The "Cape gentry" has come to be conventional in descriptions and in analyses of the south-western Cape during the rule of the VOC (<italic>Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie</italic>). Implicit in the idea of a "Cape gentry" are ownership of land and of slaves, degrees of inequalities, tenure and exercise of...

This paper is a revised version of a keynote address to the <italic>Review of African Political Economy</italic> Conference in Birmingham on 5 September 2003. It situates the contributions of the <italic>Review of African Political Economy</italic> to understanding Africa in relation to the defining texts of political economy...

This is the text prepared for a lecture given to the Walter Rodney Memorial Series, African Studies Centre, Boston University, 8 November 1982, in tribute to Ruth First. It discusses her writing on South Africa and Namibia in the context of her political commitments and ultimately her...

Development is an ideological project. It originated in the need to address the negative consequences of capitalism in metropolitan countries and was integral to the project of imperialism, whose legacy it bears. Development policies and development studies both confound the intention to develop...

This absorbing book examines the period of massive structural adjustment taking place in the wine industry. For many centuries wine was very much a European product. While that is still the case today – three-quarters of world wine production, consumption and trade involve Europe and most of...