Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba
Biographic Data
| ID | 202816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mzingaye Brilliant |
| FAMILY NAME | Xaba |
| SIGNATURE | XABA M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Lesotho |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7786-745X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Environmentalism, Contested Meanings of Consultation and Developmental Projects in South Africa, 2007–2024
Social Media as a Social Fact
Centring herding as an environmental preservation and cultural institution in Lesotho
Back to the fields
Field cultivation abandonment in rural parts of South Africa is widely acknowledged in academic literature, but what remains less reported are the government efforts to revamp field cultivation. In this article, we critically report on qualitative findings from one of the government’s efforts to revive maize field cultivation using mechanisation. The article is based on a case study of the Zanentlutha programme in Ndabakazi villages in Butterwort…
Embracing African Traditional Knowledge Health Systems in a HIV/Aids and Covid-19 Pandemic Era
This article engages the perpetual denigration of African Traditional Knowledge System (ATKS) by African governments in favor of western biomedical approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic. We demonstrate that the COVID-19 pandemic has once again put the spotlight on the alternative approaches to health and the need for a holistic and broader understanding of these practices in Africa. Using a literature review on health sectors across Africa and …
Environmentalism Emboldened? Exploring the Effectiveness of Anti-Fracking Groups in the Fracking Struggle in the Karoo of South Africa, 2008–2022
In 2008, the South African government started to discuss the possibility of utilising shale gas in the energy mix to produce cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable electricity. Shale gas was to be used as a ‘bridge fuel’ in the envisaged transition to renewables. Since 2010, anti-fracking groups and other environmentalists have been at loggerheads with the state and fracking companies. This paper focuses on the effectiveness and role of anti-frackin…
Resisting development or imposition? Examining the many dynamics around the resistance of externally initiated, state-assisted, and industry-driven “development” projects in the Wild Coast, Eastern Ca…
The South African Wild Coast communities received the attention of a globally networked mining company, which is supported by the state to extract minerals from ancestral lands.Deploying the political ecology approach and the "sacrifice zones" notion, this paper reflects critically on the struggle of local communities to resist such externally initiated, state-supported, and industry-drivenprojects.It draws evidence from the attempt by a mining c…
A Reflection on the Nexus between South African Land Reform Struggles and the Unresolved National Question
The post-apartheid South African government continues to struggle with its transformation posture, including the quest to redress the racially based land inequalities that have plagued the country since its colonial past. The Covid-19 pandemic, the 2015 #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements, and the July 2021 #FreeZuma violence have highlighted both the fragility and the resilience of South African political institutions. Since the formatio…
A Review of the Political Economy of South African Land Reform and Its Contested Multifaceted Land Questions
South African land matters today emanate from the past racially based land dispossession of black communities, which furthered white settler capitalism. Post-apartheid regimes have developed many policies to reverse this legacy, but with little effect. Political parties have blamed the Constitution for the slow pace of land reform, arguing for the need to amend it to clarify ‘expropriation without compensation’. Based on a broad literature review…
Examining the meanings of 'restitution' for beneficiaries of the Macleantown and Salem restitution cases in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Through land restitution, a component of land reform, the state seeks to restore the dignity of black communities who lost their land during colonial and apartheid times. Land restitution seeks to return the land that was unfairly grabbed from black people or to offer alternative land or cash compensation. Much public discourse and research on South African land reform has been on the failure of land reform projects and on land acquisition debate…
Rights to land
The land question, especially the rights to land and tenure security, has been very topical in South Africa. The authors of Rights to Land provide an empirically based and detailed account on tenur
From the Booth to the Dock
The issue of presidential election petitions seems to be repeating itself with regularity in much of Africa, thus warranting the need for thorough analysis. Utilising the 2018 presidential election petition in Zimbabwe, the article examines whether electoral integrity and legitimacy can be derived from court-based action. Data for this article was gleaned from case law analysis, review of expert analysis from constitutional lawyers and election e…
The Land as Economy and Economy as Land
Embracing African Traditional Knowledge Health Systems in a HIV/Aids and Covid-19 Pandemic Era
This article engages the perpetual denigration of African Traditional Knowledge System (ATKS) by African governments in favor of western biomedical approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic. We demonstrate that the COVID-19 pandemic has once again put the spotlight on the alternative approaches to health and the need for a holistic and broader understanding of these practices in Africa. Using a literature review on health sectors across Africa and …
Examining the meanings of 'restitution' for beneficiaries of the Macleantown and Salem restitution cases in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Through land restitution, a component of land reform, the state seeks to restore the dignity of black communities who lost their land during colonial and apartheid times. Land restitution seeks to return the land that was unfairly grabbed from black people or to offer alternative land or cash compensation. Much public discourse and research on South African land reform has been on the failure of land reform projects and on land acquisition debate…
From the Booth to the Dock
The issue of presidential election petitions seems to be repeating itself with regularity in much of Africa, thus warranting the need for thorough analysis. Utilising the 2018 presidential election petition in Zimbabwe, the article examines whether electoral integrity and legitimacy can be derived from court-based action. Data for this article was gleaned from case law analysis, review of expert analysis from constitutional lawyers and election e…
The Land as Economy and Economy as Land
Rights to land
The land question, especially the rights to land and tenure security, has been very topical in South Africa. The authors of Rights to Land provide an empirically based and detailed account on tenur
From the Booth to the Dock
The issue of presidential election petitions seems to be repeating itself with regularity in much of Africa, thus warranting the need for thorough analysis. Utilising the 2018 presidential election petition in Zimbabwe, the article examines whether electoral integrity and legitimacy can be derived from court-based action. Data for this article was gleaned from case law analysis, review of expert analysis from constitutional lawyers and election e…
A Review of the Political Economy of South African Land Reform and Its Contested Multifaceted Land Questions
South African land matters today emanate from the past racially based land dispossession of black communities, which furthered white settler capitalism. Post-apartheid regimes have developed many policies to reverse this legacy, but with little effect. Political parties have blamed the Constitution for the slow pace of land reform, arguing for the need to amend it to clarify ‘expropriation without compensation’. Based on a broad literature review…
Examining the meanings of 'restitution' for beneficiaries of the Macleantown and Salem restitution cases in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Through land restitution, a component of land reform, the state seeks to restore the dignity of black communities who lost their land during colonial and apartheid times. Land restitution seeks to return the land that was unfairly grabbed from black people or to offer alternative land or cash compensation. Much public discourse and research on South African land reform has been on the failure of land reform projects and on land acquisition debate…
Environmentalism Emboldened? Exploring the Effectiveness of Anti-Fracking Groups in the Fracking Struggle in the Karoo of South Africa, 2008–2022
In 2008, the South African government started to discuss the possibility of utilising shale gas in the energy mix to produce cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable electricity. Shale gas was to be used as a ‘bridge fuel’ in the envisaged transition to renewables. Since 2010, anti-fracking groups and other environmentalists have been at loggerheads with the state and fracking companies. This paper focuses on the effectiveness and role of anti-frackin…
Resisting development or imposition? Examining the many dynamics around the resistance of externally initiated, state-assisted, and industry-driven “development” projects in the Wild Coast, Eastern Ca…
The South African Wild Coast communities received the attention of a globally networked mining company, which is supported by the state to extract minerals from ancestral lands.Deploying the political ecology approach and the "sacrifice zones" notion, this paper reflects critically on the struggle of local communities to resist such externally initiated, state-supported, and industry-drivenprojects.It draws evidence from the attempt by a mining c…
A Reflection on the Nexus between South African Land Reform Struggles and the Unresolved National Question
The post-apartheid South African government continues to struggle with its transformation posture, including the quest to redress the racially based land inequalities that have plagued the country since its colonial past. The Covid-19 pandemic, the 2015 #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements, and the July 2021 #FreeZuma violence have highlighted both the fragility and the resilience of South African political institutions. Since the formatio…
Embracing African Traditional Knowledge Health Systems in a HIV/Aids and Covid-19 Pandemic Era
This article engages the perpetual denigration of African Traditional Knowledge System (ATKS) by African governments in favor of western biomedical approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic. We demonstrate that the COVID-19 pandemic has once again put the spotlight on the alternative approaches to health and the need for a holistic and broader understanding of these practices in Africa. Using a literature review on health sectors across Africa and …
Social Media as a Social Fact
Centring herding as an environmental preservation and cultural institution in Lesotho
Back to the fields
Field cultivation abandonment in rural parts of South Africa is widely acknowledged in academic literature, but what remains less reported are the government efforts to revamp field cultivation. In this article, we critically report on qualitative findings from one of the government’s efforts to revive maize field cultivation using mechanisation. The article is based on a case study of the Zanentlutha programme in Ndabakazi villages in Butterwort…
Environmentalism, Contested Meanings of Consultation and Developmental Projects in South Africa, 2007–2024
Political science (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (5 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works)