Marxism-Leninism as a movement and form of regime in Africa attained the height of its powers – certainly of its access to state power – between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s. Its ‘moment’ followed in the wake of an earlier failed experiment in ‘African socialism’...
Several years ago, Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) published an article called ‘Propping Up Africa’s Dictators’. The article unpacked the basic commonly known building blocks for France’s Françafrique policy, ‘designed to create structural dependence and domination by...
Africa is a major supplier of uranium to the world nuclear industry. And yet, apart from South Africa, the continent has little or no stake in going nuclear itself. Should Africa be saying no to the global development of this technology, or should it continue to...
(Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa) Source: ROAPE The South African platinum industry has grown phenomenally since the mid 1990s to become the single largest component of the national mining sector in employment and...
Sampie Terreblanche’s brief (150pp) new book Lost in Transformation adds to our understanding of the ‘Americanisation’ of South Africa’s economy and forces new questions about a future, necessary transition to socialism. Though the eloquent...
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