Inocent Moyo
Biographic Data
| ID | 89687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Inocent Moyo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Inocent |
| FAMILY NAME | Moyo |
| SIGNATURE | MOYO I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zululand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5523-9815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reframing Quality Assurance in South African higher education by navigating challenges and seizing opportunities
While Quality Assurance (QA) is widely promoted as a mechanism to uphold academic standards, it often reflects Eurocentric models misaligned with the socio-historical realities of institutions in the Global South. In South Africa, QA operates within a deeply unequal higher education landscape marked by apartheid legacies, bureaucratic rigidity, and systemic underfunding. This paper adopts a decolonial lens to critically examine the limitations an…
Decolonizing Eurocentric models of entrepreneurship in South Africa
Indigenous entrepreneurship (IE) is gaining prominence globally. Yet, it remains insufficiently theorised in African contexts, where universal models of entrepreneurship are still applied in ways that do not fully reflect the lived realities and aspirations of Indigenous peoples. In response, this paper examines how Indigenous communities in South Africa define and practise entrepreneurship, and how they conceptualise entrepreneurial “success.” T…
An intersectional analysis of the collective efficacy-drought adaptation nexus among small-scale farmers in uMkhanyakude District Municipality, South Africa
The integration of migration into municipal development planning in the city of uMhlathuze in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Despite the Sustainable Development Goal target 10.7.2, which aims to facilitate orderly, safe, regular, and responsible migration through implementing planned and well-managed migration policies at various government levels, this remains understudied at the local level. Using an institutional liberalism lens, this paper analyses migrant integration into municipal development planning in the city of uMhlathuze, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Follow…
From necrolocution to meaningful dialogues
Lydia Gibson’s article ‘Ant Logic and Necrolocutors’ challenges geographers and other scholars in cognate disciplines working on environmental research or on Indigenous communities to transcend the ant logic and gaze by recognising power, knowledge, and death as important immaterial actors. If this is not done, there is a danger of engaging in research and analysis that reproduces colonialism and coloniality in terms of recommendations which conf…
Geopolitics and Memorialisation of Borders
Geopolitics pervades memorialisation of borders worldwide. Border heritage sites commonly form powerful geopolitical bordering by creating myths of division and difference to serve the nation-state, and secure hegemonic narratives. Attention to multiplicity and polyphony of border memorialisation voices reveals coincidence and collision of memories and spatial orders to form resistance to the illusionary hegemonic border. Multiple temporalities m…
Indigenous Knowledge System and Agricultural Drought Adaptation in the uMkhanyakude District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal
By deploying an intersectional feminist political ecology analysis, this paper explores small-scale farmers' (SSFs') experiences and responses to agricultural drought in the uMkhanyakude District Municipality, South Africa. A mixed methods approach was employed, incorporating a household questionnaire survey, and analysed using Microsoft Excel complemented by qualitative observations and document review, both of which underwent reflexive thematic…
An Assessment of urban greening challenges and opportunities associated with urban densification in the EThekwini Municipality
It is critical that urban densification is accepted as a planning strategy for enhanced, sustainable urban development, especially considering the compacting of urban areas, integrated land uses, reduced land take and the need to conserve urban green spaces.Nevertheless, its implementation has challenged the management of urban green spaces.Densification has created a dilemma in planning as planners battle to provide better green spaces, while si…
On the Efficacy of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Unsettling Coloniality
Indigenous groups across Africa mobilized Indigenous Knowledge (IK) practices, albeit not without challenges, to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) continue to be sidelined in formal healthcare policies and programmes. This underscores the urgency to liberate Africa's epistemologies. Employing the decoloniality lens, this paper examined the colonial influences inherent in African responses to COVID-19 while a…
Rethinking diaspora remittances in the post-Mugabe era in Zimbabwe
Based on a qualitative study of Zimbabwean migrants based in South Africa, who regularly remitted goods and money to Zimbabwe between 2010 and 2020, this paper suggests that at a local level, remittances alleviated poverty with very limited if any transformation of the political economy at the national level. Such remittances promoted consumerism without sustainable investment that can structurally transform the economy. In addition, the dependen…
Zimbabwe's unemployed youth: On waithustlinghood, struggle for survival and political activism
This paper examines the extent to which Zimbabwe's economic crisis compelled its citizens, particularly the youth, to engage in urban informality in order to make a living. In addition to this, the Zimbabwean youth in question have also turned to political activism, which has taken a complex trajectory in that it has assumed oppositional politics as well as politics of patronage. The former hope that a change in the political dispensation in Zimb…
Beyond a tokenistic inclusion of indigenous knowledge systems in protected area governance and management in Okhahlamba-Drakensberg
This paper explores the perception of indigenous communities towards the co-management framework and whether or not this empowered them to utilise their indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in the management and governance of the Protected Area (PA) in Okhahlamba-Drakensberg. IKS is excluded from the political systems of PA governance but this can be remedied through participation of indigenous communities in the agenda-setting around environmental…
The African Continental Free Trade Area and informal cross border trade: Implications on socio-economic development in Africa
The setting up by the African Union of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which should govern matters relating to, inter alia, trade in goods and services, investment, trade facilitation, intellectual property rights, and competition policy is a step in the right direction. However, this paper argues that the limited inclusion of informal economy actors such as informal cross border traders (ICBTs) appears to undermine the potentia…
Border studies at 45
The vacuity of informal cross-border trade facilitation strategies in the Sadc region
Covid-19, Dissensus and de facto Transformation at the South Africa–Zimbabwe Border at Beitbridge
This paper explores the coronavirus-induced closure of the South Africa–Zimbabwe border at Beitbridge and its effects on informal cross-border trade activities and migration. It is based on a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with informal cross-border traders (ICBTs), migrant workers, local informal transporters, informal cross-border transporters, bus drivers, and individual couriers (hired to transport goods across illegal border…
Regionalism, Security and Development in Africa
Intra-Africa Migrations: Reimaging Borders and Migration Management
Covid-19 and street traders in the City of uMhlathuze, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: On responses and adaptation mechanisms
The paper analysed the response and adaptation strategies of informal street traders to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the City of uMhlathuze, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A total of 30 informal street traders were interviewed using in-depth unstructured interviews as an instrument of data collection. Findings suggest that the informal street traders responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by breaking COVID-19 regulations to secure incomes as w…
Protected areas and environmental conservation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: On HEIs, livelihoods and sustainable development
Purpose The paper aims to advocate for innovative approaches in terms of the involvement of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the conservation of the environment, which fully considers and includes the developmental needs of indigenous communities while at the same time protecting the environment. Design/methodology/approach Using a qualitative study of indigenous communities and protected area (PA) authorities in Okhahlamba-Drakensberg, Kw…
Public Knowledge, Perceptions and Practices in the High-Risk Lightning Zone of South Africa
Lightning activity is a hazard for human societies and the environment, and a common feature of South Africa's climate system, although with great regional variation. The north-eastern section of the country, including the predominantly rural uMkhanyakude District Municipality, is among the most vulnerable regions, where a growing trend of lightning-related deaths and injuries has been observed in recent years. Despite this, and the Disaster Mana…
Interrogating the nexus between irregular migration and insecurity along ‘ungoverned’ border spaces in West Africa
The ‘coloniality’, porosity, and ‘ungovernability’ of borders in West Africa, have engendered undocumented migration, in which most people engage to visit their kin and for economic reasons such as herding, farming, fishing, hunting, and trading. This occurs concurrently with human smuggling, human trafficking, gun-running, terrorism, and money laundering. The rise in these cross-border criminal activities and the resultant insecurity have put ir…
On the temporal, spatial and structural linkages between informal and formal economic enterprises in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Regionalism Security and Development in Africa
Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa: Networks of Civil Society Organizations and Alternative Regionalism
The Beitbridge–Mussina Interface: Towards Flexible Citizenship, Sovereignty and Territoriality at the Border
Located at the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe, the Beitbridge border post aptly demonstrates border citizenship from below. Established as a result of the London Convention of 1884, the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe finds expression at the Beitbridge border post. However, Venda-speaking people on both sides of the border post who were “separated” when the border was drawn have always engaged in dynamic and agentive ways that …
Zimbabwean Dispensation, Special and Exemption Permits in South Africa: On Humanitarian Logic, Depoliticisation and Invisibilisation of Migrants
Cross-border migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa has existed for a long time. Given this context, the governance of migrants, especially the undocumented Zimbabweans by South Africa, has come to the fore. Starting in 2009, South Africa granted undocumented Zimbabwean migrants Zimbabwean Dispensation Permits, which were replaced by Zimbabwean Special Dispensation Permits in 2014. In turn, the Zimbabwean Special Dispensation Permits were replac…
Interrogating the nexus between irregular migration and insecurity along ‘ungoverned’ border spaces in West Africa
The ‘coloniality’, porosity, and ‘ungovernability’ of borders in West Africa, have engendered undocumented migration, in which most people engage to visit their kin and for economic reasons such as herding, farming, fishing, hunting, and trading. This occurs concurrently with human smuggling, human trafficking, gun-running, terrorism, and money laundering. The rise in these cross-border criminal activities and the resultant insecurity have put ir…
Covid-19, Dissensus and de facto Transformation at the South Africa–Zimbabwe Border at Beitbridge
This paper explores the coronavirus-induced closure of the South Africa–Zimbabwe border at Beitbridge and its effects on informal cross-border trade activities and migration. It is based on a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with informal cross-border traders (ICBTs), migrant workers, local informal transporters, informal cross-border transporters, bus drivers, and individual couriers (hired to transport goods across illegal border…
On Decolonising Borders and Regional Integration in the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Region
This paper uses insights gained from a qualitative study of informal cross border actors on selected Southern African Development Community (SADC) borders to argue for the decolonisation of these borders. It is asserted that, although SADC citizens enjoy a 90-day free visa in member states, this should not be simplistically taken to mean that there are "open borders" and free movement of persons in region. The recognition that a border "open" to …
On Borders and the Liminality of Undocumented Zimbabwean Migrants in South Africa
The historical continuities of the Zimbabwe–South Africa crossborder migrations provide a context in which such movements have continued, despite securitized borders, in post-apartheid South Africa. Based on a qualitative study of undocumented Zimbabwean migrants in three places; namely, the Beitbridge border, South African border town of Musina and the city of Johannesburg, between December 2014 and March 2015, I argue that, securitizing the bor…
Of Borders and Fortresses: Attitudes Towards Immigrants from the Sadc Region in South Africa as a Critical Factor in the Integration of Southern Africa
South Africa attracts migrants from other parts of Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and the Americas. However, the immigration debate within the country apparently revolves around immigrants from the other parts of Africa, including the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, and projects them as undesirable in a way best interpreted as discriminatory and exclusionary. This paper argues that this, coupled with South Africa’s immigrat…
Border studies at 45
A Case Study of Black African Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Inner City Johannesburg Using the Mixed Embeddedness Approach
In inner city Johannesburg, South Africa, there is evidence that discrimination, previous ownership of a business in country of origin, and transnational networks play a significant role in the formation and growth of Black African immigrant entrepreneurships, but a careful analysis proves that the wider economic and institutional-political framework plays an important role. Consequently, this case study of Black African immigrant entrepreneurshi…
Indigenous Knowledge System and Agricultural Drought Adaptation in the uMkhanyakude District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal
By deploying an intersectional feminist political ecology analysis, this paper explores small-scale farmers' (SSFs') experiences and responses to agricultural drought in the uMkhanyakude District Municipality, South Africa. A mixed methods approach was employed, incorporating a household questionnaire survey, and analysed using Microsoft Excel complemented by qualitative observations and document review, both of which underwent reflexive thematic…
Rethinking diaspora remittances in the post-Mugabe era in Zimbabwe
Based on a qualitative study of Zimbabwean migrants based in South Africa, who regularly remitted goods and money to Zimbabwe between 2010 and 2020, this paper suggests that at a local level, remittances alleviated poverty with very limited if any transformation of the political economy at the national level. Such remittances promoted consumerism without sustainable investment that can structurally transform the economy. In addition, the dependen…
A Case Study of Black African Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Inner City Johannesburg Using the Mixed Embeddedness Approach
In inner city Johannesburg, South Africa, there is evidence that discrimination, previous ownership of a business in country of origin, and transnational networks play a significant role in the formation and growth of Black African immigrant entrepreneurships, but a careful analysis proves that the wider economic and institutional-political framework plays an important role. Consequently, this case study of Black African immigrant entrepreneurshi…
Johannesburg (South Africa) Inner City African Immigrant Traders: Pathways from Poverty
The Beitbridge–Mussina Interface: Towards Flexible Citizenship, Sovereignty and Territoriality at the Border
Located at the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe, the Beitbridge border post aptly demonstrates border citizenship from below. Established as a result of the London Convention of 1884, the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe finds expression at the Beitbridge border post. However, Venda-speaking people on both sides of the border post who were “separated” when the border was drawn have always engaged in dynamic and agentive ways that …
African Immigrant Traders in Inner City Johannesburg: Deconstructing the Threatening ‘Other’
Of Borders and Fortresses: Attitudes Towards Immigrants from the Sadc Region in South Africa as a Critical Factor in the Integration of Southern Africa
South Africa attracts migrants from other parts of Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and the Americas. However, the immigration debate within the country apparently revolves around immigrants from the other parts of Africa, including the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, and projects them as undesirable in a way best interpreted as discriminatory and exclusionary. This paper argues that this, coupled with South Africa’s immigrat…
African Migrant Traders’ Experiences in Johannesburg Inner City: Towards the Migrant Calculated Risk and Adaptation Framework
Globally, migrants face numerous socio-economic and institutional impediments that hinder their participation in the labour market of host cities and/or countries. This motivates them to join the informal economic sector to make a living. Applying the concept of tactical cosmopolitanism to understand the social and economic agency of African migrants, this article reports on an explorative analysis of the experiences of informal African migrant s…
Resistance and Resilience by Informal Traders in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: Beyond Weapons of the Weak
Zimbabwean Dispensation, Special and Exemption Permits in South Africa: On Humanitarian Logic, Depoliticisation and Invisibilisation of Migrants
Cross-border migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa has existed for a long time. Given this context, the governance of migrants, especially the undocumented Zimbabweans by South Africa, has come to the fore. Starting in 2009, South Africa granted undocumented Zimbabwean migrants Zimbabwean Dispensation Permits, which were replaced by Zimbabwean Special Dispensation Permits in 2014. In turn, the Zimbabwean Special Dispensation Permits were replac…
Border Practices at Beitbridge Border and Johannesburg Inner City: Implications for the Sadc Regional Integration Project
Regarded not only as a line that separates South Africa and Zimbabwe to underline the interiority and exteriority of the two countries, as well as to control and manage migration and immigration, Beitbridge border effectively plays out the immigration debates and dynamics at the heart of the nation-state of South Africa. Based on a qualitative study of how migrants from other African countries are treated at this border and in Johannesburg inner …
Migration Conundrums, Regional Integration and Development: Africa-Europe Relations in a Changing Global Order
Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and Development: Issues, Dynamics and Perspectives in West, Eastern and Southern Africa
On Decolonising Borders and Regional Integration in the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Region
This paper uses insights gained from a qualitative study of informal cross border actors on selected Southern African Development Community (SADC) borders to argue for the decolonisation of these borders. It is asserted that, although SADC citizens enjoy a 90-day free visa in member states, this should not be simplistically taken to mean that there are "open borders" and free movement of persons in region. The recognition that a border "open" to …
On Borders and the Liminality of Undocumented Zimbabwean Migrants in South Africa
The historical continuities of the Zimbabwe–South Africa crossborder migrations provide a context in which such movements have continued, despite securitized borders, in post-apartheid South Africa. Based on a qualitative study of undocumented Zimbabwean migrants in three places; namely, the Beitbridge border, South African border town of Musina and the city of Johannesburg, between December 2014 and March 2015, I argue that, securitizing the bor…
Regionalism, Security and Development in Africa
Intra-Africa Migrations: Reimaging Borders and Migration Management
Covid-19 and street traders in the City of uMhlathuze, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: On responses and adaptation mechanisms
The paper analysed the response and adaptation strategies of informal street traders to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the City of uMhlathuze, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A total of 30 informal street traders were interviewed using in-depth unstructured interviews as an instrument of data collection. Findings suggest that the informal street traders responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by breaking COVID-19 regulations to secure incomes as w…
Protected areas and environmental conservation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: On HEIs, livelihoods and sustainable development
Purpose The paper aims to advocate for innovative approaches in terms of the involvement of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the conservation of the environment, which fully considers and includes the developmental needs of indigenous communities while at the same time protecting the environment. Design/methodology/approach Using a qualitative study of indigenous communities and protected area (PA) authorities in Okhahlamba-Drakensberg, Kw…
Public Knowledge, Perceptions and Practices in the High-Risk Lightning Zone of South Africa
Lightning activity is a hazard for human societies and the environment, and a common feature of South Africa's climate system, although with great regional variation. The north-eastern section of the country, including the predominantly rural uMkhanyakude District Municipality, is among the most vulnerable regions, where a growing trend of lightning-related deaths and injuries has been observed in recent years. Despite this, and the Disaster Mana…
Interrogating the nexus between irregular migration and insecurity along ‘ungoverned’ border spaces in West Africa
The ‘coloniality’, porosity, and ‘ungovernability’ of borders in West Africa, have engendered undocumented migration, in which most people engage to visit their kin and for economic reasons such as herding, farming, fishing, hunting, and trading. This occurs concurrently with human smuggling, human trafficking, gun-running, terrorism, and money laundering. The rise in these cross-border criminal activities and the resultant insecurity have put ir…
On the temporal, spatial and structural linkages between informal and formal economic enterprises in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Regionalism Security and Development in Africa
Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa: Networks of Civil Society Organizations and Alternative Regionalism
Covid-19, Dissensus and de facto Transformation at the South Africa–Zimbabwe Border at Beitbridge
This paper explores the coronavirus-induced closure of the South Africa–Zimbabwe border at Beitbridge and its effects on informal cross-border trade activities and migration. It is based on a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with informal cross-border traders (ICBTs), migrant workers, local informal transporters, informal cross-border transporters, bus drivers, and individual couriers (hired to transport goods across illegal border…
Zimbabwe's unemployed youth: On waithustlinghood, struggle for survival and political activism
This paper examines the extent to which Zimbabwe's economic crisis compelled its citizens, particularly the youth, to engage in urban informality in order to make a living. In addition to this, the Zimbabwean youth in question have also turned to political activism, which has taken a complex trajectory in that it has assumed oppositional politics as well as politics of patronage. The former hope that a change in the political dispensation in Zimb…
Beyond a tokenistic inclusion of indigenous knowledge systems in protected area governance and management in Okhahlamba-Drakensberg
This paper explores the perception of indigenous communities towards the co-management framework and whether or not this empowered them to utilise their indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in the management and governance of the Protected Area (PA) in Okhahlamba-Drakensberg. IKS is excluded from the political systems of PA governance but this can be remedied through participation of indigenous communities in the agenda-setting around environmental…
Political science (29 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Geography (21 works) · Economics (17 works) · Economic growth (15 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Development economics (11 works) · Law (9 works)