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Reflections on the prospects of renewal in the era of the new dawn
/0 Comments/in Left Dialogue /by JaneBy Mandla Nkomfe- 1. Introduction This paper seeks to understand the prospects of organizational, societal, economic and political renewal against the context of our recent past. Given the extent of our accumulated challenges and problems that have set-in; in the body politic, is renewal possible? It further grapples with the very idea of renewal that […]
Cyril Ramaphosa and the Deepening Crisis of the ANC: Renewal or Perpetuation?
/0 Comments/in Left Dialogue /by JaneBy Gunnett Kaaf- The ANC Nasrec Conference (December 2017) was greeted as a turning point since it brought the end of Jacob Zuma’s era that was marked by the worst forms of the ANC rot. The two major presidential candidates, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa, were portrayed in most of the media analysis as proxies […]
Talking Transition: The Climate Crisis, Technology and the Nation State
/0 Comments/in Left Dialogue /by Janeby Prof. Janet Cherry – Forget the national liberation movement. Forget the idea of capturing the nation state for the national working class. Forget the patriotic bourgeoisie and discard the rhetoric of revolutionary nationalism. Forget the second transition (to national liberation? to economic freedom?) or even a third transition (to socialism?) or a fourth transition […]
Mining: The Sunset Industry
/0 Comments/in Left Dialogue /by JaneBy Ferrial Adam – While for some South Africans, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s SONA (state of the nation address) signalled new hope for the country, for many it was much of the same with the ANC talking left but walking right. An example of this was Ramaphosa’s declaration of mining as a sunrise industry that is […]