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South Africa has three deep-water ports and one rail network joining them, yet each is run as its own island. The case for treating Durban, Ngqura and Saldanha Bay as a single freight corridor — and why 2026 is the year to do it.
A leading social theory has done vital work making unpaid labour in the home visible. So why can't it see such work done by children? At the 2026 South African Sociological Association conference, Dr Anne Wiltshire unpacked a 'crisis of distance' in Social Reproduction Theory, and what it would take to bring it back into focus.