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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...
By Jorge Martin 07 September 2010South Africa was moving towards a general strike type situation as the public sector strike that started on August 18 was building up momentum. Now the strike has been suspended by union leaders because of some concessions on the part...
By Marshall PatsanzaJOHANNESBURG, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) - South African teachers - along with other public service employees - have embarked on an indefinite strike over wages. The unions are demanding an 8.6 percent wage increase. Government says it cannot afford to...
By Patrick BondAugust 22, 2010 - The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African government have vowed to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting more than a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against a...
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...
Amandla! brings you this exclusive interview with the Local Organising Committee on completion of the recent World Cup.Amandla: After all the expense on the World Cup, how do you think it helped the poor?LOC: Well, for a month, it allowed the poor to forget about...
By Oliver Meth and Daniel Moshenberg Ever since South Africa won the bid to host the 2010 Fifa World Cup, the government has been feeding us promises and creating expectations about how good this is for the country, for the economy and for the workers and poor. We...
Thursday 27 May 2010 A wide cross-section of civil society – unions, students organisations, faith based groups, community organisations and NGOs – with a collective membership of over a million people, strongly condemn the decision taken by the authorities to ban a...