Mondli Hlatshwayo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3923084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mondli Hlatshwayo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mondli |
| FAMILY NAME | Hlatshwayo |
| SIGNATURE | HLATSHWAYO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6533-8585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Democracy Deferred
There have been various reflections on the state of democracy and socio-economic rights since the end of formal apartheid in 1994, which was thirty years ago. This article focuses on KwaZulu-Natal and is based on in-depth interviews with women. The article aims to address the lack of understanding of the challenges faced by working-class women, who were expected to benefit the most from democracy, in South Africa. The findings reveal that the wom…
Trade Unions and Technology in South Africa
Discussions and debates on the role of technology in trade unions responses to technological innovation, even though trade unions and their members are directly affected by these changes. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with South Africa-based worker leaders, academics and some German-based academics and trade unionists, the article contends that South African trade unions adopt a reactive approach to technological changes because their ba…
Locating Premigration as a Critical Stage in the Migration Value Chain
This article draws on the narratives of 29 Zimbabwean migrant women employed in the Johannesburg restaurant industry. It uses qualitative methods through in-depth interviews. Although there is a growing amount of research on the migration experiences of Zimbabwean migrant women, the paper argues that there is a need to deepen the examination of the premigration phase because it is the foundation of the migration process. A thorough examination of…
South Africa enters the second wave of xenophobic violence
Based on an analysis of authenticated YouTube videos and Internet news reports, this article argues that South Africa has entered the second wave of xenophobic violence targeting mainly black immigrants from other African countries. What makes this wave unique is the fact that organised formations that are relentless in their campaigns against immigrants have used various strategies and tactics, such as marches, protest actions, and social media,…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Lockdown Level 5 on Workers
Built on Internet-based research, this article traverses the less-charted terrain of the impact of COVID-19 on workers within South Africa during the country’s level 5 lockdown, which began on 26 March 2020 and ended on 30 April 2020. It reveals that the post-apartheid state’s adoption of austerity measures—which began in the 1990s—hampered efforts to meaningfully protect workers’ lives and livelihoods during the lockdown. The post-1994 African N…
Setbacks and Partial Victories
Post-apartheid South Africa is ravaged by crises of extreme unemployment, poverty, and inequality. While the majority who were politically excluded by apartheid can now choose their government through democratic elections, social and economic justice continues to elude them. Neoliberal policies which seek to reduce state expenditure on social services and promote state policies that protect the interests of big businesses at the expense of workin…
Social movements as learning spaces
Social movements often become spaces for learning, although this type of learning has been overlooked by activists and scholars alike. Analysing the case of the collapsed Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), the article submits that the APF was not only an organisation that challenged privatisation, but also a learning space for activists from middle-class and working-class backgrounds. Non-formal educational platforms, such as political education wor…
How is workers' education responding to the rising precariousness of work? Some international and South African examples
Consistent with the large-scale re-emergence of precarious forms of work, in recent years literature on precarious workers and their working conditions has become one of the main strands in labour studies. However, the literature on the nexus between precarious workers and workers’ education is almost non-existent; and yet precarious work is probably the future of labour at least under global capitalism. In an attempt to fill the gap and make a c…
Solidarity During the ‘Outsourcing Must Fall’ Campaign
In South Africa, outsourced workers began their struggles in the 1990s, when universities started to implement the outsourcing of services that were considered non-core by university administrations. In analysing the struggle against outsourcing of 2015 and 2016, different scholars have tended to emphasise the role of either the outsourced workers or the student activists of '#Fees Must Fall' (FMF) – a campaign which opposed fee increases in 2015…
Precarious work and precarious resistance
While recognizing that women are part of the most vulnerable sections of migrant communities, the article affirms their social agency by locating their responses to difficulties they face as migrants within a framework of precarious resistance. Based on indepth interviews with Zimbabwean migrant women working in Johannesburg, South Africa, the article discusses a duality of precarious work and precarious resistance. Women who would have been care…
The Trials and Tribulations of Zimbabwean Precarious Women Workers in Johannesburg
There is a growing literature on the conditions of Zimbabwean women working as migrant workers in South Africa, specifically in cities like Johannesburg. Based on in-depth interviews and documentary analysis, this empirical research paper contributes to scholarship examining the conditions of migrant women workers from Zimbabwe employed as precarious workers in Johannesburg by zooming in on specific causes of migration to Johannesburg, the journe…
The new struggles of precarious workers in South Africa
Based on in-depth interviews largely with women working as community health workers (CHWs) and documents, the article shines the spotlight on 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 CHW workers are crafting their own nascent organisational responses as women and as precarious workers to their conditions. New organ…
The Expanded Public Works Programme
Scholarship on the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in South Africa tends to focus on quantitative evaluation to measure the progress made in the implementation of EPWP projects. The number of employment opportunities created by EPWP, demographic profiling, skills acquired by beneficiaries and training opportunities related to the Programme form the basis of typical statistical evaluations of it, but exclude comment by the workers who parti…
Unpacking Numsa's Responses to Technological Changes at the Arcelormittal Vanderbijlpark Plant
This article examines responses of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) to production technology changes from 1989 to 2012 in a steel plant called ArcelorMittal in the town of Vanderbijlpark in the south of Gauteng. Trade union responses to technological changes at the workplace is a topic that tends to be ignored by scholars of labour studies in a South African context. South African labour research seems to be following un…
White Power and Privilege in Academic and Intellectual Spaces of South Africa
Bandile Mdlalose, the former Secretary General of Abahlali BaseMjondolo (ABM), wrote an article which, among other things, stated that, ‘one white academic, for an example, drafted our statements
Is There Room for International Solidarity within South African Borders? Cosatu's Responses to the Xenophobic Attacks of May 2008
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is an essential part of South African civil society, with the largest representation of organized workers and a history of struggle against apartheid in the workplace and the townships. The post-apartheid and globalization era pose organizational challenges for COSATU and its affiliates. Besides the necessity to organize vulnerable workers, it also has to address the question of xenophobia and i…
Is There Room for International Solidarity within South African Borders? Cosatu's Responses to the Xenophobic Attacks of May 2008
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is an essential part of South African civil society, with the largest representation of organized workers and a history of struggle against apartheid in the workplace and the townships. The post-apartheid and globalization era pose organizational challenges for COSATU and its affiliates. Besides the necessity to organize vulnerable workers, it also has to address the question of xenophobia and i…
White Power and Privilege in Academic and Intellectual Spaces of South Africa
Bandile Mdlalose, the former Secretary General of Abahlali BaseMjondolo (ABM), wrote an article which, among other things, stated that, ‘one white academic, for an example, drafted our statements
Solidarity During the ‘Outsourcing Must Fall’ Campaign
In South Africa, outsourced workers began their struggles in the 1990s, when universities started to implement the outsourcing of services that were considered non-core by university administrations. In analysing the struggle against outsourcing of 2015 and 2016, different scholars have tended to emphasise the role of either the outsourced workers or the student activists of '#Fees Must Fall' (FMF) – a campaign which opposed fee increases in 2015…
The new struggles of precarious workers in South Africa
Based on in-depth interviews largely with women working as community health workers (CHWs) and documents, the article shines the spotlight on 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 CHW workers are crafting their own nascent organisational responses as women and as precarious workers to their conditions. New organ…
The Expanded Public Works Programme
Scholarship on the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in South Africa tends to focus on quantitative evaluation to measure the progress made in the implementation of EPWP projects. The number of employment opportunities created by EPWP, demographic profiling, skills acquired by beneficiaries and training opportunities related to the Programme form the basis of typical statistical evaluations of it, but exclude comment by the workers who parti…
The Trials and Tribulations of Zimbabwean Precarious Women Workers in Johannesburg
There is a growing literature on the conditions of Zimbabwean women working as migrant workers in South Africa, specifically in cities like Johannesburg. Based on in-depth interviews and documentary analysis, this empirical research paper contributes to scholarship examining the conditions of migrant women workers from Zimbabwe employed as precarious workers in Johannesburg by zooming in on specific causes of migration to Johannesburg, the journe…
South Africa enters the second wave of xenophobic violence
Based on an analysis of authenticated YouTube videos and Internet news reports, this article argues that South Africa has entered the second wave of xenophobic violence targeting mainly black immigrants from other African countries. What makes this wave unique is the fact that organised formations that are relentless in their campaigns against immigrants have used various strategies and tactics, such as marches, protest actions, and social media,…
Social movements as learning spaces
Social movements often become spaces for learning, although this type of learning has been overlooked by activists and scholars alike. Analysing the case of the collapsed Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), the article submits that the APF was not only an organisation that challenged privatisation, but also a learning space for activists from middle-class and working-class backgrounds. Non-formal educational platforms, such as political education wor…
Is There Room for International Solidarity within South African Borders? Cosatu's Responses to the Xenophobic Attacks of May 2008
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is an essential part of South African civil society, with the largest representation of organized workers and a history of struggle against apartheid in the workplace and the townships. The post-apartheid and globalization era pose organizational challenges for COSATU and its affiliates. Besides the necessity to organize vulnerable workers, it also has to address the question of xenophobia and i…
Unpacking Numsa's Responses to Technological Changes at the Arcelormittal Vanderbijlpark Plant
This article examines responses of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) to production technology changes from 1989 to 2012 in a steel plant called ArcelorMittal in the town of Vanderbijlpark in the south of Gauteng. Trade union responses to technological changes at the workplace is a topic that tends to be ignored by scholars of labour studies in a South African context. South African labour research seems to be following un…
White Power and Privilege in Academic and Intellectual Spaces of South Africa
Bandile Mdlalose, the former Secretary General of Abahlali BaseMjondolo (ABM), wrote an article which, among other things, stated that, ‘one white academic, for an example, drafted our statements
The Expanded Public Works Programme
Scholarship on the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in South Africa tends to focus on quantitative evaluation to measure the progress made in the implementation of EPWP projects. The number of employment opportunities created by EPWP, demographic profiling, skills acquired by beneficiaries and training opportunities related to the Programme form the basis of typical statistical evaluations of it, but exclude comment by the workers who parti…
The new struggles of precarious workers in South Africa
Based on in-depth interviews largely with women working as community health workers (CHWs) and documents, the article shines the spotlight on 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 CHW workers are crafting their own nascent organisational responses as women and as precarious workers to their conditions. New organ…
Precarious work and precarious resistance
While recognizing that women are part of the most vulnerable sections of migrant communities, the article affirms their social agency by locating their responses to difficulties they face as migrants within a framework of precarious resistance. Based on indepth interviews with Zimbabwean migrant women working in Johannesburg, South Africa, the article discusses a duality of precarious work and precarious resistance. Women who would have been care…
The Trials and Tribulations of Zimbabwean Precarious Women Workers in Johannesburg
There is a growing literature on the conditions of Zimbabwean women working as migrant workers in South Africa, specifically in cities like Johannesburg. Based on in-depth interviews and documentary analysis, this empirical research paper contributes to scholarship examining the conditions of migrant women workers from Zimbabwe employed as precarious workers in Johannesburg by zooming in on specific causes of migration to Johannesburg, the journe…
Solidarity During the ‘Outsourcing Must Fall’ Campaign
In South Africa, outsourced workers began their struggles in the 1990s, when universities started to implement the outsourcing of services that were considered non-core by university administrations. In analysing the struggle against outsourcing of 2015 and 2016, different scholars have tended to emphasise the role of either the outsourced workers or the student activists of '#Fees Must Fall' (FMF) – a campaign which opposed fee increases in 2015…
Social movements as learning spaces
Social movements often become spaces for learning, although this type of learning has been overlooked by activists and scholars alike. Analysing the case of the collapsed Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), the article submits that the APF was not only an organisation that challenged privatisation, but also a learning space for activists from middle-class and working-class backgrounds. Non-formal educational platforms, such as political education wor…
How is workers' education responding to the rising precariousness of work? Some international and South African examples
Consistent with the large-scale re-emergence of precarious forms of work, in recent years literature on precarious workers and their working conditions has become one of the main strands in labour studies. However, the literature on the nexus between precarious workers and workers’ education is almost non-existent; and yet precarious work is probably the future of labour at least under global capitalism. In an attempt to fill the gap and make a c…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Lockdown Level 5 on Workers
Built on Internet-based research, this article traverses the less-charted terrain of the impact of COVID-19 on workers within South Africa during the country’s level 5 lockdown, which began on 26 March 2020 and ended on 30 April 2020. It reveals that the post-apartheid state’s adoption of austerity measures—which began in the 1990s—hampered efforts to meaningfully protect workers’ lives and livelihoods during the lockdown. The post-1994 African N…
Setbacks and Partial Victories
Post-apartheid South Africa is ravaged by crises of extreme unemployment, poverty, and inequality. While the majority who were politically excluded by apartheid can now choose their government through democratic elections, social and economic justice continues to elude them. Neoliberal policies which seek to reduce state expenditure on social services and promote state policies that protect the interests of big businesses at the expense of workin…
South Africa enters the second wave of xenophobic violence
Based on an analysis of authenticated YouTube videos and Internet news reports, this article argues that South Africa has entered the second wave of xenophobic violence targeting mainly black immigrants from other African countries. What makes this wave unique is the fact that organised formations that are relentless in their campaigns against immigrants have used various strategies and tactics, such as marches, protest actions, and social media,…
Locating Premigration as a Critical Stage in the Migration Value Chain
This article draws on the narratives of 29 Zimbabwean migrant women employed in the Johannesburg restaurant industry. It uses qualitative methods through in-depth interviews. Although there is a growing amount of research on the migration experiences of Zimbabwean migrant women, the paper argues that there is a need to deepen the examination of the premigration phase because it is the foundation of the migration process. A thorough examination of…
Democracy Deferred
There have been various reflections on the state of democracy and socio-economic rights since the end of formal apartheid in 1994, which was thirty years ago. This article focuses on KwaZulu-Natal and is based on in-depth interviews with women. The article aims to address the lack of understanding of the challenges faced by working-class women, who were expected to benefit the most from democracy, in South Africa. The findings reveal that the wom…
Trade Unions and Technology in South Africa
Discussions and debates on the role of technology in trade unions responses to technological innovation, even though trade unions and their members are directly affected by these changes. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with South Africa-based worker leaders, academics and some German-based academics and trade unionists, the article contends that South African trade unions adopt a reactive approach to technological changes because their ba…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Politics (5 works)