Prof Ivan Turok takes issue with Neva Makgetla’s suggestion that the state should do more to support non-metros (“ Metros need all the cash they can get ”, September 22, and “ History counts when measuring performance in municipalities ”, September 20). He lists three points of argument, the third referring to the major metro problem of ever-burgeoning informal settlements, which raises an interesting issue.
Without doubt, migration is one of the dominant problems in today’s world, both intercountry (Mexicans into the US) and intra-country (rural populations flooding metros). My reading tells me that the biggest driver of migration is […]
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