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Jan 2, 2025 | 
iol.co.za | Lorenzo Davids
‘We need to take collective steps to undo our own privilege – of race, religion, culture, politics and economics. We must gift to the nation a version of ourselves that is willing to build, trade and endeavour so that we will see South Africa prospering’. Picture: Independent NewspapersPublished 6m ago | Published 6m agoMy wish for 2025 is to end the power of privilege. Everywhere around us, we see structural and psychological privilege forced in our faces.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
iol.co.za | Lorenzo Davids
'At the heart of the South African narrative is a voter base tired of the prophesied imaginary great battles of political strife and the imminent demise of leader x and party y.’ File Picture: Armand Hough / Independent NewspapersPublished 5m ago | Published 5m agoThe year ends with a crisp summary: South Africans are gatvol of whiny, daft, disruptive and doomsday politicians. We have begun to win the battle over the voices of bellicose politicians.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
capeargus.co.za | Lorenzo Davids
Look at the Cape Flats, a landscape filled with religious structures, human potential and aid organisations. Yet any predictive data will tell you that its status as a landscape defined by poverty will be here for another 300 years. File picture: Independent NewspapersPublished 3m ago | Published 3m agoI have worked in spaces of poverty for over forty years now.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
capeargus.co.za | Lorenzo Davids
The latest crime statistics released by Police Minister Mchunu state that 96 children were murdered in the Western Cape between July 1 and September 30. One child is murdered every day in the Western Cape File Picture: Cindy Waxa/Independent Newspaper (Archives)Published 3m ago | Published 3m agoThe children of South Africa are living in a war zone. This is no exaggeration.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
capetimes.co.za | Lorenzo Davids
The member of the 7th administration in Government of National Unity (GNU). Picture: X/South African Government. Published 4m ago | Published 4m agoThe rising discomfort of the things we are not saying is seen in the practice of the politics of disdain in South Africa. The GNU is limping like an overburdened cart horse while simultaneously creating efficiencies that appear to be polishing the ANC’s halo.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
capeargus.co.za | Lorenzo Davids
‘In South Africa, this is where the MK Party appears to be the new political attraction. As crass nationalists, they straddle a neo-conservatism that sees the centre held by the ANC and DA as a weak place’. Picture: Timothy Bernard / Independent Newspapers. Published 4m ago | Published 4m agoGlobal politics has moved beyond the idea that traditional democracies are the place of sensible politics. It has aggressively moved towards a conservative nationalism, carelessly also called patriotism.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
capeargus.co.za | Lorenzo Davids
Tear gas explodes during a protest against the certification of the 2020 US pressidential elections results. Donald Trump supporters clash with Capitol police at a rally in Washington on 06 January 2021. ReutersPublished 4m ago | Published 4m agoThe land of the free and the home of the brave is no more. Overrun by the delusional and fearful, it has sold its soul to megalomaniacs and succumbed to oligarchal manipulation. I’m not talking about the 2024 Trump election victory.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
iol.co.za | Lorenzo Davids
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (R) shakes hands with former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)Published 9m ago | Published 9m agoWatching the 2024 US election campaign is like watching a celebrity roasting. Insults, not policy, flood the content of every election speech.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
iol.co.za | Lorenzo Davids
‘The devastation of our rural towns is so complete it will take 30 years to restore some towns to any form of meaningful prosperity. Others will have to be shut down. Wiped off our map.’ Picture: Ayanda Ndamane/Independent NewspapersPublished 18m ago | Published 18m agoPoliticians are always campaigning. Since Donald Trump won the 2016 US election, every political act has been akin to a stop on the campaign trail. There is no longer an end to their campaigning.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
iol.co.za | Lorenzo Davids
Lorenzo A Davids writes that the ANC, despite the staggering defeat it received in May 2024, appears to be unable to wake up from its comatose state, and that the party is stuck in a post-power vacuum, with schizophrenia-filled rhetoric. File Picture: Timothy Bernard / Independent NewspapersPublished 18m ago | Published 18m agoThe ANC, despite the staggering defeat it received in May 2024, appears to be unable to wake up from its comatose state.
