KAMVELIHLE GOBA
“NIE DIEU NIE MAITRE!” a slogan first coined and popularized by a French socialist by the name Luois Auguste Blanqui in 1880, which literally translates to “No Gods, No Masters” when he published a journal with the same heading. He was envisioning a Socialist future based on a school of thought known as anarchism.
These words reverberate at the backdrop of Joel Netshitenzhe’s unfortunate article on Daily Maverick titled Defend Our Democracy: South Africa beware Ace Magashule’s RET faction will fight till the bitter end”. For purposes of radical polemical exchange, I shall divide my take into three compartments.
First, the vicious attack by the right wing on Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s tenure as a Public Protector. Second, the conceptual framework of the African National Congress’ National Democratic Revolution vis-à-vis a party of the ruling class and apartheid economic elite, the Democratic Alliance. Thirdly, why Joel Netshitenzhe’s attack on radical
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