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Continually lost in the ongoing row about the mooted youth wage subsidy is the context in which it is being proposed. Not just the national, but the global context. It is a context in which there are fewer and fewer jobs for more and more job seekers. At the same...
Four years ago two groups of people came together for a discussion. On the one side were some of South Africa’s most thoughtful educationalists and educational academics. Opposite them sat some of the country’s most hardworking post-apartheid activists, including some...
2011 will be remembered as the year of the Arab spring, Spain’s indignados and Occupy Wall Street and the thousands of other social mobilisations which coalesced around the dissatisfaction with the multiple crises of capitalism. A social model that incessantly and...
Hein Marais, London: Zed Books, 2011 Reviewed Hein Marais has produced a sustained, rigorous and compelling analysis of the political economy of post-apartheid South Africa. It is has no rival as an overview of the country’s trajectory since 1994. The first five...
There are a growing number of music venues in Cape Town that promote a higher level of musical consciousness. Not only with the audience development in listening for appreciation that they promote but also with the space that they provide for musical exploration and...
The economic storm triggered by the 2008 financial crash in the USA and Europe led to the loss of more than one million jobs in South Africa. Today we know that the crisis never really abated.How could it? Claims for hefty profits, wheedled through strange and complex...
When they protested in the winter of 1980, high school students fighting apartheid’s gutter education had a brand new marching song in their arsenal. This song became the trademark of the tumultuous events of that year and the succeeding decade, as opposition to...
The international economic system that took shape after the collapse of the Soviet Union is not dead yet, but it is dying. We see that daily, not only in reports on the crisis but also in other news from around the world that tells the same story: the system isn’t...
Address by Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) to the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, District Six Museum, Cape Town, November 6 2011 As with all other aspects of South African life - political, social, economic -...