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    What COVID-19 Revealed About Hunger
    SWOP Admin
    • Sep 21, 2021
    • 4 min

    What COVID-19 Revealed About Hunger

    SWOP Postdoctoral Fellow, Brittany Kesselman, recently published a piece in Project Syndicate on COVID-19 and hunger in South Africa....
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    SWOP Admin
    • Feb 22, 2021
    • 5 min

    South African president extends special COVID-19 grant. Why this is not enough

    Hannah Dawson, a Postdoctoral Fellow at SWOP, has recently written about the extension of the COVID-19 grant and the need for a basic...
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    SWOP Admin
    • Oct 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    “Our Existence is Resistance”: Women and the Challenge of the Climate Crisis and Covid-19 pandemic

    Dineo Skosana and Jacklyn Cock have drafted a paper that is now available for download. “Our Existence is Resistance”: Women and the...
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    Op-Ed: Extending Covid grant a step towards income guarantees
    SWOP Admin
    • Oct 13, 2020
    • 6 min

    Op-Ed: Extending Covid grant a step towards income guarantees

    Pandemic has exposed the problems with our economic system and reliance on wage work for economic security writes Hannah Dawson, Shaeera...
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    COVID-19 in Narendra Modi’s India: Virulent Politics and Mass Desperation
    SWOP Admin
    • Aug 2, 2020
    • 7 min

    COVID-19 in Narendra Modi’s India: Virulent Politics and Mass Desperation

    This is the final piece in the series on BRICS and Covid that is being published in The Wire. The piece is written by Aparna Sundar and...
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    China Manages the Virus With Surveillance, Organisation and Repression
    SWOP Admin
    • Aug 2, 2020
    • 7 min

    China Manages the Virus With Surveillance, Organisation and Repression

    This is the fifth piece in the series on BRICS and Covid that is being published in The Wire. The piece is written by Karl von Holdt....
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    Bolsonaro's Handling of COVID-19 Has Unleashed a Layered Crisis in Brazil
    SWOP Admin
    • Aug 2, 2020
    • 7 min

    Bolsonaro's Handling of COVID-19 Has Unleashed a Layered Crisis in Brazil

    This is the forth piece in the series on BRICS and Covid that is being published in The Wire. The piece is written by Fabio Luis Barbosa...
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    [Webinar] Modes of Self-Reporting: The Artist and Social Justice
    nic
    • Jul 31, 2020
    • 2 min

    [Webinar] Modes of Self-Reporting: The Artist and Social Justice

    SWOP webinar: Modes of Self-Reporting: The Artist and Social Justice. With a presentation by Simon Gush and discussants William Matlala,...
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    Life under Covid-19 | Photography by William Matlala
    nic
    • Jul 28, 2020
    • 3 min

    Life under Covid-19 | Photography by William Matlala

    While society in this life threatening pandemic has been encouraged to embrace the ‘new normal’, I am taking pictures of the South...
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    COVID-19 in South Africa: Popular Movements Mobilise Under Lockdown
    SWOP Admin
    • Jul 26, 2020
    • 7 min

    COVID-19 in South Africa: Popular Movements Mobilise Under Lockdown

    This is the third piece in the series on BRICS and Covid that is being published in The Wire. The piece is written by Karl von Hold and...
    30 views0 comments
    COVID-19 in Russia: Mishandling Has Led to Popular Protests but Putin Remains Strong
    SWOP Admin
    • Jul 26, 2020
    • 7 min

    COVID-19 in Russia: Mishandling Has Led to Popular Protests but Putin Remains Strong

    The second piece in the series on BRICS and Covid, written by Mischa Gabowitsch. All pieces in the series have been published in The Wire...
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    Six-part Series on BRICS and Covid: Rising Powers in a Time of Pandemic
    SWOP Admin
    • Jul 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    Six-part Series on BRICS and Covid: Rising Powers in a Time of Pandemic

    A six-part series that looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic is playing out in the BRICS countries. The pieces are being published in The...
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    nic
    • Jul 24, 2020
    • 6 min

    "How do you smile at patient number 200?" The #Care4carers campaign in South Africa

    Fikile Dikolomela-Lengene This conversation was first published in the Global Labour Column where Fikile Dikolomela-Lengene (who is in...
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    Interview with Kenyan Peasants League's policy chief, David Otieno
    nic
    • Jul 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    Interview with Kenyan Peasants League's policy chief, David Otieno

    This is one of a series of conversations on covid-19, the right to food and radical politics. Brittany Kesselman, a research associate at...
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    nic
    • Jul 22, 2020
    • 11 min

    Incorporating bomahlalela; reconceptualising unemployment and labour in the age of uncertainty

    Thabang Sefalafala Dr. Thabang Sefalafala argues that COVID-19 has brought to many the tacit realisation that jobs alone cannot give...
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    Crashed conversations: Two webinars with Prof Adam Tooze
    SWOP Admin
    • Jul 16, 2020
    • 1 min

    Crashed conversations: Two webinars with Prof Adam Tooze

    Crashed conversations Two webinars with Prof Adam Tooze, author of the 'masterly and monumental' Crashed: how a decade of financial...
    269 views0 comments
    nic
    • Jul 9, 2020
    • 7 min

    Why did the worker not remain an artisan and an artist?

    The unattended question of the worker’s ontological identity Isaac Dumi Since Covid-19 is something of a question about the future, in...
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    nic
    • Jul 9, 2020
    • 7 min

    The deadly surplus

    Isaac Dumi The story is a parody of the authority in the capitalist society. The idea is that the authority of this society tends to be...
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    [Webinar]: What “Saving the academic year at all costs” means for students from poor households
    nic
    • Jul 2, 2020
    • 8 min

    [Webinar]: What “Saving the academic year at all costs” means for students from poor households

    SWOP webinar: Saving the academic year at all costs? The brutality of an elite education system, navigating poverty and surviving the...
    348 views1 comment
    Interview with Rev. Tsakane Sibanda and Qaba Mbola of Ujamaa collective
    nic
    • Jun 28, 2020
    • 1 min

    Interview with Rev. Tsakane Sibanda and Qaba Mbola of Ujamaa collective

    This is one of a series of conversations on Covid-19, the right to food and radical politics. Andrew Bennie, a co-founder of the food...
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