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CERT offers postgraduate programmes on Master’s and Doctoral level.

Course codes:

1. Master’s: M5RCSQ
2. PhD: P5RCSQ

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Catch up on the latest news from the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT)

& the SARChi in Community and Adult Worker Education (CAWE).

READ IT HERE: NEWSLETTER JAN 鈥� JUNE 2025

Catch up on the latest news from the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT)

& the SARChi in Community and Adult Worker Education (CAWE).

READ IT HERE: NEWSLETTER JUL 鈥� DEC 2024

Neville Alexander Commemorative Conference 2023 – Friday 25 August 2023 from 9:30 to 16:30

Re-centering Indigenous Feminism in Knowledge for Education Transformation in Africa

Women鈥檚 Day Event: INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS – WHAT IS IT AND (WHY) DO WE NEED IT?

Against Racial Capitalism.

Edited by Salim Vally and Enver Motala

The first book launch will be at the annual Neville Alexander Commemorative Conference on August the 25th in Jo鈥檅urg and thereafter events in CT, Gqeberha, East London and Durban. It will also be launched in the UK, the US and elsewhere. Please contact CAWE and CERT if you would like to be involved in these events

This edited book features a foreword by John Michael Samuel and Karen Press; a timeline of key events in the life of Alexander and the context of the times; a comprehensive introduction and a bibliography of his writings. The book is divided into 4 parts: Prison Writings: 鈥楾he 欧美福利100000 of Robben Island鈥�, 1964-1974; Reaping the Whirlwind: The 1970s and the 1980s; The Transition to Democracy: 1990 to 1994 and Post-1994 Essays, Talks, and Op-Eds. Each period has a separate introduction.

REVIEWS

Profound and provocative. Grounded in history, engaged with revolutionary theory, and informed by a lifetime of practice, Neville鈥檚 intellectual acuity and passion for freedom shine through in every page. Read, learn, and join the growing global struggle against racial capitalism.

~ Barbara Ransby, historian, activist, author of Making All Black Lives Matter.

Alexander鈥檚 beautiful writing patiently connects theory and method with purpose. Against Racial Capitalism is absolutely necessary for all who struggle to understand and change twenty-first century conditions.

~Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography

Salim Vally and Enver Motala have done an admirable job in putting together the writings of one of Africa鈥檚 foremost revolutionary intellectual. Neville Alexander did not merely combine theory and praxis but lived it. For him the analysis, critique and struggle against racial capitalism was a lived reality. A life to learn from.

~Issa Shivji, Professor Emeritus of Public Law & First Julius Nyerere Professor of 
Pan-African Studies, 欧美福利100000 of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

The Marketisation of Higher Education invitation

Prof. Salim Vally will be the main speaker of the seminar titled 鈥淭he Marketisation of Higher Education: Compromising the Role of Intellectuals and the Purpose of Education?鈥�

Date:聽11 July 2023 – 10:00 to 12:00

Click to join the meeting.

Prof. June Bam-Hutchison and music educator Eugene Skeef join Duduzile Ramela to dissect the transformation of education in Africa as the continent observed Africa Day.

CERT CAWE Newsletter APRIL MAY 2023

Read the newsletter of the centre for education rights and transformation and the South African research chair in community, adult and worker education.

25 – 26 Eugene Skeef_Africa Day May 2023 CERT_Poster

CERT and CAWE invite you to celebrate Africa day in a ritual archive convocation with internationally renowned South African composer and educator Eugene Skeef.

23 May – Public Seminar Prof. Leon Tikly Final

CERT鈥檚 Director wins 2023 Human and Social Sciences (HSS) Book Award in Best Non-fiction Monograph category

Prof. June Bam is the third from left in front row.

The prestigious joint award was presented to Professor June Bam for her monograph聽Ausi Told Me: Why Cape Herstoriographies Matter聽(published by Jacana, 2021) at an HSS gala dinner held in Pretoria on 16th聽March. The book was praised by the judges for its innovative methodology in interpreting and researching the past through the community鈥檚 knowledge of plants, astronomy and livestock. A previous work that she was lead editor of,聽Whose History Counts: Decolonising precolonial historiography, co-edited with Lungisile Ntsebeza and Allan Zinn (SunMedia, 2018), was also a finalist in the inaugural HSS Awards of 2020. Her collaborative work with the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation titled聽Turning Points in History聽won the UNESCO Peace Education Award for South Africa in 2008. June has also co-authored another pathbreaking book with Bernadette Muthien, titled聽Rethinking Africa: Indigenous Women re-interpret southern Africa鈥檚 Pasts聽(Jacana, 2021). According to June, 鈥榯hese new approaches to deep knowledge which I try to capture in my research and writings help to inform a transformed education for environmental sustainability and an understanding of the importance to protect and respect community knowledge and their rights to protect land, ecosystems, their languages and the important aspects thereof to sustain livelihoods and peace embedded in our diverse ancient cultures and their interconnectedness. These knowledges help us to appreciate and understand what makes us equal humans on this planet since deep time鈥�.

狈贰奥厂:听Education has a broader purpose, says UJ鈥檚 Prof Salim Vally

Here鈥檚 a formal statement from the Review of African Political Economy:

The Editorial Working Group of Review of African Political Economy is pleased to announce the 2018 winner of the Ruth First prize. The prize is awarded for the best article published by an African author in the journal in a publication year.

This year, the prize was awarded to Mondli Hlatshwayo for his article 鈥樷�� It was published in ROAPE Volume 45, Issue 157 in Autumn 2018.

The article shines the spotlight on community health workers (CHWs), who remain a blind spot in the literature on South African labour studies. Abandoned by mainstream unions and often ignored by labour scholars, the article reveals that CHWs are crafting their own nascent organisational responses as women and as precarious workers.

Hlatshwayo highlights the 鈥榩aradox of victory鈥� for the African National Congress (ANC), by which trade unions and workers achieved a formal dismantling of apartheid laws and gained organisational rights for labour, but economic liberalisation led to massive retrenchments, the rise of labour flexibility and the pauperisation of workers. This demands more focus on workers鈥� struggles outside the formal union structures. In Hlatshwayo鈥檚 case-study of health workers, it is a struggle for recognition as employees of the state who receive a living wage, rather than the 鈥榲olunteer鈥� with a stipend and no employment benefits. They have constructed alliances that include left wing, labour-supporting non-governmental organisations and health organisations. Beyond this, the Gauteng Health Workers鈥� Forum is influenced by the Cuban health care system and debates the reconceptualisation of their role as agents for social change, no longer alienated from control of their work and with the interests of the poor and marginalised at the centre of their practice.

The ROAPE Prize Committee commented on Hlatshwayo鈥檚 article: 鈥榠t was a strong piece of research exploring precarious work and alternative forms of organising, outside the straitjacket of established unions. The struggles of CHWs represent new worker-led initiatives in South Africa. This is bread and butter analysis for ROAPE. Particularly pleasing is that the women themselves are at the centre of the article.鈥� Furthermore, 鈥榠n terms of Ruth First鈥檚 legacy, the paper was the most relevant and crucially engages actively with the flesh-and-blood subjects of its theoretical arguments and assumptions about labour struggles, something unfortunately all too rare in academic literature.鈥�

Another member of the committee said it 鈥榓ddresses an understudied area in labour struggles, through examining the labour struggles of precarious community health workers. It also explores the human consequences of many key themes of neoliberal state policy by showing the effects of precarious labour, the rise of 鈥榲olunteerism鈥�, cuts in health spending and the outsourcing of public services in South Africa. I really liked the way that it engaged with the health workers themselves, allowing them to make key empirical and theoretical points. Also, this paper is definitely the most in line with Ruth First鈥檚 work, looking at labour struggles, the exploitation of workers, and issues of gender and class.鈥�

Mondli Hlatshwayo is a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. Previously he worked for Khanya College, a Johannesburg-based NGO, as a researcher. His areas of research include precarious work, female migrants, migrant workers, workers鈥� education, trade unions and social movements. Hlatshwayo has published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on these topics. He is co-editor (with Aziz Choudry) of the Pluto Press book,聽. His Doctoral thesis, which he completed in 2012, was on trade union responses to technological changes.

The article can be read for free until July 2020 and can be聽.