Former activist Tony Karon reflects on where we, and the world, have gone wrong, on Ryland Fisher's Crossing The Line podcast.
Struggle activist turned journalist Tony Karon, now based in New York, says that he still draws on lessons learned during the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
Speaking to media veteran and former Cape Times editor, Ryland Fisher on the Crossing the Line podcast, Karon said that he edited an activist publication called New Era during the 1980s, but he also did a lot of political education and training of activists. Every week, IOL features one of the interviews done on the podcast.
“New Era thought me how to think about the struggle and how to take the lessons from other struggles, such as in Nicaragua and Palestine and translate them into the challenges that we faced in South Africa,” said Karon.
“Once the ANC was unbanned, I became a more traditional journalist. But that way of thinking about the world, understanding the world, how power works, and what we would have called a dialectic or a balance – everything is always in balance – stayed with me.
