Year of fire: industrial action in 1998
A report by Jeremy Baskin and Renee Grawitsky analyses the reasons for the upsurge in industrial action this year and …
Issue
Zambia for sale: privatisation and the labour movement
Zambia’s privatisation programme has been touted as the most successful in Africa. Yet it has impoverished workers and split the …
Yet another collection of irrevent postcards from our correspondent on the front-line
Speculating the end of the tripartite alliance between the ruing African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and …
Zambia’s Nationalisation: Any Lessons for South Africa
At the ANC Youth League’s recent congress it again called for the nationalisation of South Africa’s mines. Neo Simutanyi discusses …
Yet another summit bits the dust the GDS two years on
The second anniversary of the Growth and Development Summit (GDS) slipped by very quietly while the media’s focus lay elsewhere. …
Zambia’s seconds subordination: re-colonisation through neo-liberalism
Glenn Adler traces the roots of Zambia’s subordination within southern Africa. Attachments Zambia's second subordination. re-colonisation through neo-liberalism_0 (5 …
You believed the man: Policing domestic violence
Police are often blamed for their ineffectual policing of domestic violence. While there are clearly problems with the way some …
You can’t be a gangster and be secret out it: Policing gangs in Elsies River
According to Antony Altbeker who accompanied an Elsies River police team on patrol, policing the Cape Flats is a war …
You can’t eat democracy
Interview
You Can’t Operate in an Unrest situation
Recently COSATU met with several employers’ associations, including the Federated Chamber of Industries (FCI), to demand that they oppose the …