Mining, capital and dispossession in post-apartheid South Africa

Phillan Zamchiya

Review of African Political Economy, 2022, vol. 49, issue 173, 417-435

Abstract: Some Marxist political economists use accumulation by dispossession to explain processes in which natural resources are enclosed and their users dispossessed through extra-economic means. However, accumulation by dispossession takes an overly omnibus and materialistic approach in trying to cover a wide range of global processes. This article therefore distils accumulation by dispossession’s three central features of coercion, non-voluntary consent and corruption to enhance its local explanatory power of material and incorporeal dispossession in post-apartheid South Africa. This approach magnifies how a triumvirate of traditional leaders, state officials and Ivanplats platinum mine dispossessed people living on customary land in Limpopo, with detrimental effects.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2022.2098008

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