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A PARI Podcast | Just Access: The Real Transition hosted by Tasneem Essop
Just Access: The Real Transition is a 10-part documentary-style audio podcast that examines the deep social, economic and political implications of South Africa’s Just Transition.
No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa
Dineo Skosana’s No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa is out now, published by Wits University Press. About the book: An ethnographic account of the experiences and resistance of displaced communities that are affected by the expansion of coal mining operations in post-apartheid South Africa. It also offers a critical […]
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 Min
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 t
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
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Deadline Extended: Call for Applications: Post-Doctoral Fellowship and Two Masters Scholarships
Co-designing Multi-Value Frameworks for Transparent and Ethical Copper Supply Chains: Artisanal & Small-Scale Mining (ASM) & Copper Harvesting The Society, Work & Politics Institu
Call for Contributions – Transformation Journal Special Issue
Call for Contributions – Transformation Journal Special Issue Following the Society, Work and Politics Institute’s programme to mark the 10th anniversary of Fees Must Fall
Call for Contribtuions: Re-membering Movements Colloquim
Call for Contributions: Re-membering Movements Colloquium. Deadline 31st August
Magic Maids: Broomology 101 with Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera
Call for Participation: Magic Maids: Broomology 101 with Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera Movement Workshop 7th July & 8th July 10am - 1pm With a Lunch Break discussion on the 8th hos
Call for contributions: Re-membering Movements Colloquium
As we mark the tenth anniversary of the 2015 student and worker movement, and undertake a re-membering of movements more generally, we invite contributions for a colloquium.