Malema’s visits to the hospitality industry are about the greedy business owners, not their workers
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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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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
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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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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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Freud’s work on group behaviour sheds light on South African dynamics
According to Sigmund Freud, group identification and a sense of justice can preclude divisions based on envy. Worryingly, South Africa is lacking in these core elements
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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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Only 26 475 people voted ANC — that’s not even one seat
I said right at the outset, in “New political party in its first election outing“, that: And now we get to 2019, the election that will settle once and for all, whether the ANC actually has ten million votes of its own or not. I followed this up, in “It’s not all GOOD“, with: The […]