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What Does Access to Healthcare Actually Mean?
When people talk about access to healthcare, they usually mean proximity. There is a clinic; therefore there is access. But the relationship between a health facility existing and a person being able to use it is far more complicated than that, and flattening it into a single concept has real consequences for how we…
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Solving the Unemployment Challenge
Introduction to the Unemployment Challenge In my previous article, I unpacked the demographics behind South Africa’s unemployment crisis. Rather than focusing only on the headline figure of more than 32% unemployment, I explored who is most likely to be unemployed. The evidence showed that unemployment disproportionately affects young people, women, Black South Africans, people…