Ruth Castel-Branco (CASAS’ member) has published an article with Sarah Cook, Arabo K Ewinyu, and Thokozile Madonko in Global Social Policy. Abstract: Over the last decades, there has been a growing interest in the role of social protection as an instrument of inclusive growth. Much of the scholarship on the expansion of social protection has…
Tag: South Africa
‘Capital grabs back’: towards a global research agenda on the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus
CASAS’ members Enrique Castañón Ballivián, George Tonderai Mudimu & Mnqobi Ngubane have published with Melanie Sommerville in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Capital is grabbing back land allocated through diverse national land reform and land restitution programmes globally. This article critically analyses this trend, which has so far received insufficient attention from land grab…
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…
The US-South Africa land appropriation dispute is shifting international alliances
CASAS’ member, Kennedy Manduna has published an article in Global Labour Column. The article analyses South Africa’s Expropriation Act enacted on 23 January 2025 and how it contrasts to Donald Trump’s aggressive foreign policy. Read the full text here: https://global-labour-university.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Manduna-South-Africa-PDF.docx.pdf
Immigrant farm workers, self-exploitation and social reproduction: the Lesotho–South African land-labour questions
Mnqobi Ngubane, CASAS’ member, has published an article in the Review of African Political Economy. Abstract: This article explores social relations of production and reproduction on redistributed farmland by examining capital–wage relations and social reproduction impacts of land redistribution induced small- and medium-scale capitalist farming on fragmented classes of gendered labour. Such diverse, historically determined,…





