Amadla! Could you give some background to the ongoing strike and explain the factors that led to the continuing mass action? Mineworker (M): The un dermining by employers, by not coming to (fulfilling)their offer that the workers in 2012 died for. Impala, Anglo and...
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The Fall of Bophutaswana
In 1994 the Bantustan Dictator, Lucas Mangope refused to participate in the transformation of South Africa. On Friday, 3 March 1994 we met as teachers at Rooigrond hotel which was just outside the fictional borders of Bophutatswana, and about a kilometer from...
Police attack UKZN Students
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Grad Students at UKZN Attacked, Arrested by SAPS and private security without provocation Today, just after 12:30pm, students participating in a peaceful demonstration at Howard College were attacked and arrested by SAPS. Peaceful protests...
How obsession with “nonviolence” harms the Palestinian cause | by Linah Alsaafin
Ramallah–In recent years, western discourse surrounding the Palestinian cause has employed a few new — and superficial — adjectives to describe Palestinian resistance: Palestinian “nonviolent” resistance, Palestinian “peaceful” resistance, Palestinian “popular”...
Black man, you’re still on your own | by Olwethu Sipuka
Olwethu Sipuka says Brett Murray hit the black man in the belly of his struggles "Black man you are on your own" "For the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line", (W.E.B du Bois, 1903) The scenes that played themselves off at the Goodman...
Déjà vu at the Common | by Darlene Miller
Mother who got arrested protecting my daughter when she was brutally arrested by the new riot police. Lying in the cells listening to the women of Manenberg explain why they went to the Common left me wondering whether I had come full circle in the new South Africa: I...
Occupy the Rondebosch Common | by Lillina Ruiters
Where were the old revolutionaries? On Friday, 27 January, about 100 people marched from Manenberg to Rondebosch Common bent on occupying the wasted land resource. The march turned sour after the City refused to allow it to proceed. The protesters insisted (on what...
Interview with Ramy Essam, the revolutionary singer | by Andre Marais
Ramy Essam began the 25 January revolution in Egypt purely as participant, a responsibility he felt happy to undertake. But he was soon called upon by his fellow protestors to provide the soundtrack to their struggles and was quickly labelled ‘the singer of the...
Francafrique goes democratique? | by Khadija Sharife
Several years ago, Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) published an article called ‘Propping Up Africa’s Dictators’. The article unpacked the basic commonly known building blocks for France’s Françafrique policy, ‘designed to create structural dependence and domination by...



