How the ANC’s greed counterbalanced its ambition

09 July 2009 James Myburgh asks whether the ANC is capable of correcting its own mistakes The defeat of Thabo Mbeki’s third term ambitions at Polokwane in December 2007 has brought with it some of the advantages of an alternation in government, even as the...

Threats to the Media – We Brought This On Ourselves

By Helga Jansen-Daugbjerg Society and progressive civil society in particular, must take some of the blame for  the state threats to the media. This is not some sensationalistic shock statement meant to upset you into action. In it lies the years of abdication from...

Statement: NUMSA Supports Public Workers Strike

18 August 2010 1.      The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa)  supports the decision by the public sector workers to go to a rolling mass action in demand of a living wage and improved conditions of employment. This public workers strike should be...