Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Imraan Buccus is senior research associate at the Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute and a research fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s school of social sciences.
The journalist is among more than 50 reporters who have died at the hands of the Israeli regime and is remembered for bravely giving a voice to Palestinians.
Some deaths cannot matter more than others and neither can some conflicts be treated as more horrendous than the rest. But that is what the West seems to be saying.
The party of socialist Black Consciousness has fresh leaders and a pact with the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania to begin working on the local level to create a viable and radical Left.
Progressive programmes that benefit the majority could radically change our society, but only if the kleptocrats and their attacks on democratic infrastructure are stopped.
The ANC will undoubtedly suffer the same fate as most of the parties in Africa that replaced colonial powers in government. It’s what replaces it that should exercise the Left.
He was a doctor to everyone, the impoverished and the comfortable. And as apartheid’s forces inflicted injury on protesters, he treated their wounds. He should be better known.
Before we can develop alternatives and build popular power, we need a searching examination of our many complex problems, including what exactly took place during the July riots.
Transcending the colonial fabrication of race is a radical idea. Now, as opportunists whip up hatred, South Africa needs to restore this emancipatory horizon.
Democracy will not survive in its current form with such extreme rates of unemployment. It will either be rolled back or deepened.
Israel’s legitimacy is dwindling in many countries around the world as a groundswell of solidarity with the Palestininian struggle develops at grassroots level. South Africans should add their voices.
A newly published analysis of Nelson Mandela as a historical figure and not a sell-out or a saint is an important addition to the canon of critiques about him.
South Africa needs a popular force to stop increasingly organised threats against migrants, including thuggery by so-called Umkhonto weSizwe veterans.
While the defeat of Donald Trump is a cause for celebration, the win by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, supporters of austerity and global imperialism, comes with its own problems.
South Africa can learn much about progressive governance from the South American nation, where the Movement Towards Socialism won back power in a landslide after last year’s coup.
Anton Harber’s new book is an excoriating examination of the manipulation and collapse of the integrity of the Sunday Times newspaper during the later Jacob Zuma years.
After years of division and, in some cases, corruption, trade unions are taking a shared and principled position against graft in the ANC, obliging the president to act or risk being ousted.
Deep pessimism is widespread in Durban. But its level of popular organisation outweighs that of any other South Africa city in scale, sophistication and duration, giving cause for national hope.