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THE AFRICAN NATIONAL Congress is certainly fighting its most difficult election since the dawn of democracy in 1994. This may sound like a cliché that gets echoed every election, but now it’s true. The unabated decline of the electoral support of the ANC has been...
WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT is the profound effect this election is going to have on shaping the medium-term political landscape in the country. That means that it’s going to have a profound effect on how to go about trying to construct a Left party. And there are major...
THE COMING 2024 NATIONAL AND provincial elections are the most significant since the ’94 ‘freedom elections’. Yet once again there is no credible left-wing or anti-capitalist force contesting. By all accounts, the ANC is not likely to win an outright majority, and new...
Inevitably, the feature of this issue focuses on the election – but with a difference. We are more interested in placing the election in the broader context of building the Left and popular organisations than in pondering the details of which party will get how many...
The international trade in diamonds, worth $87 billion in 2021, conceals the fact that the industry is a significant source of funding for the genocidal apartheid regime in Israel. Israel’s genocide in Gaza, now in its sixth month, has killed at least 32,000 people,...
On 21 March 1960, in the township of Sharpeville, 69 people died, and 180 were wounded when police fired on a peaceful crowd that had gathered in protest against the pass laws. This iconic date in the history of South Africa is the day we commemorate as Human Rights...
Since the inauguration of President Bola Tinubu, a wave of fee hikes has swept through public universities and secondary schools in Nigeria. Across numerous campuses, students have risen in response to these policies, registering their dissent through campaigns,...
A desperate humanitarian crisis is underway in Haiti. Since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, the country has been gripped by crippling levels of gang violence characterized by regular street battles, kidnappings, sexual assault, and the...
Eddie Webster has left us. The hole in the world that he left is large indeed. He passed away on Tuesday, 5 March, from a heart attack at the age of 81. More than anyone else, Eddie Webster remade the field of industrial sociology in South Africa, but his impact was...