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Mass Murder of Miners and Neo-Liberalism in South Africa

4 Sep 2012

Paul Jay of The Real News Network talks to Vishwas Satgar, Senior Lecturer at Wits University, about the Marikana massacre.

“The ANC has embraced a neo-liberal economic model that has opened up this economy. The most they can show for it in terms of delivery is a social grant system mainly targeting the aged and children. The ANC can also show some delivery around housing. But, a lot of the apartheid pattern of urban and spatial development has continued. Beyond this, the ANC is really in a cul-de-sac in terms of where it takes the South African economy,” contends Satgar.

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