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Mining, capital and dispossession in post-apartheid South Africa

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  • Phillan Zamchiya

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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.

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  • Phillan Zamchiya, 2022. "Mining, capital and dispossession in post-apartheid South Africa," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(173), pages 417-435, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:49:y:2022:i:173:p:417-435
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2022.2098008
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