{"id":220181,"date":"2026-04-16T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220181"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:48:00","slug":"andile-mngxitamas-inconsistency-and-the-politics-of-denigration-and-opportunism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220181","title":{"rendered":"Andile Mngxitama\u2019s inconsistency and the politics of denigration and opportunism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remain close to the places where ordinary black life meets the police, the farmer, the mine and the state face to face. That ground has no patience for fashionable radicalism. That ground exposes every counterfeit. Speaking from the safety of a donor-funded human rights NGO is \u2018Butlerism\u2019 on steroids&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/thought-leader\/opinion\/2026-04-14-andile-mngxitamas-inconsistency-and-the-politics-of-denigration-and-opportunism\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remain close to the places where ordinary black life meets the police, the farmer,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220181-andile-mngxitamas-inconsistency-and-the-politics-of-denigration-and-opportunism.jpg",915,1200,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220181-andile-mngxitamas-inconsistency-and-the-politics-of-denigration-and-opportunism-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220181-andile-mngxitamas-inconsistency-and-the-politics-of-denigration-and-opportunism-229x300.jpg",229,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220181-andile-mngxitamas-inconsistency-and-the-politics-of-denigration-and-opportunism-768x1007.jpg",640,839,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220181-andile-mngxitamas-inconsistency-and-the-politics-of-denigration-and-opportunism-781x1024.jpg",640,839,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220181-andile-mngxitamas-inconsistency-and-the-politics-of-denigration-and-opportunism.jpg",915,1200,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220181-andile-mngxitamas-inconsistency-and-the-politics-of-denigration-and-opportunism.jpg",915,1200,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220181-andile-mngxitamas-inconsistency-and-the-politics-of-denigration-and-opportunism.jpg",915,1200,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220181-andile-mngxitamas-inconsistency-and-the-politics-of-denigration-and-opportunism-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220181-andile-mngxitamas-inconsistency-and-the-politics-of-denigration-and-opportunism-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}