We need to honour Madiba’s significance through more than just one day of charity and attend to deep structural change in our society
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.e are disparaging the legacy of Mandela by the many self-absolving acts that tend to categorise Mandela Day. I have been inundated with requests to make donations — food parcels, blankets, visits to orphanages — to mark Mandela Day.
The events of Mandela Day are part of this broader frame that puts primacy on individual action while ignoring how systems and structures shape our realities, behaviours, and attitudes towards each other and the environment, in the first instance.
To make progress against the headwinds of structural and systemic oppression, we must exorcise Mandela’s ghost and free him from the neoliberal trappings of the West that thrive on fragmentation and an over-indexing on individual agency as the panacea for structural ills. The second is to engage in both upward and downward remedies. The latter is the immediate need to do what we can as individuals and collectively to address the material crisis of the persistent and deep poverty, inequality and unemployment that disproportionately affects black people around the world. The former — the downward remedy — is to dismantle oppressive systems and build equitable systems that put the social and ecological at the centre.
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