The 50th anniversary of June 16 demanded a response. Accordingly, this issue primarily focuses on a special feature dedicated to this occasion. It offers an analysis of the significance of June 16 and evaluates our progress over the past 50 years, alongside the areas where we may have regressed.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Considerations for making the SACP electorally significant
With its upcoming Conference of the Left, the South African Communist Party must confront its history and embrace a more radical, anti-capitalist stance to effectively challenge the status quo.
The state of the nation’s economy
Economic liberation is essential to begin addressing South Africa’s social crisis.
Mass unemployment by design: rethinking South Africa’s manufactured economic consensus
South Africa’s ongoing and worsening mass unemployment stems from a deliberate, market-friendly, and pro-business economic consensus that has proven ineffective over the past 30 years.
STOP barbarism
The feature in this issue details the social crisis caused by the government’s neoliberal policies.
The crisis of a nation betrayed
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address was an exercise in spin. The claim that South Africa is on a path to recovery contradicts a harsh and worsening reality.
Beyond the script: Why the State of the Nation needs a rupture, not reform
South Africa does not lack wealth. It lacks power in the hands of the majority.
ANC’s belief in preordained leadership: a stumbling block to renewed politics
Organisations have to understand that leadership is earned by advocating for people’s needs. History can also help us to appreciate that leadership is not endowed.
Can The Right Be Stopped?
The feature in this issue focuses on the rise of the right and the challenge for the Left to resist.









