Tag: Rights

INPUT BY SAFTU GENERAL SECRETARY ZWELINZIMA VAVI AT THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION SEMINAR

THIRTY-TWO YEARS OF DEMOCRACY: A WORKING-CLASS ASSESSMENT OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION Comrades, colleagues, leaders of the movement, intellectuals, veterans of the struggle, and fellow South Africans,I must begin by locating myself.I am not speaking here as a neutral observer.I am not speaking as an academic standing outside the battle.I speak as a trade unionist.I […]

 Stuck Between Promise and Reality

 Soup kitchens, long cold, dry and dark winters Why your local council can’t just make water and electricity free — and what communities can do instead South Africa’s Constitution says everyone has the right to enough water. It says local government must provide basic services fairly. Those are not empty words. They are binding promises. […]

Zionism, anti-Semitism and eugenics

The conflation of the religio-nationalist ideology of Zionism not only with Judaism and the nation state of Israel, but also with antisemitism, continues to be widely promoted. Yet the terminology and the manner of its use grew out of the pseudoscientific racism that flourished in the 19th Century. This came in response to the humanist […]

Zabalaza for Socialism: New Year Message for 2026

Another world is not only possible — it is necessary and urgent We enter a new year in a time of deep crisis and danger. In South Africa, the state under the Government Of National Unity dominated by the ANC continues to fail and collapse. Basic services are crumbling, corruption and patronage flourish, unemployment and […]

Press Statement: CWAO opposes the new NEDLAC Amendment Act, 2025 – here’s why

The new NEDLAC Amendment Bill strengthens an elitist, unaccountable institution that has consistently served capital’s interests. The working class should fight for NEDLAC to be closed down instead. Casual Workers’ Advice Office Press Statement1 December 2025 at 1pm Contact person: CWAO Researcher, Sydney Moshoaliba on 072 509 3587 CWAO opposes the new NEDLAC Amendment Act, […]

On Mamdani and the Invention of Foreigners

DEK:  From indirect rule to Operation Dudula, the lines dividing citizen from stranger trace back to the way empire organized identity and labor. There’s no shortage of analysis when it comes to xenophobia in South Africa. We’ve heard it explained as the outcome of deep structural inequality, the failure of post-apartheid redistribution, or the slow-burning crisis […]
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