Manduna

Africa

Illegal miners, colloquially known as the zama zamas — over 75 percent of whom are undocumented migrants from neighbouring Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Mozambique — risk their lives foraging for leftover minerals, notably gold, in some of the world’s deepest mineshafts

Authoritarianism, State Violence, and Vigilantism: Security Challenges Posed by Illegal Miners in South Africa

Tushkin

This paper attempts to decipher and make sense of renewed and seemingly strengthened Africa-Russia relations at a time when the world’s geopolitics, geoeconomics, and geostrategic imperatives are undergoing unprecedented tectonic and structural ruptures, shifts, and breaks

Thucydides’ Trap and the Renewal of Africa-Russia Relations in the Face of Global Geopolitical Shockwaves

Monjane

While governments across southern Africa have imposed State of Emergency-type COVID-19 regulations, a number of ‘people’s coalitions’ have emerged in several countries. 

Africa

Thucydides’ Trap and the Renewal of Africa-Russia Relations in the Face of Global Geopolitical Shockwaves

Confronting Corporate-Driven Food Systems in the Time of COVID-19: Contradictions and Potential in South Africa’s Civil Society