Land is such a complex concept, especially in a country like South Africa. It is the origin of our national trauma as a country and continues to underpin our hopes for fu
Applying Rhodes’s racial capitalism to post-1994 South Africa obfuscates the entire matter of what former president Thabo Mbeki called the ‘black bourgeoisie’ whose creation, consolidation and expansion has been one of the only successes of the democratic era.
On 26 March it was 121 years since the death of Cecil John Rhodes. All these years after he laid the foundation for modern South Africa, Black people are still subjected to manual/physical labour, to landlessness and to a racially unequal society.
Social justice is seen as an anchor for peaceful coexistence. But the unpacking of fairness and justice has not always been equitable, particularly regarding race, gender and class diversity and related equity which is why we are still grappling with it.