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2013
2012
24 FEB
TITLE: Given the massive levels of violence in South Africa between 1987 and 1996, why was there so little of it on the mines?
PRESENTER:
Prof Dunbar Moodie (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva)
30 MAR
TITLE: Fracking South Africa: ‘The Deficit in Democracy Policy-Making’
PRESENTER:
Dr David Fig (Honorary Research Associate)
20 APR
TITLE: Hunting Myths, Finding Theories: Folk and Lay Understandings of AIDS in South African Townships
PRESENTER:
Prof David Dickinson (Staff Associate)
2014
ARCHIVE
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29 JULY 2016
Dilemmas of distribution
23 SEPTEMBER 2016
Dealing with the tribe
21 OCTOBER 2016
Mining, land and livelihoods
29 JULY | 23 SEPT | 21 OCT | 2016
Platinum: crises of capital and community
Launching the three working papers from SWOP's Mining and Rural Transformation Project.
Once the rising star of the post-apartheid mining sector, platinum is now mired in crisis. At one end of the industry, corporate profitability has plummted as the demands of international investors arise. At the other, rural communities bearing the brunt of mine expansion have exploded in anger at the dispossession of their land and unaccountable deals of their chiefs.
29 JULY | 08h00 - 09h30: Dilemmas of distribution: financialisation and inequality in the platinum industry
Speaker: Andrew Bowman (University of Edinburgh)
Graduate Seminar Room, South West Engineering Building, East Campus, Braamfontein
23 SEPT | 08h00 - 10h00: Dealing with the tribe: the politics of the Bapo/Lonmin royalty-to-equity conversion
Speakers: Stanley Malindi & Gavin Capps (SWOP)
Senate Room, 2nd Floor, Senate House, East Campus, Braamfontein
21 OCT | 08h00 - 09h30: Mining, land and livelihoods in Mokopane: A comparative study
Speakers: Sonwabile Mnwana, Farai Mtero & Michelle Hay (SWOP & Wits History)
Graduate Seminar Room, South West Engineering Building, East Campus, Braamfontein
RSVP:
email: info.swop@wits.ac.za | call: 011 717 4460
03 MAR | 24 MAR | 21 APR | 26 MAY | 2017
Work, water, community and livelihood in peril
Presenting new research by SWOP.
These papers document the destruction of work, water, community and livelihoods by the current wave of intensified marketisation, posing the question of alternatives to social crisis.
03 MAR | 08h00 - 09h30: Money for Nothing, Work for Love: Radical Imaginaries of the Future of Labour and Distribution
Speaker: Liz Fouksman (SWOP)
24 MAR | 08h00 - 10h00: Coal, water and mining: flowing badly
Speakers: Kally Forrest & Lesego Loate (SWOP)
21 APRIL | 08h00 - 09h30: Dispossessing the Dispossessed? Mining and Rural Struggles in Mokopane, Limpopo
Speakers: Sonwabile Mnwana, Farai Mtero & Michelle Hay (SWOP)
26 MAY | 08h00 - 09h30: Dealing with the tribe: the politics of the Bapo/Lonmin royalty-to-equity conversion
Speakers: Stanley Malindi & Gavin Capps (SWOP)
VENUE:
Graduate Seminar Room, South West Engineering Building,
East Campus, Braamfontein
RSVP:
email: info.swop@wits.ac.za | call: 011 717 4460
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18 MAR | 15 APR | 20 MAY | 2016
Decolonisation and the new student movement
A new wave of student protests has gripped South African universities since October 2015. The movement has shaken universities and government, and triggered an alliance between students and outsourced workers. Critical issues raised by this movement include decolonisation, free education, labour outsourcing and the general character of the post-apartheid social order. The first semester SWOP Breakfast Series will interrogate these issues.
18 MAR | 08h00 - 09h30: Student movements, old and new
Speakers: Ntokozo Moloi (#FeesMustFall) and Nompendulo Mkhatshwa (SRC President)
15 APR | 08h00 - 09h30: Students and workers - forging a few alliance
Speakers: Deliwe Mzobe (Workers committee representative) and Naadir Munshi (Wits Workers Solidarity Committee)
20 MAY | 08h00 - 11h30: Student movements and politics on the continent
Speakers: Paul Chimhosva (University of Zimbabwe, SRC President 1991-1992), Munyaradzi Gwisai (General Secretary University of Zimbabwe SRC, 1988-1989) and a Student Leader Activist from Egypt.
VENUE:
Senate Room, 2nd Floor, Senate House
East Campus, Braamfontein, Wits
RSVP:
email: makane.phiri@wits.ac.za | call: 011 717 4460
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18 MARCH 2016
Student Movements
15 APRIL 2016
Students and Workers
20 MAY 2016
Student movement & politics
2015
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27 FEB | 13 MAR | 24 APR | 2015
Resistance!
Launching three new Working Papers
New forms of resistance are emerging among previously unorganised sectors of South African society – casual workers, rural villagers, farmworkers. Repertoires include novel forms of organisation and disruption, violence and the contestation of customary law. SWOP is launching there new Working Papers on these topics in the first semester of 2015.
27 FEB | 08h00 - 09h30: Fighting their Own Battles: The Mabarete and the End of Labour Broking in the South African Post Office
Speaker: David Dickinson (Sociology, Wits)
13 MAR | 08h00 - 10h00: ‘No Chief ever bought a piece of land!’ Struggles over property, community and mining in the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela Traditional Authority Area, North West Province
Speaker: Sonwabile Mnwana (SWOP)
24 APR | 08h00 - 09h30: Farmworkers rising in the Western Cape: organisation and action
Speakers: Jesse Wilderman (Global Labour University, Wits).
VENUE:
Senate Room, 2nd Floor, Senate House
East Campus, Braamfontein, Wits
RSVP:
email: abnavien.king@wits.ac.za | call: 011 717 4460
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04 SEP | 18 SEP | 16 OCT | 2015
Mining, metal & society
Mining and mineral benefication are held up as the path to economic development for South Africa. Yet these processes are often brutally disruptive for environments and communities. This semester we explore some of their devastating consequences for workers, communities and the nature that we all depend on for life itself.
04 SEP | 08h00 - 09h30: The Marikana Commission: unearthing the truth, or burying it?
Speaker: Kally Forrest (SWOP)
18 SEP | 08h00 - 09h30: ‘The MPRDA: developmental or destructive?
Speakers: May Hermanus, Ingrid Watson and Joshua Walker
16 OCT | 08h00 - 09h30: The Arcelor Mittal Case: the power to pollute and the politics of knowledge
Speaker: Victor Munnik
VENUE:
Graduate Seminar Room, South West Engineering Building,
East Campus, Braamfontein, Wits
RSVP:
email: makane.phiri@wits.ac.za | call: 011 717 4460
Breakfast Seminar Presentations are hosted on our youtube channel, click the icon to view.
04 SEPTEMBER 2016
Marikana Commission
18 SEPTEMBER 2016
THE MPRDA
16 OCTOBER 2016
The Arcelor Mittal Case