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New Agenda is a South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy and IFAA’s flagship publication. New Agenda aims to bring solid, policy-relevant research to the public in an accessible and intelligible form.

New Agenda Articles

Editions 97 – 100

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Article title	Author/s	NA Edition	Link
Anti-foreigner violence in South Africa is easily sparked	Hirsch, A.	NA101	View article
Selected excerpts\| From education crisis to organisation: Reflections on the NECC (1985-1995)	Chisholm, L. et al	NA101	View article
Book Review \| From education crisis to organisation:Reflections on the NECC (1985-1995)	Robinson, M	NA101	View article
Book Review \| Rising for Palestine: Africans in Solidarity for Decolonisation & Liberation	Kadalie, B	NA101	View article
Solidarity in an age of complicity: A book that refuses to wait	Kadalie, B	NA101	View article
From genocide to green hydrogen: Historical justice and energy transition in ancestral Nama territories	Pietrafesa, A; Schroeter, A	NA101	View article
Dateline Africa: Africa Diary 1 March to 31 May 2026	New Agenda Editorial Collective	NA101	View article
Understanding social ownership in context: Towards a just transition in South Africa	Lehmann-Grube, K; Mabasa, K; Taylor, J	NA101	View article
New Agenda: Where scholarship and public life meet	Nicol, M.	NA101	View article
Book review: Migration in South Africa: Conflicts and Identities. Eddie M. Rakabe and Chris C. Nshimbi	Hirsh, A.	NA97	View article
Africa Diary: News from the continent 1 March to 31 May 2025	New Agenda Editorial Collective	NA97	View article
Can citizens say ‘no’?: Tracking civil society’s impact in Parliament	Mohamed, N., Kadalie, B., Nyirongo, R.	NA97	View article
SA says no to aid cuts: Interview with Zackie Achmat	Levy, M.	NA97	View article
70 years on ‘the Freedom Charter is not irrelevant – it is unfinished’	Sitas, A.	NA97	View article
Navigating power dynamics in food safety governance: The case of South Africa’s compulsory specification for processed meat products	Mkhwanazi, N., Adelle, C., Korsten, L.	NA97	View article
Editorial: Why is South Africa’s food safety governance failing?	Nicol, M.	NA97	View article
Book review: In a rain of dust: Death, deceit and the lawyer who busted big asbestos by David Kinley	Singer, M.	NA100	View article
Africa Diary: 1 December 2025 to 28 February 2026	New Agenda Editorial Collective	NA100	View article
Remembering those who were banned	Ensor, P.	NA100	View article
Cosatu after 40 Part 2: The implications of multi-sectoralism for COSATU’s centralised bargaining aspirations	Jacobs, M., Godfrey, S., Macun, I.	NA100	View article
Cosatu after 40 Part 1: The rise and fall of COSATU’s ‘one industry, one union’ aspiration	Jacobs, M., Godfrey, S., Macun, I.	NA100	View article
Cosatu after 40 Introduction: Founding principles, present realities and future challenges	Jacobs, M., Godfrey, S., Macun, I.	NA100	View article
Follow the leader? Where to for the National Dialogue process?	Ehrenreich, T.	NA100	View article
The great realignment: Navigating catastrophe and capital in the decade ahead	Sitas, A.	NA100	View article
From policy to practice: Unpacking the implementation hurdles of SA’s R638 Regulation	Mkhwanazi, N., Adelle, C., Korsten, L.	NA100	View article
#FeesMustFall and the 2015/16 student movement in popular memory	Mbatha, N., Luescher, T., Roberts, B	NA100	View article
The best is yet to come	Nicol, M.	NA100	View article
Book Review: Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa’s drylands	Mokwena, L.	NA99	View article
Karoo Diary: 1 September to 30 November 2025	New Agenda editorial collective	NA99	View article
Silence as a Room #1 of #5 : Q and A with Ari Sitas	Bijoux, C. A.	NA99	View article
Youth development, vulnerability and the unspoken costs of renewable energy in rural South Africa	Rickerts, C.	NA99	View article
From bloom to bust: Understanding Namaqualand as a potential green sacrifice zone	Maree, S.	NA99	View article
Beyond the “decarbonised minerals–energy complex”: Rethinking financialisation and state–capital relations in South Africa’s green hydrogen transition	Smith, R.	NA99	View article
Dust in the wind: Renewable energy and the limits of South Africa’s developmental state	Borchardt, S. P.	NA99	View article
Environmental entrepreneurialism and the limits and possibilities of socio-economic transformation in the Karoo	Beinart, W., & Robins, S.	NA99	View article
Guest Editorial: Karoo crossroads – The green frontier and the enduring fault line	Borchardt, S. P.	NA99	View article
Book Review: The Future of Revolution by Jasper Bernes	Bryer, M.	NA98	View article
Drivers, actors, and resistance: Trends in artisanal and small-scale mining	Manduna, K.	NA98	View article
Africa Diary: News from the continent 1 June – 31 August 2025	New Agenda editorial collective	NA98	View article
More from the ‘theatre of promise’? : Or can South Africa’s National Dialogue forge a real social compact?	Kadalie, B.	NA98	View article
Lead, don’t demobilise the nation!	Ditlhake, B.	NA98	View article
The many faces of Mary Turok: A tribute	Turok, I.	NA98	View article
Fallism ten years on: Reflections on the impact of the Rhodes Must Fall movement	Kessi, S.	NA98	View article
Academic freedom for some is academic freedom for none : A response to Nithaya Chetty	Hendricks, F.	NA98	View article
Changing political economy in Africa: China’s trade, investment and cross-border payment mechanisms in the SADC	Mohamed, A.-H., & Jacobs, E.	NA98	View article
Extractive legacies, local struggles, and the pursuit of social justice: Green energy development in South Africa’s semi-arid Northern Cape	Borchardt, S.P.	NA98	View article
Editorial: Shocked – Green energy and energy export, but no affordable electricity	Nicol, M.	NA98	View article