South Africa

Electricity | Working Documents

The Crisis in South Africa’s Energy Sector: Towards a Just Transition

February 10, 2021

South Africa stands at the precipice of a major economic crisis. In this increasingly dangerous situation, the near collapse of the state-owned electricity utility, Eskom, presents a set of serious challenges to the working class and society at large.

Social Movements | Working Documents

The Fate of Xolobeni Would Be the Fate Of Us All

August 7, 2019

Since 1996, activists in Xolobeni, a coastal region in South Africa, have been fighting a foreign mining conglomerate that learned that their ancestral lands happen to be rich in titanium.

Dossiers

Frantz Fanon: The Brightness of Metal

March 2, 2020

This dossier offers a sparkling introduction to Fanon’s life and work, stressing the contemporary political traction of his radical humanism, and noting that his work carries an ‘irrepressible openness to the universal’ and an axiomatic commitment to ‘recognize the open door of every consciousness’.

‘The Politic of Blood’: Political Repression in South Africa

August 4, 2020

In South Africa, grassroots activists talk of ‘the politic of blood’, referring to ongoing assassinations and other forms of repression.

Frantz Fanon Colloquium

March 5, 2020

The objective of the Frantz Fanon Colloquium was to analyse his thinking about the crisis of the postcolony, and foreground his contribution to the question of political praxis.