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Introduction. Queer kinship in South Africa / Tracy Morison, Ingrid Lynch and Vasu Reddy. Part I. The politics of belonging: questioning queer kinship and belonging. 1. Chosen family: a photographic essay / Germaine de Larch -- 2. Focus on 'the family'?: How South African family policy fails queer families / Catriona Ida Macleod, Tracy Morison and Ingrid Lynch -- 3. Revisiting 'familyhood' and queer belonging: exploring queer collectives created through culture and leisure practices / Desiree Lewis -- 4. Spectres to come: reproductive futurism, queer Africa, die-ins and drag / Jaco Bernard-Naudé -- 5. Esibathandayo -- Kin we love: an essay / Zethu Matebeni. Part II. Domestic and parenthood desires: the voices of queer youth. 6. The domestic desires of queer youth: narratives of domesticity and dissent among queer students at three South African universities / Gabriel Hoosain Khan -- 7. Surviving heterosexism: queer youth's parenthood intensions / Azwihangwisis Helen Mavhandu-Mudzusi. Part III. Lesbian women's marriage and family-making. 8. 'Mna ndiyayazi uba ndizotshata intombazana' -- I ... for one, know that I will marry a woman: (re)creating 'family' and reflections on rural lesbian women's experiences of child rearing and kinship / Gcobani Qambela -- 9. Just a piece of paper: marriage and family formation for lesbian women in South Africa / Jessica Scott -- 10. Integration and emergence: black lesbians re/negotiating marriage and lobola / Norma Pakade. Part IV. Queer men's production and performance of family. 11. The production and performance of 'queer' family by African men who engage in same-sex relations / Thabo Msibi -- 12. 'Living two lives' and 'blending in': reproductive citizenship and belonging in the parenthood narratives of gay men / Tracy Morison and Ingrid Lynch -- 13. Interracial gay partnerships in post-apartheid South Africa: the 'journey' of a heterosexual researcher / Olwufemi Adeagbo -- 14. Queer kinship in South Africa: where to next? / Vasu Reddy, Ingrid Lynch & Tracy Morison.

African sexualities are dynamic, multi-faceted and resilient. However, people with non-heterosexual sexualities and gender variant identities are often involved in struggles for survival, self-definition, and erotic rights. Queer in Africa forms an entry point for understanding the vulnerabilities of queer Africans as shaped by social, cultural and political processes, aiming to provide innovative insights about contentious disagreements over their lives. The volume mediates Southern and Northern scholarship, directing attention toward African-centred beliefs made accessible to a wide audience. Key concerns such as identity construction and the intersections between different social forces (such as nationalist traditionalism and sexualities) are addressed via engaging chapters; some empirically based and others providing critical cultural analysis.
Highly interdisciplinary in nature, Queer in Africa provides a key resource for students, academics, and activists concerned with the international support of sex and gender diversity. It will appeal to those interested in fields such as anthropology, film studies, literary studies, political science, public health, sociology, and socio-legal studies.

Despite constitutional protections founded on the principles of equality, human dignity and freedom, violence based on gender and sexual orientation is rampant in South Africa.Taking stock of the socio-political climate in the country, the authors of The Country We Want to Live In argue for empathy, inclusivity, citizenship, belonging, and social justice—and, most importantly, conclude with specific strategies and clear policy recommendations for eliminating violence against lesbians

South Africa had the privilege of learning from how other countries responded to the crisis engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this opportunity seems to have been lost as the South African government made the mistake of transposing a developed-world preventive response onto a largely developing-world populace. The government failed to map out how factors such as South Africa's demographic composition, spatial architecture, the incidence of poverty and informality, and competing epidemics would interact synergistically and shape epidemiological outcomes. In this article shaped by sociological insights, we show how the application of governance systems can give rise to many unintended social consequences when the knowledge forms upon which they are based are not suitably tailored to meet the needs of the specific local context. We highlight how informality can play a valuable role in fighting the COVID crisis and suggest that, to truly succeed, the government should include rather than override informal principles of governance. SIGNIFICANCE : We present a brief comparative analysis of the responses of different nation states to the COVID-19 pandemic. The insights contribute to the sociological literature as well as to other disciplines, highlighting how local contextual factors are (re)shaping the form of policy responses as well as their associated consequences. More specifically, we focus on the importance of adopting a political economy approach in the analysis of informality and motivate how and why this may be useful for consideration in areas related to policy development and governance more broadly ; http://www.sajs.co.za ; hj2022 ; Sociology

South Africa had the privilege of learning from how other countries responded to the crisis engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this opportunity seems to have been lost as the South African government made the mistake of transposing a developed world preventive response onto a largely developing-world populace. The government failed to map out how factors such as South Africa's demographic composition, spatial architecture, the incidence of poverty and informality, and competing epidemics would interact synergistically and shape epidemiological outcomes. In this article shaped by sociological insights, we show how the application of governance systems can give rise to many unintended social consequences when the knowledge forms upon which they are based are not suitably tailored to meet the needs of the specific local context. We highlight how informality can play a valuable role in fighting the COVID crisis and suggest that, to truly succeed, the government should include rather than override informal principles of governance. Significance: We present a brief comparative analysis of the responses of different nation states to the COVID-19 pandemic. The insights contribute to the sociological literature as well as to other disciplines, highlighting how local contextual factors are (re)shaping the form of policy responses as well as their associated consequences. More specifically, we focus on the importance of adopting a political economy approach in the analysis of informality and motivate how and why this may be useful for consideration in areas related to policy development and governance more broadly.