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Leroy Maisiri
Leroy Maisiri is a researcher and educator focused on labour, social movements and emancipatory politics in Southern Africa, with teaching and publishing experience in industrial economic sociology
Makhanda the poster child for municipal collapse
The cause goes beyond corruption and incapacity to dysfunctional centralised, bureaucratic rule. The solution lies in decentralised, participatory and direct democratic forms of…
Fort Hare University: Lies and xenophobia distract from the jobs crisis
State disinvestment in public services, infrastructure and manufacturing ensured that millions would remain trapped in cycles of poverty, with or without immigration
Burkina Faso: Revolution, authoritarianism and the crisis of African emancipation politics
If revolutions are to succeed, the people must deliver freedom. They must reject authoritarianism, a small revolutionary elite or a military junta.
Zimbabwe: Why does the state persist when its outputs are poverty, violence and humiliation
After 45 years of independence, issues such as the disintegration of the country’s monetary system are illustrative of the crisis.