#OutsourcingMustFall: The Role of Workers in the 2015 Protest Wave at South African Universities

Authors

  • Thembi Luckett University of the Witwatersrand
  • Deliwe Mzobe University of the Witwatersrand

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v7i1.2839

Author Biographies

Thembi Luckett, University of the Witwatersrand

THEMBI LUCKETT is a PhD candidate in the Wits Sociology Department, exploring hope and utopianism in everyday working-class lives. After completing an MA at Sussex University, she worked for two trade unions, in the clothing and textile and agricultural sectors respectively. She has also worked on research projects including the history and traditions of popular education in South Africa (University of the Western Cape) and the effects of mega-events on the working poor (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing). She has been active in the struggles of outsourced university workers since 2009 at UCT, Sussex and Wits.

Deliwe Mzobe, University of the Witwatersrand

DELIWE MZOBE lives in Pimville, Soweto. She completed her matric at Musi High School and started working soon after because her parents could not afford tertiary education. She worked as a cleaner at Namibian Breweries and was promoted to receptionist and creditors clerk. She completed a number of courses on the job. In 2004 she was retrenched and started a clothing business, which was unsuccessful. Subsequently she worked as a casual for a telephone research company until 2008 when she became a cleaner at Wits, with the hope that one day she would be able to further her education. Deliwe has been a worker leader in the Wits Workers Solidarity Committee since 2011 and was elected as a shop steward in 2013. In 2015 she was involved in the formation of the October 6 Movement and is currently part of the Wits Insourcing Task Team.

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Published

2016-01-31

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1: January 2016

Section

GLOBAL ISSUES

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