Dr Pedro Mzileni is a Sociology Lecturer at the University of the Free State. This interview took place on Radio Africa Radio Channel on Wednesday, 6 September 2023
have we reached a time where every South African owns a political party? Are we so polarised that even a truth staring at us directly gets a thousand interpretations? Can we accept that the opening up of our BORDERS nurtured an apex threat to our existence as a nation and has had pervasively perverted, deleterious effects on our welfare like nothing ever before, including Apartheid? Can we agree to deal with this problem with singlemindedness knowing that a significant portion of our problems and the attendant risks will be overcome once we deal with this problem?
Doc, this was a very interesting discussion and wishing they invite you every week to remind the young Africans, they need to "Wake Up." Take back their land and mineral resources. We need a third wave of Uhuru.
Industrialisation of Asia is a complex affair. It definitely didn't benefit Africa but it also didn't benefit countries like Bangladesh. The only anomaly is China which had a political structure which could move even the market economy to an extent to it's benefit. In Bangladesh, one of the biggest sector is textile and a person working in that billion dollar sector for a whole year for grueling hours earns 2000$ for the whole year. There is a slim middle class who are cultivated to manage such industries for transnational corporations but the benefit overwhelmingly goes to corporations in the West. Economy is also developed in a shape which benefits the West for most part creating hyper dependence on a Western consumerism for countries like Bangladesh to survive.
