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By Michael Neocosmos The never-ending saga of xenophobic violence has again engulfed South Africa. Again the same platitudes are repeated by commentators whose knee-jerk reactions have become so predictable. These reactions are as depressing as the acts of violence...
Over the last few months we have witnessed a wave of new pogroms directed against people of foreign origin, especially township-based shop owners, in a new wave of xenophobic violence. What we have seen is not dissimilar to the actions of European skinheads and neo...
It is an open question how May Day 2015 will be remembered. This year the struggle for Cosatu was played out in several separate and competing rallies and marches. It was clearly impressive that Numsa and some of its allies were able to mobilise a march that police...
By Sphiwe Segodi Thembelihle is an informal settlement to the south of Johannesburg, surrounded by Lenasia, a predominantly historically “Indian”/Asian area. Since 2001, the Thembelihle Crisis Committee (TCC) has been at the forefront of the struggle for the area’s...
Local correspondent “Remember! This is your land! It doesn’t matter what kind of paper we come with. You have the final decision!” – Minister of Minerals and Energy, 12 September 2008. These words of Buyelwa Sonjica, the minister of minerals and energy in 2008, were...
By Saliem Fakir and Ellen Davies Some crises you don’t plan for. The Eskom crisis, however, is the result of poor planning. The current crisis at Eskom is a culmination of particular policy decisions made both during and after apartheid. Faulty energy paradigms,...
By Carl Finamore Franklin Fried devoted more than 70 years to supporting and fighting for freedom, justice, equality, and liberation for working and oppressed people in the U.S. Frank Fried was the principal presenter of folk and popular music in Chicago for a...
Eskom and Municipalities Dear Amandla! The National Treasury has decided to freeze financial allocations to about 60 municipalities on the grounds that these municipalities have failed to honour their financial commitments and have failed to pay Eskom and other...
By Baba Aye A wind of change blew across Nigeria in March 2015, as contentious elections took place in the trade unions and the general polity. The re-emergence of General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the political scene was heralded...