BAHons (Africa Studies)

• Legitimacy, political stability and democracy in Equatorial Guinea: 1990-present
• Dams and development: A case study of the Neckertal Dam in Namibia.
• Investigating heritage resources in Maseru district, Lesotho.
• Explaining land reform in the Jacobsdal area, Free State Province: A comparative case study analysis.
• South African Military intervention in Central African Republic (CAR) in 2013: Examining the legality of the Intervention.
• From Sarah Baartman to The Gods Must Be Crazy and beyond: The ‘media’ representation and marginalisation of the Khoi-San Peoples.
• Interested Mediators: The case of South Africa in Lesotho.
• Experiences of marginality within residence life in South Africa: The case study of House Karee.
• Reading the subtext of the #FMF movement through the lens of Globalisation.
• ‘Homosexuality is un-African?’ Critically exploring homophobic discourses in Uganda.
• The Emergence of Coalition Politics in Lesotho and challenges of the system post 2012 elections.
• Appraising prospects of hydraulic-fracturing in the Karoo Basin: A review of scientific and environmental literature.
• ‘AFRICA UNITE’: Exploring the meanings of Pan-Africanism in the discourses of Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere.
• The effectiveness of power sharing as a post-election conflict resolution measure: A case study of Kenya and Burundi.
• Exploring Chitukuko Cha Amayi M’Malawi (CCAM) as a Women’s Social Movement in Malawi.
• The collapse of democracy in South Sudan after two years of independence.
• “A hashtag is not a movement?” The case of #FeesMustFall and social movement theory.
• Infrastructures for peace in Ghana.
• ‘Education before Liberation’: The life and times of Father D’Aes of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Bochabela.

Structured MA (Africa Studies)

• A survey on the cultural meaning of clay: Origin preparation, colours and uses.
• Tourism accommodation in Mangaung: Current dynamics, immediate challenges and future prospects.
• A critical review and assessment of the South African government's post-settlement support to black farmers: A case study of Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) in the Limpopo province.
• Heritage resources in the Maluti-a-Phofung municipality.
• Failed state in the context of political transition in Africa: The challenge of state-building in Mozambique.
• Sacred waters: Investigating water rituals at Roma and Morija mission stations in Maseru District, Lesotho.
• A Constructivist Political Economy Analysis of the Relationship between Post- Apartheid South Africa and Angola.
• A critical examination of the role of transnational actors in Zimbabwe's political reform: A case study of the SADC, the SADC-CNGO, and the UN.
• Caught between the ballot and the bullet: Comparative case studies of post-colonial politics of Guinea-Bissau and Guinea.
• Cannabis in traditional healing: Exploring the practices and perceptions of traditional healers towards cannabis in Thaba Nchu.
• The dynamics of gender and land reform: A study of the Weltevrede women farmers of the Eastern Free State.
• Violence and Elections: A study of the impact of Boko Haram terrorist attacks on Nigeria’s 2015 presidential election.

Structured MA (Gender Studies)

• Creative responses to patriarchy, colonisation and imperialism in the lives and works of Olive Schreiner and Helen Martins.
• An exploratory study of perceptions of clergy on domestic violence within the Christian community in the midlands area of Kwazulu-Natal.
• Role expectations and experiences of pastors’ wives in a Christian congregation.
• Understanding the lived experiences and barriers leading to underemployment for skilled migrant Zimbabwean women living in Atteridgeville, South Africa.
• The psycho-social factors contributing to economically independent women staying in abusive relationships in Randfontein, South Africa.
• Perceptions and attitudes regarding ‘corrective rape’ among lesbian students at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein.
• Exploring the Positive and Negative Experiences of Women Living with HIV when accessing HIV Treatment and Care from Public Health Care Facilities in Gauteng.
• An exploration of the perceptions of UFS students regarding how masculinity is culturally defined and the impact it has on spousal relationships.

MA (Africa Studies) by dissertation

• Geometry and indigenous knowledge systems (IKS): A case study.
• The incorporation of indigenous knowledge in land reform projects: The Basotho Letjhabile and Maolosi Trust agricultural projects.
• Are we boys or men? The incorporation of Basotho newly initiated men back into high school: The case of Botshabelo, Free State Province.

PhD (Africa Studies)

• Ukuthwasa initiation of Amagqirha: Identity construction and the training of Xhosa women as traditional healers.
• Land reform and poverty alleviation in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe.
• Social capital and agricultural production: The case of smallholder maize farmers in Zimbabwe.
• Pilgrimage to sacred sites in the Eastern Free State.
• A survey of sacred sites and the construction of sacredness of space in the Free State.
• Corrective rape and black lesbian sexualities in contemporary South African cultural texts.
• Government, community and the university in Africa today: The case of the National University of Lesotho.
• The India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) collective and the socio-political construction of security.