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Naledi, I must thank you very, very much for giving us your time. The great pleasure having you on the show. Thank you so much, Chris. That is accomplished public relations professional as well as writer, Naledi Masopam Sibi. She is the author of a book called Playgrounds. The best of talk on Cape Talk. Welcome to Chris Diolei. It's great to have you with us. Kenneth Diolet. Kenneth, I really reading this article. I went

On a wild little search, I found that Frantz Farrand argued that in the wretched of the earth, that for the colonized and oppressed, violence is not merely a tactic but a form of expression, a radical, cathartic communication that claims agency when colonial structures deny the oppressed any voice or personhood. Sounds like a legitimate language. And even civil rights leader Martin Luther King said, while strictly advocating

Non-violence famously noted that a riot is the language of the unheard. He framed violent unrest not as a model good, but as a predictable diagnostic message, a signal that society has ignored systemic injustice for too long. So maybe violence is a legitimate language. Max Weber's definition of the modern state, an entity that claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force, suggests that states themselves use force as a legal language to command compliance.

Signal authority and enforce boundaries. So, language employed as a or rather violence employed as a language. Yeah, how do you feel about that? Is it a legitimate language? What I don't know whether you think it's legitimate or not, it seems to be a prevalent one, right? Because I think in South Africa in particular, I mean, we can look at recent or long history in South Africa. You know, we want service delivery matters to be solved, we protest, and it's often met with.

Of violence. We can look at what has happened in the mining space in 2012 in Marikana. We can look at what happens in the Feed Must Fall movement, the Rose Must Fall movement. We can look at literally yearly protests that women have embarked on the purple movement. And more often than not, it is only up until the level of violence that manifests that things are taken seriously in this country. I mean, the numbers speak for themselves. When you have literally over 5,000 people being murdered in a court.