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David Van Wyk

David Van Wyk

David van Wyk is a freelance researcher who works for progressive civil society organisations and movements all over Central and Southern Africa. He also a member of Bench Marks Foundation, a non-profit organisation in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and monitors corporate performance against an international measuring instrument, the Principles for Global Corporate Responsibility.

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Opinions The ANC and the middle class

The ANC is conferring about how to win back the vote of the black middle class. This obsession with the middle class should put to rest once and…

1 Jul 2017 · 12:18
Opinions The true meaning of Inflation

Capitalist economists in general and neo-liberal economists in particular love creating mythical and mystical confusions around certain 'economic' notions. One such notion is 'inflation'.

1 Jul 2017 · 12:17
Opinions David Van Wyk : My take on the Zuma debate

There is a whole lot of BS going on in the debates around Jacob Zuma. I think that it is necessary to dispel some of the misinformation being…

13 Apr 2017 · 12:54
Opinions ANTI-Zuma Marches. Some Comments

What are my observations about the Anti-Zuma marches on Friday, 7 April 2017? On 6 April 1652 Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape of Good Hope to…

11 Apr 2017 · 06:33
Opinions On the Land Question in South Africa

Land redistribution within a capitalist market economy will simply fail. Already, the land reform program in South Africa has stumbled on the hurdle of willing buyer, willing seller,…

20 Nov 2016 · 21:43
Opinions Mining Meaningfully, Rather than Undermining Life!

The people of South Africa have benefited very little from our mineral wealth since the commencement of industrial mining. Instead, our minerals have enriched Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway…

10 Oct 2016 · 21:54
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