A few weeks ago, during the Southern African Cities Studies Conference 2020, a panel organised by Alexandra Halligey (South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Witwatersrand) and Kristen Kornienko (Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the...

  Dr. Chaymaa Hassabo is a Research Associate at the Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg (UJ).   She is a specialist of Egypt and wrote her doctoral thesis in political science about the transformations of the Mubarak authoritarian regime during the 2002-2010 period.  Dr. Hassabo came to South Africa three years ago as a...

IFAS-Research was very sad to hear of the passing of Bill Freund, Prof. emeritus at UKZN, on August 17th. Bill Freund was an authoritative scholar in the field of economic history, development economics and the history of labour, and the transformation of cities in Africa. Combining rigorous thinking with an...

Encounters with Covid Exploring the theme of the pandemic through a series of podcasts and platforming experts’ and social scientists’ insights on the economic impact of Covid-19 in South Africa, this miniseries of 3 episodes is a collaborative project between Wits University Southern Center for Inequalities Studies (SCIS) and Rethinking...

African views on Covid-19. Call for papers (Deadline: July 20, 2020)  African Views on Covid-19 is a title of a project book that aims to document the ways Africans have faced, or are still facing, the current health crisis, from the perspective of humanities and social sciences. This collective, multidisciplinary, bilingual...