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Jason Musyoka

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Jason Musyoka

Associate Researcher at University of Pretoria. Guest lecturer at UKZN. Former Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Pretoria. Former Research at Synovate.

Like US President Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk saw migrants as intruders who must be removed, and the homeless as lazy people. Photo: Schneyder Mendoza/AFP

The fault lines of Charlie Kirk’s socio-political and theological nationalism

The American right-wing Christian nationalist, media personality and ally of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement was shot dead on 10 September

Helen Zille creates moral equivalence between white privilege and what she terms as black privilege.(David Harrison/M&G)

Deconstruct irrational debates in SA

White monopoly capital and the Zille privilege tweets are reasons we need logical discourse

President Jacob Zuma shakes hands with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres prior to their meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York.

South Africa’s future is a human economy, not a political fix

Removing a president won’t end corruption because global capital is part of the problem

Insufficient protection: Striking miners from the Impala Platinum Mine gather in a open field in February 2012, a few months before the Marikana massacre in August of that year. ( Madelene Cronjé)

Illegal mining about survival, not criminality

Subsistence miners are in no more danger than legal mineworkers – and are no national threat

State capture fails the black middle class

State capture fails the black middle class

The skills gained in public institutions should be providing a springboard into the private sector

As we prepare to listen to another tough budget speech, it is time to recognise the vital but neglected role played by this strata in modern South Africa

South Africa’s middle class is three salaries away from poverty

"An assessment of middle classes should consider their vulnerability rather than hold a romanticised view"

At the 2017 World Economic Forum on Africa

The path towards a ‘human economy’ needs no help from elitist agendas

Oxfam has done commendable work but runs the risk of distorting the grassroots concept of “human economy” to placate an elitist crowd

The National Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) is urging businesses and employers to ensure that registered voters can cast their vote on 29 May.

The state is sick and, while it’s ill, it can’t fix the economy

A crippled state, like an ailing patient, cannot heal itself, but needs a visionary leader to perform emergency surgery in a selfless and moral way.

The Transport Sector Retirement Fund’s new investment strategy will ensure drivers have access to different facilities

​Africa’s 21st century moment? Not yet

On the surface Africa is democratic but underneath it is a ‘man-eat-man’ society, writes Jason Musyoka.

As the ANC takes over state roles

State capture and the centre that seems no longer able to hold​

The risk of the current state of affairs is that it is likely to divide the country along several lines, from racial, to tribal, to class.

Why post apartheid order is only starting two decades on

The old is dying and the new is yet to emerge, but the end of the interregnum is in sight.

(Paul Botes/M&G)

It’s not black and white in SA – it’s the working classes and the middle classes

Politicians need to take heed of the protest of August 3 – when the black bourgeoisie rebelled.