Malema’s visits to the hospitality industry are about the greedy business owners, not their workers
Economic Freedom Fighters
Posted inNews/Politics
Happy anniversary to the EFF, which dared to rock the political status quo
As the Economic Freedom Fighters we have been crazy enough to think that we can change the world — and we surely will, writes Sihle Lonzi
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Lessons from Nklandla for Cape Independence
A minority ANC government in the Western Cape and an ideologically compromised court system should think long and hard before it demonstrates that mob rule has replaced the constitutional order
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Why ANC leaders ‘love’ the ANC
The truth is that ANC leaders don’t “love” the ANC itself but do love what their membership of the party did to their lives after 1994 as a result of the jobs in the government or private sector they occupied and benefited so much from
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EFF students: we cannot wait for unconscious people to wage a conscious struggle
The party has enjoyed a number of successes on campus but needs a more co-ordinated approach
Posted inEquality, General
The recklessness of relative truths
Democracy isn’t possible without some consensus on what constitutes valid knowledge
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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
Posted inEquality
The burden of collective black victimhood
The froth over a shampoo advert allows us to consider that we are not the victims we have always been made to believe we are
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DA: A liberal party suddenly fearful of ideas?
“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie” – Yevgeny Yevtushencko Strange times these. A proposed non-electoral pact between the ANC, a party synonymous with the advent of South African democracy, and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a party slavishly devoted to naked populism, would see them collaborating to evade electoral accountability […]
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The DA’s silent march towards self-determination in the Western Cape
An independence advocacy group believes that a growing number of the party’s MPs and leaders in the province support autonomy or secession
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Throwing Shade
It seems that when I write in rhyme The words seem clearer from my mind Rather than when I write my posts Whose words seem to concern the ghosts Of things gone by and Christmas past My own grandeur and their bawdy cast Of merry thieves and gay warlords That carouse and sing in many […]