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This book investigates the local impacts of mining in South Africa on employment, inequality, housing, business development, worker well-being, governance, municipal finance, planning and the environment.

This book asks if Johannesburg can unstitch its complex urban fabric to create a city with more democratic public transport, affordable housing in desirable locations and safe, socially and racially integrated public spaces. These essays are instructive for those interested in questions of urban development, history and planning.

This book shows the multifaceted ways in which radio has provided pace for South African citizens to air their views and take part in significant socio-economic and political issues of the country, creating a `common¿ space for national dialogue and deliberation.

This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. The book covers themes including identity formation, modernity, race, indigeneity, autochthony, land, gender, intellectual traditions, language, popular culture, and national development planning.

This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.

This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human rights, gender, and generational power. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of sociology, family/customary law, gender, social policy, and African Studies.

This book examines the factors driving youth unemployment in South Africa, exploring potential future outcomes of its mass unemployment, and offering a variety of strategies to avoid an impending crisis in the country.Utilizing scenario analysis rooted in complex systems theory while building on statistical and fi eld research, the author illustrates four possible future states of youth employment in South Africa in the year 2040. This includes the South African version of the Arab Spring, where young people riot or agitate for extreme political and social change because of a belief that access to education and jobs is only possible through social status or corruption (Spring), fair access to a high number of jobs supported by Chinese interventions (Summer), a technology- driven decline in the number of jobs where merit- based access for youth is granted (Fall), and the collapse of the economy, with the economy collapsing and youth becoming increasingly desperate (Winter). The author then presents five strategies to fight youth unemployment, including training of youth to start businesses, stimulating small- and medium- sized enterprises, and sending unemployed youth abroad for skills development and to where their labour is needed.This book will be of interest to scholars of South African politics and economics, labour economics and youth studies, and readers with an interest in tackling youth unemployment independent of the country.

This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000.The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional.The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.