Labour Brokers’ Reign of Terror at UKZN

By Trevor Ngwane and Zamani HlatshwayoWorkers at South Africa’s universities have seen wages and conditions of service nosedive because of “outsourcing”. This happened in the context of the post-apartheid government’s shift away from Reconstructoin and Development in...
Cape Town – The Mother City of Inequality

Cape Town – The Mother City of Inequality

By Dick ForslundThe City of Cape Town is proudly proclaimed in travel brochures as the Mother City – a place of great historical importance, the mother which welcomed a free Nelson Mandela. There is tarnish on this hallowed image – that of a city nibbling away at the...
COSATU Backs Palestinian Right to Self Determination

COSATU Backs Palestinian Right to Self Determination

The Palestinian statehood bid is indeed a form of diplomatic resistance in a larger struggle. COSATU backs the Palestinian right to self determination and efforts to reach a viable state for, by and of all the people of Palestine – including the majority who...