Southern Africa
Forty arrested at Cape Town Occupy
By Iqra Qalam, January 31, 2012
Forty people were arrested last Friday in a brutal police crackdown on an Occupy Rondebosch Common demonstration in Cape Town, South Africa.
Social tensions rise as South African economy slows
By Zac Hambides, January 17, 2012
With real unemployment at 36 percent, social tensions are mounting in South Africa amid a marked economic slowdown.
South Africa’s ANC at 100: A balance sheet of bourgeois nationalism
By Bill Van Auken, January 11, 2012
The centenary celebration by South Africa’s ruling African National Congress provides a fitting occasion for a balance sheet on the character and fate of bourgeois nationalist movements.
Municipal Workers join South African strike wave
By Susan Garth, August 30, 2011
Municipal workers organised in the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (Imatu) have joined South Africa’s continuing strike wave.
Record level of strikes in South Africa
By Susan Garth, August 1, 2011
The number of days lost in strikes across South Africa approached 30 million at the end of July.
State repression stepped up as strike wave grows in South Africa
By Susan Garth, July 18, 2011
Engineering workers in South Africa are in the second week of a strike calling for a 13 percent pay rise.
Letter from South Africa
Malema prophesies ‘nationalisation’ of mining
September 14, 2010
South Africa’s black economic empowerment legislation has become the preferred route to riches for the ANC elite while the majority continue to struggle.
China-South Africa deals highlight great-power rivalry in Africa
By Zac Hambides, September 13, 2010
To the consternation of the Western powers, the Chinese regime is seeking to exploit Africa’s vast natural resources, cheap labour and new markets via South Africa, which is the largest investor in the continent, outside of the US and Europe.
International lessons of the South African public service strike
By Ann Talbot, September 13, 2010
Union leaders were chased out of a meeting in Johannesburg when they told striking public service workers that their three-week strike was over.
South African unions attempt to impose settlement on striking public service workers
By Ann Talbot, September 9, 2010
The three-week strike by 1.3 million South African public service workers, including teachers, hospital workers and civil servants, ended on Monday when unions instructed the strikers to return to work pending further discussions.
Class struggle erupts in South Africa
By Ann Talbot, August 27, 2010
The strike by 1.3 million public service workers in South Africa represents a significant escalation of the international class struggle in response to the global recession and the austerity measures that governments have adopted worldwide.
South Africa: ANC government uses police, army and courts against strikers
By Ann Talbot, August 23, 2010
Strikers at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto and Helen Joseph hospital in Johannesburg were attacked by South African police using water cannon and rubber bullets last week.
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