PALI LEHOHLA | Census and sensitivities: the building blocks of SA’s post-apartheid statistics

How statisticians in Bophuthatswana confronted racial tensions and the question of what a post-apartheid statistics system should be

26 August 2024 - 04:40 By PALI LEHOHLA

In 1989 when Stellenbosch intellectuals and students visited the ANC in Lusaka, Zambia, and the Pretoria intellectuals were protesting the gesture, Prof Sampie Terreblanche of Stellenbosch University would remark that the verkrampte Tuks were behind the times...

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