Ashish Kothari | The flower of transformation blooms in South Africa

Ashish Kothari has a new article in Meer entitled “The flower of transformation blooms in South Africa“:

There is a long way to go, as everywhere else in the world. South Africa needs many more popular movements of the kind mentioned above, many more emancipatory education initiatives, and the coalescing of such movements into holistic, sustained platforms. These initiatives have to build greater critical mass amongst the country’s diverse peoples to affect macro-transformations. But at least on some counts they are already leading the way, showing the world what is possible, much as they did in the struggle against apartheid.