RON DERBY: Violence sprouts from broken plans

08 September 2019 - 00:08 By Ron Derby

As a teenager watching the unfolding of the reconstruction and development programme (RDP), I asked myself just how making townships bigger could be a panacea for one of the biggest structural flaws in the economy - the distance between the townships and centres of work...

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