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Even before the arrival of Covid-19, South Africa faced a national health crisis. Some of the most important features of this crisis are the very high burden of disease, enormous disparities in health and its social determinants, deep inequities between public and private sectors, a crisis in human resources for health, and weak mechanisms for popular participation in health.
From the earliest days of post-Apartheid South Africa, major corporations have corrupted the state by offering bribes in order to get lucrative contracts.
Instead of a flourishing society freed from racism, division and violence, post Apartheid South Africa is a society of social decay.
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?
Trevor Ngwane is right, for most people life under the capitalist system is frustrating, bleak, short, brutal and nasty. I agree with Ngwane that the point is not merely to be philosophical about the social ills facing us in the 21st century, but to overhaul the...
THE ELECTION of Barack Obama last November seemed to promise a new era for organized labor. With Obama in the White House and a solid Democratic majority in Congress, it appeared that unions would finally be able to get action on their main legislative agenda—passage...