After much umming and ahhing, a friend and I finally got to wander around a penthouse at Ponte City on the outskirts of Hillbrow today, and boy, were we surprised! Melrose Arch, it is not – and no one ever pretended it is; however, Abuja extension (to use the pejorative) it isn’t either. Now granted we would probably...
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It seems to be becoming a fashion for South African countries to create parallel ‘traditional’ legal systems. Last year the Malawi government was widely condemned over local courts bill that gave legal authority to ‘lay courts’. Part of the reason for the criticism was the bizarre crimes that were recognised, such as...
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*This is the second in a two-part look at the role of land in the current land reform debate in South Africa. The second unexamined assumption in the current land reform debate is the idea that poor rural people aren’t making it in farming because they don’t have land. There are roughly 1.5 million poor families in South Africa...
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South Africa has become obsessed with land reform, as yesterday’s State of the National Address showed yet again. The argument is deceptively simple – the economy can never achieve any sort of equitable distribution of wealth or economic empowerment while a minority own the majority of the land. This seemingly logical and...
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Cosatu announced recentlythat it is starting its own youth wing. Cosatu Young Workers will target youth, particularly those in learnerships through Setas, who they feel are being exploited. The cut-off age will be 40. Yet another youth league. That brings to… well, many the number of youth wings in South Africa. Youth leagues...
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