South Africa
South Africa is a country of about 60 million people at the southern end of Africa. My partner Vivian is from an Indian-South African family, and I have travelled to South Africa and visited numerous of his relatives and family friends there. There are great things about the country, for sure, but it’s also a country plagued by sky-high inequality which naturally leads to resentment and crime. Almost three decades after the end of apartheid, the majority of Black South Africans are still living in townships with mostly very inadequate infrastructure and the ANC has implemented a neoliberal agenda (with a side dish of corruption) that, if anything, makes the situation worse. Just tragic considering how the ANC began.
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Links
- : 🇿🇦 Link: “We Should Never Forget South Africa’s Marikana Massacre”
- : 🇿🇦 Link: “Ryanair Afrikaans test: Why South Africa loves and loathes the language”
- : 🇿🇦 Link: “Ryanair Afrikaans test: South African fury over language quiz”
- : 🇿🇦 Link: “‘I was on a list to be terminated’ – Sue Dobson, the spy who helped to end apartheid”
- : 🇿🇦 Link: “How South African apartheid was ended”
- : 🇿🇦 Link: “A terrifying vision of South Africa’s future”
- : 🏫 Link: “Education Should Be About Building Democratic Citizens, Not Compliant Workers”
Book Reviews
- : 📚 Book review: Dancing in the Dust by Kasigo Lesego Molope (★★★★)
- : 📚 Book review: Philida by André Brink (★★)
- : 📚 Book review: Absolution by Patrick Flanery (★★★)
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.