Book launch: "Privileged Precariat: White Workers and South Africa's Long Transition to Majority Rule"

By Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, publication of the Southern African Edition

The University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, in collaboration with the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU), the University of the Free State and the University of Basel, will celebrate the publication of the Southern African edition of Privileged Precariat: White Workers and South Africa’s Long Transition to Majority Rule by Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, on 19 October 2023. 

In discussion:

Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (author) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and a Research Associate with the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

Lucien van der Walt is director of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) at Rhodes University, and a labour educator. His books include Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1880-1940 (w. Steven Hirsch), Politics at a Distance from the State (w. Kirk Helliker) and Labour Struggles in Southern Africa, 1919-1939: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) (w. David Johnson and Noor Nieftagodien).

Jantjie Xaba is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Stellenbosch University. He has a Masters’ degree in Comparative Labour Studies from the University of Johannesburg.

Lindie Koorts (facilitator) is a historian, author and media commentator, University of the Free State. She is also the author of DF Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism (Tafelberg: 2014).

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