Browsing All posts tagged under »politics«

Economic apartheid & the builders of the world city

November 7, 2013

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Christmas is coming to a world city so it is perhaps time to ask who built it, who is losing out, who is getting fat — and how and why this happens.

In a changed world unions should ditch dogma

October 31, 2013

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Trade unions have the potential to play a vital role in building a better future for all. But they will have to go back to first principles and accept that dogma is anathema.

SA ‘beacon of hope’ still flickers faintly

October 25, 2013

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The moral high ground bequeathed to Suth Africa and its post-apartheid government by the global struggle against apartheid, has also all but evaporated, but faint hope still remains.

Very little ‘sunshine’ for workers

October 4, 2013

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Following a proposal from the SABC that South Africa’s national broadcaster should present 70% “sunshine news”, it seemed appropriate to look at this from a wider — and working class — viewpoint, writes Terry Bell

The worry that is Wonga

September 20, 2013

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There are lessons to be learned and warnings to be heeded in the actions of the legal loan sharks and in reactions to their preying of the most vulnerable sectors of society.

What SA shop stewards really think

August 30, 2013

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Critical elements of a long-awaited survey of the attitudes of Cosatu shop stewards are finally available — and they provide much food for analysis and thought.

Democracy needs labour unity

August 23, 2013

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Unless trade unions go back to basics, back to democratic control, to accountable and recallable union leaders the immediate future for South Africa's labour movement and for the country’s fledgling democracy could be bleak.

Marikana: a wake-up call still ignored

August 15, 2013

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The Marikana massacre was a wake-up call to every concerned citizen to consider the causes of the tragedy in order to be able to say, with hope: Never again.