The Afrocentricity Trajectories of Looting in South Africa

Mfundo Mandla Masuku, Dalifa Ngobese, Mbulaheni Obert Maguvhe, Sifiso Ndlovu

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2023
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781666919912
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Looting has become an increasingly popular concept in South Africa as an unsophisticated interpretation of ownership by "force" of property during periods of mayhem. However, looting is a complex concept whose origin spans a long history that cuts across time and space. In The Afrocentricity Trajectories of Looting in South Africa, edited by Mfundo Masuku, Dalifa Ngobese, Mbulaheni Obert Maguvhe, and Sifiso Ndlovu, contributors provide sophisticated analysis on the concept of "looting" and address nuances in the concept of looting, looking at links to spiraling inequality and poverty, racialization of property ownership, and skewed access and benefits of economic policies. As shown in this collection, looting has taken on a variety of political meanings: a challenge to the violence of racial capitalism, an alternative and accelerated path to justice, and a way to call attention to the reality of racial violence that is often ignored by the media, to name a few. This volume provides a critical analysis of looting from a multi-disciplinary approach that focuses on a combination of themes to show that looting is deeply rooted in property "ownership" and spiraling poverty and inequality that is structural in nature.

Table of contents

• 1 Alooter Continua! Tracing Historical Trajectories of Looting from Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial in South Africa Dalifa Ngobese
• 2 Looting of Indigenous Knowledge Systems through Patents and Intellectual Property Policies Dina Mokgadi Mashiyane
• 3 Land Dispossession and Food Insecurity in Contemporary South Africa: Consequences of Land Looting Institutionalized through the Natives Land Act 27 Mfundo Mandla Masuku, Mbongeni Shadrack Sithole, and Bhekani Ngwenya
• 4 Criminalising Looting and the Quest for Social Justice in Postcolonial South Africa: Perspectives from Twitter Data Kemist Shumba, Kutenda Trinos and Nirmala D. Gopal
• 5 Unemployment as an Instigator of Looting Tawanda Majoko and Annah Dudu
• 6 An Appraisal of South Africa’s July Civil Unrest through the Lens of Frustration-Aggression Theory: The Case of KwaZulu-Natal Province Methembe Mdlalose
• 7 Looting and Unrest after Former President Zuma’s Incarceration: Politics of Belonging and Entitlement to Property Ownership in South Africa Sifiso Ndlovu
• 8 A Critical Reflection on Inequalities and Poverty as an Instigator of Looting in South Africa Mfaniseni Wiseman Mbatha, Mandla A. Mubecua, Victor H. Mlambo, and Philangani Sibiya
• 9 The Looting Culture and Its Value in the Transformation of Higher Education Primrose T. Sabela
• 10 Looting, Wealth, Security, and Prestige: Detailed Modern Schemes for Education Oppression and Exclusion Mbulaheni Obert Maguvhe
• 11 The Impact of Looting in the South African Tourism Sector Lombuso Precious Shabalala
• About the Editors and Contributors