“The idea that a decolonial lens has is that it requires more than reform… decolonisation requires tearing down oppressive colonial systems and keeping only what serves us; what has emancipating potential.”
-Sohela Surajpal, law clerk to Justice Madlanga of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Join in on our conversation as we explore an abolitionist lens for the South African carceral system with Ziyanda, author of Can We Be Safe? The future of policing in South Africa, and Sohela who wrote her Master’s dissertation on Prison abolition as a decolonial and human rights imperative.
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