Neocolonialism and Neoliberalism in South Africa and Zambia

Why should an ethics of care matter in education?

“…Mathebula (2018:97-99) in Human rights and neoliberal education in post-apartheid South Africa, explained that neoliberalist agendas have rather sought to expand global capital accumulation through free trade, financial deregulation and privatisation. He quoted Hanson and Hentz's (1999) research that indicates that the African National Congressgovernment's (ANC) education budgets are now depoliticised and removed from the realm of public debate and placed in the hands of economists and technocrats (p. 97). Furthermore, he argued, by drawing on Harris (1997) that schools are now simply viewed as units of products whose performance is regulated by the mechanism of consumer choice based on information about their effectiveness and efficiency (p. 98).…”

NGOs in ecotourism: patrons of sustainability or neo-colonial agents? Evidence from Africa

“…The liberation from formerly dominant European colonizers that followed World War II (WWII) was superseded by a wave of neo-colonialism across the developing world including in Sub-Saharan Africa. Numerous countries underwent structural adjustments that advanced neo-colonial agendas (Hanson & Hentz, 1999;Smith, 2010). Neo-colonialism extends previously dismantled colonial hegemonies and entitlements through international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank (Hanson & Hentz, 1999;Nega & Schneider, 2014;Wijesinghe, Mura & Bouchon, 2017).…”

Neoliberalism, Civil Society and Security in Africa

“…There has been a sustained debate about the reasons behind the rightward shift in economic policy, and the effective abandonment of the social democratic Reconstruction and Development Programmed (RDP) in favor of GEAR (see, for example, Adelzadeh, 1996;Padayachee and Michie, 1998;Hanson and Hentz, 1999;Williams and Taylor, 2000). For some, the government's conservatism was related to the externalized nature of the liberation struggle, and the 'petit bourgeois' nature of the African National Congress (ANC) leadership (McKinley, 1997).…”