by HSRC Press on Jun 14th, 2013
Malehoko Tshoaedi, co-editor of COSATU’s Contested Legacy: South African trade unions in the second decade of democracy, has co-written a journal article for Rethinking Development and Inequality, along with Sarah Mosoetsa, titled “Cosatu Retreating to the Workplace in Post-Aparthied South Africa: What About Community Struggles?”
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South Africa’s labour movement, especially COSATU and its predecessor FOSATU played an important role in the attainment of democracy. The history and contribution of COSATU is undisputed. The question that this article explores is what the labour movement has done in post-apartheid South Africa to safeguard the interest of the broader working class, its own members, and thus contributing to the consolidation of democracy in the country. The article draws on a longitudinal COSATU survey on member’s perception on community issues, politics and democracy conducted in 1994, 1998, 2004, and 2008. In-depth qualitative interviews with union members, former union members and unemployed workers are also used. Empirical evidence shows that, COSATU and its affiliate unions have retreated to workplace issues at the expense of community issues such as service delivery. This article gives evidence of what many scholars have been postulating as “the demise of social movement unionism.” The result, the article argues, is a growing representation gap, where those in precarious employment and the unemployed are left without a legitimate voice and representation.
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by HSRC Press on Jun 13th, 2013
Marie-Therese C le Roux attended a talk by Shamil Jeppie titled “The Intersection of Manuscript and Print in Timbuktu” at the conference on Print, Publishing and Cultural Production in South Africa, co-hosted by the University of Pretoria and Oxford Brookes University.
Jeppie is the project director of the Timbuktu Manuscript Project and co-author of The Meanings of Timbuktu. Read le Roux’s coverage of the presentation:
Until very recently, to the average person the name Timbuktu simply signified a very remote and possibly fictional place. I remember my delight, as a child, at actually finding it in an atlas: Timbuktu really existed! In 1988 the ancient desert city was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for the distinctive cultural treasures of its ancients mosques and mausoleums. In 2012, however, Timbuktu made news headlines for an unfortunate reason: violent conflict in Mali threatened the antiquities housed by the city. Among Timbuktu’s antiquities is a rare, historic collection of manuscripts with intriguing implications.
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by HSRC Press on Jun 7th, 2013
Anton Eberhard, co-author of Power-sector reform and regulation in Africa: Lessons from Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, spoke at the recent African Utility Week in Cape Town, writes Londiwe Buthelezi for Business Report.
Eberhard, who is a national planning commissioner and professor at UCT’s Graduate School of Business, said that “there was severe under-pricing of electricity in many countries due to the lack of cost reflective tariffs and this resulted in insufficient revenue generation that could be reinvested in the building of additional capacity.”
Eskom chief executive Brian Dames has warned that utilities needed to be cautious about who they did business with when they had large capital projects to deliver.
Speaking at the African Utility Week in Cape Town yesterday, Dames said cost efficiencies had to weigh heavily when placing contracts.
Kim Cloete from Engineering News writes that Eberhard “called for more focus to be placed on competition and private investment in energy in Africa” and said that more effective regulation is needed in the sector.
The CEO of South African power utility Eskom, Brian Dames, said on Tuesday that countries in sub-Saharan Africa should work together to establish a “super grid” to boost electricity supply in the power-starved region.
Dames told several thousand delegates at African Utility Week, under way in Cape Town, that Africa’s power sector was woefully behind the rest of the world, with energy consumption per capita only one per cent of that of high-income countries.
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by HSRC Press on Jun 6th, 2013
Sakhela Buhlungu, co-editor of COSATU’s Contested Legacy: South African trade unions in the second decade of democracy, has written about the conflict in the mining industry for The Sunday Independent.
Buhlungu says that “there are layers to the Marikana story and it would be simplistic to attribute all the trials and tribulations of the industry and its workers to a single factor. But at the core of that conflict is the collapse of organisational and political monopolies NUM represents.”
Last May colleagues went to Rustenburg to gain insight into the Impala strike and to assess the organisational and political ramifications of the fallout between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and its rank and file.
One of the people we met was a member of the independent workers’ committee known as the Five Madoda. Comrade Bob* was a militant who, with thousands of other Impala workers, had decided to break with NUM and join the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu). Bob told us that most workers no longer wanted anything to do with the ANC and the SACP.
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by HSRC Press on Jun 4th, 2013
Books LIVE is giving away a copy of Governing Cities in Africa edited by Simon Bekker and Laurent Fourchard.
This book takes a novel approach to studying sub-Saharan African governments and policies by looking at the issues on a city level as opposed to a national level. Multiple authors have contributed to Governing Cities in Africa, all of whom have in-depth knowledge of the cities discussed in their sections.
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by HSRC Press on Jun 3rd, 2013
The CEO of the HSRC, the HSRC Press and the HSRC Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery research programme cordially invite you to the launch of State of the Nation: South Africa 2012–2013: Addressing Inequality and Poverty, edited by Jonathan D Jansen, Francis Nyamnjoh, Udesh Pillay and Gerard Hagg.
The event will take place on Wednesday 26 June at the Sheraton Pretoria Hotel and will start promptly at 4 PM. RSVP before 20 June.
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- RSVP: LTaylor-Arenz@hsrc.ac.za, 0214668028
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by HSRC Press on May 31st, 2013
This week marks the annual South African Child Protection Week, which runs from 27 May to 2 June this year. Last week Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini called for the protection of our children and said that the child protection register had seen thousands of cases recorded over the last nine years. However, Nashira Davids from The Times reports that the register has been called into question by the DA’s Mike Waters who “said there were too few names on the register considering that in 2011-12 alone there were more than 25000 sexual crimes committed against minors.”
It is national Child Protection Week. As Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini last week called on the nation to “pledge to protect our children”, the child protection register, designed to protect minors from abuse, is under the spotlight.
Dlamini said that, in nine years, thousands of cases of child abuse and neglect had been placed on the register. But experts warned that the costly register is not a “panacea”. The DA’s Mike Waters claimed the register is in a “mess” and labelled it a “mockery”.
Richard Montsho, programme manager for Save the Children South Africa made a statement about the challenges still facing the fight against child abuse. He said that community education is needed “in terms of what are good cultural practices that don’t compromise the rights of the children and what are cultural practices that need to be reviewed that compromises the rights of children.”
Watch the segment or read Sthembiso Sithole’s report below:
Programme Manager of Save the Children South Africa Richard Montsho says there are still challenges at community levels to fight against children abuse.
Speaking on SAfm’s Forum@8 on Tuesday, Montsho said communities as a whole need to be educated in terms of what are good cultural practices that don’t compromise the rights of the children and what are cultural practices that need to be reviewed that compromises the rights of children.
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by HSRC Press on May 28th, 2013
Alan Mabin, one of the contributors to Simon Bekker and Göran Therborn’s Capital Cities in Africa, will be delivering a Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research (WiSER) seminar titled “Southern theory and cities of the South” on Monday 3 June at 3 PM.
The paper for the seminar will be available on the Friday before the talk.
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by HSRC Press on May 27th, 2013
Books LIVE is giving away a copy of The Search for Quality Education in Post-apartheid South Africa edited by Yusuf Sayed, Anil Kanjee and Mokubung Nkomo.
By reviewing selected large-scale interventions to improve education quality in South African schools, The Search for Quality Education in Post-apartheid South Africa provides a basis for a critical conversation about the history of education change in post-apartheid SA.
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by HSRC Press on May 24th, 2013
Erna van Wyk from the University of the Witwatersrand attended the launch of The Development of Competition Law and Economics in South Africa at the Origins Centre.
Van Wyk wrote about the speech that guest speaker David Lewis, former Chairperson of the Competition Tribunal, made and has shared a recording of his speech:
Whether it is banks or bread, oil or milk, Competition Law and the authorities that enforce it are the pillars that keep competition alive and fair in South Africa.
A new book, entitled The Development of Competition Law and Economics in South Africa, further strengthens the knowledge pool of this important field. Edited by Kasturi Moodaliyar, Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, and Simon Roberts, Director of the Centre for Competition Economics at the University of Johannesburg, this book is an important source for students and practitioners of competition law and economics in South Africa.
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