facility:south african institute

The Interview: PLAAS’s Professor #Ruth_Hall on land, and what you should – and shouldn’t – worry about

Everyone’s talking about it. Many of us have been wrong at least once. MARELISE VAN DER MERWE pinned down Professor Ruth Hall, from the South African Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (PLAAS) to get some straight answers on the land question. 10

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#Bloomberg_Africa evokes Reagan’s “welfare queen” stereotype for poor South Africans
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Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was in South Africa this month to launch the Bloomberg #MEDIA Initiative, a $10-million project to build capacity in business and financial #JOURNALISM across the continent (starting first in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa—which is a questionable choice of countries). But he should probably also invest some of his billions closer to home, too; at Bloomberg Africa, the Africa-focused overlay of his New York-based Bloomberg News agency.

#Northern_Cape #Rene_Vollgraaff #Ronald_Reagan #social_grants #South_African_Institute_of_Race_Relations #welfare_queen