ZHAW International Business Seminar Series: Law, Capital, and Voice
In this session of the International Business Seminar Series, Dr. Lloyd Maphosa will examine how Africans challenged colonial rule in the early twentieth-century Cape Colony.
In the framework of this IBSS session, Dr. Maphosa will present his view on African media companies as social enterprises that adopted corporate law to create alternative platforms for political mobilisation.
Using company registers from the Cape Joint Stock Company archive, he reconstructed the formation and funding of Eagle Printing Press Company Ltd and Jabavu and Company Ltd, the first African-registered companies under the Cape Companies Act (1892). In his respective paper and IBSS presentation, he argues that the corporate structure enabled voice by pooling capital, spreading risk, and granting legal personality, while the capital structure set its boundaries.
Date
Start date: 12 November 2025, 12.30 pm
Location
ZHAW School of Management and Law, Building SW, Room 316, and online
Organizer
ZHAW International Management Institute
Theaterstrasse 17
8401
Winterthur
+41 58 934 46 26
info.imi@zhaw.ch
ZHAW International Management Institute