South Africa: Power to the people | by Bobby Peek

South Africa: Power to the people | by Bobby Peek

Bobby Peek tells how the struggle for environmental rights is intertwined with the one over access to energy After decades of struggle, South Africa finally gained its democracy in 1994. This included the delivery of a constitution that guaranteed people a new...

Q & A with Zodwa Madiba

Zodwa Madiba was elected OKM councillor (PR) in August 2007 in Dube, Soweto. The Operation Khanyisa Movement (OKM) is an electoral front of social movements fighting against privatisation of services and for free basic services for all. The vision of OKM is socialism....

Unions challenge govt. – and opposition

The mass strike on Wednesday was only nominally about e-tolling on public roads and the problem of labour brokers. It was, in fact, a serious shot across the bow of government about the deteriorating conditions faced by wage earners, the poor and the unemployed....