No shortcuts
The Conference of the Left was not a solution to the crisis of the South African left, but an opening. What follows must be built differently from what came before.
3 Article(s) by:
Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara
Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara is a member of the Conference of the Left Steering Committee. He was expelled from the South African Communist Party in 2010.
The left does not need priests of purity
If the South African left cannot engage the messy, contradictory spaces where working class politics are actually happening, then it cannot lead.
Can we reclaim football from below?
The mafia-style control of South African football, from the Premier Soccer League on down, means a dearth of development and enduring loss for the national team.