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Mining activities continue to dispossess black families in South Africa

November 12, 2019

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Dineo Skosana, a researcher at the Society, Work and Politics Institute, recently published a short article in The Conversation about her research into grave relocations and dispossession by mining corporations in South Africa:

Dispossession in South Africa is associate...

Call for Applications for 2020 Postgraduate Scholarships

October 29, 2019

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The Violent States, States of Violence Research Project at the University of the Witwatersrand invites applications from MA students for scholarships in the field of violence studies for the 2020 academic year.

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South Africa still has a long way to go on the right to food

October 27, 2019

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Brittany Kesselman's latest article in The Conversation in the right to food in South Africa

Fifty-four percent of South Africans are hungry or at risk of hunger. Hunger affects people’s health, as well as their ability to live full and productive lives. That’s why hung...

Three new SWOP Working Papers on a just transition from coal, now available

October 8, 2019

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Three new SWOP Working Papers are now available for download. The three papers were launched together at the SWOP Breakfast Seminar on the 4th of October 2019. The papers are available for download by clicking on the titles listed below.

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Current Publications

SWOP Working Paper 10

The political economy of corruption: elite-formation, factions and violence

Author:

Karl von Holdt

SWOP has launched the recent working paper.

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SWOP Working Papers on a just transition from coal (working paper 11,12, 13)

Authors:

Dinero Skosana, Jackyn Cock and Victor Munnik

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The Politics of Islam in the Sahel: Between Persuasion and Violece

Author:

Rahmane Idrissa - SWOP Associate and former Postdoctoral Fellow (Ford Foundation).

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SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE Labour, Capital and Society focused on the new social and environ-mental frontiers of mining in South Africa (2017)

Co-edited:

Dunbar Moodie & Karl von Holdt

Authors:

Asanda Benya, May Hermanus, Joshua Walker, Ingrid Watson and Oliver Barker, Sonwabile Mnwana, Margot Rubin and Phil Harrison, Tasneem Essop, Joseph Mujere, Melusi Nkomo, Crispen Chinguno and Dunbar Moodie.'

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The Story of One Tells the Struggle of All: Metalworkers Under Apartheid

Author:

Mandlenkosi Makhoba and Petrus Tom.

The Story of One tells the Struggle of All is the third book in the Hidden Voices series.

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