article on zuma protests
Harrow, Kenneth
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
Oluwatoyin Adepoju
Rich article.Great thanks for sharing
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Cornelius Hamelberg
“Interesting - would like to hear more words from the ground to cut through media filters “, is a fair response to that al Jazeera opinion piece.
Today, South Africa’s Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula (official horse’s mouth) was busy doing his job, voicing his official outrage on BBC Hardtalk , where he deserved a fair hearing.
As a representative of the official stance and the official wrath it was worth listening to him sometimes squirming on the hook as he was being grilled by Stephen Sackur ( that's why it’s called Hardtalk) and this time the theme of the entire 25 mins long program was devoted to this extended question which came up in many guises: “Is the ruling ANC being confronted with its own failure?”
He could have been asked, “ If you had not disrespected Jacob Zuma, would all this spontaneous combustion have happened?”
( I have the uncanny feeling that there could have been an even more terrible and terrifying spontaneous combustion of real fire and mayhem from hell if an all-white jury had announced that they were unanimous in their verdict and had found Derek Chauvin “Not Guilty!”
There would have been more than just a little a burnin’ and a lootin’ for many nights
Stephen Sackur’s first question :
“ Tell me minister, how would you characterise the shocking - the terrible violence that swept across parts of your country last week?”
Minister did not mince his words :
“It was a hyped-up accumulation of anarchy at the highest level - as you know, anarchy is the highest state of disorder, and then it exhibited opportunistic elements like criminality, as a result of the unemployed jumping on the bandwagon of looting, because their vulnerability which in the main, majority are just innocent bystanders who just joined the hype – but the orchestrators of this, from the calls of mobilisation from the social networks, has all the characteristics of an attempt on undermining the democratic state and mobilising for its overthrow.”
Was Minister suggesting - like his boss Ramaphosa , that it was a co-ordinated attempt of insurrection ( Rambo – vs Ramaphosa) was the inevitable follow-up question.
To the very end, it was quite an interesting discussion.
Just as in the US political lexicon, we have the “ Deep State” so too in the South African context a fresh term that has been occurring regularly surfaced in this discussion too and needs clarification, namely what South Africans mean by “ State Capture”, a meaningful term that could well creep into Nigerian political discourse soon enough, since at least some of the elements that define it are already in place, in Nigeria.
South African Media: news sites and online newspapers
I’m also broken-hearted and right now I’m at page 107 of Tony Kent’s Healing the Broken Heart
Thumbs up! Blessed are the broken-hearted, for they shall be healed
Somebody please say “ Amen”
Harrow, Kenneth
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Dear Ken ,
Pegasus surveillance: PSG boss al-Khelaifi’s numbers ‘targeted’. How interesting!
Since Zuma turned himself in, I haven’t talked to any of my South African buddies. Not that it would make that much difference, or that they are more informed than the media, they usually only express disappointment, despair, a long litany of disillusionment about the way things have been going. Prior to the aftermath of Zuma turning himself in, the focus had been on how Ramaphosa is battling the pandemic. Of relevance here about the role we could all be playing, our own eloquent dear Professor Samuel Oloruntoba sounding off here : How regionalism has ‘helped’ African contain Covid-19
As far as freedom of opinion and freedom of the press is concerned, Al Jazeera is still operating in that special world neighbourhood where freedom of information and freedom of the press is not to be taken as for-granted, not even by your Amnesty International and PEN International (thinking of Mahfouz ) and Mahmoud Hussein who was detained by Egypt for over 685 days and only released in February this year by El-Sisi, Egypt’s new Pharaoh who doesn’t like anyone showing sympathy for the Muslim Brotherhood or for poor Morsi who he swept away as the anti-Brotherhood looked the other way; and then there was the Saudi Arabia group which accused al Jazeera of supporting terrorism and insisted on the closing down of al Jazeera as a condition for normalisation of relations with Qatar! How did you like that?
Dear Morsi cried “They took the Quran from me “; they also separated him from power, Louis & Ella still singing somewhere...
Compared to the CNN’s usual hysteria and very American perspective, I’m in essential agreement with you about al-Jazeera’s news and opinion coverage of Africa. I would add the rest of the world including the Middle East, but less so about specifically Israel and the Pals (after all, whether in English or in Arabic, al-Jaz is and must be a little biased being based in Qatar and being financed by those Petro-dollars which shake hands and change ownership and political perspective, accordingly. I have been following al Jazeera for years; true they have a lot of former BBC and other freelancers working for them, however, much of the evidence points in the direction of Marwan Bishara and his crew (enlightened & committed self-interest?) displaying a slightly more pronounced Nasser Pan-Arabism edge when it comes to supporting human rights and victory for the Palestinian Brotherhood...
But back to the main matter at hand, some home-grown perspectives about the looting which seems to be ebbing, and the fallout from the boots on the ground in the aftermath of BBC Hard-talking with Fikile Mbalula, South African Transport Minister
For relaxation, just now I’m listening - catching up with the latest from Sons of Kemet since I last saw them at Fasching here in Stockholm in December 2019. Two new albums with these portentous titles
The Comet is Coming - Channel the Spirits
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