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Overcoming the disease of Apartheid is an ongoing process. Here I talk with Prof. Rasigan Maharajh about Apartheid, globalization, and transformation.
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0:00​ Intro
0:35​ Introducing Professor Majarajh
1:40​ Growing up under apartheid
4:28​ The founding of Chatsworth to divide "Indians" from "Africans"
5:52​ All Black people under Apartheid were political
8:20​ Many were employed by the Apartheid state that oppressed them
9:04​ Apartheid clamped down on nationalism, paving the way for Black Consciousness and Trade Unionism
10:31​ What does growing up in a radical environment look like?
11:20​ Solidarity funds and mutual aid
12:27​ Soweto Uprising of 1976
14:39​ The radical ruler and the municipal library
16:40​ Grandparents' politics and inspirations
18:47​ Divide and rule politics of the 1980s and resistance
21:05​ Student organising25:10 Apartheid welfare and the violence of transition
31:05​ States of emergency then and now
33:08​ Statism, neoliberalism and Texas
36:18​ The importance of rethinking
38:42​ Apartheid bureaucracy and universities
40:26​ Organizing as a university student and class suicide
44:59​ Struggle above and below ground
49:36​ Violence, political education and South African McCarthyism
55:07​ Post-Apartheid transition - upside down world
1:00:20​ Collaborators were welcomed
1:02:24​ Post-apartheid disillusionment
1:08:00​ The global context
1:14:34​ Apartheid lost, but we didn't win
1:17:58​ The role of armed struggle
1:19:50​ Disaster capitalism and the Great Reset
1:25:11​ Towards an ecological understanding
1:26:18​ The individual as ecosystem
1:27:32​ Indigenous knowledge includes ecosystems thinking
1:29:15​ Limits to growth
1:35:40​ Ubuntu and taxation
1:37:51​ Remembering the successes
1:40:17​ Non-statist solutions
1:52:47 Nando's and KFC
1:54:48 What can be done practically?