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On 2019/05/04 10:33 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
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http://time.com/longform/south-africa-unequal-country/
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Thanks, Louis.
It's a fine article on the Cape Town symptoms of urban class-apartheid
planning. If anyone wants more on the causes, here's a book, Cities of
Gold, Townships of Coal, which documents the World Bank's influence over
Joe Slovo, a (neoliberal) Communist Party leader who became the
country's first post-1994 housing minister, shortly before his death,
and implemented a policy designed mainly to 'normalize the market' for
bank housing finance:
http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/files/Bond%20Cities%20Of%20Gold%20Townships%20Of%20Coal.pdf
"Half the population lives on less than $5 a day." Actually it's more
like 65% living on less than $3.50/day:
https://theconversation.com/how-current-measures-underestimate-the-level-of-poverty-in-south-africa-46704
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