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Cope2020-08-16T10:37:50+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2009/11/04/julius-malema-is-the-coming-man/https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/julius-malema.jpgjulius-malemahttps://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/julius-portly.jpgJulius portlyhttps://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/julius-malemafirst.jpgJulius Malema2020-08-16T10:37:39+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2009/11/10/cosatu-does-the-right-thing/2020-08-16T10:36:56+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2020/07/29/under-construction/2020-08-24T07:30:40+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2009/11/16/the-alliance-summit-is-the-business/2020-08-16T10:26:20+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2009/11/16/statement-on-alliance-summit/2020-08-16T10:26:11+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2009/11/19/transparently-struggling-with-corruption/https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/transparency-screenshot1.jpgTransparency 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J Curvehttps://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/recentslideslocal-state.jpgRecentslideslocal stateThe local state - its politicians, agenda and bureacracy, is under popular attackhttps://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/modderfontein-road.jpgModderfontein roadFrom M&G - Modderfontein Road in Ivory Park after service delivery protests2020-08-16T10:12:41+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2010/03/24/off-to-london/2020-08-16T10:12:06+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2010/03/20/the-productive-classes-versus-the-unproductive-classes/https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/vavigodsell.jpgvavigodsellhttps://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/recentslidesconflict.jpgrecentslidesconflictThis slide illustrates discussion about the "real" conflict shaping our future - I use the Eskom saga and the nationalisation debate to illustrate how an alliance between the productive classes (the industrial working class and capital) are involved in a struggle with lumpen 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unemployment2020-08-16T09:25:00+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2010/07/27/make-the-circle-bigger-nathi-or-dance-alone/2020-08-16T09:24:47+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2010/08/05/jeremy-cronin-the-acceptable-face-of-the-media-tribunal/https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/jeremy.jpgJeremyno longer a victim of the powerful2020-08-16T09:24:39+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2010/08/17/are-we-there-yet/2020-08-16T09:24:24+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2010/08/20/world-cup-prequil/https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gq-september-2010.jpgGQ September 20102020-08-16T09:24:06+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2010/08/23/strike-not-as-easy-as-it-looks/2020-08-16T09:23:51+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2010/08/24/waiting-for-a-saviour-to-rise-from-these-streets/https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/franco0001.pngFranco0001General Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo de Andrade - and yes, he did keep his armies 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Taken a few minutes ago - I will double check what its original function was ... before it became a monument to Western duplicity2020-08-15T14:53:43+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2012/07/10/my-growing-worries-about-the-ancs-plans-for-economic-intervention/https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/colors-kaleidoscope.jpgcolors-kaleidoscopehttps://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/kaleidoscope1.jpgkaleidoscopehttps://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/kaleidoscope.jpgkaleidoscope2020-08-15T14:53:27+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2012/07/22/is-any-one-version-of-a-post-mangaung-anc-better-than-another/https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/true_humility.pngTrue_humility2020-08-15T14:53:08+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2012/08/01/malema-a-stick-to-beat-zuma-wielded-by-a-foreign-power-its-just-a-thought/https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/malemalewis-250.jpgmalemalewis-250With Lenox Lewis in London - from New Zimbabwe August 1 2012https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/malemarollers.jpgmalemarollersSurprise! (From New Zimbabwe, August 1)2020-08-15T14:52:58+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2012/08/03/ancs-economic-policy-a-bit-like-being-wounded-without-the-pleasure-of-a-scar/2020-08-15T14:52:44+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2012/08/16/are-we-in-the-predators-labyrinth/2020-08-15T14:52:34+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2012/08/17/the-massacre-at-marikana/2020-08-15T14:52:26+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2012/08/24/marikana-ways-of-seeing/2020-08-15T14:52:19+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2012/10/08/strikes-and-malema/2020-08-15T14:52:14+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2012/10/17/is-it-time-to-sell-south-africa/2020-08-15T14:51:57+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2012/10/19/beware-the-thing-that-might-pick-up-power-lying-in-the-street/https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/lenin.jpgLeninLenin knew how easy it was to pick up power when it was lying around2020-08-15T14:51:50+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2012/11/20/sunday-hurts/2020-08-15T14:51:28+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2012/12/03/the-connection-between-violent-anc-contest-and-the-piles-of-nkandla-treasure/2020-08-15T14:51:19+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2013/03/18/zumas-brittle-grip-tightens/2020-08-15T14:49:13+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2013/04/24/cosatus-splitting-headache-the-anc-and-da-try-on-new-party-dresses-and-those-awful-mandelas/2020-08-15T14:49:06+00:00monthlyhttps://nicborain.com/2013/05/02/freedom-day-good-news-the-bargaining-season-vavi-and-other-matters/https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/jse2.jpgJSEGraph above: the demographics of wealth ownership improve as everyone gets richer – whites still streets ahead in the stakes and foreign ownership is an interesting outlier.https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/asset-weath.jpgasset weathGraph above – the middle class has grown (as far as I can make out from the poorly phrased explanation, this is LSMs 1-10 and how they have fared (grown or shrunk) since 1994 – indicating growth of middle class: bars six and seven.https://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/three-politics-stuff-001-002.jpgthree politics stuff 001-002Graph above shows wealth distribution patterns – everyone getting wealthier, although demographics have a strong (even reinforced) apartheid structurehttps://nicborain.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/three-politics-stuff-001-001.jpgthree politics stuff 001-001Graph above – enrolment in tertiary education – significant changes but a long way to go. 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