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David Dickinson

David Dickinson is an attorney with Lawyers for Human Rights’ Land, Housing and Property Programme and emeritus professor of sociology at Wits University.

Latest Work

OPINIONISTA

4 June 2026

Draft deeds bill fails to address the township family house crisis

David Dickinson

8 min

OPINIONISTA

6 August 2025

'Family houses' don't exist in law and it is creating chaos among families

David Dickinson

3 min

OPINIONISTA

29 April 2019

Adam Habib’s book about the #FeesMustFall movement at Wits is all about … Adam

David Dickinson

6 min

Divided in our diversity – the Vereeniging land expropriation hearings

OP-ED

6 August 2018

Divided in our diversity – the Vereeniging land expropriation hearings

David Dickinson

7 min

Op-Ed: Wits Strike – union busting busted, but university is kicking a can down the road

South Africa

8 February 2018

Op-Ed: Wits Strike – union busting busted, but university is kicking a can down the road

David Dickinson

5 min

South Africa

2 August 2017

Op-Ed: Tough choices for South Africa’s research-intensive universities

David Dickinson

4 min

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Defend Truth

Latest Work

Draft deeds bill fails to address the township family house crisis

'Family houses' don't exist in law and it is creating chaos among families

Adam Habib’s book about the #FeesMustFall movement at Wits is all about … Adam

Divided in our diversity – the Vereeniging land expropriation hearings

Op-Ed: Wits Strike – union busting busted, but university is kicking a can down the road

Op-Ed: Tough choices for South Africa’s research-intensive universities