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South Africa

Ordinary white South Africans and apartheid – bound to a racist system they helped prop up

    By Neil Roos, University of Fort Hare     In South Africa, apartheid was a divisive political system entrenched by a white minority who regarded other ethnic groups as inferior, creating townships on the outskirts of cities to house the black population and legislation to control their movements. Many academic studies have focused on black life under apartheid, but few on white life – and even fewer on […]

today10 July, 2024

Business / Economics

NZ Budget 2024: tax cuts and borrowing don’t always fuel inflation – but Nicola Willis has to get the balance right

LazingBee/Getty Images     By Dennis Wesselbaum, University of Otago     On the eve of the first budget from the National-ACT-New Zealand First coalition government, there is ongoing debate over whether borrowing while offering tax cuts could trigger a rise in inflation. Finance minister Nicola Willis has confirmed the budget will introduce “meaningful but modest” tax relief. But what impact will these cuts have on New Zealand’s economy? During the […]

today5 June, 2024