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Introduction. “Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.” —Edward Said (2003) as quoted by  (Whyte, 2016) “Third Worldism” and the idea of political development as a modern social science, which can be utilised in the effort to assist or advance the globalisation of the world community, cannot be divorced from the broader debates raging in society today and in fact are central to those debates in many ways. The question of whether this discourse has assisted and contributed to world political development, whether as a sustainable solution or whether as part of the challenges faced by the world today, remains largely unanswered by the establishment academia, despite the bold suggestion by some that we have reached the end of history and its culmination in a particular western understanding of political development, namely the particular type of lib...

“Decolonisation is the process of revealing and dismantling colonial power in all its forms, this includes dismantling the hidden aspects of those institutions and cultural forces that had maintained the colonialist’s power and that remained even after political independence.” Frantz Fanon Introduction Depending on where one draws the statistics from and how one reads those statistics, there are between 5 and 20 million (5.6 million unemployed and 15.4 million not economically active [1] )people of working age (15–64 years)  who are unemployed in South Africa out of a total cohort of 36.5 million people between the ages of 15-64 years.  Just over 40% (15 million) of people of working age are employed with only 11 Million in the formal sector , leaving the vast majority of South Africans dependent on self-employment, state subsidies, hussle and crime to survive. Only 8 million formally employed individuals are employed on a permanent basis, indicating that approximat...