The idea of race and the tenacity of racial inequality are deployed by elites to divert attention from their criminality and to silence critical dissidence
The removal of migrants won’t stop the job crisis, end crime, fix the schooling system or the police service, repair hospitals, and end poverty
Job creation should not be the peak of our ambition. We could decommodify life’s necessities instead
Inequality is a moral crime. We can imagine better systems, so why does the ANC hold on to neoliberalism?
Power in post-apartheid South Africa lies with the party, the state and capital. The tourism minister masks her complicity with bad governance, and being part of the economic and political elite.
Lindiwe Sisulu and other power and prosperity seekers in the ANC had the authority to improve the lives of ‘the people’, but didn’t
You can’t tackle issues like poverty until you understand their root causes. Pastors who focus on self-enrichment through misleading their congregations misdiagnose these causes. That’s dangerous.
The people need to remove their blinkers and reclaim their minds to achieve a better future
Silk Sonic’s adventurous nostalgia is not a testimony to older music being better but rather the artists offer a listening experience that is refreshing because it is so different to what popular ears have become accustomed to
Both the podcast host and the leader of the Democratic Alliance believe in a toothless non-racialism that ignores the historical foundation of racism and the pain it inflicts in the present
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