In Making Freedom Anne-Maria Makhulu explores practices of squatting and illegal
settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town during and immediately following the end of …

Sixteen years since the end of the liberation struggle South Africa's cities have become
crucial spaces of self-determination and lively community democracy. Yet their form has …

As a result of Pretoria's 1976 imposition of independence on the" black homeland" of
Transkei, its capital city, Umtata, became one of the first communities in South Africa to …

After the Thrill Is Gone is a serious appraisal of what South African democracy has yielded
and has failed to yield in the era following the heady expectations of liberation from …

The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial
future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an …

Originally published in 1982, this book covers the unique spatial structure of society which
was South Africa under apartheid. It brings together a cohesive set of research-based …

While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in South Africa, most
discussion centers on ideal forms of movements, disregarding the reality and agency of the …

This article concerns itself with home improvements–both as internalised process and
externally visible practice–in African households in Cape Town, South Africa, under …

The Landless People's Movement (LPM) is one of a number of independent grassroots
movements to emerge in response to the negative impacts of the post-apartheid economic …

This ethnography explores the meanings of personhood and agency in Maneneberg, a
township located on the Cape Flats, in Cape Town South Africa. The township was a site of …