Andries Bezuidenhout is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Fort Hare. He is a research associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has co-edited a number of books of which most recently, Critical Engagement with Public Sociology (2021) and Labour Beyond Cosatu: Mapping the Rupture in South Africa's Labour Landscape (2017).