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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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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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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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- 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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- 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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- 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...
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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...
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- 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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- 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...
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- 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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