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Leslie Bank
Professor Leslie Bank is research director in the Inclusive Economic Development Unit at the HSRC and the co-author of a new volume on South African migration dynamics entitled Migrant Labour After Apartheid: The Inside Story (HSRC Press, 2020)
Public must develop safe death rites
Experience in Brazil, West and South Africa show how ‘people’s science’ can manage deadly illnesses
Rural retreat: Allowing people to return home during lockdown could turn a tide
It is important to note that the phenomena of translocality and circular migration in Africa have often served as a strategy of resilience in tough times
Patriarchy, migration fuel Afrophobia
City streets are ‘washed’ to cleanse them of work competitors and for moral, cultural and social restoration
Shaping cities goes beyond student beds
Sustainable urban development requires the collaboration of municipalities and the universities to advance social integration
Open varsity gates to the commons
These institutions needn’t be discrete spaces and can be used to change the urban environment
Land reform: A broken ladder
The government’s land reform programme appears to be failing to promote the widespread productive use of land to provide household food security
University of Fort Hare at an academic crossroads
The failure of the ANC to rebuild the legendary university after 1994 has had serious results.