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This article was written before the publication of the final report of the Zondo Commission on 23rd June. THE ZONDO COMMISSION HAS made serious findings of criminality against individuals, politicians, and private companies that enabled and benefited from state...
The fight back has begun, but it will be a long road. In our last editorial we described how the labour movement has degenerated.
So where does the trade union movement go from here? It seems clear that we have now reached a point where the interests of the leadership have become separated from those of the membership, of many unions.
…We face social and economic disasters associated with having one of the highest rates of unemployment in the world…Unemployment and the associated social crises of gender-based violence, substance abuse, racism and xenophobia are a national emergency.
The majority of South Africans, especially black working class and poor communities, issued a resounding vote of no confidence in the ANC on November 1st: in 1994 the party won 12.2 million votes; in 2021 only 5.2 million votes. Fewer than 12 million out of an...
The post-elections moment is key. Left and working class forces need to look beyond the elections and focus on sustainably building a longer- term, post elections set of strategies for transformation of local government.
Public sector jobs under attack Dick Forslund | Amandla 77 | August/September 2021 A day or two before the Budget Speech in February 2020, the state employer met with the unions and announced that the third year of the 2018 public sector wage agreement wouldn’t be...
A nation divided: 1948 to 2021 Sam Moodley | Amandla 77 | August 2021 Pine Street in Durban, at the height of the conflict between Africans and Indians in 1949. When the riots were finally subdued there were 142 people killed and 1,087 injured. Note: while I...
No rainbow, no gold: the Mandela rainbow myth: Monday July 12 made that clear David Hemson interviews “looter” Thabo Mutsaka* | Amandla 77 | August/September 2021 In front of the Cambridge liquor store people were smashing open the ATMs with hammers and anything they...