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/ 4 April 2007

‘Speak to us and not for us’

South Africa does not think of the poor. The poorest of the country are the majority, but we are kept voiceless. The poorest I am talking about are the shack dwellers, the street traders, the street kids, the flat dwellers who can’t afford the rent, and the unemployed from Cape Town to Musina and from Richards Bay to Alexander Bay, writes M’du Hlongwa.