TOPIC: POST-APARTHEID BLACK MIDDLE CLASS IN SOUTH AFRICS: A DISTORTED REALITY OR MYTH-MAKING?
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit”. Gordon Gekko, film, Wall Street.
“The look that the native turns on the settler’s town is a look of lust, a look of envy; it expresses his dreams of possession – all manner of possession; to sit at the settler’s table, to sleep in the settler’s bed, with his wife if possible. The colonized man is an envious man”. Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1963, page 39.
“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?”. Matthew 76:26. Bible, King James.
“All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind”. The Communist Manifesto, 1848.
INTRODUCTION.
Centre for Economic Diplomacy in Africa 