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Bitter background to stalled pay talks
A deeply emotional background underpins the stalled platinum sector wage talks — and it long predates the bloodshed at Marikana on August 16, 2012
Pay gap fuels university protest
March 9, 2014
The wage and welfare gap is proving a potent political weapon. And it was wielded with considerable effect at South Africa's University of the Western Cape (UWC) last week.
Missing the point on Women’s Day
March 9, 2014
The founders of International Women's Day would be spinning in their graves given the way the day is now, for the most part, celebrated.
Marikana: the pain SA ignores at its peril
March 8, 2014
Warnings that SA will ignore Marikana at its peril, today seem even more appropriate than they did only days after the massacre.
Marikana and the 2014 elections
March 5, 2014
Most of the public, along with the media, appear stunned that miners on the platinum belt have maintained their strike for nearly two months. They need only to consider the depth of bitterness caused by the bloodbath at Marikana,
A democratic answer to escape from crisis
March 1, 2014
Crisis-ridden capitalism is past its sell-by date and has become destructive, but a democratic way out beckons. All it requires is political will and organisation. The programme and the technology exist.
SA faces it most critical election since 1994
February 28, 2014
The results of the May 7 South African general election — the most critical in the 20 years since the transition from apartheid — including abstentions and spoiled ballots should be a good measure of the mood of the country.
Terry Bell Writes 
March 16, 2014
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