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Another breach in ANC-led alliance
Another Cosatu union has broken ranks with the ANC-led alliance, but still maintained a toehold "in th absence of any alternative".
Beware “activists” with no knowledge of struggle history
February 21, 2014
FYI: This is the Man Friday column of Cape Times assistant editor Tony Weaver who, like myself, has been subject to defamatory comments by a group claiming to support “real transformation” and giving uncritical support to the new regime at Independent Newspapers and the existing political establishment. OH DEAR, oh dear. Pastor Wesley Douglas (remember […]
SA workers resist the lure of spin
February 18, 2014
This is the first in the new series of Inside Labour. It appears initially on the Fin24 digital platform and in the Sunday City Press newspaper in South Africa. The curse of spin and speculation is well and truly upon us in South Africa. It could hardly be otherwise, with a major strike on the […]
The transformative farce of Davos
January 31, 2014
Calling on the richest people in the world to transform the economic system seems to amount to the extraordinary belief that "the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of us all”.
Inside Labour: solidarity means the fight goes on
January 29, 2014
I am honoured and humbled by the incredible support given, and solidarity expressed, since my Inside Labour column was, earlier this month, canned. Such solidarity means: the fight goes on.
What 2014 holds for SA & the labour movement
January 22, 2014
In broad terms, 2014 could be the most critical year for South Africa since the transition from apartheid. But most of the problems already evident will remain in place.
The need for real media transformation
January 14, 2014
Transformation of the South African media is essential. But it has more to do with training and professionalism than with the pigmentation of the practitioners, let alone the owners.
Clarity, Kriel & the Cape Times
December 28, 2013
A lack of adequate resources and asset-stripping by the Irish carbetbagger Tony — now Sir Anthony — O'Reilly are the real problems with the Cape Times, not the undeniable quality, let alone pigmentation, of the staff.
Terry Bell Writes 
February 23, 2014
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