Senior Researcher
Dineo Skosana is a senior researcher and a leader of the coal mining project that examines South Africa’s transition from coal mining and burning to clean energy. Her work investigates mining-induced dispossession in South Africa. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her doctorate research explored the contestations over coal mining and African grave exhumations in the Mpumalanga province (South Africa). She has published
extensively on the continued salience of traditional authority in the post-apartheid South Africa. She has interest on land rights and heritage, mineral law, and the institution of traditional authority in South Africa.
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