Introduction. Political reconfigurations in the wake of Marikana / Prishani Naidoo -- pt. 1. New political directions? -- Reconstituting and re-imagining the left after Marikana / Noor Nieftagodien -- Labour and community struggles 1994-2014 / Marcel Paret -- Half full or half empty? The Numsa moments and the prospects of left revitalisation / Devan Pillay -- pt. 2. Economy, ecology and labour -- Introduction to Part 2 / Devan Pillay -- The South African economy: the minerals-energy-finance complex redubbed? / Samantha Ashman -- Between a rock and a hard place: state-business relations in the mining sector / Ross Harvey -- The platinum belt strike wave: breakdown in the institutionalisation of industrial conflict / Crispen Chinguno -- When gold mining ends: an environmental catastrophe for Johannesburg? / Anthony Turton -- pt. 3. State and society -- Introduction to Part 3 / Roger Southall -- Constitutionalism: an 'unqualified human good'? / Pierre de Vos -- People's parliament: Do citizens influence South Africa's legislatures? / Samantha Waterhouse -- Corruption/ Ivor Sarakinsky -- Marikana and the politics of public order policing / Monique Marks and David Bruce -- 'In December we are rich, in January we are poor': consumption, saving, stealing and insecurity in the kasi / David Dickinson -- pt. 4. South Africa in the international arena -- Introduction to Part 4 / Gilbert M. Khadiagala -- The evolution of South Africa's foreign policy / Garth le Pere -- South Africa, the BRICS and human rights: in bad company? / Karen Smith -- Trading with the frenemy: how South Africa depends on African trade / Rod Alence
