PhD in History (2023) Lecturer, Department of History, University of the Witwatersrand
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About
Fields of Study
- 20th C to present Southern Afric
- Legal, Property, Gender
I'm interested in questions of of law, activism, political economy and gender in 20th century southern Africa. By focusing on a history of collective land holding structures, my current project aims to examine how politically marginalized people in rural South Africa have contested issues of property, authority and identity in relationship to each other and the state. I'm particularly interested in how black farmers carved out alternative forms of property and land law, despite the confines of apartheid. These traditions of political thought about property are largely overlooked both in scholarly literature and in current public debates about land reform.
I have previously worked as researcher on land reform at the University of Cape Town’s Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC).
