In August 2020, our office in South Africa publisheddossier no. 31
<https://www.thetricontinental.org/dossier-31-political-repression-in-south-africa/>,
‘/The Politic of Blood’: Political Repression in South Africa/, a
powerful text that demonstrates a painful fact: that the violent state
institutions germinated by the apartheid era have been carried over
since 1994 into the post-apartheid South African state. During the
transition, ‘a struggle waged by millions for the construction of
popular democratic power and participatory forms of democracy was
reduced to elections, the courts, a free commercial press, and the
substitution of NGOs, now described as “civil society”, for democratic
forms of popular organisation’. After apartheid, ‘independent forms of
self-organisation and popular demands for more participatory forms of
democracy were frequently treated as criminal’. The situation has
deteriorated to such an extent, the dossier argues, that in South
Africa, ‘the police kill people, the vast majority of them impoverished
and black, at a per capita rate that is three times higher than that of
the police in the United States’. The numbers are stunning, the range of
violence shocking.
https://www.thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/34-hunger-and-police-repression/
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