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On 2018/08/05 08:32 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
NY Times, August 5, 2018
South Africa Vows to End Corruption. Are Its New Leaders Part of the
Problem? By Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan
A terribly misleading title, for it focuses on only one of the tsotsis
the ruling class has entrusted to run South Africa: the deputy president
David Mabuza. (Sure, that's a well-deserved critique.) (But sure,
Ramaphosa would reply that if he hadn't made an electoral deal with
Mabuza, he would have lost last December's party leadership vote to
Jacob Zuma's pick, his ex-wife.)
Yet again - and now this is getting absurd - the NYTimes correspondents
cannot bring themselves to address corruption by Cyril Ramaphosa or
Pravin Gordhan, the two ANC centrists (both formerly Marxists) who are
the darling of liberal international capital and local wicked capital.
Partial antidotes:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/20/in-south-africa-ramaphosa-rises-as-lonmin-expires-workers-women-and-communities-prepare-to-fight-not-mourn/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/khadija-sharife/south-africas-dirty-secre_b_576996.html
https://www.pambazuka.org/global-south/south-africa%E2%80%99s-fight-between-hostile-brothers-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%9Czuptas%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Cwhite-monopoly-capital%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93
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