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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)

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Public must develop safe death rites

Experience in Brazil, West and South Africa show how ‘people’s science’ can manage deadly illnesses

Rural people are dispossessed and displaced by companies that collect awards for ESG credentials, corporate social investment and sector excellence.
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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

Cases of Covid-19 have surged in the Eastern Cape.

Patriarchy, migration fuel Afrophobia

City streets are ‘washed’ to cleanse them of work competitors and for moral, cultural and social restoration

Universities in South Africa could promote an inclusive approach to integrating students into the cities where they are situated by working together with municipalities, which have clout as major owners of land and property. Photo: Madelene Cronjé

Shaping cities goes beyond student beds

Sustainable urban development requires the collaboration of municipalities and the universities to advance social integration

There are initiatives that can be taken to help millennials overcome challenges. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Open varsity gates to the commons

These institutions needn’t be discrete spaces and can be used to change the urban environment

Post-1994 land laws mimic apartheid

​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. Photo: Supplied

University of Fort Hare at an academic crossroads

The failure of the ANC to rebuild the legendary university after 1994 has had serious results.