Trevor Ngwane Author & Editor

Trevor Ngwane is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology and the Director of the Centre for Sociological Research and Practice at the University of Johannesburg. As a scholar activist he spent two decades working for labour, community and social movements. His book is Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements (Jacana Media 2021). He has co-edited a book with Immanuel Ness and Luke Sinwell titled Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People’s Movements in the Global South (Wits University Press, 2017). He is the current president of the South African Sociological Association. Malehoko Tshoaedi is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. She holds a PhD in Political Science and Gender Studies from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. She is the co-editor (with Andries Bezuidenhout) of Labour Beyond Cosatu: Mapping the Rupture in South Africa’s Labour Landscape (Wits University Press, 2017). She is the co-editor (with Sakhela Buhlungu) of COSATU’s Contested Legacy: South African Trade Unions in the Second Decade of Democracy (HSRC Press, 2012).