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New Agenda 92: Special Issue – Economics & Labour in the Global South

Book Review A Practical Guide to Levitation: Stories By José Eduardo Agualusa Review by Jacqueline Nyathi Translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn Mozambique-based writer José Eduardo Agualusa and his wonderful translator, Daniel Hahn, have a way with words, the fantastical and the surreal. They bring ghosts to life with…
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New Agenda 92: Special Issue – Economics & Labour in the Global South

Dateline Africa 1 December 2023 to 29 February 2024 21 February: Türkiye – once the Ottoman Empire, a colonial occupier of north Africa for centuries – is extremely active in Africa once again. It is to assist in strengthening coast-guard services in Somalia. This comes amid infrastructure projects in east…
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New Agenda 92: Special Issue – Economics & Labour in the Global South

Making sense of today’s labour movement as we confront the burden of the future By Monique Marks Marks is the head of the Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology. She is an internationally recognised and rated researcher and has won a number of prestigious awards for her…
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New Agenda 92: Special Issue – Economics & Labour in the Global South

40 years of shop floor resistance Racial ordering and history of militant culture By Sithembiso Bhengu Dr Bhengu is the Director of the Chris Hani Institute and Senior Research Associate with the Sociology Department, University of Johannesburg. He holds a PhD in Industrial Sociology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Based…
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New Agenda 92: Special Issue – Economics & Labour in the Global South

Cosatu’s mute response Waves of social movement unionism in South Africa and its crisis during Covid By uMbuso weNkosi uMbuso weNkosi is a sociology lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His research is focused on labour studies, industrial policy, political economy, agrarian studies, archives and social theory. He…
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New Agenda 92: Special Issue – Economics & Labour in the Global South

Farming support must switch to black smallholders Focus on urban elite amounts to rural State Capture By John Matisonn Journalist and author Matisonn began political reporting in 1974. He was foreign correspondent in Washington for the Rand Daily Mail and reported for National Public Radio in the US. He has…
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New Agenda 92: Special Issue – Economics & Labour in the Global South

South Africa’s migration policy mess Where did it come from, and can it be fixed? By Alan Hirsch Alan Hirsch is Professor Emeritus at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town; the Leader of the Migration Governance Research Programme at New South Institute; and a Professorial…
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New Agenda 92: Special Issue – Economics & Labour in the Global South

Lessons for South Africa China during the era of ‘reform and opening up’ By Douglas Ian Scott Scott, a South African policy analyst and social scientist, is the director of policy at Wikimedia South Africa, a non-profit that advocates for free access to knowledge and supports the growth of Wikipedia…
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New Agenda 92: Special Issue – Economics & Labour in the Global South

Where is the development in SA’s developmental state? And where is the road to sustainable job creation? Journalist and author Matisonn began political reporting in 1974. He was foreign correspondent in Washington for the Rand Daily Mail and reported for National Public Radio in the US. He has been published…
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New Agenda 92: Special Issue – Economics & Labour in the Global South

Degrowth in an African periphery Recentring decoloniality around circular ontologies By Roland Ngam Dr Roland Ngam is programme manager for climate justice and socioecological transformation at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Southern Africa, where he coordinates the climate blog ClimateJusticeCentral. Before that, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Emancipatory…
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New Agenda 92: Special Issue – Economics & Labour in the Global South

Editorial In search of a ‘developmental state’ – By Martin Nicol This Special Issue on Economics and Labour is divided into two sections. Contributions on current economic development are followed by three articles presented at a conference marking 50 years since the Durban Strikes of 1973. That said, all of…
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New Agenda 91 — Decode colloquium

‘How can we help and support MPs?’ – Chief Justice Zondo In the keynote address to the In Defence of our Constitutional Democracy colloquium Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said: “I think that Parliament has a very important role to play in bringing down levels of corruption in our country and…
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New Agenda 91: Book review

Stunted: Panopticism and embedded neoliberalism in African states’ food & agriculture policies and the struggle to end Hunger on the continent Charles Simane (ed) Review by Rachael Nyirongo “African states are being monitored through the hegemonic institutions of the Global North, to produce a certain type of policies that are…
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New Agenda 91: Africa Diary

Dateline Africa 1 September 2023 – 31 November 2023 November November 9 November: The JSE, South Africa’s biggest stock exchange, introduced trading on a new local voluntary carbon market. Carbon markets allow for the buying and selling of carbon credits (one carbon credit is equal to one ton of carbon…
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New Agenda: Another milestone reached

Partnership with UWC’s Institute for Social Development sealed “The journal should continue to be listed on the DHET accredited list on condition that the suggested improvements are implemented by the end of 2023.” -ASSAf Panel review of New Agenda, 2022 As described in previous issues of New Agenda, the original…
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