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A Place in the City

Nearly 15 years since apartheid ended, millions of black South Africans still live in self-built shacks - without sanitation, adequate water supplies, or electricity.
But A Place in the City will overturn all your assumptions about 'slums' and the people who live in them.
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This is a call for applications for volunteer researchers for the Southern Refugee Legal Aid Network (SLRAN), a new FAHAMU global project.The SLRAN project is co-ordinated by Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond. Find out more

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Yash Tandon (2008) Ending Aid Dependence.
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Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective.

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