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Why John Simpson was right to raise the issue of white poverty in South Africa

by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Jun 3, 2013 | Africa

Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Keith Somerville raised several important points in his review of John Simpson’s controversial coverage of white poverty in South Africa. As a former colleague at the BBC and a fellow research...

BBC’s Simpson unites ANC and DA over the future of South Africa’s white population

by commonwealth-oral-history-project | May 30, 2013 | Africa

Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies It is hard these days to get the ANC and the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) to agree on anything.  But the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, John Simpson has managed it. How?  With a...

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