Alex Beresford: The ANC reaches 100. Time for South African Workers to Celebrate?

Location: Room 11.13 Social Sciences Building

Dr Alex Beresford is a newly appointed to Lecturer in Development Studies in the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds.

Alex completed his Ph.D. at the Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh University. His interdisciplinary Ph.D. thesis provides a detailed ethnographic focus into class and nationalist politics in contemporary South Africa ‘from below’, with a focus on the political attitudes and activism of members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), South Africa’s largest and most politically influential trade union.