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Queues have been at the centre of South Africa's COVID-19 story. National lockdown was declared on 26 March 2020, around the time 'month-end' salaries and government grants are paid out. Within the first few days, reports came of the long lines outside banks and supermarkets, with journalists regularly citing people's failure to 'social distance'. This article uses the queue as an analytic tool to explore the unequal vulnerabilities entailed in the experience of COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa.

ABSTRACTIn response to its constitutional commitments and social welfare provisions in the era of democracy, the post‐apartheid South African state is increasingly called upon to provide for the lives and livelihoods of its citizens. These demands have intensified amid escalating joblessness and the highest numbers of people living with HIV worldwide. Over the past decade, antiretroviral treatment (ART) has been incorporated into an ever‐expanding welfare bureaucracy, in which access to state assistance is mediated by the collection and monitoring of biometric, bureaucratic data. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic research in the Eastern Cape, this article explores how state documents bring young people on ART into an ambiguous relationship with the state — one that is at once subordinating and enabling. While social research on ART addresses both the empowering and coercive aspects of treatment taking, less attention has been given to how these modes of participation might be mutually constitutive. In this article, the authors examine how the same technologies that discipline youth on ART might also support and protect them; how welfare dependencies entail paradoxical forms of agency; and how the state's ability to control and to 'care for' citizens might be reciprocally dependent.

Collisions, collusions and coalescences: new takes on traditional leadership in democratic South Africa -- an introduction / Mbongiseni Buthelezi & Beth Vale -- Mistaking form for substance: reflections on the key dynamics of pre-colonial polities and their implications for the role of chiefs in contemporary South Africa / Peter Delius -- Traditional leadership and the African National Congress in South Africa: reflections on a symbiotic relationship / Dineo Skosana -- Mining magnates and traditional leaders: the role of law in elevating elite interests and deepening exclusion, 2002-2018 / Aninka Claassens -- Chiefs, land and distributive struggles on the platinum belt, South Africa / Sonwabile Mnwana -- Traditional leadership, violation of land rights and resistance from below in Makhasaneni village, KwaZulu-Natal / Sithandiwe Yeni -- The violence of the harmony model: common narratives between women and lower-level traditional leaders / Sindiso Mnisi Weeks -- Chieftaincy succession disputes among the AmaNdebele-a-Moletlane in Hammanskraal, 1962 to 1994 / Tlhabane Mokhine Motaung -- Emerging rural struggles against unelected traditional authorities and the role of the courts: lessons from rural villages of the Eastern Cape / Fani Ncapayi -- Situational chiefs: notes on traditional leadership amidst calls for KhoiSan recognition after 1994 / William Ellis -- In defence of traditional leadership / Nkosi Phathekile Holomisa (Ah! Dilizintaba) -- A long walk for traditional leadership in South Africa / Nkosi Mwelo Nonkonyana (Zanemvula!) -- Traditional leadership: South Africa's paradox? / Dineo Skosana.

Post-1994, South Africa's traditional leaders have fought for recognition, and positioned themselves as major players in the South African political landscape. Yet their role in a democracy is contested, with leaders often accused of abusing power, disregarding human rights, expropriating resources and promoting tribalism. Some argue that democracy and traditional leadership are irredeemably opposed and cannot co-exist. Meanwhile, shifts in the political economy of the former bantustans -- the introduction of platinum mining in particular -- have attracted new interests and conflicts to these areas, with chiefs often designated as custodians of community interests. This edited volume explores how chieftancy is practised, experienced and contested in contemporary South Africa. It includes case studies of how those living under the authority of chiefs, in a modern democracy, negotiate or resist this authority in their respective areas. Chapters in this book are organised around three major sites of contest: leadership, land and law.

AbstractBackgroundThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) commit to strengthening collaborations between governments and civil society. Adolescents are among the key target populations for global development initiatives, but research studies and programmes rarely include their direct perspectives on how to promote health and wellbeing. This article explores how both the methods and the findings of participatory research provide insights into adolescents' aspirations across the domains of health and social development. It investigates how adolescents conceive of health and social services as interconnected, and how this reflects the multisectoral objectives of the SDGs.MethodsThis research was conducted within a longitudinal, mixed‐methods study of HIV‐positive adolescents (n = 80 qualitative participants, n = 1060 quantitative interviews). Between November 2013 and February 2014, a participatory exercise – the "dream clinic" – was piloted with 25 adolescents in South Africa's Eastern Cape. Key themes were identified based on the insights shared by participants, and through visual and thematic analysis. These findings were explored through a second participatory exercise, "Yummy or crummy? You are the Mzantsi Wakho masterchef !," conducted in January 2016. Findings are described in relation to emerging quantitative results.ResultsMixed methods explored associations between access to food, medicines, clean water and sanitation in HIV‐positive adolescents' aspirations for development. The exercises produced practicable recommendations for innovations in development, based on associations between healthcare, food security, clean water and sanitation, while illustrating the value of partnership and collaboration (the objective of SDG17). Findings capture strong interlinkages between SDGs 2, 3 and 6 – confirming the importance of specific SDGs for HIV‐positive adolescents. Study results informed the objectives of South Africa's National and Adolescent and Youth Health Policy (2017).ConclusionsParticipatory research may be used to leverage the perspectives and experiences of adolescents. The methods described here provide potential for co‐design and implementation of developmental initiatives to fulfil the ambitious mandate of the SDGs. They may also create new opportunities to strengthen the engagement of adolescents in policy and programming.