Mining Murders Part 1: An Australian mining company is intent on exploring the Titanium in the dunes of Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape. But it’s pitting neighbour against neighbour, brother against brother as a divided community battles allegations of bribes and...
Source: Amandla! Issue 45 By: Alex Hotz Jeff Rudin has published three articles recently. One of them appears in this issue of Amandla! The other two (“Where are all the ‘good people’?” and “The gallop back to apartheid”) are on similar subjects. This is a response to...
Amadiba Crisis Committee Press state: Our Beloved Chairman assassinated Amadiba Crisis Committee 2016-03 22: Our chairman brutally murdered We are shocked to tell the public that the chairman of Amadiba Crisis Committee, Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe from Mdatya village...
Spinning austerity: The non-existent R16,3 billion increase for higher education “An additional R16.3 billion has been allocated for higher education over the next three years”, Finance Ministeyr Pravin Gordhan said in his budget speech 24 February. A number “R17...
In-depth interviews with John Clark, Nonhle Mbhuthuma and Richard Spoor giving great insight into issues around the Amadiba Mining Conflict https://soundcloud.com/witsradioacademy/sets/law-focus-amadiba-mining-conflict
Sphiwe Mazibuko’s 9 minute documentary exposes the intimidation and violence facing anti-mining activists on the Wild Coast and Zululand, in South Africa. Xolobeni residents have fought for 10 years to prevent an Australian company from mining their titanium rich...
The political budget crisis and alternatives to austerity Dick Forslund (Alternative Information & Development Centre), 04-05 Nov 2015 [in Daily Maverick] Part One The national political crisis unleashed by the student rebellion should be seen as a call for a...
Part Two It is because of self-imposed serfdom that the Treasury has to say, twice, in its Medium Term Budget Policy Statement document, that its “central fiscal objective over the medium term is to stabilise the growth of debt as a share of GDP”. Above we suggested a...
The 2016/17 budget will hurt, but the real pain is still to come. The Minister of Finance has cleverly deferred the real pain to non-electoral years. As for now, the budget is a prisoner of the demands from the credit ratings agencies and the need to stop the...
For as long as there’s capitalism in South Africa, the working class will always be overwhelmingly black because the population is overwhelmingly black. So, too, will the unemployed be permanently black. Poverty will appear to be black; a colour-coding of capitalism’s...
Students from the Witwatersrand (Wits) university in Johannesburg, South Africa, are continuing to protest against tuition fees despite President Jacob Zuma announcing there will be a 0% increase for 2016. Protests started earlier in October after the government said...
When Alexis Tspiras resigned his premiership earlier this month and called for a snap election, it signaled a new round in the ongoing battle between Greece and its creditors. For Tsipras, next month’s election represents an attempt to secure a mandate for the deal...
A year ago, two of the UK’s top climate scientists reviewed the regulations that Obama has now promised to impose. They weren’t impressed … The announcement from the Obama administration that the United State’s power sector would deliver a 30% reduction in emissions...
The debate is over. Now no one can deny that the world is growing warmer and that it is due to capitalist industrial activity. Or they could deny it, but without any supporting evidence in their favor. Even Pope Francis, in his Encyclical Laudato Si0 recognizes that...
What explains the Greek Communist Party’s stance toward Syriza and the euro crisis? by Giorgos Charalambous Recent developments in Greece are reshaping the country’s radical left. Most of the discussion has centered on Syriza and its failure to tackle austerity, as...
A bull run in China’s stock markets has given way to what could be a crash (Chart 1). When the Shanghai Composite Index (SCI) peaked at 5166 in mid June 2015, it had risen by 150 per cent relative to its value at the corresponding time in the previous year. It then...
With deepening economic fears about China, multinational corporations and countries are having to respond to a new reality as a once sure bet becomes uncertain. HONG KONG — The commodities giant BHP Billiton spent heavily for years, mining iron ore across Australia,...
ames Meadway answers some questions about the financial crisis unfolding in China What is the Asian crisis? Why is it happening and how did it start? The short answer here is that a bubble in the Chinese stock market - with share prices rising 150 per cent in the year...
I suppose much of the journo commentariat was born since 2008 and therefore has no memory of TARP, Too Big To Fail, or Jamie Dimon rolling around naked inside a gigantic vat of taxpayer money, so there has been a considerable amount of handwring about how the CCP...
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' decision to resign and push for national elections prior to a SYRIZA congress has forced a split in the party, with 25 SYRIZA members of parliament launching Popular Unity with a public letter on August 20. The grouping is based...
The articles below reflect the inside info on the blackmail of the neoliberal enemy. The outrageous manipulation, power play etc. has not been clearly conveyed in previous material. Its all been a bit abstract. Something we knew, suspected but had little idea of the...
The Eurogroup and the International Monetary Fund have crushed the hopes of a youthful movement that sought to transform a nation and rouse a continent. Beyond the shock that events in Greece have given supporters of the European project, there are other noteworthy...
From the cradle of democracy, a lion has roared. It is difficult to overstate the pressure the Greek people have both endured and defied. A country that has already experienced an austerity-induced economic disaster with few precedents among developed nations in...
As against those on the international left so keen to put the boot in against the Syriza government with the charge that they had abjectly capitulated already with the plan passed in the Greek parliament, it is instructive to read this document from the German finance...