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Character is easy in comfort. The real test comes when survival, poverty and pressure force impossible choices…
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Parks Tau mistakes frustration for prejudice, ignoring how BBBEE has been gamed by vested interests, undermining economic potential…
Real Politics: the poor are paying for immigration failures
South Africa’s failure to enforce immigration rules shifts the burden onto poor communities, fuelling resentment over jobs, housing, clinics and crime.…
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