Mandlenkosi Maphosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 4098588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mandlenkosi Maphosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mandlenkosi |
| FAMILY NAME | Maphosa |
| SIGNATURE | MAPHOSA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Fort Hare |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-2490-7164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Decolonising Enclosures: Climate Justice and Community Struggles around Privately Owned Conservation Landscapes in the Eastern Cape of South Africa
This article examines private wildlife conservation in South Africa’s Eastern Cape as a contested form of climate governance that reproduces climate injustice. Drawing on qualitative interviews and focus groups with community members and reserve officials, the study applies a decolonial climate justice framework to analyse how enclosure operates under conditions of drought. The findings show that private reserves secure land, water and ecological…
Assessing climate change impacts in conservation areas and on food systems in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Biodiversity conservation through protected areas has expanded across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and South Africa is no exception. However, the interplay between conservation governance, climate change, and food systems remains understudied in rural contexts. This study examined the interconnections among biodiversity conservation, climate variability, and food systems resilience in Alicedale and Seven Fountains in South Africa’s Eastern Cape prov…
Going back home to my family and community’: Lived realities of old‐age return migrants in Zimbabwe
When Zimbabwean migrants age, they often retire and permanently return to their families in their home country. Before that, they periodically visit home on holidays and for family functions such as weddings, funerals or burials. Otherwise, they spend much of their lives abroad. Following their ‘retirement return’, several dynamics emerge about their reintegration, power dynamics and care needs within their families. To better understand such iss…
Informal Entrepreneurship and Urban Space: A Case Study of Food Vendors in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
This research examines the spatial dynamics and practices of informal food vendors in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Using Lefebvre's spatial triad and de Certeau's theory, the study reveals how vendors navigate and shape urban spaces. Through mixed-methods research, it highlights the vendors' strategic use of space, adaptation to constraints and collective agency in challenging existing structures. The study recommends policies that recognise their contrib…
Migrant Remittances Inspired Enterprises in Tsholotsho: Issues of Sustainability
Following unprecedented and protracted political and economic crises during the period spanning 2000 to 2009, Zimbabwe experienced increased migration of its populace to the diaspora. One notable positive result of this migration phenomenon has been an increase in the inflows of remittances, which have partly inspired the emergence of enterprises. In February of 2009, Zimbabwe introduced the multi-currency system, which introduced new dynamics re…
Institutional exclusion and the tragedy of the commons: Artisanal mining in Matabeleland South Province, Zimbabwe
Institutional exclusion and the tragedy of the commons: Artisanal mining in Matabeleland South Province, Zimbabwe
Migrant Remittances Inspired Enterprises in Tsholotsho: Issues of Sustainability
Following unprecedented and protracted political and economic crises during the period spanning 2000 to 2009, Zimbabwe experienced increased migration of its populace to the diaspora. One notable positive result of this migration phenomenon has been an increase in the inflows of remittances, which have partly inspired the emergence of enterprises. In February of 2009, Zimbabwe introduced the multi-currency system, which introduced new dynamics re…
Institutional exclusion and the tragedy of the commons: Artisanal mining in Matabeleland South Province, Zimbabwe
Migrant Remittances Inspired Enterprises in Tsholotsho: Issues of Sustainability
Following unprecedented and protracted political and economic crises during the period spanning 2000 to 2009, Zimbabwe experienced increased migration of its populace to the diaspora. One notable positive result of this migration phenomenon has been an increase in the inflows of remittances, which have partly inspired the emergence of enterprises. In February of 2009, Zimbabwe introduced the multi-currency system, which introduced new dynamics re…
Assessing climate change impacts in conservation areas and on food systems in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Biodiversity conservation through protected areas has expanded across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and South Africa is no exception. However, the interplay between conservation governance, climate change, and food systems remains understudied in rural contexts. This study examined the interconnections among biodiversity conservation, climate variability, and food systems resilience in Alicedale and Seven Fountains in South Africa’s Eastern Cape prov…
Going back home to my family and community’: Lived realities of old‐age return migrants in Zimbabwe
When Zimbabwean migrants age, they often retire and permanently return to their families in their home country. Before that, they periodically visit home on holidays and for family functions such as weddings, funerals or burials. Otherwise, they spend much of their lives abroad. Following their ‘retirement return’, several dynamics emerge about their reintegration, power dynamics and care needs within their families. To better understand such iss…
Informal Entrepreneurship and Urban Space: A Case Study of Food Vendors in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
This research examines the spatial dynamics and practices of informal food vendors in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Using Lefebvre's spatial triad and de Certeau's theory, the study reveals how vendors navigate and shape urban spaces. Through mixed-methods research, it highlights the vendors' strategic use of space, adaptation to constraints and collective agency in challenging existing structures. The study recommends policies that recognise their contrib…
Decolonising Enclosures: Climate Justice and Community Struggles around Privately Owned Conservation Landscapes in the Eastern Cape of South Africa
This article examines private wildlife conservation in South Africa’s Eastern Cape as a contested form of climate governance that reproduces climate injustice. Drawing on qualitative interviews and focus groups with community members and reserve officials, the study applies a decolonial climate justice framework to analyse how enclosure operates under conditions of drought. The findings show that private reserves secure land, water and ecological…
Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Cape (2 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Commons (2 works)