South Africa doesn’t have a “statistical-error” unemployment crisis; it has a jobs crisis.
Unemployment is exceptionally high — even if elites are trying to pretend otherwise
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Botswana
An Electoral Coup in Namibia?
The manipulation of the ballot papers made the rigging of the Namibian elections subtle and largely invisible.
The 1984 Vaal uprising: a turning point in the struggle
In September 1984, the Vaal Civic Association, with the support of other movements, mobilised against the rent increases.
REGULATION, NOT XENOPHOBIA, FOR ZAMA ZAMAS
MINISTER OF MINERAL Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, recently shut down suggestions that “Zama Zamas” should be trained as artisanal miners and incorporated into the formal mining sector, to solve the illegal mining crisis currently engulfing South Africa....
Remembering Hani | by Jeanne Hefez
MP Giyose went to school with Chris Hani in the 1950's. Like Hani, he was from the Cofimvaba district of the Transkei. The two met again in Botswana when Hani was in prison in Lobatsi. They planned to form a youth movement of South African, in Lusaka in 1971. In the...
African population, food and the future | by Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
It should be obvious in this discussion that our goal is definitely not to contribute to the ‘politically correct’ rhetoric bandied about incessantly which calls for some ‘decrease’ in African population because we do not believe that Africa, in the first instance, is...
Protection of Information Bill: SA Media Under Attack
By Butjwana Seokoma Former South African President, Nelson Mandela, reminded us in 1994 that: “A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy.” 16 years into democracy, opposition parties, civil society, activists and other...