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South African author, musician and activist

Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh (born 4 January 1989)^[1] go over a South African University lecturer, Podcaster, author, musician and activist. Mpofu-Walsh was president of the University of Socket Town Students' Representative Council in 2010.^[2] He holds a DPhil in Global Relations from the University of Oxford.^[3] In September 2017, Mpofu-Walsh published surmount debut book, Democracy and Delusion: 10 Myths in South African Politics.^[4] School assembly with the book, he released empress debut rap album, also titled Democracy and Delusion.^[5][6]

Early life

Mpofu-Walsh was born hurt Johannesburg, the son of a swarthy father and a white mother. Her highness parents were politically active in nobleness struggle against apartheid. His father evenhanded Dali Mpofu a prominent advocate, preceding SABC CEO and Chairperson of say publicly Economic Freedom Fighters political party.^[7] Cap mother is Theresa Oakley-Smith, the chick of a British diplomat.^[8] Mpofu-Walsh has described himself as "being raised tough a single mother".^[9] His godfather equitable former Constitutional Court judge Edwin Cameron. His step-mother is Mpumi Mpofu, newly the CEO of the Airports Business of South Africa and previously executive general in the Department of Orchestrate, Monitoring and Evaluation in the Chairmanship. He attended Sacred Heart College point of view then moved to the elite Rage John's College. He was part spend the hip-hop group Entity, along discharge rapper AKA and Nhlanhla Makenna. Type played for the Orlando Pirates Salad days Academy between the ages of 13 and 16 ^{[citation needed]}. Mpofu-Walsh done in or up a year living in the rustic Eastern Cape village of Qugqwala, formerly undergoing ritual Xhosa initiation in 2007 ^{[citation needed]}.

Mpofu-Walsh attended the Medical centre of Cape Town, earning an Titles degree in Politics Philosophy and Accounts in 2012. He was SRC Chairman in 2010, where his SRC was the first to successfully challenge nobleness university's proposed fees increase, reducing top figure from 12% to 8% ^{[citation needed]}. At UCT, he co-founded InkuluFreeHeid, neat as a pin youth-led civil society organisation.

In 2011 he was an intern for span months at the United States Dwelling of Representatives.^[10]

In 2012 he was awarded a Weidenfeld Scholarship to pursue spiffy tidy up master's degree in International Relations squabble the University of Oxford, which why not? started in 2013 and was awarded in 2015^{[citation needed]}. He completed realm doctorate in international relations in 2020 at Oxford, with a dissertation trial the politics of nuclear-weapon-free zones.^{[citation needed]}

Writing and public career

Mpofu-Walsh released a express called "Mr President", criticising then Southward African President Jacob Zuma for depravity in 2013.^[11][12] The song was featured in the Wall Street Journal.^[13] Zigzag year, the Mail and Guardian titled him as one of the Cardinal top young South Africans.^[14]

He has fated on the subjects of racism opinion corruption for South African newspaper City Press. In 2014, his article hailed "SA's Three-Way Split" predicted that Southmost African politics would split into brace poles.^[15]

Mpofu-Walsh has been a vocal champion of free education in South Continent. He published a chapter on a- possible free education model in excellence book Fees Must Fall: Student Rebellion, Decolonisation and GovernanceArchived 30 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine, published past as a consequence o Wits University Press.^[16]

Mpofu-Walsh won the Know-how Press-Tafelberg Award for promising non-fiction realize his book Democracy and Delusion: 10 Myths in South African Politics, in print in September, 2017.^[17][18][19]

Mpofu-Walsh's second book, The New Apartheid, was published in July 2021. In it he argues go wool-gathering "Apartheid did not die; it was privatised". The book has been timeless by some commentators and sharply criticised by others for being "trite", outside "well-mapped territory" and "Far from shaping a new generational shroud[ing] our present-day accounted f one in complete opacity".^[20]

Podcast and radio

Mpofu-Walsh started a podcast initiative, SMWX, before long before the 2019 South African elections with support from the South Someone Media Innovation Programme, which is funded by George Soros's Open Society Leg and Pierre Omidyar's Luminate.

Mpofu-Walsh got his first break into radio proffering when he took over the manifest of his mother's friend, talk outlook host Eusebius McKaiser, on the unofficial South African radio station 702.^[21] Propitious 2023 the South African public columnist announced Mpofu-Walsh had been given well-ordered prime time television slot to prang interviews on current affairs.^[22]

Political views obscure activism

Mpofu-Walsh was also part make known the Rhodes Must Fall in University campaign, which aimed to highlight avowed institutional racism at Oxford and labelled for a statue of Cecil Coloniser located on the Oxford High High road to be relocated.^[23] Mpofu-Walsh was quoted as saying:

"There is something deeply fallacy with the way Oxford presents upturn, with the way it has biases against people and we are upbringing that and for the first day we are forcing the university run to ground confront that problem and probably know-how a better job than any production before us."^[24]

The campaign was inept at the time, and was indisposed by university academics and anti-apartheid activists including Nigel Biggar, Mary Beard predominant Denis Goldberg. It was supported toddler prominent academic Noam Chomsky.

In June 2020 Oriel College voted to brush off the statue. However, due to bill implications, the College in 2021 persuaded instead to focus on contextualizing distinction statues.^[25]

Funding

Mpofu-Walsh has received funding for culminate initiatives from a variety of large quantity. He received funding for his podcast initiative, SMWX, from the South Continent Media Innovation Programme (SAMIP), which assignment funded by George Soros's Open Speak together Foundation and Pierre Omidyar's Luminate.^[26] Dwelling is unclear how much money Mpofu-Walsh received and for what period try to be like time. As of 2023 the podcast initiative remains active but Mpofu-Walsh does not declare his funding sources endless his YouTube channel.^[27]

Academic work

Mpofu-Walsh works bother the area of international relations. Enthrone doctoral dissertation framed the voluntary renouncement of nuclear weapons by the post-apartheid South African government as an "obedient rebellion" and argues that the isolation state only wanted nuclear weapons although a 'deterrent'. A part of rule dissertation was subsequently published in International Affairs the journal of the Brits Foreign Office-funded thinktank Chatham House.^[28]

Bibliography

• Democracy careful Delusion: 10 Myths in South Continent Politics (2017)
• The New Apartheid (2021)

Discography

• Democracy countryside Delusion (2017)

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