Groups slam UCT professor’s Hitler comment without an understanding of the lecture’s purpose
Andile Zulu
Andile Zulu is a political essayist who runs the Born Free Blues blog.
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The EFF — an ideological critique in four parts
Part 1: If the Economic Freedom Fighters party is not fascist, what is it?
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The EFF – an ideological critique in four parts
Part 2: The party’s racial cynicism
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The EFF – an ideological critique in four parts
Part 3: The EFF is not a party of the working class
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The EFF – an ideological critique in four parts
Part 4: Understanding class and a decent human life
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Political elites, not foreigners, are to blame for South Africa’s problems
What if we told foreigners to voetsek? We have fallen victim to the illusion of scarcity. And we are led to wrongly believe immigrants are a threat.
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Dear liberals: Elites, not fascists, threaten democracy, part 2
You are quick to be repulsed at the EFF’s antics yet you rarely show outrage or demand collective action against the systemic violence which sustains our political order
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Dear Liberals: Not everything you dislike is fascist (Part 1)
THOUGHTLEADER: The EFF deserve severe criticism on many grounds but discrediting its politics as fascist doesn’t allow for a thorough critique of the party, and the upheavals in our politics it represents
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Farm murders and the lie of white victimhood
THOUGHTLEADER: Violence menaces all sectors and people in our society. Yet the reality of rural crime and farm murders is being exploited and engineered into a political narrative to advance a sinister agenda.