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The Boxing Economy of the Eastern Cape

What is the link between the national formal economy on the one hand, and on the other, local community based economic and leisure cultures, which may have been largely self-sustaining but interminably precarious?

Njabulo Ndebele Njabulo Ndebele

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Land reform, rural inequality and agrarian change: the case of Isidenge, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape

Beinart, William, Sonwabile Mnwana and Luvuyo Wotshela. 2020. Land reform, rural inequality and agrarian change: the case of Isidenge, Stutt...

Sonwabile Mnwana Sonwabile Mnwana

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Traditional leadership, democracy and development in the rural eastern Cape: a study of futures past

The problem of how to marry constitutional democracy with traditional authorities in the postcolonial context is not unique to South Africa and has been substantially explored in other contexts.

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Historical Novel - Research and Writing

While at STIAS a novel will be researched and written.

Zakes Mda Zakes Mda
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