{"id":31388,"date":"2022-05-04T04:30:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=31388"},"modified":"2022-05-04T04:30:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:30:34","slug":"excerpt-why-is-south-africa-so-violent-and-what-can-be-done-about-this-and-other-burning-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/04\/excerpt-why-is-south-africa-so-violent-and-what-can-be-done-about-this-and-other-burning-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCERPT | Why is South Africa so violent? And what can be done about this and other burning issues?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3316\/a8bf606475fb489bbf338bcb8679edd3.jpg\" alt=\"Better Choices: Ensuring South Africa\u2019s Future, edited by Greg Mills, Mcebisi Jonas, Haroon Bhorat and Ray Hartley (Picador).\" height=\"1535\" width=\"1024\" class=\"img-lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                    Better Choices: Ensuring South Africa\u2019s Future, edited by Greg Mills, Mcebisi Jonas, Haroon Bhorat and Ray Hartley (Picador).\n                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" name=\"_heading=h.gjdgxs\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BOOK:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>In\u00a0Better Choices: Ensuring South Africa\u2019s Future<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" name=\"_heading=h.8gy46nkayzl5\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>South Africa\u2019s economy is not growing,<br \/>\nunemployment is horribly high, crime is rampant \u2026 These are among the serious<br \/>\nissues the nation faces. In Better<br \/>\nChoices: Ensuring South Africa\u2019s Future, edited by Greg Mills, Mcebisi<br \/>\nJonas, Haroon Bhorat and Ray Hartley (Picador), the book\u2019s various writers<br \/>\ncover issues \u2013 and the likely solutions \u2013 ranging from policy, labour, crime<br \/>\nand taxes to Eskom, Transnet, agriculture and tourism. In this excerpt, Gareth<br \/>\nNewham, head of the Justice and Violence-Prevention Programme at the Institute<br \/>\nof Security Studies, considers the roots of South Africa\u2019s extraordinary levels<br \/>\nof violence. Co-editor Mills appears at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flf.co.za\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Franschhoek Literary Festival<\/strong><\/a> on 14<br \/>\nMay at 11:30 to talk to Michela Wrong about poverty in Africa and why aid<br \/>\nfails.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n            Subscribe to News24 for just R75 per month to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism.&#13;<br \/>\nYou can cancel any time.\n        <\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/books\/excerpts\/excerpt-why-is-south-africa-so-violent-and-what-can-be-done-about-this-and-other-burning-issues-20220504\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Better Choices: Ensuring South Africa\u2019s Future, edited by Greg Mills, Mcebisi Jonas, Haroon Bhorat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learningtheory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31390,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31388\/revisions\/31390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}