MICHAEL MORRIS: Equity commission’s report keeps adding to the burden of race
Fighting race with race will not take us to a fair and just workplace
09 September 2019 - 05:04
On the very day 90 years ago of that stupendous headline “Great slump in America — 19,000,000 shares change hands in one day” a very different yet, as it turned out, no less far-reaching, anxiety in Vereeniging gained some news attention too.
In a relatively short time the Wall Street crash of the late 1920s wreaked havoc across the US and soon across the world, whereas the parochial disquiet on the fringe of the Witwatersrand took a while longer to achieve impact at scale. ..
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