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Real acts, imagined landscapes
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)
Why do we want land and agrarian reform? Why should its policies be supported? Much can be said about its stated purposes and goals, but why do those goals matter — and to whom? If, as James Ferguson remarked earlier in ...
Interrogating the logic of accumulation in the sugar sector in Southern Africa
(2016)
Introduction to regional patterns of sugar production accumulation by way of data analysis for key (formerly ‘South African’) firm Illovo across 6 countries
‘Centrifugal’ logic throws-up a diversity of routes of ...
Development of evidence-based policy around small-scale farming
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
How to support small-scale and larger commercial farmers, and to make sure that they are productive and contribute effectively to the rural economy and to national food security.
An Analysis of Renunciation in Terms of s 2(C)(1) of the Wills Act 7 of 1953 in Light of the Moosa NO and Others v Harnaker and Others Judgment
(Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (EJIMEL), 2019-05-29)
Muslims have been living in South Africa for over 300 years. These persons are required in terms of their religion to fol-low Islamic law. There has (to date) been no legislation enacted by the South African parliament ...
Social protests and water service delivery in South Africa
(2013-09-13)
• To identify the key drivers of water-related social protests, roles of organization and mobilization and dynamics of perceived deprivation.
Class formation across borders: migrant workers in international borderlands
(2014)
• Agricultural boom in tobacco: introduced commercially in 1994 (+699% 2000-2009)
• Labour intensive, use of HH labour and migrant wage labour (Seasonal L and sharecroppers, atypical)
• 130.000 small scale producers. 1:3 ...
Livelihoods & social differentiation in ‘post-agrarian’ South Africa
(2017)
• Legacy: Settler colonialism & migrant labour
• Industrialization & proletarianisation
• Dichotomous agrarian landscape
• Rural poverty, esp. former homelands
• Longstanding deagrarianisation
The social dynamics of rural poverty in the Eastern Cape
(2017)
Overview
• Structural poverty & its causes • Understanding impoverished livelihoods :
i. Social grants
ii. Informal economic activity
• Social dynamics
• ‘Informal social protection’
• The downside of ‘social capital’
Economic informality in South Africa: practice & policy
(2015)
SA context:
• High poverty & unemployment, yet small SMME sector.
• Informal sector: African, low earning, female & retail dominated.
• Inhibited by: – Spatial, labour market & ‘human capital’ legacies
The political economy of land governance in Africa: The role of universities in decolonising curricula and promoting critical scholarship
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2019-10-08)
Decolonising the land requires decolonising our universities. In South Africa there is a live conversation about the need to decolonise our universities—an idea that expands beyond transforming our curricula, to drawing ...