Neoliberal extractivism

• July 17, 2025

  Governance at the margins of the state: contextualising the spatial and temporal realities of illegal mining in contemporary South Africa

  

  Kennedy Manduna, CASAS’ member, has published this article in The Extractive Industries and Society journal. Abstract: This paper profiles the everyday experiences of illegal miners (zama zamas) in South Africa, with special emphasis on their efforts to govern at the margins of the state. Through deploying forms of peasant resistance against the state, zama zamas…