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Three lessons for South Africa from Mamdani’s election – Daily Friend | SA News

The cheerleading and the pearl-clutching in some South African circles over Zohran Mamdani’s New York victory are, frankly, a bit odd.

We’ve lived for thirty years (likely longer) with the very strain of “third-worldism” that Mamdani advances: a politics that divides the world into oppressors and oppressed and then builds policy atop that moral stage set.

We know this ideology’s track record at home and its failures (or, if you’re a local devotee, its “promise”). Mamdani may be something of an outlier inside American politics, but by South African standards, both he and his programme are quite typical. He’s not an orthodox Marxist. He speaks the idiom of decolonial morality,…

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