NAME

TITLE

Supervisor

Zwelethu Jolobe

'Rethinking Ripeness in Internal Negotiations’:  Perceptual Shifts, Enticing Opportunities and the South African Negotiation Process

Seegers

Gemma Oberth

Who governs public health? The spheres of influence in Southern African HIV and AIDS policy-making.

Mattes

Carlos Shenga

Legislative Recruitment, Committee Performance and Public Support for Legislatures in Mozambique: A Comparative Case Study over Three First Multiparty Legislatures, 1995-1999, 2000-2004 and 2005-2009.

Mattes

NAME

TITLE

Supervisor

Rochella Schollij

The EAC - A critical analysis: What are the strengths and weaknesses of the EAC?

Stephan

NAME

TITLE

Supervisor

Gina Edmonds

The Next Scramble for Africa? A Critical Analysis of the Implications of Foreign Investment in Sub-Saharan African Land.

Akokpari

Sam Eyde

A comparison of the Norwegian and Chinese foreign aid approaches to sub-Saharan Africa.

Smith

Laura Freeman

Minority group aggression and the ethnic security dilemma: An examination of the Banyamulenge in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Seegers

Mntungwa Gubevu

Brazil, China, and India and the Group of Seven (G7) countries in International Monetary Fund (IMF) Governance Reform: 1999 – 2011.

Schrire

David Geddes

Operation Enduring Nightmare?’ Strategic Criticism of Military Intervention in Afghanistan. October 2001 – January 2010

Seegers

Margaretha Herfurth

Tracking the Evolution of the Norm of Refugee Protection.

Smith

Yashar Keramati

Accounting for the prevalence of violence threatening everyday community life in Overcome: Investigating the relationship between gangsterism, the drug trade and police inefficiency.

Reddy

Anine Kriegler

United States post-Cold war drug and trade policy and Mexico.

Stephan

Kyle Martin

International environment governance: A case for increased regulation in the carbon markets.

Schrire

Tiffany Mugo

Problems of protection of women’s rights in Africa: An exploration between the social and cultural within a society and legislative protection.

Reddy

Shannon Mitchell

Bridging the gap: The role of the gold mining sector in track two diplomacy and South Africa's political transition.

Jolobe

Eleyce Northcraft

Transnational activism and improving AIDS treatment access: a case study exploring the causal relationship between transnational AIDS treatment activism and the reduction of global antiretroviral prices from 1996 to 2000.

Jolobe

Robin Scher

Mobile phone technology: Offering a new approach to understanding the political opportunities, mobilising structures and framing processes of social movements.

Jolobe

Ashleigh Searle

The causes, characteristics and consequences of militarised refugee camps and the role they play in conflict.

Seegers

Stacy Smith

Rape as a 'Tool of War': A Critical Study.

Seegers

Kendra Stoffberg

Celebrity humanitarian activism in conflicts: a critical and descriptive study.

Seegers

Martyn Swain

The Professional Interpreter in Transitional Justice: An Empirical Study.

Seegers

Kristen Thompson

Regional Education Initiatives: Lessons for Southern Africa.

Akokpari

Gillian Turner

US policy in Africa. 

Smith

Christopher Vandome

A Critical Analysis of International Financial Institutions' Understanding of Political Corruption: Focus on the IMF, World Bank, and the ANC.

Seegers

Mathew Walsh

The Role of PMC’s (Private Military Companies) in Counter-insurgency Combat in Afghanistan (2001 to 2010).

Seegers

Sean Woolfrey

Regional integration in Africa: How this has compared with similar efforts in other areas such as S. America and Asia.

Stephan

NAME

TITLE

Supervisor

Jessica Boast

Little is to be gained by lamenting the past: Assessing the role that accountability of the past judiciary plays as an element relative to the transformative process of states in transition.

Corder, Hugh Prof (Law)

Tanya Charles

Peculiar places and legitimate chiefs? An exploration of the role of traditional authorities in the titled locality of kwaMeyi village, Umzimkhulu district, South Africa.

Ntsebeza, Lungisile Prof (Sociology)

Jean Elliott

A home for all? Exploring discourses that inform the construction of belonging in contemporary South Africa.

Du Toit

Amandine Fromet de Rosnay

Kenya and the ICC: The Politics of the 2007 Election- Violence Case.

Seegers

Rachel Goodman

How Can Outsiders Help Victims of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Fragile and Low-Resource Settings? An Assessment of American Service Delivery Programs in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Van der Merwe, Hugo Dr (CSVR)

Rigtje Jeeninga

Global Responsibility: humanitarian intervention as a justified mechanism to end widespread and systemic sexual violence.

Powell, Cathleen (Law)

Katherine Kopkowski

The right to a basic education in South Africa: Providing content to the right to achieve adequacy in schools.

Calland, Richard Prof (Law)

Debora Orlando

Workers at the bottom of global value chains – Can their conditions be improved?  A case study: the Suid Bokkeveld rooibos tea farmers.

Von Broembsen, Marlese (Law)

Karabo Rajuili

Sowing the seeds of injustice? A critical study of the peacemaking process in Mozambique.

Seegers

Deon Snyman

Requirements for Sustainable Peace in Worcester.

Scanlon, Helen Dr (AGI)

Lara Sierra-Rubia

Transitioning from collective amnesia to collective memory: the eruption of memory in Spain.

Du Toit

Amy Thom

Planting new roots: female migrants and urban agriculture in Cape Town, South Africa and Lima, Peru

Conradie, Beatrice (Economics)

Amber Warnat

Intersectionality and employment equity in South Africa.

Winfield, Jimmy (Accounting)

Sylvia Wirtjes

Teaching about the TRC – Teachers’ Approaches and Attitudes.

Sieborger, Rob Prof (Education)

NAME

TITLE

Supervisor

Jon Anthony (POL)

Food insecurity in Cape Town: How inadequate access affects human health and livelihoods

Mattes

Chileshe Chileshe (PS)

An application of Lindberg’s thesis in assessing democratic growth in Zambia.

Mattes

Shawn Duthie (PS)

The African Union and whether the initial enthusiasm and ideas for pan-Africanism as the OAU became the AU has developed into actual developments towards African integration.

Akokpari

Lucy Jamieson (PS)

Children's Political Rights: Participation in legislative processes in the South African Parliamen.

Mattes

Rorisang Lekalake (PS)

Testing Ronald Ingelhart's intergenerational value change thesis in Botswana (1999-2008).

Mattes

Moletsane Monyake (PS)

Measuring generalised trust in sub Saharan Africa: A Critique.

Mattes

NAME

TITLE

Supervisor

Kevin Foster

Policy Regimes in South African Electricity policy as a barrier to reform and sustainability.

Taljaard

Makondo Kabinga

Commercialising Zambia’s Urban Water Services: A critical analysis.

Reddy

Pamela Kago

State Fragility and Militia Proliferation in Kenya: A Case Study of Policy Inadequacy in the Context of 'Soft' Insecurity.

Cameron

Thamsanqha Ledwaba

Rethinking the Case for a Developmental State in South Africa: To what extent has post-1994 Higher Education Policy and Skills Development Policy in South Africa been developmental?

Soudien, Crain Prof (Education)

Tamlynne Meyer

Affirming women in the South African public service: a study of provincial government, 2000-2007.

Cameron

Cheryl-Anne Smith

Public participation and public empowerment:  What do the processes of public participation reveal about public empowerment at a municipal government level?

NaidooV

NAME

TITLE

Supervisor

Claire Price

A critical evaluation of Skocpol's historical-structuralist theory to account for the change in regime in Egypt in 2011: What are the strengths and weaknesses of Skocpol's historical-institutionalist theory in understanding the overthrow (or fall) of the

Reddy