In his latest book, ’The New Apartheid’, author and activist Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh explores how apartheid has reinvented itself.
Johannesburg Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh admits it wasn’t an easy task writing his latest book ’The New Apartheid’, which launched in South Africa last month.
We spoke to Mpofu-Walsh to give us an insight into his political views and what his family thinks of the book.The book is founded on a single idea that apartheid didn’t die, it was privatised. So, essentially, I am trying to puncture the myth that apartheid ended in 1994, and I am seeking to show how it continues to live, even in democratic South Africa.
I’m going to answer this slightly differently. In the conclusion of the book, I call for a new republic, and what I mean by that, is that we don’t just need to change policy, we don't just need to look at new political alternatives, we need a fundamental reformation of our entire state, and that means looking very closely at the Constitution and preserving parts of it that have served us, and abandoning those parts that haven’t, and moving on to a new republic.
What does your family think of your new book? And what do they think of your political views and what you stand for?
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