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Name |
Clarence Tshitereke |
| Highest qualification |
PhD (Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada)
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| Position |
Honorary Professor |
| Contact details |
clarencet46@gmail.com |
| Research interests/expertise |
Mine labour migration, gold mining, coal mining, artisanal mining, critical minerals, mining communities, security studies, mining economics, human security
|
| Current projects |
The Effects of Coal Power Station Closures on Mining Communities Green Energy & Just Energy Transition
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Short biography
Clarence Tshitereke was Special Adviser to the Minister of Higher Education and Training, the Minister of Social Development and the Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities. He also served as Executive Director: Office of the Vice Chancellor at the University of Venda – and as Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Old Mutual. He also spent time as a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies. He taught at Queen’s University, Kingston, in Canada, and at the University of Cape Town.
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy, in Development Studies and International Relations from Queen’s University at Kingston in Canada, a Master of Philosophy from the University of Stellenbosch and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town.
Selected publications
Books
- Tshitereke, C. (2026). The Experience of Economic Redistribution: The Growth Employment and Redistribution Strategy in South Africa, Routledge, London and New York.
Articles
- Tshitereke, C. (2009). “There Shall be Houses, Security and Comfort,” ISS Paper 196, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria.
- Tshitereke, C. (2004). “Accountability and Oversight: The Role of Parliament in Arms Transfers,” in Le Roux, L., M. Rupiya and N. Ngoma, Guarding the Guardians: Parliamentary Oversight and Civil Military Relations: The Challenges to the SADC, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria.
- Tshitereke, C. (2003). “The National Conventional Arms Control Act: An update,” in Focus on Small Arms, Number 5, May, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria and Cape Town.
- Tshitereke, C. (2003). “On the Origins of War in Africa,” in African Security Review, Volume 12, Number 2, pp. 81–90, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria.
- Tshitereke, C. (2002). “Securing Democracy: Party Finance and Party Donations: The South African Challenge,” ISS Paper Number 63, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria.
- Tshitereke, C. (2001). with J. Crush, “Contesting Migrancy: The Foreign Labour Debate in Post-1994 South Africa.” Africa Today, Volume 48, Number 3, Fall pp. 36–49, University of Indiana Press, Bloomington.
Opinion Pieces in Areas of Interest
- “Cape’s poor bear the brunt of reckless politicking,” Business Day, 11 March 2008
- “The importance of adequate housing,” Mail & Guardian, 01 September 2008
- “Despite limited resources, housing delivery output must be accelerated urgently, Cape Argus, 26 November 2009
- “Essential service worthy of defense,” Mail & Guardian, 11 April 2011
- “Harnessing collective efforts is the answer,” Mail & Guardian, 26 April 2013
- “Improving the lives of SA’s children,” Mail & Guardian, 29 November 2013
- “Old King Coal,” Business Day, 21 February 2023
- “South Africa’s Green Energy and European coal Resurgence,” Business Day, 25 February 2023
- “Will coal’s demise be the making of SA’s Rust Belt?” Business Day, 06 March 2023
- “Coal remains the jewel in the crown of our minerals,” Business Day, 10 March 2023
- “Is green energy really that clean,” Business Day, 27 March 2023
- “Africa has a big role to play in the critical mineral’s revolution,” Business Day, 20 June 2023
- “Clean energy revolution finds SA lacking critical minerals strategy,” Business Day, 10 August 2023
- “A governance framework for Africa’s critical minerals,” on Business Day, 13 June 2025
- “Rare earth from coal fly ash, our untapped treasure trove,” Business Day, 09 July 2025
- “Gold mine labour haemorrhage, the emergence of artisanal mining,” Business Day, 21 July 2025
