ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the South African state is caught up in a global liberal economy that tries to hide its Eurocentric disposition and the mandate of addressing historically derived inequalities. The chapter contends that by claiming the ‘hubris of the zero point’ the market masquerades as politically disinterested, yet it serves a specific political purpose. That is the determination to stave the political authority from falling into the hands of forces that could undermine market objectives. I have pointed out that it is clear that vestiges of apartheid and enduring structures of white supremacy, which are sustained by the Washington Consensus, shape contemporary South Africa and its institutions. But to effectively do this, one needs to deal with and delink from the two issues that lie at the heart of colonial knowledge reproduction systems, which anchor the study and the role of the media and other state institutions. These are the false notion of objectivity and the false notion of a conscious free knowledge. The false notion of objectivity or neutrality or a universal truth conceals the interests and agendas of the elite who succeed in hoodwinking the media into imagining media independence from the position of the dominant subject.
