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Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien is a writer, columnist and political economist with extensive exposure and experience in global political economic affairs. He was educated at the London School of Economics, and holds a PhD in International Political Economy.

The RET faction wants total control of everything in the state and society, as an end in itself

Ismail Lagardien
11 Jan

Tutu, Mandela: Wilful forgetting and the absence of memory in the populist imagination

Ismail Lagardien
04 Jan

The past is boring, the present is tedious, and the future already looks bleak

Ismail Lagardien
14 Dec

Africa’s future: It’s the dwindling of hope that’s a killer

Ismail Lagardien
08 Dec

Deck the halls with boughs of holly: Fears of a non-Christian planet are terribly misplaced

Ismail Lagardien
01 Dec

Helen Zille’s selective use of ‘facts’ can’t change the overriding truth

Ismail Lagardien
23 Nov

South Africans would do well to advance modernism and republicanism and keep theocrats at bay

Ismail Lagardien
17 Nov

No EFFing clue: The ideologically constipated populist revolutionaries and reveries of Karl Marx have hit a dead end

Ismail Lagardien
09 Nov

Malema and the EFF failed to translate their populism into significant electoral gain

Ismail Lagardien
03 Nov

When you vote next Monday, spare a thought for the women of Afghanistan

Ismail Lagardien
26 Oct

A confederacy of dunces: The EFF is riotous, the DA Comedy Club™ is a joke and the ANC is pitiful

Ismail Lagardien
19 Oct

Voters can kiss accountability goodbye when politicians disappear once elections are over

Ismail Lagardien
12 Oct

What have you done for me lately? Nothing really, as far as the small parties are concerned

Ismail Lagardien
06 Oct

What have you done for me lately? Not much, how ’bout you EFF?

Ismail Lagardien
28 Sep

What have you done for me lately? Despite its outstanding delivery record, the DA is its own worst enemy

Ismail Lagardien
21 Sep

What have you done for me lately? Expect very little or nothing from the ANC in the 2021 local elections

Ismail Lagardien
14 Sep

What have you done for me lately? Local elections the first step in asking difficult questions in our young democracy

Ismail Lagardien
07 Sep

No amount of technology and power can conceal the humiliation and catastrophe the US suffered in Afghanistan

Ismail Lagardien
31 Aug

Right on the money: Printing banknotes is easy – solving our economic problems is another story

Ismail Lagardien
25 Aug

Read the books but remember their place in the cultural axis that emerges in anti-democratic societies

Ismail Lagardien
17 Aug

Kohler Barnard’s Zille moment: The absurdity of comparing SA’s Olympic medal count with that of the Netherlands

Ismail Lagardien
10 Aug

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