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/267/ South Africa Mafia State ft. Benjamin Fogel
🕑 Added 2022-05-31 11:11:56 +0000 UTCOn crumbling state authority.
Benjamin Fogel is back on the podcast to talk us through how South Africa has gone from the hopes of post-apartheid to the Durban riots of 2021. How have corruption, criminal networks, Indian oligarchs, and parasitic political forces combined to shatter any sense of a national project? We also discuss the role of xenophobia and particularist and racial politics in today's South Africa.
Readings & Links:
- /27/ After Zuma ft. Sean Jacobs
- The insurrection in South Africa is about more than freeing Zuma, Benjamin Fogel, Al Jazeera
- Dons have KZN in their grip — and Don of Dons Jacob Zuma has the tightest grip, Chris Makhaye, Daily Maverick
- No two elephants are alike, Ryan Brunette, Africa Is A Country
- Rising vigilantism: South Africa is reaping the fruits of misrule, Landau & Misago, The Conversation
Comments
Carson H
Enlightening episode, but very fucking depressing. Thanks!
Elias Braun
Re: crumbling Brics, and the concluding musings about the specific woes of semi-peripheral "EM" countries, I think it would be great to have an episode on how Russia (90s darling of the neoliberals) got to its present state.
