Ahmed Jazbhay

University of South Africa | unisa · Department of Political Sciences

The paper examined the African Continental Free Trade Area with a view to assessing its potential economic benefits and challenges for regional economic integration. The paper adopted qualitative methodology and approach in obtaining relevant data towards achieving the objectives. Specifically, qualitative data were obtained from secondary sources...

Nigeria and Egypt are Africa’s largest and third largest economies respectively. However, both states have been embroiled in economic, political and security turmoil in recent years. Despite their potential importance, there is a dearth of scholarship which speaks directly to Egypt-Nigeria relations. In terms of bilateral economic relations, trade...

The struggle of the Palestinian people is rarely regarded as a struggle against colonialism but rather a struggle between two Abrahamic faiths for sole control of the Holy Lands known as Palestine to indigenous Arabs and biblical Israel to the largely settler population of Jews and Zionists. Israel’s wars on Gaza and the subjugation of the Palestin...

This is the introductory chapter of the book: Justice, Human Rights and Civil Religion in Africa: Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths. The chapter is divided into three sections on justice, leadership and human rights. It locates the various failed attempts in Africa to develop, democratise and instil virtues of a just state a...

This chapter grapples with the existence of civil religion in South Africa using Jean Jacques Rousseau’s notions of patriotism, good citizenship, a good lawgiver, separation of powers and an elective aristocracy. After outlining Rousseau’s thoughts on civil religion, it investigates the existence of a Mandela-mythology phenomenon built on the perso...

Debates have raged amongst scholars regarding the respective economic and political strength of Africa’s largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa. The former recently surpassed South Africa as the continent’s largest economy. Some lauded this as move away from South Africa’s long-held hegemony on the continent whilst others pointed to the banali...

In this thesis, I investigate the possible existence of a civil religion in South Africa through the lens of political philosophers Niccolo Machiavelli and Jean Jacques Rousseau. I began by examining the civil religion ideas of both Machiavelli and Rousseau in order to appropriately set out the theoretical framework for the thesis. Machiavelli had...

Two competing perspectives have influenced the debate concerning the approach to be adopted in search of continental-wide integration in Africa. Although both perspectives argue for the idea of a “United States of Africa”, the approach of former Libyan leader, Muhammar Gaddafi, advocated for holistic integration, whilst other African leaders, spear...

This dissertation investigates the relationship between religion and the state in Enlightenment Europe as articulated by John Locke, Benedict de Spinoza and Jean Jacques Rousseau. I conduct the study focusing mainly on the primary texts of the above-mentioned theorists. Locke and Spinoza conceived of toleration to be the best way in which religion...