Although Africa is the most under-supplied region of the world for electricity, its economies
are utterly dependent on it. There are enormous inequalities in electricity access, with …

Electricity to light our homes. Safe water for our families to drink. Telephones to our loved
ones far away. Ports and railways to bring us wonderful things, and to bring our goods to the …

ABSTRACT Mdlalose's [2014.“The Rise and Fall of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African
Social Movement.” Politikon 41 (3): 345–353] personal account of Abahlali baseMjondolo …

Considering the lack of coverage in the mass media of certain kinds of social movement
activity, many movements make use of smaller scale, independent media to publicise their …

I remember a time when in the SECC [Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee] meetings people
who were illegally connected would be asked to raise their hands, and almost everyone's …

Some 40% of the world's urban poor—living predominantly in informal settlements—lack
access to legal electricity. Urban upgradation programmes, if they exist, prioritize water …

This thesis offers an overview of the functions served by various mobilisations of „poverty‟
and „the poor‟ across the histories of capitalism. It shows how „poverty‟ and „the poor …

South Africa has high levels of visible protest, which occur in parallel with less visible forms
of protest. This paper considers the quieter forms of resisting in Durban drawing from two …

This paper provides an overview of the South African Civil Society Organisation (CSO)
sector for the period 1994 to 2014. For its purposes, the paper adopts a role-focussed and …

Neoliberalism is generally associated with certain paradigmatic regulatory experiments,
such as privatisation, deregulation, trade liberalisation, financialisation, structural …