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How do we make democracy work for the poor?
Langa is the executive director of the Community Law and Rural Development Centre. A position that he has held since 2004. In 1996, he obtained a B Proc degree from the University of Kwazulu Natal and acquired a post graduate certificate in Professional Legal Training from the same institution in 1999.
Langa Mtshali -
One of the legacies of apartheid South Africa and the Bantustan system is the unequal distribution of resources between urban and rural areas, which has created a perpetual divide that even under our democratic dispensation is not being bridged.
The ongoing lack of importance given to rural South Africa in the post-apartheid era, has created a rural backwater where poverty is entrenched and where people are simply abandoned and expected to fend for themselves in the face of what can...
