Legacies of liberation: postcolonial struggles for a democratic southern Africa

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Acknowledgements

The editors would like to thank the external reviewer for this entire special issue for being so generous with your time and for your very careful and thoughtful review of all these articles. Your comments, corrections and suggestions for individual articles along with overall suggestions on the special issue were extremely helpful. We are very grateful and thank you.

Notes on contributors

Carolyn Bassett is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton). She researches and teaches in the areas of political economy of development, globalisation and the political role of labour and organised social movements with a research focus on South Africa. Carolyn’s current research is on the production of knowledge for policy engagement in the Congress of South African Trade Unions, and she is completing a study of popular budgeting in South Africa. Carolyn has published articles in Studies in Political Economy, the Canadian Journal of African Studies, Third World Quarterly (co-authored with Marlea Clarke) and Review of African Political Economy. She can be contacted at: [email protected]

Marlea Clarke is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria (Victoria, BC) and is a research associate with the Labour and Enterprise Research Project (LEP) at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Marlea’s work has focused on labour market restructuring in post-apartheid South Africa and the political role of labour and organised social movements in shaping the country’s political and economic transformation. Marlea has published articles in Law, Democracy and Development, the Canadian Journal of African Studies and Work, Organisation, Labour and Globalisation (co-authored with Carolyn Bassett) and is co-author of Working without Commitments (with Wayne Lewchuk and Alice de Wolff). She can be contacted at: [email protected]