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NUMSA Dirty Tricks Document ARE STATE SECURITY AGENCIES involved in the closing of democratic space? Evidence of people being approached to spy on social justice activists, phone taps, phony intelligence reports, and sinister thefts of electronic equipment indicate...
President Zuma has signed a contentious round of amendments to the Labour Relations Act into law. After protests from Cosatu, the government withdrew the proposal of compulsory secret balloting among union members before a strike, as demanded by the DA and the...
From the 26th June to the 3rd July, US imperialism sent its chief political representative to Africa on a public relations exercise. The trip was cynically billed as building 'trade ties' and 'strengthening democratic institutions'. In the end, it emerged that Obama...
The key question is who, i.e. which class, is going to pay for this enormous crisis. Whichever one wins the battle, it will be directly at the other's expense. So far the popular classes are taking a beating. Can this be turned round? Throughout Europe people are...
The key question is who, i.e. which class, is going to pay for this enormous crisis. Whichever one wins the battle, it will be directly at the other's expense. So far the popular classes are taking a beating. Can this be turned round? Throughout Europe people are...
by Bandile Mdlalose South Africa has the most beautiful Constitution amongst all countries. Its beauty is well documented and respected. But we are living in a Democratic Prison. We must acknowledge the fight of Doctor Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko and the community...
SIX weeks ago I went on a tour of Lonmin's operations in the Bushveld Complex near Rustenburg. It was a PR exercise. I was shown the Marikana clinic where the company had invested millions in impressive facilities. With a group of journalists, we saw schools it...
Syria lies at a very sensitive nexus in the Middle East. It borders Israel, a state that poses a very real threat to it. The country lacks it own natural resources, and is dependent on other states economically. US president George Bush described Syria as a "state...
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...