Kefuoe Makena

Lindiwe Malindi is a PhD student based in the Department of Sociology at Wits. She is interested in questions of subjectivity and relationality, futurity, labour/work, language and political organisation.

Langelihle Nyuswa

Her research focuses on the unrest that unfolded in parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal in July 2021, looking specifically at the events in Vosloorus, Gauteng. Masego has experience as a news reporter for an online publication covering stories with a human rights focus.

Tilda Nkomo

Her current research examines the relationship between artisanal mining and violence in Kwekwe from 1980 to 2022. Her dissertation seeks to examine the various dimensions of local (community) and national-level violence and how they manifest in the social and political activities of everyday Zimbabwean life.

Lindiwe Malindi

Lindiwe Malindi is a PhD student based in the Department of Sociology at Wits. She is interested in questions of subjectivity and relationality, futurity, labour/work, language and political organisation.

Simon Gush

Simon Gush is an artist and filmmaker. His research explores work (waged and unwaged) and land.

Brittany Kesselman

Brittany Kesselman is a postdoctoral research fellow at SWOP. Her current research investigates the impacts of colonisation on food and health, as well as the ongoing transmission of traditional and indigenous food knowledge. Other research interests include community food institutions, food justice, food sovereignty, urban agriculture and sustainable food systems.

Prishani Naidoo

Prishani’s intellectual life has been shaped by her engagements in (and with) academia; political organisations; trade unions; social movements; community groups; artist, media, education and research collectives; NGOs; and other civil society formations.

Karl von Holdt

Karl von Holdt is a professor at the Society Work and Politics Institute. His current research interests include popular politics, movements, violence, the political economy of corruption, geopolitics and social theory.

Dineo Skosana

Dineo Skosana is a senior researcher and coordinator of the coal mining project which investigates South Africa’s transition from coal to renewable energy at SWOP. In the project, she investigates mining-induced dispossession- which is central to rationalising amongst other reasons, why the transition from coal mining and burning is necessary.

Tasneem Essop

Tasneem Essop is a researcher at SWOP, where she has been based since 2017. She works on the Popular Politics programme where she has conducted research on community protests as well as electoral politics. Her broader interests include political organisations, social movements and popular politics.