Please join us for the next School of Environmental Studies Colloquium of the 2023/24 academic year, on Thursday October 26 at 1:00 pm featuring Dineo Skosana, Senior Researcher (Society Work and Politics Institute), The University of the Witwatersrand
Date and time: Thursday October 26, 2:30 – 1 pm in Botterell Hall, Room B143
Title: Compensating Mining-induced Dispossession and Intangible Loss through Courts: A case study of Somkhele, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa).
Dineo Skosana is a senior researcher and a leader of the coal mining project that examines South Africa’s transition from coal mining and burning to clean energy at Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP), Wits University in South Africa.
Her focus is on mining-induced dispossession which is central to rationalising amongst other reasons, why the just transition from coal is necessary. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her doctorate research explored the contestations over coal mining and African grave exhumations in the Mpumalanga province (South Africa). She has worked and published extensively on the continued salience of traditional leadership in post-apartheid South Africa. She has interest in indigenous politics, rural struggles, politics over land, sacred sites, heritage and belonging.