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12 Plagues from Mandela’s Economic Legacy

In his 2005 book and a more recent article, former official in the Presidency in South Africa and now academic Alan Hirsch justifies neoliberal compromises on the grounds that the new government was “constrained by concerns for economic stability”. Yet weren’t government’s deals the main cause of subsequent economic instability, including the half-dozen currency crashes […]

What do Free People look like?

March 7, 2013 / Uncategorized / apartheid, desmond tutu, freedom, leadership, moses + israel, nelson mandela, transitional justice, truth + reconciliation commission

apartheid, desmond tutu, freedom, leadership, moses + israel, nelson mandela, transitional justice, truth + reconciliation commission

By Thokozani Mhlambi When Mandela and Tutu declared ‘Let us forgive one another!’ These words struck at the very foundation of white supremacy. Inherent in them was the central vision of the South Africa that was still-to-be-born. Reconciliation stood as a chief force which we, as black South Africans, would teach the world. Indeed after

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