PEDRO MZILENI | The impact of poverty and its potential to disempower gets underestimated when we have academic conversations about such tragedies and where they occur.
The 21 teenagers who passed on from the Scenery Park tavern tragedy have now been buried, but the difficult work of lifting that community and our country back on its feet is about to begin.
Beyond abstract theories and sociological understandings of all our social ills, the township of Scenery Park requires specific and targeted programmes to drive meaningful and impactful interventions to change the plight of that community...If you have already registered or subscribed, please sign in to continue.
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