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Assoc. Prof
Adetiba, Toyin Cotties
Department: Political and International Studies
Research Interest(s): Migration, International relations, Conflict resolution, Military in politics, Public diplomacy.
Active Research Project(s): The military and national security: the South Africa experience since 1994.
Active Community Engagement: Actively working with African Solidarity Campaign (AfriSoC) and Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa.
South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS)
International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS)
Society for the Study of International Relations and Strategic Studies (SSIRSS)
International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences (IISES).
Biography: Toyin Cotties Adetiba is an Associate Professor at the University of Zululand, South Africa. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Fort Hare, South Africa, Master (International Relations and Strategic Studies) from Lagos State University, B A (Hons) in History (University of Ilorin) Nigeria, Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (University of Kwazulu-Natal), Certificate in Higher Education Assessor and Development, (Rhodes University). His research interests include the broad field of International Relations, Conflict Resolution, Migration, and Diplomacy. Adetiba has teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels with proven supervision of both Master and Ph.D. students apart from being external moderators and external examiners of postgraduate studies to other universities within and outside South Africa and NRF reviewer for rating. Adetiba has published extensively in accredited journals and book chapters and co-authored a book.
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- Silencing the Guns by 2020 remains one of the 15 flagship projects of Africa’s Agenda 2063 which has been identified as key to accelerating Africa’s economic growth and development as African countries collectively seek to create a peaceful and secure Africa. However, the reality on the ground depicts varying levels of success, challenges and complexities across all African regions as the continent grapples with numerous wars, civil conflicts, unconstitutional change of governments (UCGs), terrorism, violent popular uprisings, gender-based violence and cases of genocide. Using secondary data analysis, this paper examined the progress, achievements, challenges, stumbling blocks and opportunities that have confronted African countries in the first Ten-Year Implementation Plan of Agenda 2063 as they pursue the national, regional and continental efforts and initiatives to Silencing the Guns. Findings from the study provide useful empirical insights into the monitoring and evaluation of the Ten-Year Implementation Plan of the Agenda 2063 with respect to peace and security. This is critical in the achievement of the overall AU’s vision of building a peaceful, stable, secure, integrated and prosperous Africa, and the essence of Agenda 2030 on the Sustainable Development Goals.
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- Xenophobia is a social evil that has seen the human rights of migrants violated all over the world. In South Africa, black foreign nationals are often humiliated, assaulted, and their businesses destroyed, in addition to being denied some basic services and seldom accused of dealing drugs and taking what belong to South African citizens in the form of jobs and social benefits. South Africans is considered a beneficiary of many acts of selfless solidarity during the apartheid era, however, some South Africa [to a certain extent] believes that what its people enjoy should be extended to the citizens from other country. Thus, its national interest can be daubed as people-centered while promoting the well-being, development and upliftment of its people and ensuring inclusive development of the country. Using a qualitative research method, this study interrogates the xenophobic noise surrounding migrants in South Africa while seeking to know whether xenophobism is a product of jealousy and ignorance? Thus, going by the influence of government policies, how can the principles of Ubuntu diplomacy be explored to checkmate the xenophobes in response to the circumstances surrounding it in South Africa? Theoretically, the study relies on scapegoatism theory, frustration aggression theory, and group threat theory and to explain the possible reasons behind the hostile nature of [black] South African towards black African migrants, concluding that the best, and only solution to the phenomenon is to remove the image of “they are our enemies” through Ubuntu diplomacy.
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- Covid disease was first identified by scientists in 1965 as a human coronavirus associated with a common cold. However, the virus that first appeared on a small scale in November 2019 in Wuhan, China soon translates into a global pandemic that resulted in a global loss of life, social disorderliness, disruption of states’ economies, decelerating sustainable development, as well as a threat to diplomatic relations. Amid this pandemic, students of tertiary institutions were conditionally forced to switch over to an online school system which is quite challenging for most students, particularly those living in rural areas. While trying to explore the experience of students in tertiary institutions located in the remote areas of Kwazulu-Natal Province of South Africa, this paper further highlights the inadequacies and inequalities in South Africa’s educational system. The paper used the theory of social and behavioral science which explain that moral decision-making during a pandemic involves uncertainty. Using the purposive sampling method, this work provides an understanding of the challenges of students in higher institutions living in the rural areas of Kwazulu-Natal Province of South Africa during the pandemic. The study was piloted on samples from the University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa campus, using students and lecturers who resides in Esikhawini, Ngwelezana, and Vulindlela areas of KwaDlangezwa. Thus, the researcher was able to carefully assess the perceptions and the experiences of South African students living in ‘rural ’areas.
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- 2020| Adonis & Abbey Publi...South Africa’s global image has been dented on the continent, mainly because of the frequent attacks on African nationals, which has not only portrayed South Africa as an intolerant country which does not like anything associated with the black skin but as an Afrophobic country. Therefore, the objective of this study is to present an argument that South Africa has an Afrophobic rather than a xenophobic problem. To achieve this, the study employed a documentary content analysis research method; where a systematic review of literature relating to Afrophobia in South Africa was collected and examined. The findings showed that the South African government has failed to put an end to the constant attacks on black African nationals in the republic, which has strained its relationship with African states. Moreover, the political rhetoric by politicians and the porous nature of South Africa's borders are other contributing factors to the Afrophobic problem in the country. The study concluded that public education is key to reducing Afrophobia, through public lectures and seminars to discuss the negative implications of Afrophobia for South Africa's developmental objectives. Furthermore, law enforcement agencies should enforce the full might of law on those found to be perpetuating Afrophobic sentiments.
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- South Africa over the years has been losing a considerable number of teachers and this has become a growing concern among policymakers. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to identify the factors that are responsible for enticing teachers to migration out of South Africa. Using a strict textual analysis of the relevant literature, this paper reveals that South Africa has failed to reduce the emigration of teachers due to poor salaries and working conditions, subsequently, this has seen as agents from developed countries (recently Asian countries) aggressively recruiting teachers from the country. Other factors include poor infrastructure and limited career progression opportunities. The study showed that the brain drain of teachers results in a shortage of teachers in rural areas and increased inefficiency in the public educational system. It is therefore suggested that the government should make the retention of teachers a priority through incentives such as promotion, better salaries and the upgrading of infrastructure. The study concluded that teacher emigration has been a long-existing issue in South Africa and the mere fact that there has been no clear cut plan on how to deal with it is deeply worrying, moreover, today in South African schools, the issue of security has become a focal point, the failure to guarantee the safety of teachers in schools has been seen as a new factor encouraging migration either within the country or abroad.
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- The study examines the challenges of South Africa’s land borders in curbing illegal migration and cross border crime. The study used a qualitative research approach where 15 participants were interviewed through semi-structured interviews. Participants were made up of policy experts and senior researchers who have considerable knowledge on migration and border studies. Data collected revealed that South Africa’s borders were suffering from policy misalignment and years of under investments. Moreover, the South African government has downplayed the need for regional cooperation in addressing these issues; rather it has opted for a unilateral approach. It was discovered that South Africa’s attempt to reduce illegal migration and cross border crimes has seen an increase in the support for border securitisation, even though evidence shows that such an approach will have a detrimental effect on regional integration that might harm South Africa’s regional interests. Failure to address illegal migration and cross border crime, risks fuelling of xenophobic tensions and rendering border management obsolete, which would, in turn, threaten national security. Regional cooperation, elimination of internal policy gaps and improvement of working conditions of border officials were seen key to reducing illegal migration and cross border crimes.
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- Public participation has been viewed as a method for strengthening local governance at the grassroots level of administration through an inclusive democracy and as an imperative portion of unprejudiced administration. Information sharing in administration is the foundation of continuous participatory procedures seen as the facilitators of aggregate insight and comprehensiveness, which are formed by the longing for the participation of the entire group or society. Using documentary method of analysis with empirical observations in the selected local municipalities in South Africa, this paper provides an insight into community and public participation in South Africa‘s local municipality. It further looks at the significance of public participation in governance and decision-making at the local level, the relevance of South Africa‘s decentralization of municipalities for local development and the effect. This paper concludes that public cooperation and participation in local government administration is a two-way imperative embracing and setting obligations for both local government authorities and the general public with persuasive communication, and a community critical thinking system, with the objective of accomplishing better governance for effective service delivery at the grassroots level. Using a content data analysis, it therefore recommended that, IDP as a process must democratically engage the public, in the assessment of current social, economic and environmental reality with the municipality.
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- This article investigates the extent to which the adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in selected areas of Windhoek, Namibia, is impacting five variables, namely (a) productivity of urban farmers,(b) boosting food security,(c) resilience or adaptation of urban farmers,(d) agricultural income for urban farmers, and (e) agricultural sustainability. The paper makes use of primary data gathered through interviews with twenty (20) urban farmers in the five Windhoek suburbs of Katutura, Otjomuise, Khomasdal, Okahandja Park, and Havana. The CSA concept provides conceptual frames and lenses for analysis. The study finds out that while various CSA practices adopted by urban farmers in the targeted areas are assisting to boost the productivity and agricultural income of urban farmers, food security.
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- 2019| Adonis & Abbey Publi...Throughout South Africa’s institutions of higher learning, student bodies aligned to political parties dominate the campus landscape, and over the past 10 years, political politics have exerted significant influence over the functioning and policy direction of student unions at universities. The study, using the University of Zululand as a point of reference, intended to explore the connection between political parties and student unions who are affiliated with these political parties. To accomplish this, the study employed a strict systematic review of the literature. The study revealed that student unions at UniZulu are, largely, influenced by political parties and this compromises their ability to carry out their mandate, which is to be the voice of students via their engagement(s) with the University management.
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- Globally, migration is to a certain degree an important and highly debated political topic among scholars because of its peculiarity to human movement and relationship between states. Migration is fundamental to liberal democracies and a function of the international system of states. Following the demise of the apartheid system and the adoption of inclusive governance in South Africa in 1994, the country has continued to witness an influx of migrants. However, the call for the deportation and rejection of migrants amongst South Africans has continued to increase with black foreign nationals at the receiving end, sometimes openly or clandestinely done by government officials. Using a qualitative research method, underpinned by the following questions (i) Is South Africa playing politics with its migration policies, while surreptitiously legalizing xenophobism? (ii) Can well-managed migration policies allay the fears of foreign nationals, particularly the blacks in South Africa? (iii) What effects would anti-immigrants’ laws and attitudes have on South Africa’s relations with other [African] countries? The paper argued that South Africa’s preoccupation with restrictionism policies, driven by xenophobism and political interest, seems to have compromised inroads for immigrants that are very important to its economic growth, concluding that unless the rhetoric of a perceived socio-economic threat, posed by migrants, is countered effectively, South Africa’s economies stand to lose out substantially from the implementation of anti-immigration policies.
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