Ramaphosa's claim that government built 4 million homes is fiction, according to Africa Check: Fact-checking organisation Africa Check has found that President Cyril Ramaphosa's claim on housing in South Africa is false. ...... Source: WN.com - Southafrica News Motorists urged to drive responsibly as Easter weekend road deaths increase: By Friday afternoon, three people … [Read more...] about Ramaphosa’s claim that government built 4 million homes is fiction, according to Africa Check
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‘Dancing the Death Drill’: historical fiction that tells us about today | The Conversation
'Dancing the Death Drill': historical fiction that tells us about today: The Mendi shown here in pre-war days in use as a mail ship. Courtesy of the John Gribble CollectionIn his keynote speech at the recent Sunday Times Literary Awards novelist, Zakes Mda, said that “we write historical fiction to take history to the level of what was it like to be in what happened”. Mda said … [Read more...] about ‘Dancing the Death Drill’: historical fiction that tells us about today | The Conversation
Using fiction to make the curious links between financial risk and terrorism | The Conversation
Using fiction to make the curious links between financial risk and terrorism: From the cover of JG Ballard's 'Concrete Island'. Review 2016: This has been a year most of humanity would like to forget with war, disasters, racism, sexism and, especially in arts and culture, the deaths of revered icons. But it is also in the arts and culture where people look for and … [Read more...] about Using fiction to make the curious links between financial risk and terrorism | The Conversation
How a deep dive into people’s lives helps to separate fact from fiction | The Conversation
How a deep dive into people's lives helps to separate fact from fiction: In-depth surveys allow governments to drill their understanding down to street level. Image courtesy GCRO/Clive HassallHow do you decide whether a society is making progress or not, and on what basis are these judgements made? In an election year – which is the case in nearly a third of Africa’s 54 … [Read more...] about How a deep dive into people’s lives helps to separate fact from fiction | The Conversation
Africa’s rising middle class: time to sort out fact from fiction | The Conversation
A street trader looks out from his store in Cape Town, South Africa. Defining people who earn US$ 2 a day as middle class doesn't make sense. EPA/Nic BothmaSince the turn of the century the middle classes of the global South have taken centre stage in economic policy circles. Animated by diversification of some countries’ economies, a handful of economists from … [Read more...] about Africa’s rising middle class: time to sort out fact from fiction | The Conversation
