titled “Do you know where South Africa is?” Surely I wasn’t reading this correctly, most…

Home to 52 sovereign countries, Africa is the second largest continent in the universe. Over the years, the story of Africa has been synonymous with that of hunger, poverty, and illiteracy. However, this is fast changing. Africans have now realised that the future of Africa…

Oral history is the capturing of people’s experiences using audio and videotapes. It attempts to fill in gaps of recorded history. During the capturing of this history, people such as apartheid activists whose side of events have not been documented are interviewed and asked questions…

In the second half of Cry, the Beloved Country, the novel presents many social and economic problems arising in South Africa, however; Paton reveals glimpses of hope for South Africa. Although these feelings of hope may appear scarce and brief, they provide great insight into…

It has been going on for over 24 years. These changes of streets, towns and airports have a larger impact than any of us truly understand. Nearly 850 names of residential areas have been changed just in the last 14 years. But does anyone even…

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela Education during Colonial Rule Previously as the Colonials got involved, education in South Africa was arranged with tribal needs. You would master the skills that kept you and…

What were the three main economies that existed in southern Africa during the precolonial period, and in what sequence did they emerge? (2) Three main economies that existed in southern Africa during precolonial period and they are namely hunter-gathering, hunter-herding of the Khoesan people and…

We are Africans, despite the geographical delineations; we are Blacks, regardless of the diversity in culture, language and physical trait. We are bold and resourceful, in spite of the uneven distribution of mineral deposits & resources across the continent. We are one because we are…

Gregory David Roberts, a prolific and philosophical writer once said “If fate doesn’t make you laugh you merely just didn’t get the joke”. In this case the joke, for the lack of a better word, is the saga of State Capture that has, in a…

Introduction The capturing of the state in South Africa has become the culture through many things such as tender corruption, employment corruption. South African authorities tried to rip corruption with its roots but they failed hence corruption is growing in each and every day in…

Have you ever heard or attended one of the South African Fashion Week shows? The SAFW is an amazing show that you do not want to miss given an opportunity to attend one, because it has the country’s best designers equipped with various talents. These…

Globalization is a process of cooperation and integration amongst the people, companies, and governments of nations. Globalization is multifaceted consisting of different dimensions such as the spatio temporal, material and cognitive dimensions. Spatio temporal Dimension The spatial dimension of globalization refers to the shrinking of…

It is well known that South Africa experiences high incidences of crime, sometimes violent in nature that may cause psychological and emotional effects on the victim. This study aimed to investigate attributions made about the commission of violent crime in South Africa. Data was collected…

Starting off with Steers we see their CSR reach out in a few different ways. Mainly that being ROUDA. Steers is South Africas leading burger brand. The franchise has been running for almost 50 years and have won many awards in this time. There are…

The common cliché “Youths are the Leaders of Tomorrow” is fading out; youths are already driving change for the better, today. The trend is remarkable in Africa where the youths are not only driving innovations addressing SDGs, but they are also demanding their seat on…

The government of Ethiopia has a long-lived strategy in development dedicated to smallholders which strongly pushes labour-intensive agriculture forward in order to gain increased profit and productivity. However, besides these claims, the Ethiopian government has gradually shifted attention towards foreign and domestic investors by offering…

The participants were asked to give their views about the fairness of the recent business income tax systems of the Oromia regional government. The rational for conducted this interviews was to explore the disparity between the perception of the business income taxpayers and tax officers…

South Africa has one of the most developed economies in Southern Africa with the second highest GDP of all African countries in 2017. With that comes a higher amount of disposable income, and a tertiary market for Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs)fast food. As you can…

Listeriosis is a foodborne disease which is transmitted by eating foods contaminated with Listeria bacteria. Through 2017 and 2018, South Africa had, what is known as the world’s worst breakout of Listeriosis currently recorded. The breakout was a result of contaminated meat produced by Enterprise…

It is important to understand the situation of the Botswana before and after independence to fully understand how far they came, where their accomplishments lay and how the various successful factors came to be. Once this has been achieved it is then safe to look…

Patrice is not only the founder but also the executive of the African Rainbow Minerals. He has high positions in many different company boards. One of his positions is being chairman amongst other big companies. Back in 2003 he became the owner of the well-known…

Effective pastoral counseling is influenced by appropriate pastoral diagnosis, a diagnosis which focus on the socio cultural system in the African context. The diagnosis seek to address personal problems like anxiety, grief, guilt, resentment, uncontrolled desires and appetites, selfishness, feelings of insecurity or worthlessness, indiscipline…

Travelling abroad today is a usual thing for most families especially when these travel include leaving their comfort zone for a period of time, people learn innumerable things and also get to meet other different people when they visit foreign countries. Language barrier is completely…

Africa Umoja: The Spirit of Togetherness is a musical production that celebrates the evolution of South African culture through its history of music and dance, sharing the joy that comes with overcoming obstacles of poverty in their own lives, the cast, which includes former street…

Nationalisation of mines can be seen as either a good thing or bad, depending on each of our believes. The freedom charter singed and conserved in June 1955 (UKEssays, 2015) states that “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and…

Introduction The objective of this paper is to highlight the issues relating to informal regulation arrangements for spaza shops run by foreign nationals in some South African townships. The main point this paper wants to bring forward is that while those informal regulations are intended…

Developing a new measure is a difficult process and must be done by trained professionals who have adequate experience and knowledge in the particular field. A very important step to follow before developing a measure is for the researchers to gain an in-depth understanding of…

South Africa’s racialized past has characterised the South African coal mining sector according to white ownership and black labour. This essay will explain how the country’s past has shaped coal mining today and and what the racialised division of labour means for environmental justice. In…

The South African hip-hop industry emerged from the shadows of kwaito and has since become one of the fastest growing and most influential genres of local music. Giving rise to the top-selling artists right now like Cassper Nyovest, AKA, Kwesta and many more. However, the…

South Africa is a country with a vast number of resources, however water is not one of them. Out of the 193 countries on earth, South Africa is considered to be the 30th driest country. Adding to this alarming statistic is the irresponsible use of…

Tourism is a complex phenomenon that includes economic, socio-cultural, environmental and political factors. All these factors are changeable, the leading role is assigned to strategic planning, as the only possible forecasting of the future situation. Strategic planning acts as the basis for decision-making, and also…

The South African Statistics reported that about 25 languages are used on a daily basis in South Africa by more than 44.8 million people (2003). Beukes (2004) states that almost 80% of the South African population use an African language as their home language. Of…

South Africa has an especially high rate of murders, assaults, rapes and other violent crimes, compared with most countries. Crime in South Africa is topic that is very often spoken about amongst South African citizens. Insurance in South Africa can be a difficult situation because…

The Kalahari Basin in the continent of Africa lies in the south and covers a vast lowland area in six different countries, it is a semi-arid, sandy savanna. Soil over the Kalahari basin is produced by the breakdown of rock due to physical or chemical…

The biographical questionnaire was a useful tool to gain valuable information about the two participants’ social and physical environment. Participant 1 lives with a family member in an urban environment while participant 2 lives with his wife and children in a house that he owns…

Personality factors account for 40 to 50% of individual differences in happiness. Individual personality factors play a crucial role to ageing patterns and the relationship between social role activity and life satisfaction. According to Harero & Extremera happiness enhancing strategies are related to personality types…

Expensive bottles of alcohol, dancing and bright, extravagant high-end clothing, that’s probably way out of the financial means of the youth it is worn by. This is the life of the people that are apart of the South African Izikhotane movement. A movement known for…

Although South Africa has the second strongest economy in Africa, with a Gross Domestic Product of $298 Billion USD (2016)1, and many parts to it that would be considered first world2, it is still regarded as a developing country. Among other factors like corruption and…

Malawi is a landlocked nation situated in southeastern Africa, in the past known as Nyasaland. The nation is isolated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. In the cuisine of Malawi, basic foods such as corn, cassava, and fish should be highlighted. You can also…