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

Theory & ResearchIllegal 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
By Kennedy Manduna
Authoritarianism, State Violence, and Vigilantism: Security Challenges Posed by Illegal Miners in South Africa
  • Africa
  • Subjectivity & Ideology
  • War & Violence
  • Economy

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

In PerspectiveThis 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
By Kennedy Manduna and Alexander Tushkin
Thucydides’ Trap and the Renewal of Africa-Russia Relations in the Face of Global Geopolitical Shockwaves
  • Africa
  • COVID-19
  • Solidarity
  • Economy
  • Climate Crisis

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

In PerspectiveWhile governments across southern Africa have imposed State of Emergency-type COVID-19 regulations, a number of ‘people’s coalitions’ have emerged in several countries.
By Boaventura Monjane
Confronting Corporate-Driven Food Systems in the Time of COVID-19: Contradictions and Potential in South Africa’s Civil Society