Sanusha Naidu

• Senior Researcher at Institute for Global Dialogue, Unisa

This chapter explores the engagement between South Africa and China from a labour perspective. In particular, the focus will be on the evolution of labour relations in shaping the bilateral interaction between Beijing and Pretoria. It will examine the positioning of South Africa’s labour federation in influencing the political, economic and social...

Given complexities currently underpinning multipolar realities of the international system, it seems that a pluralist internationalism is becoming a strategic consideration for a post-Western world order. This warrants new agendas for cooperation. Based on the latter this analysis examines to what extent the BRICS can articulate such a new agenda b...

Following South Africa’s reemergence into the international system as a global citizen after 1994, the country has continuously aligned its foreign policy principles to the values and norms that underscored the anti-apartheid struggle; it was captured by President Mandela’s 1993 Foreign Affairs article.1 (Mandela 1993). In it, Mandela sketched out...

As the terms of Zimbabwe’s negotiated political settlement were being concluded between the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in the latter half of 2008, much of the concern focused around the dynamics of the power-sharing formula. With battle lines drawn over who should co...

As the first decade of the twenty-first century draws to a close there is much to reflect upon especially with respect to Africa’s global revitalization in international relations. The emergence of Southern actors (especially China and now India) in Africa’s political and economic landscape has created a new wave of academic inquiries. The research...

The geographical variability in Helicoverpa armigera susceptibility levels to Cry2Ab toxin expressed by transgenic maize (not currently commercialized in India) was determined through log dose probit assays conducted on populations collected during 2004–05 (from 25 districts) and 2007–08 (from 22 districts) across India. While 2004–05 is the year p...

This article explores China's current engagements in Africa. It does not intend to reproduce the historical literature already evident in the discourse but rather seeks to place the current relationship in context and provide a more balanced view of where the points of convergence and divergence lie which may impinge positively or negatively on the...

The paper attempts an evaluation of China's current engagement in Africa and its consequences. This engagement cannot be ignored for a variety of reasons. Firstly, it gives Africa leverage in its relations with the North. Secondly, China's emergence onto the global stage compels African government and their counterparts in the South to reflect on a...

This volume includes some of the papers presented at the Inaugural Conference of the Institute for Social and Economic Studies (IESE), which took place on 19 September 2007, in Maputo. The articles contained in this volume were selected from the panel on “Southern Africa”. The topics of the Conference, on “Challenges for social and economic researc...

FOCAC 2006 concluded a year that was dubbed by the Chinese leadership as China's ‘Year of Africa’. On the surface, the ‘Year of Africa’ demonstrated a striking success for China. However, there are important factors that can undermine the relationship between Africa and China. The aim of this article is to explore whether the future of FOCAC can an...

There have been mixed reactions to China's aggressive pursuit of Africa's energy resources both within African countries and in the international community, for a range of different reasons. The extent of the Chinese penetration means Africans need to look at how to best exploit the situation for sustainable development, rather than for short‐term...

The mode of inheritance of resistance to Cry1Ac toxin of Bacillus thuringiensis in the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner), was elucidated through bioassay analysis of the response of resistant, susceptible, F1 hybrid and backcross H. armigera progeny to Cry1Ac using semi-synthetic diet and transgenic Bt cotton plants. The dominance valu...

The quantitative levels of Cry1Ac and the seasonal decline in expression differed significantly among the eight commercial Bollgard hybrids tested. The Cry1Ac expression was found to be variable among the hybrids and also between different plant parts. The leaves of Bt-cotton plants were found to have the highest levels of Cry1Ac expression followe...

A simple bioassay on Helicoverpa armigera, utilizing Bt-cotton seed as a source of Cry1Ac toxin is described. The CrylAc content in seeds was found to be 1.77 ± 0.23 μg/g and the variability between individual seeds and seed lots was minimal. Bioassays on H. armigera using Bt-seeds stored at room temperature for 2 years showed that there was no sig...

In the course of South Africa’s first decade of democracy, the role of small political parties has become the subject of much speculation. The smallest parties on the South African political landscape seem trapped in what has become a fish bowl of opposition politics. Questions have emerged around their relevance and future prospects. What do these...

In the Run‐up to the 1999 elections, both academia and the media assumed that there would be a ‘coloured’ and ‘Indian’ vote. This article challenges this assumption through a disaggregation of the election results. It illustrates an electoral heterogeneity within these communities with various classes voting in different ways. Moreover, the article...

The quantitative levels of Cry1Ac and the seasonal de-cline in expression differed significantly among the eight commercial Bollgard hybrids tested. The Cry1Ac ex-pression was found to be variable among the hybrids and also between different plant parts. The leaves of Bt-cotton plants were found to have the highest levels of Cry1Ac expression follo...

In the run up to South Africa's three national elections both academia and the media advocated that electoral behaviour would be informed by the race census thesis. This article challenges this dominant thesis by using evidence from post-apartheid South Africa's three general elections which suggests that the racial census thesis is not the only fa...