Don’t mobilize, organize
To rebuild, the South African left must realize that there are no shortcuts to power.
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Niall Reddy
Niall Reddy, from South Africa, is a doctoral student in sociology at New York University.
Will the populist wave crash over South Africa?
With the globe-spanning rise of right-wing populism, there may be good reason to fear for South Africa’s fledgling democracy.
Mission betrayed
The New Apartheid, a new book by Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, seeks to define a generational mission in South Africa. Instead, it shrouds our existing one in complete opacity.
A terrifying vision of South Africa’s future
If South Africa’s Left can’t find a way to channel popular discontentment into the building of mass progressive movements, it will instead morph into anarchy, nativism and, inevitably, authoritarianism.
South Africa’s Left needs a new party
Assuming today’s socioeconomic crisis benefits the Left is folly. That will only happen if we have the political vision to make class the fault line of social polarization, and for that we need to face the challenge of constructing a new party.
How not to change a curriculum
One of South Africa’s leading universities, UCT, released a curriculum change framework post-#RhodeMustFall. This is a critique by two alum.
Doing the Ramaphosa Shuffle
South Africa’s President carries much hope. But fundamental change requires he radically restructures the state and the economy.
The crisis of the party-state in South Africa
Improving socio-economic conditions may prove to be the precondition for fighting corruption.
The Fire This Time
To equate the rage of South African student protestors with the official brutality of the state is the bedrock of conservatism.