Afrocentricity Trajectories of Looting in South Africa

Mfundo Mandla Masuku is associate professor of built environment and development studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.Dalifa Ngobese is senior lecturer of culture and heritage studies and program leader at the University of Mpumalanga.Mbulaheni Obert Maguvhe is professor of inclusive education at the University of South Africa. Sifiso Ndlovu is lecturer of political science at the University of Mpumalanga.

• Chapter 1: Alooter Continua! : Tracing Historical Trajectories of Looting from Pre-colonial, Colonial and Postcolonial in South AfricaDalifa Ngobese Chapter 2: Looting of Indigenous Knowledge Systems through Patents and Intellectualproperty policiesDina Mokgadi MashiyaneChapter 3: The Nexus of Land Dispossession and Food Insecurity in Contemporary South Africa: The Vicarious Consequences of Land Looting Institutionalized through the Natives Land Act 27 Mfundo Mandla Masuku, Mbongeni Shadrack Sithole and Bhekani NgwenyaChapter 4: Criminalising Looting and the Quest for Social Justice in Post-colonial South Africa: Perspectives from Twitter dataKemist Shumba, Kutenda Trinos and Nirmala, D. GopalChapter 5: Unemployment as an Instigator of LootingTawanda Majoko and Annah DuduChapter 6: An Appraisal of South Africa’s July Civil Unrest through the Lens of Frustration-Aggression Theory: The Case of KwaZulu-Natal ProvinceMethembe MdlaloseChapter 7: Looting and Unrest after Former President Z

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