Introduction: Political reconfigurations in the wake of Marikana / Prishani Naidoo. - PART 1: NEW POLITICAL DIRECTIONS?. - CHAPTER 1: Reconstituting and re-imagining the left after Marikana / Noor Nieftagodien. - CHAPTER 2: Labour and community struggles 1994-2014 / Marcel Paret. - CHAPTER 3:...

Since the 1960s, African states have embraced regional integration as a vital mechanism for political cooperation and for pooling resources to overcome problems of small and fragmented economies. In building meaningful institutions for regionalism, however, Africans have faced the challenges of...

Introduction. South Africa's fragile democracy: twenty years on / Devan Pillay and Roger Southall --. - pt. 1. Ecology, economy and labour. Introduction / Devan Pillay --. - The South African labour market after eighteen years : It's class struggle, stupid! / Nicolas Pons-Vignon and Miriam Di...

A delegation of labour scholars and practitioners first came to our university, the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, in 2006, to engage with colleagues about establishing the Global Labour University on our campus. It was to be the second site after Germany, and we were all...

In South Africa a growing crisis of political legitimacy - given widening social inequality, high unemployment, persistent poverty, ecological devastation and increased corruption - has had a direct impact on the union movement. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa's (NUMSA's) 2013...