The ANC’s decline is deserved. But the ruling party mirrors a society suffused with contempt for poverty and repairing that requires solidarity, not just punishing a grotesque political class at the polls
There is a renewed white arrogance staking a claim to influence in the public sphere. It is fuelled by a swing to the right and needs to be contested
South Africa is correct and courageous to oppose the West at the International Court of Justice but is not a consistently principled actor
As the ANC’s standing and support sink to new lows, there is no emancipatory alternative ready to take to the hustings
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