Coverage of the war in Ukraine shows shows Western views are perpetuated in the media, without balance and an alternative perspective
This extract from The Lost Prince of the ANC: The Life and Times of Jabulani Nobleman ‘Mzala’ Nxumalo 1955 – 1991 by Mandla J Radebe is based on the publication in July 1987 of Nxumalo’s article ‘Towards people’s war and insurrection’ in the ANC’s publication Sechaba, in which he argued that, under prevailing conditions, the ‘armed insurrection’ was possible. For him, anything less was a conservative approach that failed to read the situation correctly
Commercial media reproduces the views of the dominant class and has been unable to unpack the underlying failures of capitalism