Makhura Benjamin Rapanyane
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6733735 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Makhura Benjamin Rapanyane |
| PRENOMES | Makhura Benjamin |
| SOBRENOME | Rapanyane |
| ASSINATURA | RAPANYANE M B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Limpopo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0530-1083 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Should Should South Africa Embrace a Feminist Foreign Policy to Respond to Gender Inequality
This qualitative study seeks to critically examine whether South Africa can adopt a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) that speaks against biphobia, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, inequality, and patriarchy. The authors argue that South Africa should consider adopting a feminist foreign policy that is gender inclusive of women, children, and gender non-conforming persons. Currently, South Africa does not describe its policy as feminist but rather as…
Instruments of China’s Foreign Policy Towards South Africa
China–South Africa relations have received much attention from members of the public, academics, scholarly research, and the media. Following the signing of the Pretoria Declaration in 2000 and a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 2010, China–South Africa relations have transmuted into a subject of scholarly debate and criticism. The dominant literature on the two countries’ ties focuses largely on whether the relationship is mutually benefic…
Afrocentric Critique of World Systems Analysis as a Critical Theory in International Relations
In this research paper, authors provide a comprehensive overview and critique of the World System Analysis (also read as World System theory). This central focus is driven by the need to bring about a fair and justifiable explanation of the theory and appreciation by examining the work critically as the most persuasive theory in international relations. The aim of this paper is to bring about world system analysis as the best tool in analysing th…
Key Challenges Facing the African National Congress-led Government in South Africa
The African National Congress (ANC) has ruled post-apartheid South Africa since the dawn of democratic rule in 1994. Since then, the ANC enjoyed fluctuating majority voter turn-out until recently when the party won the elections with less than 60% in the 2019 general elections. The genesis of this neglected swing is attributed to the rise of the alternative left, economic freedom fighters, unemployment rate and corruption scandals witnessed durin…
[Un] Silencing the Genuine Voices of Young Emerging Scholars on Challenges Facing Young Academics in South African Universities
There is a clear systemic motive to silence and undermine the genuine voices of young academics in comprehensive South African universities. The foregoing manifests in various ways including gate-keeping publishing techniques. Senior academics do not emphasize the significance of ‘publish or perish’ mantra as needed and on time for young emerging academics. This continued invidious practice is further perpetuated by the circulating scholarly repo…
China’s involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s resource curse mineral driven conflict
Resource curse mineral driven conflicts have taken a major toll in the African continent. Observably, most of the studies which have been conducted do not address major aspects such as the international influence coming from economically powerful countries who rely heavily on Africa’s mineral resources for their economic feed. It is in this context that the current research article is driven by this scholarly major gap that China (second global b…
The role of Chinese mining corporates in adhering to corporate social responsibility in Zambia's mining industry, 2010–2018
Within the context of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), this secondary data‐based research paper examined the role of China's mining companies' adherence to CSR within the context of its engagement with Zambia. The central question grappled within this paper is whether there is a practise of CSR as a corporate ethic strategy to further social good which must be interpreted even beyond the firm or companies' interests, all required by the int…
Consistency and inconsistency in the foreign policy of the Republic of South Africa towards Israel
The subject of South Africa‐Israel relations has always been a considerable scholarly topic that is amongst the ongoing academic and policy makers' debates. This is because of the uncertainties and confusion that exists in South Africa's foreign policy stance on Israel in the contemporary period. In this secondary data‐based research article, the author analyses the historical relations between South Africa and Israel with Palestine in question. …
The rise of artificial intelligence and robots in the 4th Industrial Revolution
The world is becoming one. Globalisation is slowly becoming the leading figure in the interaction and integration of companies, governments, and people of different nations. In this process, technology, products, and information are all spread at a more extremely faster pace more than ever imagined in centuries. Realistically, there are new developments which are transforming the way people live, work and relate to one another in South Africa. Th…
The significance of Reading and Writing Centre in the University of Limpopo
The Centre for Academic Excellence (CAE) through its Reading and Writing Centre (RWC) in the University of Limpopo (UL) offers a wide range of services to the students' populace of UL. These services are poised at improving the academic writing of both undergraduate and post-graduate students. The fundamental drive behind this is to ensure that students do not suffer an academic blow in their academic engagements. As such, this article interrogat…
The new world [dis] order in the complexity of multi‐polarity
History tells us that the United States of America (US)'s hegemonic predomination materialized from a very long‐ideological battle and/ Cold War, sometimes referred to as the war of words lasted for about five decades from the mid‐1940s to 1989, and consequently stopped after the fragmentation of the Soviet Union Empire. Thus, in contemporary times, it is lamentably regrettable that USA has come to face oligopolistic challenge in the context of b…
An Afrocentric critique of China's security concerns in Africa
China's security concerns in Africa has recently become a subject of much academic debate. Most of the academic studies on this subject have wrongly assumed a continental standpoint, which does not take into contemplation the distinctive national captivates of China toward each distinctive African State. Such analytic discourse analysis were also heavily subjected to North [ern] angled perspectives as expressed in either liberal or realist contex…
The impact of Illicit Financial Flows on the South African political economy under Jacob Zuma, 2009–2018
South Africa has also fallen a victim of a greater major concern over the scale and negative impact of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) on the country's governance and developmental agenda. However, there is an unjustified observation that as one of Africa's biggest economies, South Africa is not a victim of IFFs. This observation shows that scholars and academic practitioners have not yet uniformly come to a cul‐de‐sac on this subject, and as such…
China's multinational corporations in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mining industry
China's entrance in Africa in the early 2000s through the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation has apparently signalled several mutual beneficial agreements. However, there is a view that the Asian tiger's (China) arrival on the African soil was driven by its national interests. Such interests were particularly in the continent's rich mineral resources complex, which are deemed significant for its own economic boom. This observation reflects that sc…
An Afrocentric exploration of Jacob Zuma's anti Apartheid stance
In this article, the author utilizes interdisciplinary critical discourse analysis to analyse the state of South Africa–Israel relations under the Zuma‐led African National Congress (ANC). The author ground roots this article on Afrocentricity as the alternative theoretical framework to identify the position of the ANC in relation to the unfolding events in Israel and broadly analyse this position in order to make sense of it. This is done within…
China’s involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s resource curse mineral driven conflict
Resource curse mineral driven conflicts have taken a major toll in the African continent. Observably, most of the studies which have been conducted do not address major aspects such as the international influence coming from economically powerful countries who rely heavily on Africa’s mineral resources for their economic feed. It is in this context that the current research article is driven by this scholarly major gap that China (second global b…
The rise of artificial intelligence and robots in the 4th Industrial Revolution
The world is becoming one. Globalisation is slowly becoming the leading figure in the interaction and integration of companies, governments, and people of different nations. In this process, technology, products, and information are all spread at a more extremely faster pace more than ever imagined in centuries. Realistically, there are new developments which are transforming the way people live, work and relate to one another in South Africa. Th…
An Afrocentric exploration of Jacob Zuma's anti Apartheid stance
In this article, the author utilizes interdisciplinary critical discourse analysis to analyse the state of South Africa–Israel relations under the Zuma‐led African National Congress (ANC). The author ground roots this article on Afrocentricity as the alternative theoretical framework to identify the position of the ANC in relation to the unfolding events in Israel and broadly analyse this position in order to make sense of it. This is done within…
The impact of Illicit Financial Flows on the South African political economy under Jacob Zuma, 2009–2018
South Africa has also fallen a victim of a greater major concern over the scale and negative impact of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) on the country's governance and developmental agenda. However, there is an unjustified observation that as one of Africa's biggest economies, South Africa is not a victim of IFFs. This observation shows that scholars and academic practitioners have not yet uniformly come to a cul‐de‐sac on this subject, and as such…
The impact of Illicit Financial Flows on the South African political economy under Jacob Zuma, 2009–2018
South Africa has also fallen a victim of a greater major concern over the scale and negative impact of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) on the country's governance and developmental agenda. However, there is an unjustified observation that as one of Africa's biggest economies, South Africa is not a victim of IFFs. This observation shows that scholars and academic practitioners have not yet uniformly come to a cul‐de‐sac on this subject, and as such…
China's multinational corporations in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mining industry
China's entrance in Africa in the early 2000s through the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation has apparently signalled several mutual beneficial agreements. However, there is a view that the Asian tiger's (China) arrival on the African soil was driven by its national interests. Such interests were particularly in the continent's rich mineral resources complex, which are deemed significant for its own economic boom. This observation reflects that sc…
An Afrocentric exploration of Jacob Zuma's anti Apartheid stance
In this article, the author utilizes interdisciplinary critical discourse analysis to analyse the state of South Africa–Israel relations under the Zuma‐led African National Congress (ANC). The author ground roots this article on Afrocentricity as the alternative theoretical framework to identify the position of the ANC in relation to the unfolding events in Israel and broadly analyse this position in order to make sense of it. This is done within…
The rise of artificial intelligence and robots in the 4th Industrial Revolution
The world is becoming one. Globalisation is slowly becoming the leading figure in the interaction and integration of companies, governments, and people of different nations. In this process, technology, products, and information are all spread at a more extremely faster pace more than ever imagined in centuries. Realistically, there are new developments which are transforming the way people live, work and relate to one another in South Africa. Th…
The significance of Reading and Writing Centre in the University of Limpopo
The Centre for Academic Excellence (CAE) through its Reading and Writing Centre (RWC) in the University of Limpopo (UL) offers a wide range of services to the students' populace of UL. These services are poised at improving the academic writing of both undergraduate and post-graduate students. The fundamental drive behind this is to ensure that students do not suffer an academic blow in their academic engagements. As such, this article interrogat…
The new world [dis] order in the complexity of multi‐polarity
History tells us that the United States of America (US)'s hegemonic predomination materialized from a very long‐ideological battle and/ Cold War, sometimes referred to as the war of words lasted for about five decades from the mid‐1940s to 1989, and consequently stopped after the fragmentation of the Soviet Union Empire. Thus, in contemporary times, it is lamentably regrettable that USA has come to face oligopolistic challenge in the context of b…
An Afrocentric critique of China's security concerns in Africa
China's security concerns in Africa has recently become a subject of much academic debate. Most of the academic studies on this subject have wrongly assumed a continental standpoint, which does not take into contemplation the distinctive national captivates of China toward each distinctive African State. Such analytic discourse analysis were also heavily subjected to North [ern] angled perspectives as expressed in either liberal or realist contex…
[Un] Silencing the Genuine Voices of Young Emerging Scholars on Challenges Facing Young Academics in South African Universities
There is a clear systemic motive to silence and undermine the genuine voices of young academics in comprehensive South African universities. The foregoing manifests in various ways including gate-keeping publishing techniques. Senior academics do not emphasize the significance of ‘publish or perish’ mantra as needed and on time for young emerging academics. This continued invidious practice is further perpetuated by the circulating scholarly repo…
China’s involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s resource curse mineral driven conflict
Resource curse mineral driven conflicts have taken a major toll in the African continent. Observably, most of the studies which have been conducted do not address major aspects such as the international influence coming from economically powerful countries who rely heavily on Africa’s mineral resources for their economic feed. It is in this context that the current research article is driven by this scholarly major gap that China (second global b…
The role of Chinese mining corporates in adhering to corporate social responsibility in Zambia's mining industry, 2010–2018
Within the context of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), this secondary data‐based research paper examined the role of China's mining companies' adherence to CSR within the context of its engagement with Zambia. The central question grappled within this paper is whether there is a practise of CSR as a corporate ethic strategy to further social good which must be interpreted even beyond the firm or companies' interests, all required by the int…
Consistency and inconsistency in the foreign policy of the Republic of South Africa towards Israel
The subject of South Africa‐Israel relations has always been a considerable scholarly topic that is amongst the ongoing academic and policy makers' debates. This is because of the uncertainties and confusion that exists in South Africa's foreign policy stance on Israel in the contemporary period. In this secondary data‐based research article, the author analyses the historical relations between South Africa and Israel with Palestine in question. …
Key Challenges Facing the African National Congress-led Government in South Africa
The African National Congress (ANC) has ruled post-apartheid South Africa since the dawn of democratic rule in 1994. Since then, the ANC enjoyed fluctuating majority voter turn-out until recently when the party won the elections with less than 60% in the 2019 general elections. The genesis of this neglected swing is attributed to the rise of the alternative left, economic freedom fighters, unemployment rate and corruption scandals witnessed durin…
Afrocentric Critique of World Systems Analysis as a Critical Theory in International Relations
In this research paper, authors provide a comprehensive overview and critique of the World System Analysis (also read as World System theory). This central focus is driven by the need to bring about a fair and justifiable explanation of the theory and appreciation by examining the work critically as the most persuasive theory in international relations. The aim of this paper is to bring about world system analysis as the best tool in analysing th…
Instruments of China’s Foreign Policy Towards South Africa
China–South Africa relations have received much attention from members of the public, academics, scholarly research, and the media. Following the signing of the Pretoria Declaration in 2000 and a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 2010, China–South Africa relations have transmuted into a subject of scholarly debate and criticism. The dominant literature on the two countries’ ties focuses largely on whether the relationship is mutually benefic…
Should Should South Africa Embrace a Feminist Foreign Policy to Respond to Gender Inequality
This qualitative study seeks to critically examine whether South Africa can adopt a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) that speaks against biphobia, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, inequality, and patriarchy. The authors argue that South Africa should consider adopting a feminist foreign policy that is gender inclusive of women, children, and gender non-conforming persons. Currently, South Africa does not describe its policy as feminist but rather as…
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