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During Saturday’s Role, Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Frank Masilela about the Youth & Work/Housing Nexus and the Them Again Collective
During Saturday’s Role, Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Frank Masilela about the Youth & Work/Housing Nexus and the Them Again Collective.
The Youth and the work/housing nexus in Ethiopia and South Africa is a collaborative research project between the University of Sheffield (UK), The University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) and The University of Hawassa (Hawassa, Ethiopia). Ethiopia and South Africa’s youth experience high unemployment and lack affordable housing. Ethiopia recently invested in Africa’s largest industrial complex in Hawassa, yet low wages and scarce housing prohibits sustainable futures for young workers. Labour turnover is very high.
In South Africa, wavering historic investment in Ekangala, Bronkhorstspruit, a former industrial decentralisation site, means high youth unemployment. Successful provision
of state housing means some youth are housed, but cannot afford living costs. Faced with this wicked problem youth respond creatively to manage these near-impossible fluid conditions. The relationship between youth, work and housing is under-theorised, particularly in terms of youth and state/private sector’s responses. Focusing on these two cases of state intervention, this study examines the youth work/housing nexus, asking how this nexus is experienced, what are the key challenges, what are the responses of youth and state/private sector actors, and what are the implications for youth futures and urban sustainability.
The research outcomes will be presented at Masakhane Hall in Ekangala on November 5th 2022 and will then be presented in the Fassler Gallery, inside the John Moffat building at the University of the Witwatersrand from November 8th to November 15th 2022. The research will be presented in the form of an exhibition, which will include various media outputs developed by the youth representatives from Ekangala. Outputs include illustrated publications as well as a podcast, spoken word poem, song and video - all of which offer insight into the experiences and lives of young people living in Ekangala.
Them Again Collective
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The Youth and the work/housing nexus in Ethiopia and South Africa is a collaborative research project between the University of Sheffield (UK), The University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) and The University of Hawassa (Hawassa, Ethiopia). Ethiopia and South Africa’s youth experience high unemployment and lack affordable housing. Ethiopia recently invested in Africa’s largest industrial complex in Hawassa, yet low wages and scarce housing prohibits sustainable futures for young workers. Labour turnover is very high.
In South Africa, wavering historic investment in Ekangala, Bronkhorstspruit, a former industrial decentralisation site, means high youth unemployment. Successful provision
of state housing means some youth are housed, but cannot afford living costs. Faced with this wicked problem youth respond creatively to manage these near-impossible fluid conditions. The relationship between youth, work and housing is under-theorised, particularly in terms of youth and state/private sector’s responses. Focusing on these two cases of state intervention, this study examines the youth work/housing nexus, asking how this nexus is experienced, what are the key challenges, what are the responses of youth and state/private sector actors, and what are the implications for youth futures and urban sustainability.
The research outcomes will be presented at Masakhane Hall in Ekangala on November 5th 2022 and will then be presented in the Fassler Gallery, inside the John Moffat building at the University of the Witwatersrand from November 8th to November 15th 2022. The research will be presented in the form of an exhibition, which will include various media outputs developed by the youth representatives from Ekangala. Outputs include illustrated publications as well as a podcast, spoken word poem, song and video - all of which offer insight into the experiences and lives of young people living in Ekangala.
Them Again Collective
Listen to the podcast here: