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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /267/ South Africa Mafia State ft. Benjamin Fogel
Description:
On crumbling state authority.
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Benjamin Fogel is back on the podcast to talk us through how South Africa has gone from the hopes of post-apartheid to the Durban riots of 2021. How have corruption, criminal networks, Indian oligarchs, and political forces combined to shatter any sense of a national project? We also discuss the role of xenophobia and particularist and racial politics in today's South Africa.
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Readings & Links:
/27/ After Zuma ft. Sean Jacobs
The insurrection in South Africa is about more than freeing Zuma, Benjamin Fogel, Al Jazeera
Dons have KZN in their grip — and Don of Dons Jacob Zuma has the...