Essays on South Africa

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…