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PALI LEHOHLA | Beyond the ballot: why South Africa needs a numerical conscience (opens the original)
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In December 2023 and again in January 2024, I asked that we postpone the national election so that we give ourselves time to inspect our lived life of lies. As Socrates says, an unexamined life is not worth living. This call fell on death ears. The episodic and habitual lies reared their head this year with a spirited venture for a national dialogue. But as is the case with our education, we are rushing for an exam before we can examine our lives. With five weeks to go, an El Niño looms. As Socr
PALI LEHOHLA | Turning Africa’s underdevelopment into hard data (opens the original)
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In his seminal 1972 work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney provided an enduring historical-materialist diagnosis: Africa’s contemporary poverty is not an original state of nature, nor a mere accident of history, but the direct product of active, centuries-long external extraction and structural subjugation. Rodney mapped how the transatlantic slave trade and subsequent colonial mercantilism systematically drained the continent of its human capital, fractured its indigenous modes o
PALI LEHOHLA | From Coalbrook to Marikana: the agonising truth of mineral extraction (opens the original)
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This article is an abridged lecture delivered at the University of Pretoria on August 20 2026 Before we open the ledgers of evidence, before we audit the spatial enumeration areas of the platinum belt, and before we examine the balance sheets of extractive mining houses, we must ground our diagnostic in the piercing wisdom of our ancestors: ke eo he khomareli’a kokotane, boko sa e-shoa le lenono. Ke koli’a malla ho hlokomela ho re efela ele ‘nete ho re hlooho ke motlhotlo. These words confront u
PALI LEHOHLA | Moshoeshoe’s blueprint for a fractured world (opens the original)
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A lecture on SeMoshoeshoe at Unisa, August 17, by Pali Lehohla Lesotho is my home, born, bred, moulded and taught; Ghana is my intellectual home where my profession was sharpened; South Africa is my home of practice; and Africa is my oyster. Africa belongs to Africans. The eternal maxim of Morena Moshoeshoe I resonates across our borders: Hohle ke Lesotho hohle — wherever an African stands, there lies Africa. As the world faces geopolitical fractures, examining the statecraft of Morena Moshoesho
PALI LEHOHLA | The grid and the covenant: how Silvertown redeemed the South African census (opens the original)
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On Saturday, Nobutho Mpetsheni sent me a picture showing her at a funeral in Silvertown. In her company is a would-be Census 2011 employee who was subsequently recruited for further training by StatsSA and is now a contract employee of the agency. Silvertown, a community in KwaZakhele, Gqeberha (then Port Elizabeth), named after the shiny tin houses ― freezing in winter and boiling in summer ― refused to be counted in the 2011 Census. The community took us on as StatsSA and nearly collapsed the
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