South Africa
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Letter from South Africa By Cynthia McKinney
Much is at stake today in South Africa at a time when criminal charges have been brought against the South African National Police Commissioner and those charges have implications for the country’s leading political party; in addition, there are ongoing investigations into arms deals that could lead all the way to top ANC leaders; information… Continue reading
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Caster Semenya: An Unlikely Challenger of Sexual Binary and Beauty Images By Jamala Rogers
The South African runner made international headlines when she won the 800 meters in a record-breaking 1 minute 55.45 seconds. Caster Semenya’s victory was eclipsed by claims that she was really a male and therefore had an advantage over her female competitors. Accusations of jealousy quickly came from family and friends; charges of racism came… Continue reading
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Haidar Eid – An Open letter to Mr. Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa
I am writing to express my dismay and disappointment with both your attendance at the national conference of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies – a racist organization by any standards – as well as the content of your speech at that forum. Continue reading
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South African Cops Attack Unarmed Soldiers Protesting Low Wages
A virtual war broke out in the in the streets of Pretoria, the capital, yesterday with AWOL soldiers storming the Union Building government premises. Continue reading
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South Africa: A Nation in Protest, a Moment of Hope By Jennifer Dohrn
I am here continuing the project to build nurse capacity out of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health ICAP. I flew straight to East London, got unpacked into my continually welcoming home in Gonubie, and took off to rural Eastern Cape province immediately, to begin a whirlwind ten days of developing a concrete proposal… Continue reading
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Video: South Africans protest for higher wages
Protests and strikes have broken out in recent weeks across South Africa where workers are demanding higher wages and the unemployed pushing for better living conditions. Analysts say the current unrest could put a strain on Africa’s biggest economy as the government seems unable to find any solution. Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports. Continue reading
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Dick Cheney’s “Executive Assassination Ring”. Was British Weapons Expert Dr. David Kelly a Target? By Tom Burghardt
Revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency launched a world-wide assassination program, and then concealed its existence from the U.S. Congress and the American people for eight years, carries an implication that death squads may have been employed against political opponents. Continue reading
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Lingering White Supremacy In South Africa Sounds Much Like United States By Robert Jensen
‘During apartheid the racism of white people was up front, and we knew what we were dealing with. Now white people smile at us, but for most black people the unemployment and grinding poverty and dehumanizing conditions of everyday life haven’t changed,’ a black South African told me. ‘So, what kind of commitment to justice… Continue reading
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South African Political Power Balance Shifts Left – Though Not Yet Enough to Quell Grassroots Anger By Patrick Bond
Since the early 1990s, neoliberal policies have made SA economically more vulnerable than at any time since 1929. If five major currency crashes since 1996 were not evidence enough, the 6.4% quarterly GDP decline for early 2009 was the worst since 1984. By late 2008 it was apparent that labour would suffer vast retrenchments, what… Continue reading
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Israel, the other apartheid state Address by Ronnie Kasrils
Such a colonial racist mentality which rationalised the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australasia, in Africa from Namibia to the Congo and elsewhere, most clearly has its echoes in Palestine. What is so shameless about this latter-day colonial sham is that Zionist Israel has been permitted by the West to aspire… Continue reading
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South Africa: Zuma presidency: New era or business as usual? By Fazila Farouk
Despite being sold down the river by the elite politics of their party, the poor still see the ANC as their saviour. Continue reading
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Video: South Africa: Forgotten Freedom Fighters – Part 4
As South Africans prepare to go to the polls in their fourth general election since the end of Apartheid, Al Jazeera follows a group of former combatants who have stopped waiting for the compensation promised to them by the ANC and have decided to start their own business. Continue reading
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Video: South Africa: Forgotten Freedom Fighters – Part 3
As South Africans prepare to go to the polls in their fourth general election since the end of Apartheid, Al Jazeera follows a group of former combatants who have stopped waiting for the compensation promised to them by the ANC and have decided to start their own business. Continue reading
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Video: South Africa – Forgotten Freedom Fighters – Part 2
As South Africans prepare to go to the polls in their fourth general election since the end of Apartheid, Al Jazeera follows a group of former combatants who have stopped waiting for the compensation promised to them by the ANC and have decided to start their own business. Continue reading
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Video: South Africa – Forgotten freedom fighters Part One
As South Africans prepare to go to the polls in their fourth general election since the end of Apartheid, Al Jazeera follows a group of former combatants who have stopped waiting for the compensation promised to them by the ANC and have decided to start their own business. Continue reading
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Amandla! TV – Can we eat our vote?
Here is the promo for our first production from Amandla! TV For more from amandla visit www.amandla.org.za Continue reading
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Socialist Green Coalition Launched in South Africa
The formation of the Socialist Green Coalition in South Africa is a challenge to the parties supporting the status quo, in the general elections to be held in April. Continue reading
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Shawn Hattingh, South Africa and the "The Disease of Privatization"
The South African Department of Health was not willing to go any further and discuss the underlying reasons why, fifteen years after apartheid, people still don’t have toilets or clean drinking water. Continue reading
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Paul D’Amato: The tale of two apartheids
At an official state banquet held for Vorster in 1976, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin toasted the ‘ideals shared by Israel and South Africa.’ Continue reading
The New Dark Age 