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Talk to Us, Not About Us

Caroline Elliot | Posted 03.02.2013 | UK
Read More: South Africa, Social Movements, Abahlali baseMjondolo, Participation, Slums, Africa, UK News
Caroline Elliot

This week saw the opening of the 6th Africities Summit in Dakar, Senegal with the aspiration of contributing "to the emergence of Africa of the people". Yet it is the people themselves who are all too often absent from such gatherings of the great and the good.

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Fate Often Moves With Ironic Steps

Caroline Elliot | Posted 19.09.2012 | UK Sport
Read More: South Africa, Shack-Dwellers, Nelson Mandela, Manchester United, World Cup 2010, Abahlali baseMjondolo, UK Sport News
Caroline Elliot

Recently the world's most valuable sports team plays a friendly match at a South African stadium whose construction overlapped with large numbers of poor people being forced into housing which some brand a concentration camp.

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