South Africa
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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
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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,…
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Evaluating the Sustainability of Local Women’s Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Durban, South Africa: A Feminist Political Ecology and Intersectionality
Johannes I. Bhanye, CASAS’ member, has just published an article with Fidelis Udo, Balkissa Daouda Diallo & Maheshvari Naidu in Sustainable Development. Abstract: This paper employs a feminist political ecology and an intersectionality framework to examine the multiple dimensions of local women’s vulnerability and adaptation to climate change impacts in selected locations in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal…
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Technological Innovation, the Changing Nature of Work and the Implications for Trade Unionism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Ruth Castel-Branco, CASAS’ member, has published with colleagues Thabang Sefalafala & Musawenkosi H. Malabela a chapter in the book “The Evolving Structure of South Africa’s Economy: Faultlines and Futures” Abstract: In July 2021, South Africa experienced an unprecedented wave of social unrest, highlighting deep social, economic and political fissures. Since the end of apartheid, income…