South Africa is essentially in grotesque chaos, and yet we are subjected to musical chairs by coalition governments, writes Sipho Mila Pityana.
South Africa is essentially in grotesque chaos, and yet we are subjected to musical chairs by coalition governmentsIn his prison notes of 1930, Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci remarks: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”..From World War 1 to present-day cosmopolitan South Africa and beyond, the Sunday Times has been a pillar in covering the stories that matter to you.
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