Dr. Mabutho Shangase had a lecture at 8th KU-TUFS Seminar at Kyoto University. The seminar was jointly organized by Center for African Area Studies (CAAS), Kyoto University and African Studies Center, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (ASC - TUFS).

At the seminar, Dr. Shangase talked about exercise of state autonomy to achieve macro-economic stability and effect incremental policy change in South Africa between 1994 and 2014. He explained the movement of South Africa in this period by using the three elements comprising conjunctual state autonomy: the historical context, the prevailing neoliberal paradigm, as well as a professional bureaucracy.