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Black Diamonds in the Rough

[intro]In his new book “The New Black Middle Class in South Africa”, Roger Southall grapples with the definitional problem of identifying who exactly the middle class is and what it means to be black, middle class and professional. Hlonipha Mokoena reviews Southhall’s...

Hlonipha Mokoena

Hlonipha Mokoena received her Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town in 2005. She is currently an associate professor and researcher at WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She recently published...

Himal Ramji

Himal Ramji is reading towards an MA on transformation in the South African history curriculum. He is originally from Durban but braving the icy Atlantic in Cape Town.

Werner Fitzgerald Smith

Werner Fitzgerald Smith grew up in a little lost town of De Aar in the Northern Cape, as the third generation of his family living in this town. He lived by the following words: “Mentality no.1 get out of here alive.” Primary school was spent behind books he was too...