Sizo Nkala
Biographic Data
| ID | 225421 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sizo Nkala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sizo |
| FAMILY NAME | Nkala |
| SIGNATURE | NKALA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0163-2520 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Navigating Poverty in Later Life
Economic instability, ineffective governmental oversight, and bureaucratic inefficiencies have been some of the reasons contributing to a deterioration in Zimbabwean pensioners’ living standards. In understanding the risks associated with the diminishing value of pensions and how post-retirement aspirations and caring commitments are still being met, our study was interested in Zimbabwean pensioners’ experiences with the protection framework. In …
An Analysis of China’s Investments in South Africa’s Mining Sector
Old Age Poverty
Despite having over 500 000 pensioners, Zimbabwe is far from guaranteeing its elderly an effective social security system. The National Social Security Authority (NSSA) – is embroiled in numerous cases of corruption. Similar criticisms have also been levelled against personal pension schemes with the living potential of pensioners in Zimbabwe (who receive in some cases less than US$1 monthly), continuing to deteriorate. In contributing new data t…
No dog in this fight
Foreigners in the South African Media
This article used a critical discourse approach to understand how linguistic practices in the South African media construct international immigrants of African origin. We created an 88 000-word corpus of online South African news articles on immigrants from 2008 to 2020, which we then uploaded onto a corpus analysis software, Sketch Engine. Through the software, we were able to generate patterns of language use in the construction of immigrant id…
Predatory Politics and the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Policy in Zimbabwe’s Mining Sector
This paper explores the unfolding of Zimbabwe’s indigenisation policy in the country’s mining sector from the early 1990s to 2018. Informed by interviews, government reports, newspaper articles and online material, the article examines the attempts to indigenise some of the country’s biggest mining concerns, like the platinum giants Mimosa, Zimplats and Unki platinum, which are all owned by multinationals. It also delves deeper into the indigenis…
The impact of the electoral system on the level of women’s legislative representation in post-apartheid South Africa
In just two decades after the demise of apartheid in South Africa, women’s legislative representation has grown in leaps and bounds rising from nearly nothing to over 40%, which is twice the world average of 20%. While this trend can be attributed to a number of factors, this paper casts a spotlight on the role of the electoral system structure vis-à-vis the changes in women’s representation. The paper investigates how the proportional representa…
Foreigners in the South African Media
This article used a critical discourse approach to understand how linguistic practices in the South African media construct international immigrants of African origin. We created an 88 000-word corpus of online South African news articles on immigrants from 2008 to 2020, which we then uploaded onto a corpus analysis software, Sketch Engine. Through the software, we were able to generate patterns of language use in the construction of immigrant id…
No dog in this fight
The impact of the electoral system on the level of women’s legislative representation in post-apartheid South Africa
In just two decades after the demise of apartheid in South Africa, women’s legislative representation has grown in leaps and bounds rising from nearly nothing to over 40%, which is twice the world average of 20%. While this trend can be attributed to a number of factors, this paper casts a spotlight on the role of the electoral system structure vis-à-vis the changes in women’s representation. The paper investigates how the proportional representa…
Predatory Politics and the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Policy in Zimbabwe’s Mining Sector
This paper explores the unfolding of Zimbabwe’s indigenisation policy in the country’s mining sector from the early 1990s to 2018. Informed by interviews, government reports, newspaper articles and online material, the article examines the attempts to indigenise some of the country’s biggest mining concerns, like the platinum giants Mimosa, Zimplats and Unki platinum, which are all owned by multinationals. It also delves deeper into the indigenis…
Foreigners in the South African Media
This article used a critical discourse approach to understand how linguistic practices in the South African media construct international immigrants of African origin. We created an 88 000-word corpus of online South African news articles on immigrants from 2008 to 2020, which we then uploaded onto a corpus analysis software, Sketch Engine. Through the software, we were able to generate patterns of language use in the construction of immigrant id…
An Analysis of China’s Investments in South Africa’s Mining Sector
Old Age Poverty
Despite having over 500 000 pensioners, Zimbabwe is far from guaranteeing its elderly an effective social security system. The National Social Security Authority (NSSA) – is embroiled in numerous cases of corruption. Similar criticisms have also been levelled against personal pension schemes with the living potential of pensioners in Zimbabwe (who receive in some cases less than US$1 monthly), continuing to deteriorate. In contributing new data t…
No dog in this fight
Navigating Poverty in Later Life
Economic instability, ineffective governmental oversight, and bureaucratic inefficiencies have been some of the reasons contributing to a deterioration in Zimbabwean pensioners’ living standards. In understanding the risks associated with the diminishing value of pensions and how post-retirement aspirations and caring commitments are still being met, our study was interested in Zimbabwean pensioners’ experiences with the protection framework. In …
Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)