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WHAT KIND OF ‘SOCIALISM’ IS DEMANDED? (06.06.2008)
The events of recent weeks in South Africa, followed by statements from Cosatu about plotting a new way forward, raise again the spectre of the past. And it is an international past. Especially when these events are looked at against the background of conflicts in regions such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia and the politely […]
TIME TO MAKE UNITY IN DIVERSITY A REALITY (29.05.2008)
October 2, 2010
The death of Walter Ntombela, worker activist, National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) shop steward and father of three has focussed trade union attention on the poison of xenophobia. For Walter, a senior shopfloor leader for the past decade, died because he was from Mozambique. He stayed and worked in Gauteng, an example of the unity […]
A MOST BITTER ‘WEEK OF TEARS’ (22.05.2008)
October 2, 2010
This week, South Africa experienced a week of tears as xenophobic violence shattered much of what remained of the image of this country as a beacon of peace and tolerance. Our transition to a liberal parliamentary democracy was seen by many as the harbinger of a new society, despite surging crime levels, unemployment and lingering […]
LOOKING FOR ANSWERS TO POWER, PRICES AND THE POOR (15.05.2008)
October 2, 2010
High powered delegations from all three main trade union federations were busy yesterday (subs: Thursday) “putting flesh on the bones” of their submission to the energy summit which convened in Johannesburg this morning. The summit brings together a wide range of interest groups to discuss and hopefully to plot ways out of the power crisis. […]
A POLITICAL TSUNAMI AND ITS AFTERMATH (08.05.2008)
October 2, 2010
A tsunami is a dangerous and almost entirely destructive event, a wave that sweeps all before it, damaging and destroying. Which is why it seemed unfortunate that Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi chose, before the last Cosatu congress, to refer to the the growing groundswell of support for the country’s then sacked deputy president, Jacob […]
SIGNIFICANT MAY DAY FOR SWAZILAND (24.04.2008)
October 2, 2010
As May Day 2008 looms, the army of the working poor and the legions of the unemployed are being force marched to still greater hardship. Nowhere more so than in Africa’s last feudal monarchy, Swaziland, which is impacted directly by rising inflation in South Africa..
PLAYING THE BLAME GAME (17.04.2008)
October 2, 2010
The government and the Eskom bosses screwed up. Therefore we, the consumers, have to pay and the country as a whole — besides those with private generators — will have to suffer. Now, to add insult to injury, the army of the working poor have been told to turn themselves into micro farmers. “Feed yourselves,” […]
GETTING TO THE ROOTS OF CRISIS (10.04.2008)
October 2, 2010
One of the great problems with the politics of protest is that it all too often targets the symptoms of an ill rather than the cause. In other words, much protest aims to prune the possibly poisonous twigs and branches of a noxious plant, without getting to the stem, let alone the root. This is […]
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October 2, 2010
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