On‐ and off‐licensed premises drinking behaviour among adults in the city of Tshwane, South Africa: An analysis of data from the International Alcohol Control study

Drawing on field research and a survey of 150 Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg, this paper explores the dimensions of migrants’ transnational experiences in the urban space. I discuss the use of communication platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook as well as other means such as telephone calls in fostering the embedding of transnational migrants within both the Johannesburg and the Zimbabwean socio-economic environments. I engage this migrant-embedding using Bourdieusian concepts of “transnational habitus” and “transnational social field,” which are migration specific variations of Bourdieu’s original concepts of “habitus” and “social field.” In deploying these Bourdieusian conceptual tools, I observe that the dynamics of South–South migration as observed in the Zimbabwean migrants are different to those in the South–North migration streams and it is important to move away from using the same lens in interpreting different realities. For Johannesburg-based migrants to operate within the socio-economic networks produced in South Africa and in Zimbabwe, they need to actively acquire a transnational habitus. I argue that migrants’ cultivation of networks in Johannesburg is instrumental, purposive, and geared towards achieving specific and immediate goals, and latently leads to the development and sustenance of flexible forms of permanency in the transnational urban space.

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Staking a claim: law, inequality and the city in South Africa

Review of African Political Economy ◽

10.1080/03056244.2021.1940123 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Julian Brown

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

The City

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The effects of greening the supplier and innovation on environmental performance and competitive advantage

Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management ◽

10.4102/jtscm.v7i1.121 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Unine Van den Berg ◽

Jean-Pierre Labuschagne ◽

Hugo Van den Berg

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Competitive Advantage ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Competitive Advantages ◽

Latent Constructs ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Environmental Goals ◽

The City ◽

Strength Of Association ◽

Managerial Innovation

Companies in South Africa should realise the important influence of greening their suppliers and of innovation to achieve environmental goals and competitive advantages. In order to prove this, a questionnaire survey was conducted with 75 companies from 11 industries in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality region, South Africa. A confirmatory factor analysis was done, followed by bivariate correlations to determine the strength of association between the latent constructs. Correlations between greening the supplier, innovation, environmental performance and competitive advantages were done. The research found that a green innovative process had a significant effect on environmental performance. Green managerial innovation further had a significant correlation with competitive advantage. The primary result of the study indicated that all the constructs positively related to each other, meaning that greening suppliers, by means of green innovation, leads to an enhanced environmental performance and to competitive advantages.

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