The Voices of the Poor

Abstract

We Are the Poors: Community Strugglein Post-Apartheid South Africaby Ashwin DesaiMonthly Review Press, 2002, 153 pp., ISBN 1-58367-050-5, pbk. “One of the designer-bedecked (African) councilors began castigating the crowd. She had once lived in a shack, she screamed. Why were the Indians resisting evictions and demanding upgrades? Indians were just too privileged...One elderly aunty... screamed back ‘We are not Indians. We are the poors’”(p. 44).