Contents
Editorial
In search of a ‘developmental state’
By Martin Nicol
Section 1: Economic development in the Global South
Degrowth in an African periphery
Recentring decoloniality around circular ontologies
By Roland Ngam
Where is the development in SA’s developmental state?
And where is the road to sustainable job creation?
By John Matisonn
Lessons for South Africa
China during the era of ‘reform and opening up’
By Douglas Ian Scott
South Africa’s migration policy mess
Where did it come from, and can it be fixed?
By Alan Hirsch
Farming support must switch to black smallholders
Focus on urban elite amounts to rural
State Capture
By John Matisonn
Section 2: Celebrating decades of worker militancy
Cosatu’s mute response
Waves of social movement unionism in South Africa and its crisis during Covid
By uMbuso weNkosi
40 years of shop floor resistance
Racial ordering and history of militant culture
By Sithembiso Bhengu
Making sense of today’s labour movement
as we confront the burden of the future
By Monique Marks
News from the continent
Book review
A Practical Guide to Levitation: Stories
José Eduardo Agualusa
Translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
