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  "path": "/thought-leader/opinion/2026-05-15-it-is-time-for-the-second-republic/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-14T22:35:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Opinion",
    "Thought Leader",
    "Autshumao",
    "Colonial Conquest",
    "Imperialism",
    "Inequality",
    "injustice",
    "land dispossession",
    "Nonracialism",
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    "Phala Phala",
    "President Cyril Ramaphosa",
    "Settler Colonialism",
    "Van Riebeeck"
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  "textContent": "Our private and political lives are always punctuated by upheavals and storms. These moments signal the direction we should take. The unfolding political and economic crisis in South Africa presents a rich opportunity to chart a revolutionary path that could alter the future. We dare not miss this opening for a moral resetting of our […]",
  "title": "It is time for the Second Republic"
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