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Andile Zulu

Andile Zulu is a political essayist who runs the Born Free Blues blog.

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Condemnation of UCT lecturer misses context

by Andile Zulu 15 April 202115 April 2021

Groups slam UCT professor’s Hitler comment without an understanding of the lecture’s purpose

Posted inNews/Politics

The EFF — an ideological critique in four parts

by Andile Zulu 15 January 202115 January 2021

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

by Andile Zulu 15 January 202115 January 2021

Part 2: The party’s racial cynicism

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The EFF – an ideological critique in four parts

by Andile Zulu 15 January 202115 January 2021

Part 3: The EFF is not a party of the working class

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The EFF – an ideological critique in four parts

by Andile Zulu 15 January 202115 January 2021

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

by Andile Zulu 17 November 20202 December 2020

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

by Andile Zulu 20 September 202019 September 2020

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)

by Andile Zulu 19 September 202021 September 2020

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

by Andile Zulu 11 August 202012 August 2020

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.

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