Research
Message from our Acting Research Director(s)
Hello everyone
Welcome to our Research page. We, Dr Ekeminiabasi Eyita-Okon and Dr Hlengiwe Ndhlovu will be serving as Acting Research Directors until December 2024. We are delighted to assume this role and look forward to playing our part in making the Wits School of Governance more research-led.
Explore our Research
19 August 2024
Policy brief - Empowering Africa: Advancing climate resilience and sustainability on the Continent
WSG Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Kennedy Manduna contributed to this policy brief with his chapter on why Africa should not drop its guard when negotiating critical and strategic minerals deals with the global powers.
06 March 2024
Labor of love: Re‐membering dismembered bodies in community research
This paper is premised on the argument that women's bodies in their everyday lived experiences are constantly dismembered physically and/or figuratively, as they are constructed as the ‘other.’
06 March 2024
"An urban revolution that doesn’t make me a statistic"
An unfolding global polycrisis has accentuated the critique of contemporary urbanism, which has failed to be inclusive and developmental, especially in the Global South. A shift in trajectory will require a shift in our imaginaries, inclusionary processes and institutions.
14 February 2024
Analysis of the effects of the Electoral Amendment Bill
This research paper presents the findings of an analysis of the Electoral Amendment Bill 2 and the claim that the Bill violates section 46 of the Constitution, demanding that the electoral system “results, in general, in proportional representation”.
05 December 2023
Extractive industries indigenisation, displacement and vulnerabilities
The discovery of diamonds in 2006 in Marange’s Chiadzwa area and extractive industry indigenisation in Zimbabwe beginning in 2010 has led to an expanding number of mining-induced internally displaced persons in the country.
05 December 2023
Do no harm - 5 steps a researcher should take
Researchers have a number of responsibilities when embarking on their work - not least of all to ensure participants are not harmed and are fully heard.
Tayarisha Research Centre
The Centre will conduct academically rigorous, cutting-edge research
on the challenges and opportunities presented by digitalisation,
particularly in the public sector.
Civic Tech Innovation Network
Welcome to the Civic Tech Innovation Network
The Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN) is a Community of Practice (CoP) and action learning network for people with an interest and commitment to leveraging the nexus between technology and civic activism.