MPhil

Ayanda Madlala
Supervisor: Prof Moenieba Isaacs

Godfrey Eliseus Massay
Supervisor: Dr Phillan Zamchiya
Thesis: State Repossession of Farmlands in Tanzania: Critical Inquiry of Drivers, Processes and Impacts

Jamie-Lee McKay
Supervisor: Prof Andries du Toit
Thesis: An in-depth analysis of relational value-chain governance in the livelihoods of informal foodservice street traders in Wallacedene, Kraaifontein

Maliviwe Makeleni
Supervisor: Dr Farai Mtero
Thesis: Economic analysis of Farming Systems towards Agrarian Reform in the Western Cape Province of South Africa

Nkanyiso Gumede
Supervisor: Prof Ben Cousins
Thesis: Social differentiation and the dynamics of labour on redistributed land in South Africa

Sienne Molepo
Supervisor: Prof Ruth Hall

Siphesihle Mbhele
Supervisor: Prof Moenieba Isaacs
Thesis: “Blue militarisation”: An expedition into understanding how the blue economy and 30×30 agenda policies and initiatives have resulted in militarisation and the criminalisation of livelihoods for coastal communities in Northen KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Sisanda Tembani
Supervisor: Prof Mafaniso Hara
Thesis: The role of urban agriculture in township food security: a case study of Cape Town

Dr Siyabonga Dlamini
Supervisor: Dr Phillan Zamchiya
Thesis: Transforming rural economies through smallholder agriculture: Prospects and challenges for sustainable rural livelihoods in KwaZulu-Natal

Temakaolo Mathebula
Supervisor: Dr Farai Mtero
Thesis: The role of social capital in promoting climate resilience in smallholder farming systems in Ozwathini, KwaZulu-Natal

Tetelo Maila
Supervisor: Prof Ruth Hall

Vuyolwethu Dyani
Supervisor: Dr Farai Mtero
Thesis: An examination of the effects of fallow agricultural land on food security in Cofimvaba’s rural regions
Post Doc

Boaventura Monjane
Supervisor: Prof Ruth Hall

Tapiwa Chatikobo
Supervisor: Prof Ben Cousins
Thesis: Livestock, grazing and land reform in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe: Dynamics of accumulation and social reproduction
PhD

Alex Dubb
Supervisor: Prof Ben Cousins
Thesis: The political economy of small-scale sugarcane growers

Augustine Fosu
Supervisor: Dr Farai Mtero
Thesis: Housing development and customary land tenure system in Ghana: a case study of peri-urban Kumasi

Cassiem Khan
Supervisor: Prof Andries du Toit
Thesis: Food aid: beneficial or disempowering? Exploring the foodways 1 of beneficiaries of food parcels of four Social Welfare Organisations.

Charity Rusere
Supervisor: Dr Phillan Zamchiya / Prof Ruth Hall (Co-Supervisor)
Thesis: Interrogating Agrarian Change and Social-Differentiation after Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme: A Comparison between Beneficiaries and Non-Beneficiaries

Chikondi Manyungwa
Supervisor: Prof Mafa Hara
Thesis: An investigation of women participation in fish value chain and Value chain governance in Malawi: A case of Msaka on Lake Mawi and Kachulu on Lake Chilwa.

Clemente Ntauazi
Supervisor: Prof Ruth Hall
Thesis: Land Politics in the Context of Climate Mitigation: Reforms, Climate Responses and Social Reproduction.

Cyriaque Hakizimana
Supervisor: Prof Ruth Hall
Thesis: Generational dynamics in agricultural commercialisation and the implications for the livelihood strategies of rural youth in Africa

Deshni Pillay
Supervisor: Prof Mafa Hara
Thesis: Investigation of the health and wellbeing benefits from biodiversity in South Africa

Desmond Ncube
Supervisor: Prof Ruth Hall
Thesis: Transitional minerals and how they intersect with land politics and agrarian change processes with a specific focus on lithium mining in Zimbabwe.

Hlonela Nomvuzo Sonjani
Supervisor: Dr Farai Mtero
Thesis: Evaluating the impact of government involvement and policy development in enhancing rural food security: a Zondeka location under Amathole Municipality household farming case study

Joseph Ginindza
Supervisor: Prof Moenieba Isaacs
Thesis: The role of small-scale fishing on food security and livelihoods in small-coastal communities in the Western Cape, South Africa

Kushekwa Hopkins Namakando
Supervisor: Dr Phillan Zamchiya
Thesis: Land Alienations and Conflicts: The Difficult Emergence of Rural, Social Movements in Post-Independence Namibia

Lebogang Moremedi
Supervisor: Prof Moenieba Isaacs
Thesis: Understanding the artisanal small scale diamond mining for sustainable livelihood in the Northern Cape: the case of ZamaZamas

Malebo Moepi
Supervisor: Prof Mafa Hara
Thesis: Informal and Formal Cross Border Fish Trade by Women in Southern Africa: The Case of Malawi and South Africa

Nduduzo Majozi
Supervisor: Prof Ruth Hall
Thesis: A ‘new urban revolution’? Socio-spatial dynamics within an Abahlali base Mjondolo land occupation at eKhanana in Durban, South Africa from 2018-2021

Primrose Nkomboni
Supervisor: Dr Farai Mtero
Thesis: Agrarian reform, land use dynamic and livelihood changes: A case study of South-western Zimbabwe

Richard Lumumba Odenda
Supervisor: Prof Ruth Hall
Thesis: Development as dispossession: policy choices, mega-projects and their effects on land rights in Tana River Delta, Kenya

Sifundiso Ndhlovu
Supervisor: Dr Phillan
Thesis: Agrarian reform, land use dynamic and livelihood changes: A case study of South-western Zimbabwe

Shane Phiri
Supervisor: Prof Ruth Hall
Thesis: The politics of tenure: social tenure dynamics and property regimes on state-owned farms in South Africa

Sithandiwe Yeni
Supervisor: Prof Ruth Hall
Thesis: Competing Demands for Land amongst Descendants of Labour Tenants in KwaZulu-Natal and the Implications for Agrarian Change: A Gender and Generational Perspective

Wilson Mhlanga
Supervisor: Prof Moenieba Isaacs
Thesis: Governance, livelihoods, food security and gender roles in the Kapenta (Limnothrissa miodon) fishery on Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe

Yoliswa Msweli
Supervisor: Prof Andries Du Toit
Thesis: Establishing a conception of justice for land from the ground up: a case study of land dispossession and sugar cane plantation development in Zinkwazi, Kwa-Zulu Natal