The mjondolo settlement in Durban's Foreman Road, as visited by a reporter from the Mail & Guardian newspaper, illustrates the growing inequities of the new new South Africa. Forced relocation is not the answer. Squatter empowerment is.
--news from Robert Neuwirth--
I recently (January 2020) signed a contract with Beacon Press for a new book of reportage on the economics of community.
I'm also working on a collection of short stories about economics called The Book of Derivatives.
Backstory: I've written two previous books: Stealth of Nations (on the global growth of the informal economy) & Shadow Cities (on the global growth of squatter communities).
I live in New York City and do most of my writing on manual typewriters.
2 comments:
check out
http://voiceoftheturtle.org/raj/blog/PamphletLo-res.pdf
and
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0206pithouse.htm
for more on the very large and very militant squatter struggles in durban
Thanks, Deliwe. Abahlali and the other groups are doing great work.
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