Dr Gavin Capps: Presentation 11: Mining - Creating winners and losers in the former homelands
Channel: Rick de Satge
Date: 2016-04-29

Presentation made to the ARD course on the political economy of land, mining and rural democracy 22 - 26 February 2016. Dr Gavin Capps joined SWOP at the University of the Witwatersrand as a Senior Researcher in January 2013. He is leader of the Mining and Rural Transformation in Southern Africa (MARTISA) project, a six-year research programme funded by the Ford Foundation. His current research investigates and seeks to connect three thematic areas: the political economy of the platinum mining industry; the historic formation of ‘tribal’ land and political relations in South Africa’s racial capitalist development; and the contemporary dynamics of rural class differentiation and struggle in the mineral-rich areas of the North West and Limpopo Provinces.