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South Africa: Forging a New Movement – Numsa and the Shift in SA Politics By Leonard Gentle
The decision of the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA) to cut ties with the African National Congress (ANC) has received poor analysis. Comment has tended to focus on the possibility of a new political party in 2019 or whether all this means that Zwelenzima Vavi will get his job back. As… Continue reading
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The African National Congress: The Rise and Tragic Fall of a Revolutionary Movement By Anthony Monteiro
Black “rule” in South Africa is illusory. “White supremacy without the obvious hand of white people is the form of social and political control, which replaces legal apartheid.” The revolution was derailed. “The road from the Freedom Charter, to the Morogoro Consultative Conference, to the 1994 elections, to the murder of 34 miners at Mirikana… Continue reading
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Terry Bell’s ‘Right to Fight’ download
Now available for download (as pdfs – below) is this selection of 17 years of Inside Labour columns, illustrated by 19 Zapiro cartoons that summarise developments between the watershed years of 1996 (the SA Constitution) and 2012 (Marikana). [Brilliant cartoons by Zapiro. WB] Continue reading
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Terry Bell's 'Right to Fight' download
Now available for download (as pdfs – below) is this selection of 17 years of Inside Labour columns, illustrated by 19 Zapiro cartoons that summarise developments between the watershed years of 1996 (the SA Constitution) and 2012 (Marikana). [Brilliant cartoons by Zapiro. WB] Continue reading
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Obama in South Africa: Political and Media Disconnect By Michael Shaw
If anything, we need to understand these protest images in S. Africa more in terms of current and similar photos from Brazil and Turkey. The public, in other words, is more sensitive these days to when they’re being patronized. Continue reading
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Turmoil at South Africa’s Platinum Mines by Pratap Chatterjee
Clashes between South Africa’s powerful mining companies and the government are only part of the story. A battle to win membership between two rival unions – the older establishment affiliated National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the newer more radical Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) – is also reported to be a major… Continue reading
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South Africa's Political Wars Begin To Resemble Our Own By Danny Schechter
The Mail & Guardian reports political scientist Achille Mbembe saying in a debate in Johannesburg, “after 18 years of relative complacency and self-congratulatory gestures” the ANC was realizing South Africa was an ordinary country and not a miracle. Continue reading
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HAITI: THE NEXT ROUND by Robert Roth
On March 18th, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family returned home from a 7-year forced exile in South Africa – an exile brought about by the violent U.S.-orchestrated coup in 2004. Up until the last minute, the U.S. government tried to stop the return, with President Obama going so far as to place a last-minute… Continue reading
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Desmond Tutu – Q&A: "We Must Rethink the International Economic System"
A very disturbing thing has been the gap between the rich and the poor widening. And I have said that people are going to be resentful and say ‘where is this peace dividend?’ If you go to South Africa one of the first things that strikes you — when you are flying to Cape Town… Continue reading
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Amandla Publishers – ON THE CHANGE IN THE LEADERSHIP OF THE ANC GOVERNMENT
This press statement represents a considered analysis and practical proposals from Amandla Publishers directed to the mass of ordinary poor and working people of our country, and progressive forces in our society as a whole. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 