Sisulu’s War of the Ages Begins
In 2005, early in her in her first term as Minister of Housing, Lindiwe #Sisulu announced that the state had resolved to ‘eradicate slums’ by 2014. This was a time when the technocratic ideal had more credibility than it does now and officials and politicians often spoke, with genuine conviction, as if it were an established fact that this aspiration would translate into reality. It was not unusual for people trying to engage the state around questions of urban land and housing to be rebuffed as troublemakers, either ignorant or malicious, on the grounds that it was an established fact that there would be no more shacks by 2014.
▻http://www.theconmag.co.za/2014/10/28/sisulus-war-of-the-ages-begins
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