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Opere di Justice Malala

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This is an important piece of journalism...but I'm not convinced its a good book. I say that because many people who were not alive/too young to pay attention during the fall of apartheid have come to view it as an inevitability where the peaceful transition of power from the white minority to the Black majority was all but assured from the moment Mandela left prison. This book reminds us that the future was not nearly so assured as it seems now in hindsight. But... there were several moments in this book I wish Malala could or would have gone deeper into the moments he catalogues. For example, he pretty heavily foreshadows the murder of the white tourists during this period, but the actual event feels like a bit of an afterthought rather than a key inflection point. By treating all of his moments with the same emphasis we almost wind up glossing over things that are pretty darn important to his story.… (altro)
 
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Jthierer | Jul 26, 2023 |
12 February 2015. The South African secret services block the cellphones of journalists covering Parliament. Opposition party members are violently thrown out of the House. President Jacob Zuma – accused of corruption on a grand scale – laughs uproariously. Where is the country of Nelson Mandela headed?
The institutions of democracy are falling apart or being captured by a narrow and deeply corrupt elite built around Zuma. Its infrastructure is collapsing. Its economy cannot provide succor to the eight million who don’t have jobs. Protests over service delivery are on the rise. Does South Africa have the resolve and the leadership to stem the slide? In a devastating, searing, honest paean to his country, renowned political journalist and commentator Justice Malala forces South Africa to come face to face with the country it has become: corrupt, crime-ridden, compromised and its institutions captured by a selfish political elite that is bent on enriching itself at the expense of the increasingly marginalised masses.

In this deeply personal reflection, Malala’s diagnosis is devastating: South Africa is on the brink. He does not stop there. Malala believes that we have the ingredients to turn things around: our lauded Constitution, our wealth of talent, our history of activism and a democratic trajectory that can be used to stop the rot from setting in. But he has a warning: South Africans need to wake up now, or else they will soon find their country has been stolen.
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tony_sturges | Jul 21, 2017 |

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