The need for an all-inclusive national dialogue
Oyama Mabandla outlines the steps he believes must be taken for South Africa to be reborn as a healthy democracy
11 August 2024 - 00:00
We come from a dark, dank, dingy and painful past. Close to 300 years of colonial dispossession and subjugation and the blind fury of apartheid brutality and oppression. To paraphrase Karl Marx in his genealogical exegesis of the transition from feudalism to capitalism, in Volume 1, of his magnus opus, Capital; the new South Africa, came into this world dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt, or as some would say, with blood oozing from every pore...
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