The Lord is we'll see. Oh, This is hell.

live from the United States. This is hell in the

live from the United States where capitalism is the virus

this is hell in the west the global, whatever you want to call the old European

colonial powers. If we do learn about European imperial ambitions in Africa

during the 19th century.

We are taught it was an era of colonialism.

In reality, it was a time when Europe inflicted wars of dispossession

on all of Africa, forcing the people off of what was once their land

stripping Africans of their dignity.

When this happened, the ancestors of today's South Africans cried, the world is dead.

is dead. They had lost their land and have been worldless ever since.

As our guest points out today, that sense of worldlessness means to have no place to live, nor to be buried.

To have no place to be alive, nor to be dead, it means a life where the most pressing daily questions are, where, when, and how to live, where, when, and how to die.

This is particularly the case in South Africa today because of an already

devastated economy becoming unbelievably worse during the pandemic with record unemployment

compounded by a state program of austerity.

There's also corruption which our guest says led to the theft of billions from the nation's

COVID relief plans.

Then there's the deadly violence following former President

Jacob Zuma's refusal to accept his sentencing on corruption charges, all in a nation

where the majority is marginalized and

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