Yvonne Phyllis recently attended the Usufructuaries of earth convention in Utrecht, The Netherlands, where scholars, activists, and artists gathered to explore non-expropriative land practices. They discussed communal land use, agrarian reform, and the fight against privatisation.
Decades of embracing neoliberal electricity policies have left Africa, one of the world’s most resource rich regions, with the lowest energy consumption rates per capita.
In 1973, workers in the industrial port city of Durban embarked on a series of strikes, marking an end to a period of relative quiescence that came on the heels of tremendous state repression.