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The NALSU Team
The Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) is a hub of labour studies at Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网. Although the unit is formally located in the Department of Sociology and Industrial Sociology, it's members come from the following two academic departments: Sociology & Industrial Sociology and Economics and Economic History.
The NALSU team has built a diverse body of labour studies research in partnership with national and international networks of researchers, an Eastern Cape Worker Education Project, and a large and active inter-departmental labour studies seminar series. Members of the team actively teach at undergraduate and postgraduate level at Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网, linking postgraduate students to its research, worker education and seminar programmes. NALSU also has a number of affiliates, who are less actively engaged in its work. Affiliates include people who work with NALSU on a project basis, as well as postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars and students who have received funding support from NALSU.
NALSU Members
- Dr Laura Alfers (NALSU; Director of Social Protection Programme, WIEGO; Department of Sociology & Industrial Sociology, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网)
- Mr David Fryer (Department of Economics & Economic History, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网)
- Mr Russell Grinker (NALSU; formerly of Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council, ECSECC; Department of Sociology & Industrial Sociology, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网)
- Prof Gilton Klerck (Head of Department of Sociology & Industrial Sociology, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网)
- Ms Siviwe Mhlana (NALSU; Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS; SOAS, 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 of London)
- Dr Lali Naidoo (NALSU; Director: East Cape Agricultural Research Project, ECARP)
- Mr Kanyiso Ntikinca (Department of Sociology & Industrial Sociology, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网)
- Prof Michael Rogan (Department of Economics & Economic History, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网)
- Prof Lucien van der Walt (NALSU Director; Department of Sociology & Industrial Sociology, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网)
- Mr Valance Wessels (NALSU Project Administrator)
NALSU Affiliates
- Dr Reesha Kara (Institute of Social and Economic Research, ISER, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网)
- Mr Warren McGregor (Programme Coordinator: Global Labour 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网, GLU, at the 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 of the Witwatersrand)
- Prof Jen Snowball (Head of Department of Economics & Economic History, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网)
- Professor Nicole Ulrich (Department of Liberation Studies, 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 of Fort Hare)
- Dr Mattie Webb (Postdoctoral Associate, Yale 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网: Jackson School of Global Affairs and International Security Studies)
- Dr Khwezi Mabasa (part-time Sociology lecturer at the 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 of Pretoria, and economic and social policy lead at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung South Africa)
NALSU Labour Studies Scholarship Postgraduates (2025)
- Sinazo Maxhakana (Honours in Industrial and Economic Sociology, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网)
- Sandiso Mzendana (Masters by thesis in History, Department of Liberation Studies, 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 of Fort Hare)
- Sibusiso Ngonyama (Masters by coursework, in Sociology, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网)
NALSU Social Media
- Singisa Mdungwana
In Memoriam:
- Mr Ayanda Kota (founding chairperson: the Unemployed Peoples' Movement, UPM, Makana)
We grieve the passing of NALSU Associate Mr Ayanda Kota, who departed this world on the morning of Thursday 22 February, 2024. Ayanda will be remembered as a voice of conscience, a servant-leader in many movements, and a stalwart of the battles of the working-class and poor, best known for his work in the Unemployed Peoples Movement (UPM). NALSU is honoured to have worked with him, including in many workers and popular education projects, and he was pursuing his Masters degree with us at the time of his death.
The full NALSU tribute may be read here. A copy of his funeral programme, where NALSU's director, Professor Lucien van der Walt, was among the invited speakers, is archived here. An article by Ayanda on "Organising to Secure Municipal Service Delivery," based on a presentation at our 2019 Vuyisile Mini Workers School, can be read here.
Go well, travel safely, Ayanda. The world is poorer with your passing.
Postgraduate supervision
NALSU academics support and supervise postgraduate students in the area of labour studies, broadly defined. Please visit the pages of members and affiliates (linked above) for more information.
Last Modified: Thu, 08 May 2025 12:13:50 SAST