Associate Professor and Project Coordinator at the Centre for Sociological Research and Practice, Sociology, University of Johannesburg
South Africa
Joined November 2013
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Siphiwe has spent years standing with his community. Now it’s our turn to stand with him.
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‘Insights into grassroots mobilisation in the Thembelihle community with Radio Islam and Luke Sinwell’ on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/hG9UMmYaZW…
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Popular protests have surged around the world over the last decade. But do they work? And what lessons can be learnt from communities who have a history of militant protests?
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For the first time in SA’s 30 years of democracy, the ANC failed to win a majority of votes making a coalition with other parties imminent. We discuss the emergence of Zuma's new party (MK) and the left's failure to make serious inroads into SA politics.
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Luke Sinwell reflects on his new book ‘The Participation Paradox: Between Bottom-Up and Top-Down Development on South Africa’.
See full interview here: csrp.co.za/2023/06/17/luke-s…
Join us at UJ, FADA (Bunting Road) on 16 June 2023 at 1pm for a one day art exhibition with Ayanda Mabulu and Brenda Sisane. Panelists also include Gabisile Khanyile (Sinethemba Women of Marikana), Ngqapheli Mchunu (TCC), Palesa Sekhejane, Mosa Phadi and Konosoang Sobane.
Book Launch INVITE
The Participation Paradox: Between Bottom-up and Top-down Development in South Africa (Sinwell 2023, UJ Press)
When:7 June 2023 6pm-8pm.
Where: FADA Auditorium, UJ Bunting Road(behind the SABC)
Speakers: Mosa Phadi, Ayanda Mabulu, Luke Sinwell, Nombulelo Nyezi
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MA student, Fuzile Jwara, has penned an op-ed on SA's controversial position on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Congrats on your publication, Fuzile!
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invitation to a public screening and dialogue of the Emmy-Award Winning Documentary:
Miners Shot Down
Title of dialogue: The Beauty and Horror of Miners Shot Down
When: 23 May 2023 at 4pm for 4:30pm – 7:30pm
Where: FADA Auditorium
UJ, Bunting Road Campus (behind the SABC)
Book Launch Invite: "We are Dead!": The Paradox of Grassroots Democracy Under Racial Capitalism
For residents of informal settlements in South Africa, grassroots organising can be a matter of life and death.
Join us at SA Block Thembelihle, Lenasia 20 May 2023 12-2pm.
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Stanley Muravha, one of our Master's students, published this opinion piece on the ANC's failure to address youth unemployment - Congratulations!
#unemployment #politics #youth
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We must avoid mistakenly pitching these and other major policy changes simply as a result of a caring and listening government, nor do such reforms automatically lead to positive changes for the working class in the long–term…
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New Book: The Participation Paradox (with UJ Press) asks: Is the ideology of grassroots democracy a mask for the beast of racial capitalism?
The cover image by Ayanda Mabulu suggests that as seemingly bottom-up processes unfold, the eyes of the capitalist machine are watching.
It's time we did something about this - please sign: awethu.amandla.mobi/petition…
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Statement from the Socialist Youth Movement on the betrayal of the martyrs of Marikana by @WitsUniversity in signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Sibanye-Stillwater.
The cut-throat mining corporation Lonmin is a subsidiary of Sibanye-Stillwater.
#RememberMarikana
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Fifth delay in emergency power procurement plan bit.ly/3rPEnGz
