Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Political reconfigurations in the wake of Marikana / Prishani Naidoo
  • pt. 1. New political directions?
  • Reconstituting and re-imagining the left after Marikana / Noor Nieftagodien
  • Labour and community struggles 1994-2014 / Marcel Paret
  • Half full or half empty? The Numsa moments and the prospects of left revitalisation / Devan Pillay
  • pt. 2. Economy, ecology and labour
  • Introduction to Part 2 / Devan Pillay
  • The South African economy: the minerals-energy-finance complex redubbed? / Samantha Ashman
  • Between a rock and a hard place: state-business relations in the mining sector / Ross Harvey
  • The platinum belt strike wave: breakdown in the institutionalisation of industrial conflict / Crispen Chinguno
  • When gold mining ends: an environmental catastrophe for Johannesburg? / Anthony Turton
  • pt. 3. State and society
  • Introduction to Part 3 / Roger Southall
  • Constitutionalism: an 'unqualified human good'? / Pierre de Vos
  • People's parliament: Do citizens influence South Africa's legislatures? / Samantha Waterhouse
  • Corruption/ Ivor Sarakinsky
  • Marikana and the politics of public order policing / Monique Marks and David Bruce
  • 'In December we are rich, in January we are poor': consumption, saving, stealing and insecurity in the kasi / David Dickinson
  • pt. 4. South Africa in the international arena
  • Introduction to Part 4 / Gilbert M. Khadiagala
  • The evolution of South Africa's foreign policy / Garth le Pere
  • South Africa, the BRICS and human rights: in bad company? / Karen Smith
  • Trading with the frenemy: how South Africa depends on African trade / Rod Alence.