Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Writers’ Community Action Network
An emerging movement of self-organized, decentralized community action networks responds to the local realities of COVID-19 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Cape Town is a city of stark inequality, with a dark and thorny history of colonial- and apartheid-era oppression, bleeding into rampant (...)
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union’s (AMCU) struggle for worker safety during the scourge of Covid-19 in the South African mining sector.
During late February when it became clear that the novel Covid-19 coronavirus was going to hit South African shores, we immediately (...)
, by BOND Patrick
South Africa has the highest number of coronavirus infections in Africa, topping 1200 as of March 30, including the second Covid-19 fatality. More than twenty-five years after the ANC’s triumph and Nelson Mandela’s election, how well-prepared is post-apartheid capitalism to confront the (...)
, by BOND Patrick
South Africa has the highest number of coronavirus infections in Africa , topping 1200 as of March 30, including the second Covid-19 fatality. More than twenty-five years after the ANC’s triumph and Nelson Mandela’s election, how well-prepared is post-apartheid capitalism to confront the (...)
, by SAFTU
This statement was published by the South African Federation of Trade Unions and is republished by No Borders News as part of their ongoing international coronavirus coverage. The anti-viral lockdown is a social-distancing start – but fiscal stinginess and tight monetary policy risk a rebellion (...)
We, as civic organisations, trade unions, organisations of informal workers, faith-based organisations and community structures in South Africa, call on all people, every stakeholder and sector, to contain the infection, reduce transmission and mitigate the social and political impacts of the (...)
, by CHIRWA Andrew
Andrew Chirwa is the president of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA). This statement was issued today as Covid-19 infections in South Africa continued to rise and raises criticisms of President Cryil Ramaphosa of the African National Congress. NUMSA’s workers were in the (...)
, by Khanya Forum
A meeting was held on 14 March by Khanya College at the House of Movements to discuss the coming pandemic of coronavirus. In attendance at this meeting were health care worker activists from the Gauteng Community Health Care Forum, waste picker activists from African Reclaimers Organisation and (...)
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