Polarising ideological polemics, which shed more heat than light, should be avoided at all costs.
ELECTIONS 2024: IT’S TIME FOR THE LEFT TO TALK
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Ramaphosa
RADICAL ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION: BETWEEN THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS
A complicated game of smoke and mirrors is being played as the battle unfolds for the ANC, the state and the inside track to plunder South Africa’s economic wealth.
ZUMA’S REGIME MUST GO
Ramaphosa instead of Zuma? Does it make a difference? Clearly, the crisis in South Africa runs much deeper than Zuma.
Marikana: Old Apartheid Social Power Relations meet Democratic South Africa | by Gunnett Kaaf
Revolutions distinguish themselves as phenomena that change those who wield social power, replacing old ruling classes with new classes of rulers. In South Africa, the revolution that culminated in the 1994 April Democratic Breakthrough is always thought of as having...
What Have We Learned from the Farlam Commission? | Amandla! Correspondent
The proceedings of the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into the killings at Marikana have been widely criticised for their many shortcomings, but a number of important points of evidence have emerged in key thematic areas. What follows is a brief overview of the most...
The Platinum Strike: A voice From the Ground
Amadla! Could you give some background to the ongoing strike and explain the factors that led to the continuing mass action? Mineworker (M): The un dermining by employers, by not coming to (fulfilling)their offer that the workers in 2012 died for. Impala, Anglo and...
Cosatu
Vavi is back. after nine months of suspension, a successful lawsuit set the way for Vavi's return to Cosatu. This confirms Numsa's contention that the original suspension of Vavi violated Cosatu's constitution, indicating that Cosatu president S'dumo Dlaminiand his...
The storm after the whirlwind: The ANC after Zuma
The big question for the political future of the ANC and that of South Africa, although it may appear early or some would say premature, is a post-Jacob Zuma plan. For the ANC, it just elected Cyril Ramaphosa as its deputy president, but given the recent example with...
The Weirdness Closes In
On the face of it, Mamphela Ramphele's long political Calvary has not seemed so strange. It has been clear ever since she returned to South Africa, flushed with neoliberal propaganda and plugging effortlessly into the right-wing smear campaign against President Mbeki,...