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  • South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Relaunches Neoliberalism
    Patrick Bond
    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Relaunches Neoliberalism
    28 Feb 2018
    “In spite of repeated rhetorical gestures from Pretoria to the contrary, the BRICS have amplified unfair and inequitable world order processes.”
  • Major South African Trade Union Federation Welcomes Resignation of Jacob Zuma
    Zwelinzima Vavi
    Major South African Trade Union Federation Welcomes Resignation of Jacob Zuma
    21 Feb 2018
    “Zuma is a creation of the ANC, not the other way around.”
  • NYT Joins Campaign to Purge the Term, “White Monopoly Capital”
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    NYT Joins Campaign to Purge the Term, “White Monopoly Capital” in South Africa
    08 Feb 2018
    “The Times fingered a British p.r.
  • New Evidence of Africa’s Systematic Looting, From an Increasingly Schizophrenic World Bank
    Patrick Bond
    New Evidence of Africa’s Systematic Looting, From an Increasingly Schizophrenic World Bank
    07 Feb 2018
    “’Sub-Saharan Africa loses roughly $100 billion of ANS annually because it is “the only region with periods of negative levels’ of gross national income.”
  • ANC crowd with banners
    Sampie Terreblanche
    The Co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’
    01 Feb 2018
    After the ascendancy of Cyril Ramaphosa to the presidency of the African National Congress (ANC) last month, it is vital to understand deep structural barriers that prevent South Africa’s achieveme
  • Hugh Masekela: No Room for Compromise
    Horace G. Campbell
    Hugh Masekela: No Room for Compromise
    30 Jan 2018
    “Up to the very end he was critical of the way in which the top leadership of the African National Congress had capitulated before international capital.”
  • NUMSA: The South African Union That Confronts New Forms of Apartheid Through Class Struggle
    Phakamile Hlubi
    NUMSA: The South African Union That Confronts New Forms of Apartheid Through Class Struggle
    03 Jan 2018
    “The massacre of the mine workers in August of 2012 was actually the catalyst for the decision that NUMSA made in the following year to break away from the all
  • Sabotaging Apartheid
    Ronnie Kasrils , Marcus Barnett
    Sabotaging Apartheid
    08 Nov 2017
    “We got into what I call a Faustian pact with big business from Mandela onwards.”
  • Reflections on South Africa: Whose Capital, Whose State?
    Yash Tandon
    Reflections on South Africa: Whose Capital, Whose State?
    06 Sep 2017
    The polity, the state and the economy of South Africa are the captives of global empire. Two decades after the fall of apartheid, it's a new day.
  • Finding and deconstructing South Africa's "middle class"
    Henning Melber
    An Anatomy of the Black South African “Middle Class”
    08 Aug 2017
    by Henning Melber
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