The New Religious Political Right in Neo-Apartheid South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 153-178
Author(s):  
Siphiwe Ignatius Dube
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
New Right ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Free Markets ◽  
Analytical Comparison ◽  
Neoliberal Economics ◽  
Conservative Christian ◽  
Political Right ◽  
Christian Discourse

Abstract This article argues that, in similar ways that scholars such as Kaye (1987) and Apple (1990) have respectively demonstrated how post 1970s America and Britain fused the neo-liberal discourse of free markets with the neo-conservative Christian discourse of moral rightness to found a New Right, we can apply this analytical model in post-apartheid/neo-apartheid South Africa. The aim of this analytical comparison is to support the broad claim that the article makes about the rise of the New Right in contemporary South Africa as directly related to the fusion of neo-Pentecostal Christianity with neoliberal economics in very salient ways. Using discourse analysis, the article demonstrates how the New Right in South Africa also draws from the language of crisis to justify a response that brings together the interlocking of race, religion, and neoliberalism. The paper’s main argument is that, a different type of New Right is emerging in current day South Africa, one that is not simply the purview of whitenationalism, but has main appeal also within the black middle-class.

Inherited Crypts of the Wife/Mother: Ang Lee's Hulk Meets Zechariah 5:5–11 in Contemporary Apocalyptic Discourse

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Erin Runions
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Repetition Compulsion ◽  
Biblical Allusion ◽  
Letting Go ◽  
Conservative Christian ◽  
Conservative Christians ◽  
Christian Discourse ◽  
Lost Object

AbstractThis paper puts the political concerns expressed by secular apocalypse in Ang Lee's Hulk (2003) into conversation with the political concerns expressed by religious apocalypse in conservative Christian discourse. The film sets a revised version of the Akedah, in which the wife/mother is killed instead of the son, at the heart of its plot and of its critique of U.S. foreign policy. Set within Lee's apocalyptic analysis of repressed trauma, this quasi-biblical allusion points toward the repeating biblical tradition of the murdered wife/mother. One such repetition of this originary trauma can be found in what Diana Edelman has argued to be Yahweh's murder of his wife Asherah in Zechariah 5:5-11, a text which can be read in the same psychoanalytic terms that the film evokes. Both film and text represent the missed encounter of trauma and the entombment of the lost love object. In both film and text, the lost object, the mother, is entombed, encrypted and forgotten. But because this proto-apocalyptic text is one that conservative Christians take up in their defence of the war on Iraq as the precursor to the doomed Whore of Babylon, this text, uncannily, brings the film into contact with its religious apocalyptic roots. But where the biblical text is read in ways that only increase a violent repetition compulsion, the film models mourning and letting go as a way of working through the trauma. Thus, the film offers an alternate way of reading the biblical text in culture.

The New Black Middle Class in South Africa

Politikon ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 470-471
Author(s):  
Busisiwe Khaba
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Black Middle Class

The new black middle class in South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 117 (469) ◽  
pp. 715-716
Author(s):  
Ján Michalko
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Black Middle Class

Negotiations and Social Democracy in South Africa

1990 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Southall
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Free Market ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
New Right ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
New Situation

Whilst the so-called ‘new right’ shrilly proclaims victory for capitalism and liberal democracy in the cold war, quieter voices see in the death agonies of European Stalinism the seeds of socialism more as it was meant to be. I refer not any triumphal Trotskyist depiction of the popular overthrow of bureaucratised ruling classes, but rather to wide-spread searchings throughout Eastern Europe for ‘a third – and better – way’. From this perspective, however much the electoral thaw may give rise to stridently anti-communist, anti-central planning, pro free-market parties, the dynamics of the new situation will virtually require pursuit of a mixed economy featuring selective state intervention.

“Neoliberalism is Fascism and Should Be Criminalized”: Bulgarian Populism as Left-Wing Radicalism

Slavic Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (S1) ◽  
pp. S9-S18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venelin I. Ganev
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Political System ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Free Markets ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Populist Party

The main argument presented in this essay is that the politics of Ataka, the most successful and influential populist party in Bulgaria, should be construed as a form of left-wing radicalism. Originally a nationalist formation, over the last decade Ataka has evolved into a broader social movement that blames free markets, neoliberalism, and US led neocolonialism for the country's misfortunes. Today its activists routinely assault liberal democracy as a political system unable to cope with the evils of capitalism, and seek to marginalize political actors and social constituencies identified as pro-western.

scholarly journals Black consumers perceptions towards luxury brands in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
K Mercy Makhitha
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
Luxury Brands ◽  
Global Brands ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gender And Education ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Black Consumers ◽  
Area Data

The paper determines the black consumers’ perceptions towards luxury brands in South Africa. The purchase of luxury brands has been on the rise locally and internationally. Global brands have been investing in SA by expanding to the region. The demand for luxury brands has also increased over the past decades. In SA, the middle-class group has also increased, particularly the black middle class which increased the market for luxury brands. To achieve the objectives of the study, a survey was conducted among black consumers in Thohoyandou, Venda, South Africa. Data were collected by two fieldworkers who intercepted shoppers visiting a regional mall in the area. Data were analyzed using SPSS 25. The descriptives, factor analysis, and ANOVA were analyzed to achieve the objectives of the study.  The findings of the study reveal that black consumers are more influenced by the rarity and uniqueness of the brands followed by the financial and functional values of the brands. Black consumers’ perceptions towards luxury brands were found to differ across age and income groups but did not differ across gender and education levels. Organizations targeting black consumers must design brands that are rare and unique and ensure that brands deliver the financial and functional values desired by black consumers

The New Black Middle Class in South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Lemon
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Black Middle Class
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