Colonialism rarely dies; it mutates. Its uniforms change—from khaki to suits, from passbooks to policy papers—but the arrangement it protects remains the same: some live on the land, others live off it. Post-apartheid South Africa knows this intimately. Political rights were won; material power was not. Three decades on, the democratic state is asked to perform a contradiction: celebrate equality while administering an economic geography built to deny it. The debate over land reform—especially over compensation below market value, and in narrow cases at nil—turns on whether we still seek permission from the very market that grew fat on dispossession. Frantz Fanon warned that colonialism is not only a system of force; it is a pedagogy that trains the colonized to accept the master’s ledger as the measure of justice.[1] If decolonization begins with unlearning that pedagogy, then the first act is conceptual: stop asking the market to ratify the undoing of the market’s crimes. The...