After a decade in ascendance, ultraconservative populism appears to be on the wane. Viktor Orbán lost last weekend’s election in Hungary and, with the war
Tag: South Africa (en)
Any effort to rebuild the left must begin with firm principles. Opposition to xenophobia cannot be deferred; it must be central. The same applies to
In July 2025, Johannesburg was the scene of a tense stand-off between two diametrically opposed political forces. A small group of Operation Dudula members, several
When Desperation Produces Strongmen Why “Messianic” leaders always turn against workers A SAFTU Political Education Pamphlet They rise because societies are desperately trying to find
00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:58 Recap of the main themes of Jacob’s article Violence and the Left 00:23:15 Q&A intro 00:24:03 How did settler colonialism become an
Could Musk’s authoritarian streak trace back to his Canadian grandfather? Before Joshua Haldeman brought his family to South Africa, he made waves as part of
Where did Elon Musk’s epic ambitions begin? In search of clues we return to his sheltered youth in apartheid South Africa, a world engineered for
In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century (Duke University Press, 2024), Mingwei Huang traces the transformation of global capitalism and its racial
Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order. Across the
Trump’s actions signal need to understand global history of white supremacy. On February 7, Donald Trump issued an executive order “to address serious human rights
In South Africa’s watershed election last May, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to secure an outright majority for the first time in the country’s
Saul Dubow is a South African historian specialising in the history of South Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This article first appeared in
From The Dial The tech mogul’s statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place. There’s a legend among South