Her passing is a very sad loss to her family, friends, colleagues, and the many students she mentored over a long and influential career, first at the University of Cape Town

Many Afrikaans-speaking people in Pretoria's white working-class suburbs during the apartheid era lost their jobs in the 1990s when the heavy industries in which they worked were downsized or closed down. This paper explores the livelihood strategies open to the next generation - the ex-workers' children who are confronted by wage employment opportunities very different from those open to their parents. Popular interpretations of the position of members of the apartheid-era white working class in South Africa today are contradictory. One narrative holds that their present circumstances mark the return of the "Poor Whites" of the early twentieth century, while a second contends that they continue to benefit uniformly from the "wages of whiteness." The evidence we draw from our ethnographic field research in the former white working-class suburbs suggests that both of these understandings simplify a complex situation. We show the ways in which young people endeavour to fashion livelihoods at present, and discuss how the differences between their various livelihood strategies shape their understanding of what it means to be Afrikaans and white in the post-apartheid era.

(2020). Obituary: Boet Kotze, a radical and prophetic Afrikaans anthropologist (March 4, 1943–July 8, 2020) Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 259-265.

Extraction and beyond: people's economic responses to restructuring in southern and central AfricaPeople's economic activities in southern and central Africa have undergone major transformations in the last three decades, influenced by significant structural changes in the configurations of big capital and state-capital relations.The focus of this edited collection is on people's economic responses to restructuring in the three mining centres of South Africa, the Zambian Copperbelt and Haut-Katanga, DRC.There is a growing interest in comparing the central African Copperbelt, but, to our knowledge, there has not been any systematic comparison of these three interconnected mining systems. 1 By 'mining system' we mean a specific historical configuration that developed from the interactions, negotiations and conflicts between mining capital, colonial powers, colonised polities, migrant and local labour, and local communities.While capital was internationalised from early on, the forms of state-capital relations that emerged in the three locales shaped them into separate, albeit interconnected and open-ended, systems.Mining companies competed over labour, with African migrants and their families often moving across these areas, but also capital and international markets.Dynamics of competition and cooperation also occurred between the different colonial states.While these systems developed their own specificities, the original goal of conquest for extraction of raw materials destined to the metropolitan markets was common to all three configurations.These processes produced massive displacements and large-scale disruptions of existing economic activities (including mining), international trade, and migration routes.As a heuristic device, we selected articles that study people's economic activities in various geographic areas directly linked to the three mining systems.We included urban mining centres as well as rural labour-sending areas from within and outside the mining countries' national borders.In sectoral terms, we kept the focus as broad as possible, trying to provide some analysis of: how large-scale mining and its institutions have changed over time (Stewart and Nite, Macmillan, and Uzar, in this issue); how people residing in urban mining centres and formerly employed in large-scale mining moved to other economic activities (Rubbers, in this issue); how artisanal mining developed alongside the decline of largescale mining (Cuvelier, in this issue); and how rural sending areas fared with the drastic reduction of mining employment (Johnson, and van der Waal, in this issue).Most of the articles in this special issue are contemporary ethnographic case studies, rooted in an awareness of the political economy of the region and engaging to varying extents with the history of the three mining systems.Different scales are at work herefor example, while one article engages with the changes in the configurations of big capital and state-capital relations in South Africa (Macmillan, in this issue), another is a national case study of mining trade unions in times of privatisation in Zambia (Uzar, in this issue).The next three sections will provide a synthetic comparative historical overview of the main trends in the complex interactions between race, class and capital in the three mining systems, from the inception of large-scale capitalist mining to the present day.The purpose is to bring together already available knowledge into a comparative framework, to provide key context to

(2015). Martin Elgar West 1946–2015. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 38, No. 3-4, pp. 375-377.

South Africa was once notorious for an extreme system of racial inequality known as apartheid. It is still a world leader in economic inequality, but the racial situation is confused. In the meantime something like apartheid has become universal. The Southern African regional economy has some features that point to a more humane alternative to unequal society, to a “human economy”. The world needs a new free trade movement that would begin to dismantle the institutions of national privilege and insist on movement as a human right.

The University of Pretoria's Human Economy project began at the end of 2010. To date it has involved eighteen post-doctoral fellows, drawn from around the world, and eight doctoral candidates, all from Africa. This paper reviews the project's progress, drawing attention to how its participants have come to construe the notion of a ‘human economy’ and the main social theorists on whom they have drawn in doing so. The development of our thinking regarding a human economy is explained by reference to the two edited volumes, comprising contributions from all the post-doctoral fellows, which will be published in the near future. Challenges for future research are considered in the final part of the paper.

The Human Economy Project is interdisciplinary in scope, but relies extensively on anthropological research methods. These methods are an appropriate counter to the methods adopted in mainstream economics, which has been criticised for its isolation from ‘the ordinary business of life’. Four essays in this collection illustrate the use of the ethnographic research method in posing questions about the way in which people in different parts of the world perceive the ‘big institutions’—the market, the state, business corporations—that impinge on their lives. The final two essays discuss the rationale behind the Human Economy Project and the meaning of the ‘human economy’ idea.

This article examines the process of racial integration at the University of Pretoria since the demise of apartheid. The university has taken significant steps to achieve fairer representation of the different ‘races’, but has not succeeded in diminishing student perceptions of the overwhelming importance of racial identities. Some suggest that this is because white, Afrikaans-speaking students continue to display racial prejudice against fellow students who are black. We argue that while this may be so, a more important obstacle lies in the institution's adherence to a discourse involving an easy substitution of ‘culture’ for ‘race’ as a means to describe ‘difference’ in South Africa. This discourse, which has a long history at the university, serves to divert attention from the racialised inequalities that underpin the salience of racial identities.

The Energy Institute has initiated and managed a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to deliver a Capability Maturity Model procedure to assist Duty Holders and contractors with the management of maintenance. The model is a generic tool which enables the assessment of the maturity of an organisation's capability to maintain facilities at offshore installations for improved safety and availability. It uses Capability Maturity Modelling as a means of measuring organisational behaviour and is aimed at the assessment of maintenance departments.The first applications were projects for the Health & Safety Executive in the UK and the Petroleum Safety Agency in Norway and were specifically targeted at safety with elements of regulatory compliance. These have been the subject of papers in previous Hazards.The JIP has now developed new applications with a more operational and commercial bias that have highlighted different emphases in the approaches used in the modelling technique; the modelling from the JIP describes the processes involved in the management of maintenance programmes and includes the application of the model to the different contracting strategies used in the UK oil and gas sector.The paper will describe these most recent applications, the way in which these applications have modified the model development and how using workshops and case studies have added to our confidence in the effectiveness and applicability of the model.

Anthropology TodayVolume 24, Issue 5 p. 22-22 'Fortress SA'? A response to John Sharp (AT 24[4]) Suren Pillay, Suren Pillay Democracy and Governance Programme, Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa. spillay@hsrc.ac.zaSearch for more papers by this authorJohn Sharp, John Sharp University of Pretoria. john.sharp@up.ac.zaSearch for more papers by this author Suren Pillay, Suren Pillay Democracy and Governance Programme, Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa. spillay@hsrc.ac.zaSearch for more papers by this authorJohn Sharp, John Sharp University of Pretoria. john.sharp@up.ac.zaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 24 September 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2008.00615.xCitations: 4AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume24, Issue5October 2008Pages 22-22 RelatedInformation