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POLITICSHistorians reviewing the recent short span of history, the past 50 years, or even the longue durée, over 200 years, would...
During South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle, national liberation politics was mass politics. It was grounded in building class and national...
The nightmare of the Jacob Zuma presidency has its roots in the South African Communist Party-led (SACP) bandwagon to displace the neoliberal Thabo...
There is a rather one-sided, reductive and commonplace perception that South African President Jacob Zuma is a dangerous man. Included in this is an assertion that the...
Food is essential to the human condition. Food politics have shaped world history. It was central to the shift from nomadic to settled societies...
In a surprising departure from the corporate-controlled narrative on...
The post-colonial left in Africa has been savagely defeated over the past few decades. Southern Africa in particular was a Cold War battleground,...
Pick up any newspaper or tune into any radio broadcast and, before long, you are likely to hear discontent about...
Who is a “democrat” today? The simple answer would be most of us. It would seem street protesters in Greece, Brazil and Egypt as well...
The contemporary world order is in transition. The ideological sway of neoliberalism is receding, but has not disappeared. The underlying structural changes of a world remade in the image of finance capital are still wreaking havoc with markets and economies rocked by instability....