Here is a puzzle. People in sub-Saharan Africa tend to be *twice* as religious as the rest of the world, yet countries in the region provide *half* as much state support for religion.
Why?
Hint: It isn't about state capacity. #polrel
On the side of a busy street in Khayelitsha, Simon runs an unexpectedly criminal enterprise: a black-market barbershop.
My article in @groundup.org.za on the policing of informal businesses in South Africa.
groundup.org.za/article/how-...
Original article in Politics & Religion:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
An article by @telegraphnews.bsky.social literally advocating tax evasion.
Literally - how to pretend to run a commercial woodland to avoid inheritance tax.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/in...
This is such important research on why unemployed South Africans leave or turn down work. We need to think beyond debates about mininum wage to think more expansively about what work with dignity can mean.
theconversation.com/6-in-10-youn...
Are there any academics you read where you think 'woah, that's really good writing'?
I'm having an odd time. I'm returning to books and articles that I remember as excellent. But when I read them closely, their wordwork is clumsy.
Help. Who first came to mind when you read my question?