On February 26th, 2026, we held the 30th session of our Political Economy Teach-in Series: “Time Theft and Temporal Justice: Decolonising the Clock” with Dr. Lebohang Liepollo Pheko.

This teach-in explored time as a site of power, examining how colonialism, racial capitalism, and patriarchy have systematically stolen labour, care, and life-time. Drawing on African, Black feminist, and decolonial scholarship, it advanced time justice and reparations as necessary frameworks for repairing historical harm and reclaiming collective futures.

Dr. Lebohang Liepollo Pheko is a feminist political economist, scholar-activist and social movement builder whose work spans over three decades across Africa and transnational feminist networks. She is Global Co-Chair of the Wellbeing Economy Global Alliance, a board member of South Feminist Futures, and serves on the Walter and Patricia Rodney Commission on Reparations. Her work makes significant contributions to feminist, decolonial, and heterodox economics, with a particular focus on reparations as a material, historical, and future-oriented project. Drawing on feminist histories long erased from political economy, she advances life-centred frameworks grounded in care, repair, and temporal justice. Through movement-based research, facilitation, and postgraduate teaching, she has supported feminist, labour, and community struggles to confront racial capitalism, colonial extraction, and dispossession. Her praxis understands reparations as collective repair — of economies, time, and intergenerational futures.

Our South Feminist Political Economy Teach-in Series aims to strengthen intergenerational dialogue and build a cross-regional feminist constituency. The series covers various topics to interrogate and strengthen understanding of issues shaping conditions in the Global South.

We have curated a special reading list of resources on the topic of this session, available on our South Feminist Knowledge Hub. It is designed to deepen your understanding of the themes and inspire meaningful discussion – featuring powerful contributions from authors and thinkers across the Global South.