Freedom Day is an annual public holiday in South Africa to celebrate the anniversary of the country’s first democratic election in 1994. The euphoria of that moment is now a distant memory. To many the promise of a truly democratic future marked out in the Freedom Charter of 1955, and even the (...)
t is unclear exactly what changes South Africa’s likely next president will usher in. But what is certain is that he will not upturn the enduring apartheid structure of the economy – the system through which Ramaphosa made enormous profits and sanctioned murder with impunity. As director of (...)
Zuma’s cabinet reshuffle, which removed the finance ministers Gordhan and Jonas, amongst others, opens the door to the looting of the state on an unprecedented scale. At the heart of this is a very crude act to get control of the Treasury on behalf of a predatory elite, hiding behind the (...)
South Africa’s deepening economic and social crisis is rapidly morphing into a political crisis. In turn, the political crisis is further undermining a stagnating economy. The political crisis centres on different components of the state that are involved in a series of proxy wars. At a recent (...)
NPA press release
Justice for the murder of Bazooka Rhadebe
Nineteen days after the murder of Berta Cáceres, world known Honduras activist for her fight against dams, Bazooka Rhadebe has been murdered with eight bullets in his head in front of his 15 years old son.
Bazooka was Amadiba Crisis (...)
March 24, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe, chairperson of the Amadiba Crisis Committee and a leading campaigner against the Australian-owned Xolobeni mineral sands mine in South Africa was shot dead in his home on March 22. Below we republish (...)
Recently, I’ve found it both ironic and disturbing that in conversations about the complexities of the violence at campuses throughout South Africa (and in the Western Cape in particular), it has been far easier for me to listen to and talk among many South African workers, student parents, (...)
’76 reloaded – Students on the march
Amandla correspondent
The students achieved in just a few weeks what COSATU has failed to achieve in almost 20 years - the insourcing of workers at several universities. Despite this, the significance of the re-emergence of a radical student movement will (...)
How often I have heard colleagues and friends in the past few days and weeks talk about the 1970s and 80s. About how there was more structure, less confusion, less destruction and violence, more discipline. Deeply worried and disturbed about developments these conversations have led me to (...)
In October 2015 students across South Africa took action in the largest protests since the fall of apartheid, occupying their campuses and holding teach ins and demonstrations under the slogan FeesMustFall. After 10 days they forced the government to back down and declare that fees which they (...)
South African student protests fuse decolonization, race and class politics – and win big An historic victory over South African neoliberalism was just won through the most intense three-week burst of activist mobilization since liberation from apartheid in 1994. The university students have (...)
Communiqué issued by students of the campus of Wits, Johannesburg The government has addressed 0%. Let it be known that we are not satisfied with this. We are still waiting to be addressed on ending outsourcing at universities and on free education. There is a reason why we took a decision (...)
What died in Pretoria on 23 October 2015? The quick answer to this question, a weekend after the lifting of the barricades, is also the most undemanding answer: the African National Congress of Jacob Zuma and Blade Nzimande died. Thing is, you can’t stay long in this thought without bumping into (...)
Mere ‘be-nice’ appeals and marches are not making any dent in the root causes of xenophobia or in state policies
Political symbols in South Africa are here today, gone tomorrow, but oppressive political economy endures. At surface level, an explosion of anti-racist activism amongst the most (...)
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Rural Women Condemn Xenophobic Attacks
Unite and Build Common Humanity!
South Africa, 16 April 2015. The Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) is a regional movement of rural women that works across 9 countries in the SADC region. We work and struggle side by side with the rural (...)
The National Working Committee of the United Front is outraged by the recent outbreak of violence in Soweto and elsewhere, especially against other Africans. We must act now before it spreads further!
These explosions of xenophobia are not knew and will overwhelm us if we do not act (...)
Most commentators have got the idea of the United Front wrong, and many important points from the national congress in December were overlooked.
Since its December 2013 special national congress’ call for trade union federation Cosatu to sever its ties with the ANC, the decisions of the (...)
Globally we are experiencing the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s. Wars and counter-revolutions stretch from the Middle East to the far East to Africa and the Americas.
Imperialism knows no constraint. The devastating ecological and climate crises are (...)
ASK ANY NUMSA SHOP steward what happened to the once-mighty National Union of Miners (NUM). How did it allow its membership to collapse? You’ll very likely be met with a consistent answer: ‘social division’.
This is the term NUMSA stewards use to describe the social, economic and political divide (...)
Numsa not planning to overthrow government
Sunday 30 November 2014 06:50
SABC
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has rejected reports that it and other forces are plotting to overthrow the South African government.
Numsa Western Cape secretary Vuyo Lufele spoke to (...)
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