Honest recognition of past injustices needs to be empowered by a better understanding of South Africa’s inequality.
Understanding South African inequality as a precondition for transformation
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Black Economic Empowerment
RENEWING THE LEFT: NOT JUST DOOM AND GLOOM
THIS ARTICLE SEEKS TO RESPOND to the questions posed by Amandla! which relate to the South African Left in particular: where is the Left intellectually, programmatically and organisationally? What has happened to it, and why has it become so fragmented and marginal?...
Cronin: Narrow BEE a Setback for Mining
7 September 2010The narrow black economic empowerment focus has "set back" South Africa's critical mining sector, SA Communist Party deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin said on Tuesday. "The big nationalisation has already happened and it was nationalisation of the...
The Impact of the Global Recession on South Africa
Theme: This paper examines the impact of the global economic recession on South Africa’s economy and society, the ways in which the country’s government has chosen to respond to that crisis, and its likely social and political fall-out. Summary: Despite initial...