Co-operatives in South Africa : advancing solidarity economy pathways from below /

"Co-operatives in post-apartheid South Africa have featured in the Reconstruction and Development Programme, legislation, vertical and horizontal state policy and various discourses from Black Economic Empowerment, `two economies' and `radical economic transformation'. In practice, th...

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Other Authors: Satgar, Vishwas (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Scottsville, Pietermartzburg : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Vishwas Satgar. Part 1. State co-operative development policy and its critics. 1. An analysis of the legislative and policy trajectory on co-operative development in South Africa / Jeffrey N. Ndumo - 2. Co-operative banking in South Africa / David de Jong and McIntosh Kuhlengisa - 3. The employer of last resort: a potential pathway for co-operative development? / Themba Masondo - 4. Co-operatives and the limits of legal reform / Jan Theron - 5. With, against and beyond the state: a solidarity economy through a Movement of Movements / Vishwas Satgar. Part 2. Advancing solidarity economy pathways from below. 6. From national liberation struggle to Fingerprint Worker Co-operative / Vishwas Satgar - 7. More ethical than ethical: Ethical Food Co-operative's conversion to a worker co-operative / Jane Cherry - 8. Locking in commercial farming: challenges for food sovereignty and the solidarity economy / Andrew Bennie - 9. Transition township: Kwazakhele and the co-operative space / Patrick Brennan, Janet Cherry and the Kwazakhele Community Research Team.