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Defend Truth

Busani Ngcaweni

Busani Ngcaweni is Director of the Centre for Public Policy and African Studies, University of Johannesburg.

Latest Work

Busani Ngcaweni

10 April 2023

Back to school for public servants who need upskilling in a complex digital world

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Busani Ngcaweni

2 February 2023

The metaverse of mascots, escorts, philanderers and plagiarists — there’s a digital province for all

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Busani Ngcaweni

22 November 2021

Shamelessly, we look away

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Busani Ngcaweni

5 November 2021

The thrill has gone: Making sense of the 2021 municipal poll results

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Busani Ngcaweni

18 July 2021

This was no peasant’s revolt: Capitalism has its own sophisticated, legally tolerated system of looting

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Busani Ngcaweni

19 May 2021

Once we were ‘Comrades’, until we became ‘comrades’

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Busani Ngcaweni

11 May 2021

Like pilots, public servants must return to the simulator, lest they crash-land

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Busani Ngcaweni

28 February 2021

Counter-hegemonies, black swans and Polisee Space: Whither African intellectuals?

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Busani Ngcaweni

9 February 2021

We are the (step)children of the Empire, watering the seeds of disunity as we trend at all costs

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Busani Ngcaweni

28 December 2020

Covid-19 is like the political violence of the early 1990s; it wipes out the whole family

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Busani Ngcaweni

2 August 2020

Money heists and the tragicomedy of our times

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Busani Ngcaweni

5 June 2020

Class Formation in black South Africa: A rejoinder to Siyabonga Hadebe

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