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By Natasha Marrian8 September 2010ANC Youth League president Julius Malema on Tuesday attacked ANC leaders who denied that nationalisation was party policy, saying they were "denouncing" the Freedom Charter. "We have been listening to leaders of the ANC who understand...
7 September 2010The narrow black economic empowerment focus has "set back" South Africa's critical mining sector, SA Communist Party deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin said on Tuesday. "The big nationalisation has already happened and it was nationalisation of the...
7 September 2010A strategic national plan for the mining sector needs to be developed before looking at nationalisation of mines, Joel Netshitenzhe, executive director of the Mapungubwe Institute of Strategic Reflection (Mistra) said on Tuesday. "To pose that question...
By Amandla! Editorial StaffThe ANC, according to many of its leaders, does not intend to change economic policy. But the debate on the mining industry signifies that people see the necessity for change. These are the two things to learn from the public exchange over...
The government can’t simply buy the mining industry. That would ruin the state. A price of R2 trillion has been circulating as a rough estimate. This amounts to more than three times the entire state budget that is three years of total state expenditures. The only...
By Amandla! Editorial StaffWhat would a sincere debate on the nationalisation of the mines mean for millions of landless rural workers who are still waiting for the land reform promised? Amandla! asked Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza who leads the project for Land Reform...
By Martin Legassick Ben Turok (‘Calm down. The ANC is not about to seize mines’, The Times, 19/7/2009) may not support nationalisation of the mines in the present, but as one of the authors of the 1955 economic clauses in the Freedom Charter, the honourable Turok...
Floyd Shivambu, spokesperson for the African National Congress Youth League, gave Amandla! an interview as to why the Youth League has resurrected the nationalisation debate. What has motivated the ANCYL to place the issue of the nationalisation of the mines on the...
By Brian AshleyRegardless of the ANC Youth League’s (ANCYL) intentions or twists and turns, they have nevertheless successfully put the issue of nationalisation on the public agenda. And it is not going away. Furthermore, the fact that some unions also have raised the...