As the ANC was debating the colour of monopoly capital at Nasrec in Johannesburg on 29 June 2017, activists of Black First Land First (BLF), an organisation campaigning for land and an end to racism, descended on the house of Peter Bruce, the editor-at-large of Tiso Blackstar‚ formerly
Economic Freedom Fighters
South Africa is at a crossroads, facing its biggest upheavals since independence in 1994. Globally, since the 2008 Great Recession there are growing explosive class and social conflicts due to the deepening crisis of capitalism.
The word in Twi that comes closest to defining “hubris” for me is tirimudƐ.
For the benefit of readers who do not speak Twi, the word literally means “to entertain sweetness inside one's own head”!