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southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Friday December 05, 2014 - 16:14 by Ayanda Kota
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Some NGOs with no membership that cast themselves as "radical" misuse grassroots organisations for their own purposes, writes Ayanda Kota. ... read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Monday December 01, 2014 - 19:46 by Jane Duncan
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The country’s largest trade union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), has expelled the National Union of Metalworkers’ of South Africa (Numsa), for not supporting the African National Congress (ANC). Anyone in South Africa who doesn’t know this news must have been living under a rock for the past week. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Friday January 03, 2014 - 22:19 by Shanti Aboobaker
This important article from the mainstream press in Johannesburg, South Africa, shows that, contrary to the assumptions of most political analysts in South Africa the metal workers' union, which has recently split from the ANC, will not be supporting either Julius Malema and his corrupt and neo-fascist politics or either of the two small Trotskyite parties. Numsa is not an anarchist union but it is rooted in the workerist tradition and has a long history of shopfloor democracy. It is the largest and most militant union in South Africa and its break from the ANC is widely seen as highly significant. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Saturday April 13, 2013 - 18:57 by Malaika Mahlatsi
A critique from within the Black Consciousness tradition in South Africa of a collapse of a faction of that tradition into an authoritarian form of politics. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Tuesday October 09, 2012 - 21:27 by Chris Webb
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About a month ago I stood with some 200 striking farm workers in South Africa's Hex River Valley, a rich agricultural region that produces table grapes for export. The workers were on strike against severe pay cuts and outsourcing, which came about when a major fruit export company took over the farm from its previous owner. The workers were a mixed group. Some were Zimbabwean migrants, but the majority were Xhosa speakers from the more impoverished Eastern Cape, where 72 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line. Most of them currently lived in the valley's informal settlements, expanses of matchbox houses and zinc shacks on the dusty ground between the grape farms. As we marched toward the farm, the workers began to sing struggle songs praising the African National Congress (ANC) and the role of struggle leaders like Oliver Tambo and Chris Hani. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Thursday September 06, 2012 - 17:40 by Vishwas Satgar
The massacre of the Marikana/Lonmin workers has inserted itself within South Africa's national consciousness, not so much through the analysis, commentary and reporting in its wake. Instead, it has been the power of the visual images of police armed with awesome fire power gunning down these workers, together with images of bodies lying defeated and lifeless, that has aroused a national outcry and wave of condemnation. These images have also engendered international protest actions outside South African embassies. In themselves these images communicate a politics about ‘official state power.’ It is bereft of moral concern, de-humanized, brutal and at odds with international human rights standards; in these ways it is no different from apartheid era state sponsored violence and technologies of oppressive rule. Moreover, the images of police officers walking through the Marikana/Lonmin killing field, with a sense of professional accomplishment in its aftermath, starkly portrays a scary reality: the triumph of South Africa's state in its brutal conquest of its enemies, its citizens. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Sunday January 08, 2012 - 23:59 by Ayanda Kota
A true liberation movement would never have killed Andries Tatane, attacked and jailed activists of social movements. It would never send people to lull – it would encourage people to continue organising and mobilising against injustices and oppression. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Monday January 31, 2011 - 14:41 by Steering Committee
The declaration that came out of the Conference of the Democratic Left. It begins, but only begins to indicate the great sense of comradeship, solidarity and unity that the conference was able to develop amongst a very broad range of forces. We had unionists (from all federations,) social movement activists, youth and women, queers, Maoists, Trotskyists, independent Marxists, anarchists, pacifists and many others. We had tough debates, especially about the nature of the formation we were establishing, we had differences and disagreements - even about process, yet we rose to the occasion and have constructed a democratic framework and put in place organisational processes through which we can act together. As the declaration indicates our first task is to build solidarity amongst poor and working people in struggle. We have agreed to build campaigns against unemployment, support struggles for decent services especially housing, fight for land and agrarian reform, join with others in fighting to overcome the education crisis and will join the growing movements for environmental and climate justice: COP 17 is in our sights. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / other libertarian press Sunday August 08, 2010 - 03:11 by Zodwa Nsibande, S'bu Zikode
S'bu Zikode, chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo, and Zodwa Nsibande, secretary of the organisation's Youth League, on the authoritarian left, the world cup, delivery and more. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Thursday March 18, 2010 - 00:34 by Ayanda Kota
The courage and determination of the struggle during the apartheid must serve as an example to the oppressive regime of the Zuma administration that the more you suppress the people the more they resist. It is trough those struggle that we have the Zuma administration today and it is through the street protest and mass mobilization that we will topple this capitalist government and the tenderpreneurs that defend it in the language of the left. ... read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Monday December 28, 2009 - 02:48 by Anti-Privatisation Forum
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The Anti-Privatisation Forum and all of its 30+ community affiliates, are saddened by the passing away of comrade Dennis Vincent Brutus earlier today in Cape Town. Comrade Dennis passed away in his sleep, aged 85. At the same time, we celebrate his incredible life of literary, intellectual and activist principle and commitment to justice and equality for all. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Monday November 09, 2009 - 19:26 by Dale T. McKinley
For several years now, but particularly since the ascendancy of Jacob Zuma and his SACP and COSATU allies within both the ANC and the state, 'the left' in South Africa has come to be almost completely associated with (and presented as) the SACP, COSATU and to a lesser extent, the ANC itself. Even though this state of affairs ignores a wide range of organisations and people that can stake a serious claim to being part of 'the left', the fact is that contemporary politics in South Africa are dominated, in one way or another, by these three alliance partners. As such, it is a good time to pose a critically important question: What is 'left' about 'the left' in South Africa? ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / other libertarian press Wednesday September 09, 2009 - 21:09 by Imraan Buccus
Buccus proposes an alliance between social movements and unions in the wake of the betrayal by the SACP. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Saturday August 15, 2009 - 18:04 by Imraan Buccus
Imraan Buccus argues, against the state and the authoritarian left, for a non-authoritarian response to the popular protests sweeping the country. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Thursday April 23, 2009 - 19:24 by Independent Community Action Network
We as the Independent Community Action Network hereby forward our position on the 2009 Elections: We will definitely boycott the coming elections as they are bourgeoisie elections. None of the parties in this election represent our needs as the poor and the working class masses of this country. We will not partake in an election to choose a new oppressor, a new custodian of capital, a new guardian of poverty. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Monday April 20, 2009 - 22:09 by John Appolis & Dale McKinley
We are now in a world radically different from what it was a mere four months ago. The world economy is collapsing, torn apart by an economic recession. Thousands of workers are being thrown out of work; millions find themselves hungry in the midst of plenty of food; millions are homeless in the midst of houses being repossessed and standing empty. Cement and brick factories are standing idle when millions require shelter. Neoliberal capitalism has over the past thirty years inflicted untold misery onto the world's poor whilst simultaneously making a very small minority filthy rich. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Thursday April 09, 2009 - 21:25 by Dale T. McKinley
At the Durban 'rally' on Tuesday to celebrate the formal dropping of charges against Jacob Zuma, the two most prominent 'communist' leaders in South Africa uttered statements that should make any progressive person shudder. Young Communist League National Secretary, Buti Manamela (who has previously called political opponents 'baboons') had this to say about those who have been on the 'other' side of the long-running Zuma saga: "Thugs, criminals, connivers and witches of the country must be exposed". Not to be outdone, SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande followed this up by stating that if the "witches" were not stopped, "they will do it again in daylight". ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Tuesday May 06, 2008 - 18:42 by Dale T. McKinley *
The character and content of the past and ongoing political, economic, social/humanitarian and (progressive) organisational crisis in Zimbabwe has received huge amounts of analytical and empirical attention from the broad left in Southern Africa and, to a lesser extent, from the global left. Several books, numerous essays/articles, frequent seminars/workshops and countless blogs and emails have been offered on almost every aspect of the crisis. While these efforts have certainly provided much-needed intellectual stimulation/debate, important information, degrees of organisational impetus and knowledge-generation about the crisis, and have often catalysed practical efforts to assist, and be in solidarity with, progressive forces in Zimbabwe, the Achilles heel of the struggle for a new Zimbabwe - the strategy and tactics of resistance/opposition – has, for the most part, been treated as a ‘poor cousin’, forever condemned to sit on the margins of the main ‘conversation’ and struggle. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Tuesday February 19, 2008 - 22:28 by various
In 2006 the two largest social movements in South Africa rejected the appalling Trotskyist authoritarianism of the Centre for Civil Society and Khanya College. For this they were wildly slandered as criminal by the Trots and some people were even sold out to their bosses and threatened with violence. Later that year the authoritarianism of the AIDC was exposed and then, pehaps most shockingly, Lynn Moonsamy, the elected leader of the Crossmoor informal settlement in Durban, issued a statement alleging that she had ben forced out of her home by threats of violence and slander from the Centre for Civil Society. Numerous people in Durban have confirmed the validity of her statement and that people speaking up for her have been threatened in all kinds of ways. Now the ZACF has taken on, directly, Trevor Ngwane's authoritarianism. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Friday December 07, 2007 - 20:47 by Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Cape Town's oldest and biggest radical movement condemns the ongoing attempt by Trotskyist NGOs to use donor money to take over popular movements. ... read full story / add a comment |
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