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COLOUR OF MONEY OP-ED: Cecil John Rhodes the racist is not guilty when it comes to today’s racial capitalism

By Jeff Rudin  | Daily Maverick | 11 Apr 2023  Applying Rhodes’s racial capitalism to post-1994 South Africa obfuscates the entire matter of what former president Thabo Mbeki called the ‘black bourgeoisie’ whose creation, consolidation and expansion has been one of

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LABOUR LEGISLATION OP-ED: What lies behind the extra-legal manipulations of the Employment Equity Act?

By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 06 Nov 2022  The last laugh resides with the black bourgeoisie, along with other ambitious and would-be upwardly mobile and mostly African people. They have turned the racism that once imprisoned them into a most

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CRIME & CORRUPTION OP-ED: The smoke and mirrors of greed — what lies hidden in plain sight

By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 25 Oct 2022  Crime and corruption are the natural corollaries of greed. It would be an economic disaster if we were ever to succeed in tackling them. Crime, after all, is almost certainly the largest

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