Lebohang Liepollo Pheko

Lebohang is an activist scholar, public intellectual, development practitioner for over 25 years. Her  broad research Interests  include  Afrikan political economy, States and nationhood, international trade & global financial governance and she is  currently based in Johannesburg. She has spent the past year co-creating and framing African feminist alternatives to build forward looking , ethical economics ‘post covid’. In her spare time Pheko  enjoys hikes, jogs, poetry , gospel and jazz and pursues the elusive art of stillness.  She tweets at #Liepollo9

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Alternative route

05/07/2025

Lebohang Liepollo Pheko tells how alternatives to neoliberal consumption are being built in the Global South even as Trumps’ America charges around. As Trump-era tariffs spiral into renewed trade chaos,

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Not all’s well

05/10/2023

Lebohang Liepollo Pheko tells how wellbeing means different things depending on where you are looking from. The idea of promoting wellbeing economies has been gaining traction, especially among a few

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Beyond the pale? – interview transcript

10/07/2023

Pheko:                          I wasn’t actually sure what to expect, I must say. I thought it was going to be one of these quite academic, inward-looking type growth, post-growth, de-growth sorts of

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Beyond the pale?

28/06/2023

Lebohang Liepollo Pheko is a South African activist academic who was one of the non-Europeans invited to speak at the recent Beyond Growth conference in the European Parliament. This conference

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Profit and profiteroles

01/01/2023

South Africa’s rulers are so detached from their electorate they don’t even let them eat cake. Lebohang Liepollo Pheko explains. Every year on the weekend closest to January 8th, the

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