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Our responses to social unrest and structural uncertainty are not enough

by Zukiswa Mqolomba 4 August 20215 October 2021

Social protection strategies that emphasise systemic responses only to ‘livelihood shocks and uncertainties’ hardly take into account the ways in which poverty and unemployment are produced and reproduced in South Africa

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2014: I’m voting for jobs

by Thorne Godinho 24 February 201424 February 2014

On May 7 2014 I’ll be voting for the second time. This time I won’t quiver as I draw my “X”. I won’t care about all the hopeful politicians populating party election lists. I’m voting for me, and I’m voting so that some of those hopeful politicians don’t get in again. I am not going […]

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