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This article was first published on the Africa is a Country website. We are publishing a variety of views on the results of the election in order to stimulate debate. Politics during apartheid had a certain straight-line simplicity. It was always pretty clear who the...
This article was first published in City Press. We are publishing a variety of views on the election results to stimulate debate. South Africa held its national and provincial elections on 29 May, amid the 30th anniversary of the end of apartheid. Contrary to...
This article was first published in ROAPE. We are publishing a variety of views on the results of the election in order to stimulate debate. For the first time in South Africa’s 30 years of democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to obtain...
This article was first published on the Elitsha website. We are publishing a variety of views on the results of the election in order to stimulate debate. Populism defined the recent elections, inviting reactionary ideas into the mainstream. What does the outcome of...
Zarina Patel, champion of the workers and women, passed away on 25 April 2024 after a long illness, aged 88. Author, artist, editor, and stalwart of popular movements, she is widely mourned. Her political life, and her research, provide a unique window into the...
*This article is jointly published by Amandla! and the Daily Maverick A Puzzle Bad faith is involved when the billionaire President of South Africa and the ANC, who presides over the world’s most unequal country, dismisses the objections to the NHI Act on the basis...
Having waited what should be the requisite few days for the dust to settle before commenting on something as significant as the dramatic signing into law of the National Health Insurance Bill (NHI) on the 15th of May - I believe it is time for us as a nation to have...
The calls for a Universal Basic Income Guarantee (UBIG) by academics, trade unions, and popular movements, such as the Universal Basic Income Coalition (UBIC) are mounting. There is growing local and international evidence that cash transfers can address some of the...
Parliament’s National Assembly has approved a new version of the notorious ‘Spy Bill’, aka the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill of 2023 (GILAB). A previous version of the Bill, approved by Cabinet last year, called for compulsory security vetting of...