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Beneath South Africa's ruling class / William Shoki

Aug 6 2020
Episode 1215

 

William Shoki

On evictions, police brutality and the violence of class war in South Africa.

Writer William Shoki examines the cyclical, class nature of evictions and police brutality against poor and working class South Africans - as the nation's political economy operates for domestic and global capital, the social relations of apartheid and colonialism persist long after their apparent, historical demise.

William wrote the articles The existing order of things and The class character of police violence for Africa is a Country.

 

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