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Bongani Mahlangu

Bongani K Mahlangu is an independent economic analyst, commentator, and social activist.

Latest Work

Bongani Mahlangu

21 August 2022

Zama zamas are just the visible tip of a massive, largely invisible mining value chain

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Bongani Mahlangu

19 July 2022

Infrastructure thieves and rogue scrap metal merchants are stealing our future

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Bongani Mahlangu

20 October 2021

President Ramaphosa is right that youth unemployment is a crisis, but his analysis is wrong

Bongani Mahlangu

4 min

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Bongani Mahlangu

12 July 2021

The government must move its promises from podium rhetoric to visible programmes to tackle growing poverty

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4 min

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Bongani Mahlangu

14 April 2021

Universities must realise their former student leaders and architects of change are an untapped resource

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5 min

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Bongani Mahlangu

17 September 2020

University graduates are the new cheap labour – underemployed, underpaid and underused

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