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Category: Namibia

[BOOK] “State Capitalisms in Southern Africa: Colonial Rule, Capitalist Development, and Class Formation in Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, 1880s–2020s” (Lucien van der Walt, Kirk Helliker, Gilton Klerck &Gorden Moyo, 2025)

Lucien van der Walt, Kirk Helliker, Gilton Klerck and Gorden Moyo (2025), State Capitalisms in Southern Africa: Colonial Rule, Capitalist Development, and Class Formation in Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, 1880s–2020s, 250 pp.  Boston, Delft: Now Publishers. More information HERE. State Capitalisms in Southern Africa offers a groundbreaking reappraisal of Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe … Continue reading [BOOK] “State Capitalisms in Southern Africa: Colonial Rule, Capitalist Development, and Class Formation in Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, 1880s–2020s” (Lucien van der Walt, Kirk Helliker, Gilton Klerck &Gorden Moyo, 2025) →

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Lucien van der Walt Africa (other), Books, Economic & social policy, From 2020+, Namibia, Neo-liberalism & privatisation, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe Leave a comment November 20, 2025November 20, 2025 2 Minutes

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About the author

I currently teach at Rhodes University, the Eastern Cape, where I direct the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU). I am 10th generation South African, and my work focuses on South Africa; I have also done research in Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. My main areas include the neo-liberal restructuring of state-owned corporations; trade unions and other working-class movements, including labour and left history; anarchism and syndicalism. I have a long history of involvement in working-class movements, and in workers and popular education.

I have taught at three universities, for the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), DITSELA and the Global Labour University (GLU), and have taught in (and been a coordinator for) the NUMSA/ Wits short course programme, merSETA/ Rhodes/ metalworkers’ unions short courses, and the Vuyisile Mini Workers Schools.

My writings have been translated into quite a few languages, among them Croat, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Sotho, Spanish, and Zulu.

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