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On Monday, the General Industries Workers’ Union of SA released a statement calling for the abolition of all South African royalty. The union is a rare voice of dissent in a country where traditional monarchs are usually presented as untouchable despite the cost to the taxpayer.
South Africa is straining at the seams as the repercussions of deep inequalities, our inability to bring about structural economic transformation since 1994 and the old baggage of the apartheid years come to haunt us, making the environment ripe for blaming ‘the other’. South Africa is stra.