Sehlare Makgetlaneng

There has been the dialectical and organic relationship between the benefits and misfortunes of capitalism and racism in South Africa since their inception in the country.

The Programme Director,
Africa Institute of South Africa colleagues,    
Distinguished guests,    

There has been a dialectical and organic link between the class question and the race question in South Africa from the period since the inception of capitalism to the present post-settler colonial era of the country.

Has the South African national economic policy since 1994 been successful in transforming the South African economy? Has it enabled the South African state to effect structural economic transformation?

The struggle for African continental integration continues to be characterised on its ideological front by well-organised attempts to discredit and distort Kwame Nkrumah’s position on the fundamental and structural need to achieve African continental solidarity and unity so as to resolve Africa’s

Gerald Caplan in his article, Obama in Africa: A Major Disappointment maintains that he and his fellow ‘progressives involved in Africa’ are disappointed with Barack Hussein Obama’s foreign policy towards Africa as follows: