Sensational reporting on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is spreading fear and stereotypes about the so-called "dark continent". The disease has killed over 1,500 people in West Africa this year. With decent health care facilities, access to clean water and...
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Department of Labour: Toothless as a snail
President Zuma has signed a contentious round of amendments to the Labour Relations Act into law. After protests from Cosatu, the government withdrew the proposal of compulsory secret balloting among union members before a strike, as demanded by the DA and the...
BRT, Metrorail and the city and country’s priority?
Dear Amandla! I have recently moved from Johannesburg to Cape Town to work as an educator. I worked in Soweto before this and was quite looking forward to relocating to a different place. I had heard a lot about Cape Town's beauty and the pictures testified to that. I...
Cape Town Marikana Solidarity Committee Press Statement
05 September 2012 We, the members and representative of 19 community organisations based in the greater Cape Town area; Condemn the massacre of the Lonmin mineworkers and the continued efforts by the state and the Lonmin bosses to smash the strike. These efforts...
News about the Palestinian Struggle
Israeli indignados Return To Streets Following Police Violence | by Jérôme E. Roos Interesting developments in Israel, where the J14 social justice movement (wiki) that burst onto the scenes last year with tent occupations and the country’s largest street protests...
The Spear that divided the nation | by Professor Robins
BRETT Murray’s The Spear has generated an extraordinary amount of media and political commentary, social media twittering, marches and protests, including the defacing of the painting itself. The rage expressed by many in response to the depiction of the private parts...
South Africa’s Dangerously Unsafe Financial Intercourse | by Patrick Bond
Just before last weekend’s meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) board in Washington, South Africa's finance minister dropped us an obscure news item: “Gordhan concerned about rand volatility”(Reuters, April 16). Hidden away in the business...
Brett Murray painting expression of pure prejudice – ANCWL & Co. | by Troy Martens
Alliance Gender structures says picture should be removed from gallery and the internet RE: JOINT STATEMENT FROM ALLIANCE GENDER STRUCTURES The Alliance gender structures, comprising of the ANC Women's League, Cosatu's Gender committee and SACP Women's League met to...
South Africa pushed to the limit: The political economy of change | by Colin Bundy
Hein Marais, London: Zed Books, 2011 Reviewed Hein Marais has produced a sustained, rigorous and compelling analysis of the political economy of post-apartheid South Africa. It is has no rival as an overview of the country’s trajectory since 1994. The first five...
