The polarising penis painting captures two prominent perceptions of the former president. On the one hand: Zuma as a revolutionary statesman. On the other —post-apartheid’s grand villain: simultaneously incompetent and a Machiavellian mastermind.
can now be trusted with such power. Since 1996, the ANC has wedded itself to upholding a capitalist order that has made existence unbearable for millions. Zuma’s promise of RET is no divergence from that path.
Zuma presided over a tumultuous shift in how young black South Africans perceived post-apartheid. After 14 years of ANC neoliberal rule, many began to suspect that our social order is perhaps unsustainable. We were still terrorised by the outcomes of socioeconomic dysfunction — that depressingly familiar threat of unemployment, poverty and inequality.
The absence of such journalism or its inaccessibility dilutes our ability to question, critique and act against the government if need be. Furthermore, as is the case with RET, it allows politicians to get away with deception. This despair is not unique to our society. Around the world people are dealing with profound dissatisfaction and reckoning with the reality that, despite Francis Fukuyama’s prediction that it had and that “the end-point of mankind’s ideological evolution is the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government”.
Now more than ever people must realise that the future can be reclaimed. Paulo Freire argued that humans produce social reality and that through our ability to critically reflect and act upon the conditions we find ourselves plunged into, social reality can indeed be drastically changed.
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