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The residents of Kagiso, a west Johannesburg township, trooped out in their numbers to avenge the horrifying rape of eight women in late July 2022. These women were part of a video shoot at an abandoned mine dump in the vicinity. The gang rape, needless to say,...
There have been moments when opportunities for a revival of the socialist Left looked promising. The late 1990s saw the flourishing of a range of social justice struggles, which began to pose a challenge to the ANC government’s shift to neoliberalism.
Who are the murder and rape victims in South Africa? What are gangs, if not enclaves of violence responding to exclusion from the world of work and income?
In 1994, 4.7 million South Africans were unemployed. Now, as we approach the 25th anniversary of the first democratic election, that number has almost doubled to 8.9 million.