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"The political field is more and more splitting into two great hostile camps: the liberal and the kleptocratic. What complicates this otherwise neat bifurcation is the ANC." NEW: @Red_Niall on South Africa after the 2024 elections. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/patro…

After losing its parliamentary majority for the first time, the African National Congress is scrambling to form a coalition government. As @Red_Niall points out, the options are bleak. africasacountry.com/2024/06/betwee…

@vijayprashad @phillipdexter @RosHariMIA @commondreams Is this the standard of journalistic rigor that you hold yourself to @vijayprashad ?

@vijayprashad @phillipdexter @RosHariMIA @commondreams so the evidence that DM, amaB etc are Washington controlled is that the US ambassador once invited .... Richard Pithouse (of New Frame) to a meeting ??

Very important article on Washington’s influence on South Africa’s liberal media - serious questions raised about a regular booze up of editors with the US embassy. Thanks to @phillipdexter and @RosHariMIA in @commondreams.

@alfgunvald onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

@shude_zolile 😍😍

@n_esraugurlu @LUBSEconDept Congrats Esra!!

@Eli_Kunene lol at the first retweet 🤣

Ran into some vigilantes yesterday. Was with the Durban Zulus, so I doubt it was payback for Phoenix. My uncles and couzies are on standby. This is not the war I left New York for.

@Eli_Kunene Just tell me, was it privatized?

How Apartheid Endures foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review…

@BreakeyJessica @EdythParker @africasacountry Maybe we just occupy diff corners of the twitterverse. I’ve seen plenty of people linking these bans to imperialism, colonialism, white supremacy etc

The travel ban on Southern African countries is an odd one (we suspect the motives) given low case numbers (100 since Wednesday). As some of you mused: why no travel ban for Hong Kong, Belgium or Israel where the same variant have emerged independently from South Africa?

@BreakeyJessica @EdythParker @africasacountry Not denying that the UK and other Western countries have racist immigration policies. Can’t see how this is related though

@BreakeyJessica @EdythParker @africasacountry Not entirely what power play means here? Seems to imply their motive is something other than just defending their populations against covid .. which I’m not sure it is

@EdythParker @africasacountry Again, not my aim here. Not defending travel bans, just trying to determine whether irrationalist and racist or something else

@EdythParker @africasacountry I know u didn’t say that. That’s why I pointed out earlier we are having two diff debates.

@EdythParker @africasacountry Anyway, tapping out of this now. Thank you for the discussion. The case you’ve made against travel bans was useful to hear. I agree they are not the most appropriate response, even if I’m not as appalled by them as most.

@EdythParker @africasacountry facie case for colonial attitudes being the operative factor here. Im a political economist of c I don’t think policy making happens in a vacuum. I just happen to not believe that racism explains *everythign* the west does. Which is weirdly controversial these days

@EdythParker @africasacountry But the grounds in which they are targeting neighboring countries and Egypt are entirely diff. U Would have to show that the risks in each case (or rather their perception thereof) are identical in order to demonstrate inconsistency /bias

@EdythParker @africasacountry I think part of the prob is that we are having two diff debates. I’m not trying to make a hard case in favor of travel bans. But I am arguing that there is clearly enough ambiguity around them - even for experts - as to make it unfair to see them as simply a product of prejudice