Episode 20 - LOOTING, CRIMINALITY, PROTESTS: HOW SHOULD WE INTERPRET EVENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA RIGHT NOW?

In this edition of In The Ring With Eusebius McKaiser, I offer
trenchant analysis of what is going on in South Africa right now.
It is, I argue in this podcast, a mistake to interpret the
looting as mere criminality and sheer opportunism. There is a
complex number of both more immediate and longer-term drivers
behind these events and anyone interested in a serious
understanding of this crisis must avoid the danger of a single
narrative. Instead, as you will hear in this podcast episode, I
see these events of the last few days as having deep roots in the
steady decline of the South African state. We are facing a
legitimacy crisis sponsored in part by the decline of the African
National Congress.