The Shock Doctrine

Part 4, Chapter 10: Democracy Born in Chains

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Transforming Kliptown into a Tourist Destination
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This brochure describes how Kliptown, the birthplace of the Freedom Charter was drafted in 1955 and where ANC members called for wealth redistribution, is to be remade into a “world-class tourist destination” by the provincial government agency, Blue IQ.
“Finding the Holy Grail? Making Poverty History in the 21st Century,” 2005
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Scholar Ashwin Desai critiques various proposals implemented by the government and by lending institutions to reduce poverty in South Africa.
Summary of Key Findings from the National Evictions Survey, 2005
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This report offers staggering data on the prevalence of evictions in South Africa, including the fact that nearly a million South Africans were evicted from farms between 1994 and 2004.
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