Looking at the lay of limbo land
In the foreword to An Inconvenient Youth, Fiona Forde's biography of charismatic ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, Achille Mbembe posits that "one of the main tensions within politics today is the realisation that there is something unresolved in the constitutional democratic settleme...
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| Published in | Cape times (South Africa) |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Cape Town
Independent Online (South Africa)
28.10.2011
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| Summary: | In the foreword to An Inconvenient Youth, Fiona Forde's biography of charismatic ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, Achille Mbembe posits that "one of the main tensions within politics today is the realisation that there is something unresolved in the constitutional democratic settlement that suspended the 'revolution' in 1994 but did not erase apartheid once and for all from the social, economic and mental landscape". Given this scenario, it is not inconceivable to imagine that the ANC, "once at the vanguard of one of the greatest humanistic revolutions in history", may yet shape up to be the biggest impediment to the durability of |South Africa's constitutional democracy. "History, taught well by passionate and committed teachers" [Dylan Gray] writes, "offers the potential for young people to connect ethical and moral decision-making in the past to the choices they make today and the choices they will make in the future." |
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