South Africa

Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
F.W. de Klerk: Requiem for a Racist Murderer
17 Nov 2021
F.W. de Klerk was the last apartheid president of South Africa. But remnants of that system remain, and the struggle continues to completely erase the legacy of apartheid criminality.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Zuma Imprisonment: “Riots” or “Insurrection” in South Africa?
21 Jul 2021
In the wake of the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma on corruption charges, two South African provinces were swept by riots that current President Cyril Ramaphosa called an attempted “insurrec
Pavan Kulkarni
Massive General Strike in South Africa Highlights Demand for Radical Policy Changes
03 Mar 2021
Millions of workers took part in the general strike on February 24, according to the South African Federation of Trade Unions which called for the labor action.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops
29 Dec 2020
“South African police kill between two and three times as many people as US police do, per capita,” said Paul Clarke, a doctoral candidate in African and American Studies who has d
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat
A Milestone for South African Shack Dwellers Movement
14 Oct 2020
Abahlali baseMjondolo celebrates 15 years of revolutionary struggle for land, housing and dignity.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Kwaito” Music Moves South African Youth
06 Jul 2020
Xavier Livermon, professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, sees “many parallels” between the US-based Hip Hop phenomenon and the Kwaito music belo
Achille Mbembe
Blacks From Elsewhere and the Right of Abode
15 Jan 2020
Sorrowing over the treatment of migrants, Achille Mbembe calls for Africa to adopt a pro-migration stance, phase out colonial borders and become “a vast space of circulation.”
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Talking Marxism But Serving Capitalism in South Africa
14 May 2019
South Africa is the only place in the world where the entire Black political class speaks in the language of Marxism-Leninism, even when they are in cahoots with Big Capital.
Rafael Stedile
Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party launched in South Africa
10 Apr 2019
Over a thousand gathered in Johannesburg to attend the Launch Congress of the party which seeks to build socialism in South Africa
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
South African Sex Workers Embrace Feminism
12 Mar 2019
By studying feminism, sex workers learned “that self-identification of being a feminist actually strengthened our sex worker rights politics,” said Nkozo Yingwana, a doctoral