Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand and a research associate of the Migration and Health Project Southern Africa.
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/ 18 August 2006

Growing pains

Significant developments are underway to integrate Grahamstown’s impoverished periphery into the National Arts Festival, both economically and culturally. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon takes to the townships in search of the other National Arts Festival.

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/ 22 June 2005

Moving on up

In the industrial landscape around the Johannesburg inner city, about 24 000 migrant men live in single-sex hostels. A further 15 000 men and women live in informal settlements. Sixty-eight percent of the men and 80% of the women unemployed. But a programme called Mpilonhle-Mpilonde is upgrading the quality of life in hostels and informal settlements through group-based learning.

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/ 25 April 2005

The growing pains of family trees

Will somebody do something about insensitive teachers? My son goes to a pre-primary school. Firstly, the principal called me at work to remind me that I had ‘forgotten” to supply details of my son’s father in the application form. As if that was not enough, my son came home one afternoon demanding to know why […]

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/ 5 August 2004

The unfinished business of equality

Ten years into our democracy, gender inequity remains a challenge. Since 1994 we have seen significant changes in policy development that reflect the government’s commitment to responding to this challenge. But implementation of progressive policies has been uneven and the high levels of unemployment, HIV/Aids and sexual violence against women have created a dire situation that government departments have struggled to respond to.