Marxist scholar Harold Wolpe's ideas still speak to South Africa's problems: Harold Wolpe showed how poor rural areas subsidised low wages of migrant workers' wages. ShutterstockDuring the apartheid period in South Africa – 1948 to 1994 – a lively intellectual culture of opposition emerged on some of the country’s university campuses and within the broader anti-apartheid … [Read more...] about Marxist scholar Harold Wolpe’s ideas still speak to South Africa’s problems | The Conversation
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Still no response from SACP’s Mapaila after Public Protector’s legal threat
Still no response from SACP’s Mapaila after Public Protector’s legal threat: This week, Solly Mapaila claimed Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane received information on cases from rogue intelligence elements that had a strong influence on her office. ...... Source: WN.com - Southafrica News Fritz: Army must not get involved in civilian policing: Western Cape Community Safety MEC … [Read more...] about Still no response from SACP’s Mapaila after Public Protector’s legal threat
South Africa still has a long way to go to settle traditional leadership challenges | The Conversation
South Africa still has a long way to go to settle traditional leadership challenges: Traditional leaders listen to a speech by President Cyril Ramaphosa's in Makhanda, Eastern Cape. EPA-EFE/Elmond JiyaneTwenty-five years after apartheid formally ended in South Africa, rural people are still fighting laws that entrench the former discriminatory system and limit their … [Read more...] about South Africa still has a long way to go to settle traditional leadership challenges | The Conversation
Employed but still poor: the state of low-wage working poverty in South Africa | The Conversation
Employed but still poor: the state of low-wage working poverty in South Africa: Low-wage poverty is highly associated with unstable work such as in the informal sector ShutterstockPaid employment is generally considered the predominant and most sustainable way of pulling people out of poverty. But the past two decades have seen a global rise in the complex phenomenon of the … [Read more...] about Employed but still poor: the state of low-wage working poverty in South Africa | The Conversation
Patient’s body found in hospital ceiling still a mystery after two years
Patient's body found in hospital ceiling still a mystery after two years: Cape Town – It been nearly two years since Teteteke Gqotsi’s body was found in the ceiling of an isolated section of Stellenbosch Hospital, and his family said they were still in the dark as to how he ended up there. Gqotsi’s brother, Christmas Khethwane, said: “We are losing hope. No one has answers for … [Read more...] about Patient’s body found in hospital ceiling still a mystery after two years
