Trevor NgwaneAmakomiti
Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements
Trevor Ngwane is a scholar activist who spent twenty years as a full-time organiser in South African trade unions, community organisations and social movements before and after the defeat of apartheid. He later obtained his PhD in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg where he now teaches and conducts research.
List of Figures and Tables
List of Photos
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Series Preface
Preface
1. Introduction: Disrupting Private Land Ownership?
2. 'The People Cannot Live in the Air': History of the Squatter Movement in
South Africa
3. Amakomiti are Everywhere
4. Fatal Embrace by the ANC in Duncan Village
5. Iinkundla of Nkaneng: The Rural in the Urban Dialectic
6. Thembelihle Settlement: A Vision of Hope
7. Amakomiti: A Vision of Alternatives
Postscript: Covid-19 and the Shacks
Appendix 1: List of Case Study Interviews
Appendix 2: List of Research Tour Interviews and Places Visited
Notes
Index
