SWOP AdminSep 21, 20214 minWhat COVID-19 Revealed About HungerSWOP Postdoctoral Fellow, Brittany Kesselman, recently published a piece in Project Syndicate on COVID-19 and hunger in South Africa....
SWOP AdminFeb 22, 20215 minSouth 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...
SWOP AdminOct 26, 20201 min“Our Existence is Resistance”: Women and the Challenge of the Climate Crisis and Covid-19 pandemicDineo Skosana and Jacklyn Cock have drafted a paper that is now available for download. “Our Existence is Resistance”: Women and the...
SWOP AdminOct 13, 20206 minOp-Ed: Extending Covid grant a step towards income guaranteesPandemic has exposed the problems with our economic system and reliance on wage work for economic security writes Hannah Dawson, Shaeera...
SWOP AdminAug 2, 20207 minCOVID-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...
SWOP AdminAug 2, 20207 minChina Manages the Virus With Surveillance, Organisation and RepressionThis 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....
SWOP AdminAug 2, 20207 minBolsonaro's Handling of COVID-19 Has Unleashed a Layered Crisis in BrazilThis 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...
nicJul 31, 20202 min[Webinar] Modes of Self-Reporting: The Artist and Social JusticeSWOP webinar: Modes of Self-Reporting: The Artist and Social Justice. With a presentation by Simon Gush and discussants William Matlala,...
nicJul 28, 20203 minLife under Covid-19 | Photography by William MatlalaWhile society in this life threatening pandemic has been encouraged to embrace the ‘new normal’, I am taking pictures of the South...
SWOP AdminJul 26, 20207 minCOVID-19 in South Africa: Popular Movements Mobilise Under LockdownThis 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...
SWOP AdminJul 26, 20207 minCOVID-19 in Russia: Mishandling Has Led to Popular Protests but Putin Remains StrongThe second piece in the series on BRICS and Covid, written by Mischa Gabowitsch. All pieces in the series have been published in The Wire...
SWOP AdminJul 26, 20201 minSix-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...
nicJul 24, 20206 min "How do you smile at patient number 200?" The #Care4carers campaign in South AfricaFikile Dikolomela-Lengene This conversation was first published in the Global Labour Column where Fikile Dikolomela-Lengene (who is in...
nicJul 23, 20201 minInterview with Kenyan Peasants League's policy chief, David OtienoThis is one of a series of conversations on covid-19, the right to food and radical politics. Brittany Kesselman, a research associate at...
nicJul 22, 202011 minIncorporating 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...
SWOP AdminJul 16, 20201 minCrashed conversations: Two webinars with Prof Adam ToozeCrashed conversations Two webinars with Prof Adam Tooze, author of the 'masterly and monumental' Crashed: how a decade of financial...
nicJul 9, 20207 minWhy 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...
nicJul 9, 20207 minThe deadly surplusIsaac 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...
nicJul 2, 20208 min[Webinar]: What “Saving the academic year at all costs” means for students from poor householdsSWOP webinar: Saving the academic year at all costs? The brutality of an elite education system, navigating poverty and surviving the...
nicJun 28, 20201 minInterview with Rev. Tsakane Sibanda and Qaba Mbola of Ujamaa collectiveThis 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...