The Hill Times
LONDON, U.K.—“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born,” wrote Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci in 1929. “Now is the time of monsters.” Gramsci’s remark is being liberally quoted by South African journalists in the run-up to the May 29 election for the old world in which the African National Congress completely dominated the country’s politics is definitely coming to an end.
EFF Members of Parliament wear identical red boiler suits, and Malema usually wears a red Che Guevara-style beret. He talks boldly about nationalizing the banks and the mines, and his line on land reform and white farmers is a real attention-getter: “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people. At least for now.” But that sort of bloodcurdling rhetoric has a strictly limited appeal, and the EFF is not polling any higher than it did in the last election.
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