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COSATU National Day of Action: A Stand for Decent Work and Working-Class Solidarity

To mark the International Day for Decent Work, COSATU organised a National Day of Action, a crucial event that advocates for social and economic justice and highlights the ongoing struggles of workers globally.


Europe’s claimed lead in the renewable energy transition offers Africa little to follow

In a world starving for want of good news, the article by the Mail & Guardian’s climate and environmental editor, Ozayr Patel, “Europe records drop in fossil fuels. Africa should do so too” (18 February 2024), might appear to be just


Racism and moral superiority: Much of the world is embroiled in crises analysed and predicted by the left

By Jeff Rudin  Richard Pithouse’s article, “The new racism: Moral superiority” (10 February 2024) is the latest of the left-confusions on race.  Pithouse, the former editor-in-chief of the now-defunct New Frame, won’t object to being assigned to the left. I,


These are dark days for South Africa: The power crisis is worsening, but its effects are not equally felt

By Andile Zulu | The Continent | 21 Jan 2023 It is just three weeks into the new year, and South Africans have spent most of it without consistent power, with little sign of improvement on the horizon. Rolling blackouts of up to 10 hours


Op-Ed | Symptoms of a paranoid dictatorship: Why Numsa has degenerated

Unions should by law be prohibited from owning or having any interest in investment companies. They have wrought havoc in the South African trade union movement.


Public sector jobs under attack

Public sector jobs under attack Dick Forslund | Amandla 77 | August/September 2021 A day or two before the Budget Speech in February 2020, the state employer met with the unions and announced that the third year of the 2018

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