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In the run-up to the 2021 local government elections, the Makana Citizens Front challenged corruption and dysfunction in the municipality rather than try to collapse state institutions. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

Makana is not ripe for anarchy

Instead of replacing state capacity with grassroots action, we need to strengthen state institutions to serve the poor

6 min read
Britain’s former interior minister Suella Braverman speaks during the “NatCon” national conservatism conference gathering of hard-right European politicians at the Claridge hotel in Brussels on April 16, 2024. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP)

Libertarianism, liberalism and conservatism: A response to JK Vance and Suella Braverman

Braverman and Vance criticise liberal influences, but their conservatism avoids accountability

  • Des Erasmus
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