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South Africa: The Massacre that Changed a Nation - BBC2 Wednesday, 24th April, photo BBC screen shot
25 April 2013
Review of 'South Africa: The Massacre that Changed a Nation', BBC2 April 24th
Labour MP Peter Hain returned to his native South Africa to try to discover why the ANC government is losing the support of the black working class
Workers and Socialist Party Registers at the Electorial Commission in Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa, photo S Figg
24 April 2013
South Africa: Workers and Socialist Party
First steps toward uniting struggles: Following the launch of the new Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) on 21 March, work is continuing to complete the formal registration of the party and establish its structures across South Africa, writes Liv Shange, DSM South Africa.
27 March 2013
South Africa: Workers and Socialist Party Launched
On 21 March - coinciding with the 1960 Sharpeville massacre memorial day - over 500 Tshwane workers, mineworkers' delegates, trade union and community activists launched WASP
CWI flag at meeting of Harmony Gold workers, South Africa, February 2013 , photo by DSM
21 February 2013
South Africa: Big response for Workers' and Socialist Party
The conference of the Democratic Socialist Movement pledged to continue the fight against the brutal mining bosses and ruthless South African capitalists, writes Peter Taaffe
6 February 2013
South Africa: Battle for control of mining sector
The threat by mining giant Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) to close four shafts, sell one mine and lay off 14,000 mineworkers in their Rustenburg operations is an open challenge to the entire working class
9 January 2013
South Africa: Founding of Workers and Socialist Party
An event that has the potential to change the political landscape of South Africa was marked in the founding of a new political party.
South African miners on strike 2012
12 December 2012
South African miners' struggle
'An historical faultline': The recent determined struggle of South African miners, who have braved bloody repression by state forces, has created political shockwaves throughout the country...
31 October 2012
South African miners: the struggle continues
Following the massacre at Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa, in August, readers will be shocked and disgusted to learn of the on-going horrendous attacks on striking miners...
10 October 2012
South Africa: 'What are we doing about this government that is killing us?'
An interview with Democratic Socialist Movement member Mametlwe Sebei, who is playing a leading role in the Marikana platinum miners' strike committee; plus two articles on South African history as part of series marking Black History Month
Mine workers hits the ground as firing starts - Russia Today video still
5 September 2012
South Africa: Marikana massacre ignites a political volcano
In the face of widespread anger, the National Prosecuting Authority has been forced to provisionally withdraw the murder charges against the 270 Lonmin platinum miners arrested after the 16 August Marikana massacre and to release them
29 August 2012
Notting Hill carnival-goers support Lonmin miners
Socialist Party members joined thousands of Londoners at the Notting Hill carnival on Bank Holiday Monday, campaigning for solidarity with South African Lonmin mineworkers, writes Neil Cafferky.
22 August 2012
Stop the exploitation of workers by ruthless multinational: Trade unionists in Britain have been stunned by the scenes of slaughter on TV from the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa, writes Rob Williams.
1 September 2010
General strike movement sweeps South Africa
THE COSATU trade union federation in South Africa has warned the African National Congress (ANC) government to meet 1.3 million public sector workers' demands for an 8.6% pay increase and a housing allowance of R1,000 a month, writes Weizmann Hamilton of the Democratic Socialist Movement in South Africa.
9 June 2010
Soccer World Cup 2010: South Africa, the ugly backdrop to the beautiful game
NOTHING SYMBOLISES more graphically the ugliness that forms the backdrop to the beautiful game than all the scandals, corruption and greed surrounding the 2010 World Cup, writes Sheri and Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement, South Africa.
6 May 2009
ANC returned to power in election landslide
ON 22 APRIL, in a record turnout that reversed falls in voter registration and polling in the two previous elections, 17.9 million voters - the highest number since the first democratic elections in 1994 - returned the African National Congress to power in a landslide, falling short of a two-thirds, writes Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI, South Africa).
8 October 2008
Mbeki dismissed by ANC as South Africa's president
THE RESIGNATION of South Africa's president Thabo Mbeki on 20 September after being 'recalled' by the executive committee of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) allied to Mbeki's rival - Jacob Zuma - has plunged the ANC into its most serious political crisis and a potential split. Weizmann Hamilton of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM, CWI in South Africa) explains the background and the likely consequences.
15 September 2005
South African workers gatecrash capitalists' party
South Africa: IN THE biggest strike wave since 1996, South African workers recently went onto the offensive demanding a share of the economic boom...
25 September 2004
Biggest Public Sector Strike In South Africa's History
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1 May 2004
TEN YEARS ago saw the first election in post-Apartheid South Africa where the entire adult population, black, white and coloured, was entitled to vote. ...
24 April 2004
South Africa: ANC wins Overwhelming Majority
THE AFRICAN National Congress's (ANC) overwhelming majority in South Africa's general election - nearly 70% of the vote - has predictably been hailed by its leadership and most of the media as a ringing endorsement of its policies...
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