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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2005): Africa Review of Books, Volume 1, n° 2, 2005

3- The Voices of the Poor

https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v1i2.4816
Bill Freund

Corresponding Author(s) : Bill Freund

no-replay@codesria.org

Africa Review of Books, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2005): Africa Review of Books, Volume 1, n° 2, 2005

Abstract

We Are the Poors: Community Struggle
in Post-Apartheid South Africa
by Ashwin Desai
Monthly Review Press, 2002, 153 pp., ISBN 1-58367-050-5, pbk.


“One of the designer-bedecked (African) councilors began castigating the crowd. She had once lived in a shack, she screamed. Why were the Indians resisting evictions and demanding upgrades? Indians were just too privileged...One elderly aunty... screamed back ‘We are not Indians. We are the poors’”(p. 44).

Keywords

Voices Poor professional qualifications

Author Biography

Bill Freund

(6 July 1944 – 17 August 2020) was an American academic historian who was particularly known as an authority on the economic and labour history of Africa. His research focused primarily on South Africa. For much of his career, he taught at the University of Natal and its successor institution the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

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