MISTRA Webinar on Traditional Leadership in South Africa’s Democratic Constitution

Dineo Skosana will deliver a presentation at MISTRA’s webinar on Traditional Leadership in South Africa’s Democratic Constitution.
Dineo Skosana to give a keynote address at the Alternative Mining Indaba 2026

Dineo Skosana will give a keynote address at this year’s Alternative Mining Indaba, hosted in Cape Town. Tuesday, 10 February 2026, 10:15am Title: The real story behind Mining investment, dispossession in mineral-endowed communities. For more information on the Alternative Mining Indaba and information on how to attend the event please click here
Newsletter 2025

We began the year without knowing, without predictability, within grief and loss. By centering uncertainty in our work, re-membering Prishani and her engagement with it, there is the possibility to imagine differently, a yet to come.
Re-membering the Anti-Privatisation Forum

Please see invitation as below to this Special Dialogue on the Anti-Privatisation Forum.
Cities of Hope: Can archivists in Cape Town and Brasilia change urban landscapes? Presented by Bárbara Rousseaux

Bárbara Rousseaux will present at the next Sociology Seminar Series. Date: Thursday, 25 September 2025 | Time: 14:00 – 15:00 Venue: RS251, 2nd Floor, Robert Sobukwe Block, Braamfontein Campus East, University of the Witwatersrand RSVP/Enquiries: Johannes.Machinya@wits.ac.za Abstract The histories of Cape Town and Brasilia are permeated by the idea of hope. In the […]
Postgraduate Book Club: “No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa” by Dr Dineo Skosana

Postgraduate Book Club: “No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa” by Dr Dineo Skosana.
Thursday, 28 August 2025, 17:00 – 19:30, Humanities Graduate Centre, Wits University
Dineo Skosana presenting at Cosmopolitan Karoo, Stellenbosch University

Dineo Skosana, Grave Matters: dispossession and the desecration of ancestral graves by mining corporations in South Africa. Join us online here Dineo Skosana is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP) and the Department of Political Studies at Wits University. Her research focuses on mineral and land governance and […]
Public Lecture Series: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Semester Two 2025

Public Lecture Series: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Semester Two 2025
A REFLECTION ON A DECADE SINCE THE FEES MUST FALL MOVEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA by Tasneem Essop, in Workers World News Issue 131.

Tasneem Essop, on 10 years since Fees Must Fall in Workers World News Issue 131, ILRIG, June 2025
SWOP Lunch Break and Magic Maids: Broomology 101 with Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera

SWOP Lunch Break with Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera. The lunch break concluded the two day workshop Magic Maids: Broomology 101 with Eisa and Venuri.
