3- The Voices of the Poor
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
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