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THE NUMSA PRESIDENT CALLED his fellow comrades snakes and enemies for daring to demand adherence to the Union’s constitution and accountability for the union’s investment arm, the Numsa Investment Company (NIC). This can lead us to no other conclusion than that this...
54 Numsa worker leaders have been banned by the current national leadership from attending the elective congress and from standing for positions. This includes Saftu president Ruth Ntlokotse, who is also the Numsa second deputy president. Ntlokotse was suspended by a...
THE FIGHTBACK HAS BEGUN, BUT it will be a long road. In our last editorial we described how the labour movement has degenerated. How its leadership has become largely detached from the members. And how they have become corrupted by the lure of material benefits, in...
The fight back has begun, but it will be a long road. In our last editorial we described how the labour movement has degenerated.
So where does the trade union movement go from here? It seems clear that we have now reached a point where the interests of the leadership have become separated from those of the membership, of many unions.
Instead of a flourishing society freed from racism, division and violence, post Apartheid South Africa is a society of social decay.
The anti-capitalist moment has gone. Can it be regenerated? This is not so easy to answer, especially in a context in which globally there is a shift to the right.
Ramaphosa has made it clear that he is firmly committed to the same old, same old – Minerals Energy Finance complex.
Earn dollars from digging minerals from the ground and getting them out of the country.
A Ramaphosa ANC will have to base its strategy on a continuation of the neoliberal strategy of the Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma governments.