The series is run by Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) and the Departments of Sociology and Industrial Sociology, History, and Economics and Economic History.
THE PUBLISHER: Mzwanele Mayekiso is an academic and an organic intellectual. His background is in City and Regional Planning, Urban Planning and Political Philosophy. He studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City, USA. Mzwanele was a leading anti-apartheid activist and treason trialist from Alexandra township, active in the 1980s "people's power" movement. He is the author of Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New South Africa (Monthly Review Press, 1996), and co-editor of Confronting Fragmentation: Housing and Urban Development in a Democratising Society (with Philip Harrison and Marie Hutchzermeyer), UCT Press, 2004. A prolific writer and leading black intellectual, he has contributed papers and think-pieces for academic journals and newspapers, both locally and internationally. He is the owner and publisher of Ndivhuwo journal and CEO of the iKwezi Institute for Research and Development, Johannesburg.
THE LAUNCH: You are cordially invited to the launch of the 4th edition of Ndivhuwo: Journal for Intellectual Engagement. Ndivhuwo journal, which is autonomous and independent in its editorial, is a publication of the iKwezi Institute for Research and Development -- set up to enhance intellectual engagement on South Africa's democracy and development. Ndivhuwo journal is geared to attract thought leaders in South Africa, from key policy-makers in government and industry, to leaders in civil society and intellectuals in academia and society. It aims to preserve our heritage and build our democracy.
The new edition includes articles by David Bogoba, Patrick Bond, Slim Coleman, Xioqing Ding, David Everrat, Ana Garcia, William Gumede, Savo Heleta, Garth Klein, Alan Mabin, Glen Mashishini, Patricia Matolengwe, Mzwanele Mayekiso, Nobantu Mayekiso, M.J. Merino-Merida, Popo Molefe, Philani Mthembu, Tinyiko Nwamitwa, Mary Pickens, Stephan Marais, Reg Rumney, and Vladimir Shubin. Issues covered range from BRICS, the Gauteng “city region” discourse, rebuilding the public economy, sub-imperialism, the centenary of the Russian Revolution(s), Trump nationalism and globalism, university outsourcing, tradition and democracy, urban trends and tourism, women and development, architecture for democracy, and the land question in discourse.
Queries to Valance Wessels, NALSU, 046 603 8939, v.wessels@ru.ac.za