Is the township economy a route to empowerment?
Since the pandemic, we’ve heard several government officials saying that the ‘township economy’ is ‘vital to South Africa’s recovery’. Following a xenophobic clause in the Gauteng government’s [...]
What is South Africa’s problem with alcohol?
‘Doubtless, flooding this scenario with alcohol can be like squirting lighter fluid on a fire. But remember that some 40% of the cases in the domestic abuse study above happened without the [...]
Corona wealth crisis
As we are being abruptly rushed back into workplaces and schools and shared transport even while infections rise – or hustled out of employment with no social support as the economic [...]
“Will I be next?” Why the death penalty won’t protect us (and what might).
The magnificent women’s protests in Cape Town in early September 2019 were a raging fire of hope in a dark time. The rape and murder of UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana should once and for all put [...]
The Public Protector VS The Presidency
The independence of the public protector only goes as far as their failure to seriously challenge whoever is in power. Socialists are under pressure to take a side in the recent uproar over the [...]
Land and the Making of the Black Working Class
What is more remarkable than Miriam Makeba condensing thepolitical-economic history of South Africa into a song, is how smoothly racial capitalism naturalised the giant theft of labour power [...]
The Casualities of Cola – outsourcing and exploitation
Claire Ceruti interviews Thabo Zondo I joined ABI in 1987. I worked for ten years without promotion, the reason being I was an activist in the township In my early days, I changed many things. [...]
Were the Rosettenville attacks xenophobic?
Were the Rosettenville attacks xenophobic, or a legitimate response to frustrations about the failure of the police to deal with criminals and drugs in proletarian communities? The incidents [...]
Going to the roots of the SACP’s political weakness
The SACP’s latest strategy document is called: “Going to the root: a radical second phase of the National Democratic Revolution” (October 2014). The parts of the document which are radical are [...]
