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A Turkish lesson for democrats everywhere
The latest snub to the rule of law in South Africa came this week with the sacking of SABC journalists by management in flagrant disregard of the ruling made by the Independent Communications Authority. It follows a litany of questionable official actions, comments and downright disregard for the judicial system, the labour laws and, in […]
The ticking time bomb of Swaziland
April 19, 2015
There is official silence in South Africa silence about the feudal monarchy in Swaziland. As a result, labour activists have every right to ask whether the “beacon of hope and democracy” that SA was professed to be is being dimmed by the acceptance of autocracy and so-called traditional cultural values.
A Cold War shadow looms in South Africa
November 6, 2012
In the face of the ongoing global economic crisis, with massive unemployment and a wage and welfare gap perhaps second to none anywhere, South Africa is now confronting the shadow of the Cold War. And it looms large in the background, despite most of the current media focus on the recent strike wave and the impending elective conference of the governing African National Congress.
Cold War echoes & trade union reform
September 28, 2012
Both the Cold War and the bitter battles between communists and social democrats in Germany of the Thirties found an echo at the 11th Cosatu national congress in Midrand last week. These came in speeches and in often angry comments from delegates in debates about international affiliation.
Terry Bell Writes 
July 23, 2016
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