External Research Profiles
Bio
- Professor Oliver Mtapuri facilitates Advanced Research Methods, Poverty and Inequality, Development Management and Political Economy of the Welfare State in the School. He has a PhD in Development studies (UKZN) and an MBA degree from the University of Zimbabwe. He is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Zimbabwe. Before joining the academe, Oliver worked for 12 years in the Government of Zimbabwe as a Labour Economist/Researcher in the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare.
Teaching
- Advanced Research Methods
- Poverty and Inequality
- Development Management,
- Political Economy of the Welfare State in the Development Studies Masters Prorgramme
Research
- Oliver’s areas of research interest include poverty, redistribution and inequality, community-based tourism, public employment programmes, research methodologies, financial management, climate change and project management. Oliver was the Editor in Chief (Founding) of the Journal of Business and Public Dynamics for Development.
Selected Publications
Books
- Mtapuri O, Thabethe N & Roesing K. (Eds) (2014). Community Voices on Climate Change. Durban: eThekwini Municipality. ISBN: 978-0-620-60205-1.
- Mtapuri, O, Nonhlanhla Nkosi & Selaelo Sebetlene (2007) Pathways to Entrepreneurship NCV level 2, FET Colleges, Heinemann Publishers, Johannesburg. ISBN 978-0-7962-1954-1
- Mtapuri, O, Nkosi Nonhlanhla & Rob Smorfitt (2008) Pathways to Project Management NCV Level 3” Heinemann Publishers, Johannesburg. ISBN 978-0-7962-1938-1
- Smorfitt, Rob & Mtapuri, O, (2008), Pathways to Project Management NCV Level 4, Heinemann Publishers, Johannesburg. ISBN 978-0-7962-2621-1
Chapters in Books
- Mtapuri, O., & Myeni, S. L. (2020). Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda: A South African Experience. In Sithembiso Lindelihle Myeni and Andrew Emmanuel Okem (Eds), The Political Economy of Government subsidized Housing in South Africa. New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-36491-2
- Myeni, S. L. & Mtapuri, O. (2020). Housing for individual sovereignty through innovations in policy and practice. In Sithembiso Lindelihle Myeni and Andrew Emmanuel Okem (Eds), The Political Economy of Government subsidized Housing in South Africa. New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-36491-2
- Okem, AE., Myeni, S. L. & Mtapuri, O, & Nkambule, S. (2020). A historicity of housing policies in apartheid South Africa. In Sithembiso Lindelihle Myeni and Andrew Emmanuel Okem (Eds), The Political Economy of Government subsidized Housing in South Africa. New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-36491-2
- Vahed, A., Ross, A., Francis, S., Millar, B., Mtapuri, O., Searle, R., (2018). Research as transformation and transformation as research, In Eli Bitzer, Liezel Frick, Magda Fourie-Malherbe and Kirsi Pyhältö (Eds), Spaces, journeys and horizons for postgraduate supervision, Stellenbosch: African Sun Media, pp 315-332. ISBN print: 978-1-928357-80-3; https://books.google.co.za/books?id=_R9mDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=it&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Mtapuri, O. (2017). Poverty and fundamentalism in Africa, In Artwell Nhemachena and Munyaradzi Mawere (Eds), Africa at the Crossroads: Theorising Fundamentalism in the 21 st Century. Langaa Research and Publishing CIG, Bameda pp. 107-129.
- Mtapuri, O. (2017). Re-thinking Mining in Embattled Africa: A Calculative Sociological Logic, In Artwell Nhemachena and Tapiwa V. Warikandwa (Eds), Mining Africa: Law, Environment, Society and Politics in Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspective. Langaa Research and Publishing CIG, Bameda pp. 215-236.
- Mtapuri, O. (2012). Re-Visiting Ethnographic and Orthodox Research Methodologies: Field Research Experiences from an African Perspective, Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Social Sciences and Knowledge Management, Asuncio´n Lo´pez-Varela (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0687-6, InTech, Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/theoretical-and-methodological-approaches-to-social-sciences-and-knowledge-management/re-visiting-ethnographic-and-orthodox-research-methodologies-field-research-experiences-from-an-afri
Journal Articles
- Mtapuri, O. & Tinarwo. P. (2021). From Apartheid to Democracy: Patterns and Trends of inequality in South Africa. Southern African Journal of Demography. Vol 21 (1), 104-133.
- Mtapuri, O., Camilleri, M.A., & Dluzewska (2021). Advancing community-based tourism approaches for the sustainable development of destinations, Sustainable Development, DOI: 1002/sd.2257
- Giampiccoli A. & Mtapuri, O. (2021). Going beyond social corporate responsibility: possible new directions in tourism. International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics.(DOI:1504/IJBGE.2021.10041074)
- Mtapuri, O., Thanh, T.D., Giampiccoli, A. & Dłużewska, A. (2021). Expansion and Specification of Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes and Practices Survey Model for Community-Based Tourism Development. Sustainability, 13, 10525, 1-12. (https://doi.org/10.3390/su131910525) (https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/19/10525/htm)
- Mtapuri, O. & Giampiccoli, A. (2021). Contextualing a tourism development alternative for Argentina: a proposal for community based diffused tourism. Journal of Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, IX(2), 138-155. (https://www.jsod-cieo.net/journal/index.php/jsod/article/view/277)(https://www.jsod-cieo.net/journal/index.php/jsod/article/view/277/207)
- Shonhe, T. & Mtapuri. O. (2020). Zimbabwe’s Emerging Farmer Classification model: a ‘new’ countryside, Review of African Political Economy, 47(165): 363-381.
- Giampiccoli, A. & Mtapuri, O. (2020). Beyond Rural Contexts: Community-Based Tourism for A Better Life in The City, Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research, 8(2):419-439, DOI: 10.30519/ahtr.690184
- Mtapuri, O. & Giampiccoli, A. (2020). Investment Redistributive Incentive Model (IRIM) for South Africa: a proposal for redistributive development. e-Review of Tourism Research, 18(1), : 147-157.
- Giampiccoli, A., Mtapuri, O. & Jugmohan, S. (2020). Community-based tourism and animals: Theorising the relationship. Cogent Social Sciences, 6:1. (https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2020.1778965)
- Umubyeyi, B., Mtapuri, O. & Naidu, M., (2020). The Role of Religion and Religious Leaders in Marital Conflict Resolution: A Perspective of Congolese Migrants’ Families Living in Durban, South Africa, The Family Journal: Counselling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 28(4): 413-419.
- Giampiccoli, A., Mtapuri, O. & Nauright, J. (2020). Tourism development in the Seychelles: a proposal for a unique community-based tourism alternative. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, DOI: 10.1080/14766825.2020.1743297(https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2020.1743297)
- Umubyeyi, B & Mtapuri, O. (2019) Approaches to Marital Conflict Resolution: A Perspective of Democratic Republic of Congo Migrants Living in Durban, South Africa, Journal of Family Issues, 1-21, DOI: 10.1177/0192513X19833092
- Mtapuri, O. & Giampiccoli, A. (2019). Tourism, community-based tourism and ecotourism: a definitional problematic. South African Geographical Journal, 101(1), 22-35. ISSN: 0373-6245, https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2018.1522598
- Khambule, I & Mtapuri, O. (2018). Interrogating the Institutional Capacity of Local Government to Support Local Economic Development Agencies in KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. African Journal of Public Affairs. Vol 10 (1):25-43.
- Gimpiccoli, A & Mtapuri, O. (2017). Abu Dhabi, Doha and Dubai: Going online: A Comparative Analysis of their Visibility on a Booking Website. The Arab World Geographer / Le Géographe du monde arabe Vol 20, (4): 283-302.
- Dube, E., Mtapuri, O. & Matunhu, J., 2018, Managing flood disasters on the built environment in the rural communities of Zimbabwe: Lessons learnt’, Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 10(1), a542. https:// doi.org/10.4102/jamba. v10i1.542
- Dube, E., Mtapuri, O. & Matunhu, J., 2018, Flooding and poverty: Two interrelated social problems impacting rural development in Tsholotsho district of Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe, Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 10(1), a455. https://doi.org/ 10.4102/jamba.v10i1.455
- Giampiccoli A & Mtapuri, O. (2017). Beyond community-based tourism: Towards a new tourism classification system. Gazeta de Antropologia. Vol. 33 (1); 15 – 32 (Spanish and English).
- Mtapuri O, Thabethe N & Roesing K. (Eds) (2014). Community Voices on Climate Change. Durban: eThekwini Municipality. ISBN: 978-0-620-60205-1
- Giampiccoli A & Mtapuri, O. (2017). Beyond community-based tourism: Towards a new tourism classification system. Gazeta de Antropologia. Vol. 33 (1); 15 – 32 (Spanish and English).
- Thabethe, N., Mbatha, Z. & Mtapuri, O. (2016). School-Based Programmes as a New Form of the Family for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the Province of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol XLV1I (3): 357-368.
- Aphane, M., Mtapuri, O., Mollel, N., & Burman, C. (2016). Academic Interaction with social partners in the case from the University of Limpopo, Journal of Education, Vol. 66: 140 -184.
- Mtapuri, O & Moyo, T. (2016). Agro-processing and Community Based Tourism: Prospects and opportunities for South African women entrepreneurs, the youth and SMMEs, African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure. Vol. 5 (4); 1 -13.
- Balkaran, R., Giampiccoli, A & Mtapuri, O. (2016). Globalisation and convergence of food tastes in the case of the South African pizza, African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure. Vol. 5 (4); 1 -14.
- Hatlane MD., Mtapuri, O & Thabethe N., (2015). Community Home-Based Care as a Job Creation Strategy in the Informal Economy: The Case of the Greater Giyani Municipality, South Africa. Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 50 (2): 318-333.
- Burman, C., Aphane, M., Mamabolo, R., Mtapuri., O., & Delobelle, P. (2015). Distributed-efficacy and social practice in the context of ‘ending AIDS’. The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 11(1) July 2015, pp. 39-63. http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10394/14274/03%20Burman%20et%20al%20Aids.pdf?sequence=1
- Giampiccoli A & Mtapuri O (2015). Between Theory and Practice: A Conceptualization of Community Based Tourism and Community Participation. Loyola Journal of Social Sciences. Vol. XXIX (1), Jan – Jun 2015: 27-52.
- Giampiccoli A & Mtapuri O (2015). Tourism development in Qatar: towards a diversification strategy beyond the conventional 3 Ss. African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Vol. 4(1).
- Burman CJ, Aphane M, Mtapuri O & Delobelle P. (2015). Expanding the prevention armamentarium portfolio: A framework for promoting HIVConversant Communities within a complex, adaptive epidemiological landscape. Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, Vol. 12 (1): 18 -29. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17290376.2015.1034292
- Giampiccoli A & Mtapuri O (2014). Moving Beyond the 3S’s—Sun, Sea, and Sand: An Interpretation of the Tourism Development Strategy Framework for Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. The Arab World Geographer / Le Géographe du monde arabe Vol 17(4) 4: 339-356.
- Thobela NQ & Mtapuri O (2014). Teachers’ perceptions of the Integrated Quality Management System: Lessons from Mpumalanga, South Africa. South African Journal of Education, Vol. 34(1). Pp.1-14. Available at http://www.sajournalofeducation.co.za/index.php/saje/issue/view/41
- Mtapuri O & Giampiccoli A. (2014). Towards a comprehensive model of community-based tourism development. South African Geographical Journal. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03736245.2014.977813#.VG2xtDSUdAo DOI:10.1080/03736245.2014.977813
- Modisha NJ & Mtapuri O, (2013), A crisis of expectation versus legislative mandate: The Case of Molemole and Blouberg Municipalities in the Limpopo Province. Journal of Public Administration. Vol 48(2): 267-281. http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/electronic_journals/jpad/jpad_v48_n2_a6.pdf
- Mtapuri, O & Giampiccoli A, (2013): Interrogating the role of the state and non-state actors in community-based tourism ventures: toward a model for spreading the benefits to the wider community, South African Geographical Journal, Vol 95 (1), pp. 1-15. ISSN: 0373-6245 DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2013.805078. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2013.805078
- Mtapuri O & Mazengwa PJ, (2013), Of Spirituality and Poverty: A Zimbabwean Perspective, Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology. Vol 13(1).
- Malatji I & Mtapuri., O. (2012) Can Community-Based tourism enterprises alleviate poverty? toward a new organization – Tourism Review International, Vol. 16(1), pp 1 – 14. https://www.cognizantcommunication.com/component/content/article/553
- Mtapuri, O, (2012) An asset-by-asset poverty index – Journal of Income Distribution, Vol. 20 (3-4), Sept-December 2011. https://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/jid/article/view/30220
- Giampiccoli, A & O. Mtapuri (2012), Community-based tourism: an exploration of the concept(s) from a political perspective – Tourism Review International. Vol. 16 (1). Pp 29 – 43. https://www.cognizantcommunication.com/component/content/article/553
- Mtapuri O, (2012), A Review of Social Protection Programmes: Lessons from Zimbabwe. The Social Work Practitioner-Researcher. Vol 24(3): 365 – 383. (November 2012).
- Sebashe SS, & O. Mtapuri (2011), Implementation of a Performance Management System: a case study of Ba-Phalaborwa Municipality in Limpopo, Journal of Public Administration, Vol, 46 (4), pp. 1323 -1337. (December 2011). http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/electronic_journals/jpad/jpad_v46_n4_a8.pdf
- Mtapuri, O, (2011) Revisiting the Income Threshold – Loyola Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. XXV, No.2, pp. 163-176. https://www.academia.edu/5407136/Revisiting_the_income_threshold_for_measuring_poverty
- Mtapuri, O. (2009) Developing an Asset Threshold Using the Consensual Approach: Results from Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe, Journal of International Development, Vol. 21, pp. 1– 13. https://www.academia.edu/5407154/…
- Mtapuri, O. (2008), “Exploring local conceptions of poverty, wealth and well – being: Field evidence from Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe”, Development Africa, Codesria, Vol. XXXIII, No. 3, pp. 35-44. http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ad/article/viewFile/57300/45685
- Mtapuri, O. (2005), “The Missing Link : Asset-Based Measures of Poverty Towards Asset-Income Threshold and Networth Threshold”. Loyola Journal of Social Sciences. Issue Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 245-259. http://www.loyolajournal.info/Vol.%20XIX,%20No.%202,%202005.pdf
Other
- Mtapuri, O (2008), Wither Dialogue, Wither Zimbabwe, South African Labour Bulletin. Vol. 32, No. 1 March/April 2008. pp. 50 – 61.
- Mtapuri, O, (2001) Working Conditions, Productivity: Training of private trainers. For International Labour Organisation (ILO) – Improve Your Business and Business Environment and Managing People, Presented at seminar on 5 – 16 February, 2001, Harare, Zimbabwe.
- Mtapuri, O (2010), (Ed) Selected Papers: Management for Development, Turfloop Graduate School of Leadership, University of Limpopo Press, Sovenga.