Professor Vishnu Padayachee. Supplied by University of the Witwatersrand June 2, 2021 A tribute to Vishnu Padayachee: South African economist and radical thinker Imraan Valodia, University of the Witwatersrand Vishnu Padayachee’s contribution to economics in South Africa is unmatched.
Harold Wolpe showed how poor rural areas subsidised low wages of migrant workers’ wages. Shutterstock July 8, 2019 Marxist scholar Harold Wolpe’s ideas still speak to South Africa’s problems Edward Webster, University of the Witwatersrand During the apartheid period in South Africa – 1948 to 1994 – a lively intellectual culture of opposition emerged on some of the country’s university campuses and within the broader anti-apartheid movement…
Students from Wits University, in Johannesburg, during a protest for free education. EPA/Kim Ludbrook December 4, 2017 History explains why South Africans on the left argue for free passes for the rich Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg The South African oddity is that those who in other societies would be arguing against free passes for the affluent, argue for them.