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In the run-up to the 2021 local government elections, the Makana Citizens Front challenged corruption and dysfunction in the municipality rather than try to collapse state institutions. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Makana is not ripe for anarchy

Instead of replacing state capacity with grassroots action, we need to strengthen state institutions to serve the poor

Philip Machanick

Britain’s former interior minister Suella Braverman speaks during the “NatCon” national conservatism conference gathering of hard-right European politicians at the Claridge hotel in Brussels on April 16, 2024. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP)

Libertarianism, liberalism and conservatism: A response to JK Vance and Suella Braverman

Braverman and Vance criticise liberal influences, but their conservatism avoids accountability

Trevor Watkins