South Africa in history’s struggle
Kevin Cox’s NLR essay on South Africa claims to correct liberal and culturalist accounts through historical materialism. But it reproduces the very epistemic and analytical failures it sets out to overcome.
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Mandla Radebe
Mandla J. Radebe teaches at the University of Johannesburg. His book The Lost Prince of the ANC: The Life and Times of Jabulani Nobleman “Mzala” Nxumalo, 1955–1991 (Jacana, 2022) won the 2023 South African Literary Awards Creative Non-Fiction Award. His most recent book is Apartheid Did Not Die: South Africa’s Unfinished Revolution (Inkani Books, 2025).