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Inequality,
a Race thing or a Class thing?

Is SA is becoming a nation of three countries — along class, not racial lines?

by Mikhail Moosa

We talk all the time about poverty, inequality and unemployment. Inequality is mostly referred to as a black/white issue, and sadly whites are often presented as the ‘bad guys’. The Bell Pottinger campaign around ‘white monopoly capital’ was framed to do exactly that – to polarise. The ‘expropriation without compensation’ call is the same, constantly referring to “stolen land” with the ‘bad guys’ being ‘white farmers’. The same can be said, I’m afraid, in respect of much of the debate around racism and hate speech, with many arguing that only ‘whites’ can be guilty of both.

But is this the reality? Has the dynamic of inequality changed at all over the past 24 years?
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Partners for Possibility, an SA initiative wins global award

South African social enterprise wins another international award

7 June 2018

Partners for Possibility (PfP), the flagship programme of Symphonia for South Africa NPC, has earned further global recognition for innovation and social impact – this time as winner of the UK Social Enterprise Mark’s Making a Mark competition.

The Social Enterprise (SE) Mark is the only international accreditation scheme that assesses the impact of social enterprises and Symphonia for South Africa is the first SE Mark holder in South Africa. The announcement was made yesterday at the 2018 SE Mark Conference in York, UK
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Well done SA
– a great sporting weekend

Well done SA!

Nothing like a weekend of good sporting results to create a positive vibe for a day or two.

Blitzboks win World Series

Comrades won by two South Africans

Springboks beat England

Bafana Bafana wins Plate Final

Comrades gruelling 90.184 km down run was won by Bongumusa Mthembu (Men) in 5:26:35 and Ann Ashworth (Women) in 6:10:04. Do the sums, that’s an average of well under 4 mins per km for Bongumusa and just over 4 mins per km for Ann.

South Africa’s sevens team has won the Paris Sevens to unseat Fiji at the top and, most critically, claim the World Series. The Blitzboks beat England 24-14 in the final on Sunday evening, beating Fiji by just two points overall.

A historical Springbok victory at Siya Kolisi’s captaincy debut, beating England 42-39
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