The nexus between oil prices, exchange rate and foreeign direct investment in South Africa
- Authors: Mapanzure, Rufaro
- Date: 2023-00
- Subjects: Direct Marketing
- Language: English
- Type: Masters theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/10126 , vital:74939
- Description: The 2000 to 2020 relationship between oil prices, exchange rates, and foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Africa presents a fascinating case in the global economics. Noteworthy is that this period is marked by some important geopolitical events, technological advancements, and economic shifts that provide a rich ground for analyzing how these three critical factors interact in an emerging country. South Africa, with its unique economic and political landscape, offers an exemplary context for exploring the dynamics of these variables and their collective impact on the nation's economic health and growth. This study conducted an empirical analysis to investigate the association of oil prices, exchange rates, and foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Africa from 2000 to 2020. The research applied the autoregressive distributed lag bounds technique (ARDL) after initial unit root tests indicated different orders of integration (1(0) and 1(1)) for the variables. The results align with the risk aversion theory, revealing a significant and negative relationship between exchange rates and foreign direct investment in the long-term. Conversely, the interaction term EXCH_OIL, interest rates, and inflation demonstrated a significant and positive relationship with foreign direct investment in both the short-run and the long-run. The Granger causality test identified a unidirectional causality from foreign direct investment to exchange rates. This study recommends implementing policies aimed at stabilizing oil prices and exchange rates to entice foreign investment into South Africa. , Thesis (Masters) -- Faculty of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2023
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- Authors: Mapanzure, Rufaro
- Date: 2023-00
- Subjects: Direct Marketing
- Language: English
- Type: Masters theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/10126 , vital:74939
- Description: The 2000 to 2020 relationship between oil prices, exchange rates, and foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Africa presents a fascinating case in the global economics. Noteworthy is that this period is marked by some important geopolitical events, technological advancements, and economic shifts that provide a rich ground for analyzing how these three critical factors interact in an emerging country. South Africa, with its unique economic and political landscape, offers an exemplary context for exploring the dynamics of these variables and their collective impact on the nation's economic health and growth. This study conducted an empirical analysis to investigate the association of oil prices, exchange rates, and foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Africa from 2000 to 2020. The research applied the autoregressive distributed lag bounds technique (ARDL) after initial unit root tests indicated different orders of integration (1(0) and 1(1)) for the variables. The results align with the risk aversion theory, revealing a significant and negative relationship between exchange rates and foreign direct investment in the long-term. Conversely, the interaction term EXCH_OIL, interest rates, and inflation demonstrated a significant and positive relationship with foreign direct investment in both the short-run and the long-run. The Granger causality test identified a unidirectional causality from foreign direct investment to exchange rates. This study recommends implementing policies aimed at stabilizing oil prices and exchange rates to entice foreign investment into South Africa. , Thesis (Masters) -- Faculty of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2023
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Intersection of race, gender and class in the interventional life-writings of four selected South African authors
- Ndlovu, Siphatisiwe Patricia
- Authors: Ndlovu, Siphatisiwe Patricia
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Post-apartheid era -- South Africa , Interventional writing , Fred Khumalo , Malaika wa Azania , Khaya Dlanga , Tumi Morake
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/3414 , vital:43345
- Description: The interventional life writings of second generation life writers (young, black, middleclass South Africans) in post-apartheid South Africa have not attracted much academic debate in spite of the burgeoning of such writings recently. The intersection of race, class and gender in post-apartheid South Africa remains a problem and a rich site of research, hence this research’s reading of four selected life writings by young, black, middle-class South Africans living in post-apartheid South Africa: Fred Khumalo’s Touch My Blood: The Early Years (2006), Malaika Wa Azania’s Memoires of a Born Free: Reflections on the Rainbow Nation (2014), Khaya Dlanga’s To Quote Myself (2015) and Tumi Morake’s And Then Mama Said… Words That Set My Life Alight (2018). Using the intersectional approach, the study explores the lives narrated by second generation South Africans, in a manner similar to the grand narratives because of their historical and social context. The study focalises life/self-writers who have experienced post-apartheid trauma of being racialized, gendered and classed in a democratic country. This is a shift from the staple analysis of lives of political struggle against apartheid, narrated by historical legends such as Nelson Mandela. The study then, by focusing on ‘small voices’ closes a critical gap created by over-attention paid to grand narratives in South African life writing. Self-narrations by young, black, middle-class South Africans emerge not only as a way of narrating history but also as a means of making history. Through the deployment of the intersectional approach (the interconnectedness of inequalities) to analyse the systems of oppression associated with democratic South Africa, the four selected interventional life writers reveal how their experiences and identities are an outcome of constantly renegotiating power relations. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, 2020
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- Authors: Ndlovu, Siphatisiwe Patricia
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Post-apartheid era -- South Africa , Interventional writing , Fred Khumalo , Malaika wa Azania , Khaya Dlanga , Tumi Morake
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/3414 , vital:43345
- Description: The interventional life writings of second generation life writers (young, black, middleclass South Africans) in post-apartheid South Africa have not attracted much academic debate in spite of the burgeoning of such writings recently. The intersection of race, class and gender in post-apartheid South Africa remains a problem and a rich site of research, hence this research’s reading of four selected life writings by young, black, middle-class South Africans living in post-apartheid South Africa: Fred Khumalo’s Touch My Blood: The Early Years (2006), Malaika Wa Azania’s Memoires of a Born Free: Reflections on the Rainbow Nation (2014), Khaya Dlanga’s To Quote Myself (2015) and Tumi Morake’s And Then Mama Said… Words That Set My Life Alight (2018). Using the intersectional approach, the study explores the lives narrated by second generation South Africans, in a manner similar to the grand narratives because of their historical and social context. The study focalises life/self-writers who have experienced post-apartheid trauma of being racialized, gendered and classed in a democratic country. This is a shift from the staple analysis of lives of political struggle against apartheid, narrated by historical legends such as Nelson Mandela. The study then, by focusing on ‘small voices’ closes a critical gap created by over-attention paid to grand narratives in South African life writing. Self-narrations by young, black, middle-class South Africans emerge not only as a way of narrating history but also as a means of making history. Through the deployment of the intersectional approach (the interconnectedness of inequalities) to analyse the systems of oppression associated with democratic South Africa, the four selected interventional life writers reveal how their experiences and identities are an outcome of constantly renegotiating power relations. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, 2020
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