The Failed Promise of Tenure Security – Customary Land Rights and Dispossession Conference
Twenty-five years after the Constitution was adopted the 18 million South Africans living in the former homelands have limited recognition of their tenure security. Instead, their customary and informal land rights are directly and systematically under threat from government laws, policies and practices that abrogate these rights. This conference seeks to inform and enrich the public and academic discourse about land tenure rights, ongoing threats to these rights, and the urgent need for state intervention to protect and enhance land tenure security in line with the Constitution.
Articulation, Racial Capitalism and The Common
You are invited to join a two-day workshop co-hosted by SWOP and the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) on Articulation, Racial Capitalism and The Common.
Date: 17 – 18 September 2022, 10am – 6.30pm
Waiting in a platinum city
A film by Joseph Mujere
Grave Matters presented by Dineo Skosana
The Forge, in Johannesburg, will be hosting a series on Land Redistribution in Our Lifetime this month. SWOP’s Dineo Skosana will be presenting on her ongoing research under the title Grave Matters on the 18th of May at 18h00.
Cranes and coal: connecting the ‘Ecocene’ with the ‘Anthropocene’ in a new eco-politics.
The struggle to save the Mabola Protected Area from coal mining points to a new ‘eco – politics’. An alliance of 8 different organisations was formed with a specific goal and strategy: to prevent the establishment of the mine. Their success raises important questions for resistance to coal, and other environmental justice struggles.
All Gomorrahs are the Same book launch
The virtual launch of a new novel All Gomorrahs are the Same by Thenjiwe Mswane, in conversation with Gorata Chengeta and Nqobile Shezi. The conversation will be moderated by Hlengiwe Ndlovu.
Industrial Action in South Africa (2000-2018): How to read strike statistics qualitatively
The presentation by Eddie Cottle analyses strike statistics over the last twenty years in an effort to have a concrete understanding of the state of labour (organised and unorganised). A key aspect of this webinar is to show how one can use the quantitative method to assist in reading the qualitative aspects of worker mobilisation, an aspect which is markedly absent from contemporary analysis of labour.
Book Launch of Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies
Recent developments in the organisation of work and production have facilitated the decline of wage employment in many regions of the world. However, the idea of the wage continues to dominate the political imaginations of governments, researchers and activists, based on the historical experiences of industrial workers in the global North.
Book Launch of Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa
Who controls the land and minerals in the former Bantustans of South Africa – chiefs, the state or landholders? Disputes are taking place around the ownership of resources, decisions about their exploitation and who should benefit.
SOMA Summer | Obrera Centro
The closing of the Conversations at a Distance series, with Marcos Castro and Mauro Giaconi, directors of the Obrera Centro project, in dialogue with Helena Chávez Mac Gregor.