Zuma presidency: Moving beyond the clichés
Is celebrating the dawn of a consensus-driven presidency premature? Thabo Rapoo suggests that we need to look beyond the president’s …
Vol 33 No 3 Aug/Sept 2009
Xenophobia: Calling government to account
It is just over a year since the outbreak of xenophobic attacks. Duncan Breen and Tara Polzer contend that South …
Women-only trade union: Korea leads the way
In Korea most women workers are casual labourers so a women-only trade union was launched. The Korean Women’s Trade Union …
Unusual tribute to Cosatu’s Violet Seboni
Robert Pozniak, co-owner of Supreme Hat and Cap and Violet Seboni’s employer pays tribute to Cosatu’s second deputy president who …
Unionist’s impression of Palestine
The South African Transport & Allied Workers Union’s Zico Tamela recently visited Palestine on the invitation of the Boycott National …
Tranformation from above: Blueprint for soccer’s radical change
In the final part of SALB’s series on the state of South African soccer Dale T. McKinley calls for deep …
Silence makes this possible
Gabeba Baderoon is one of South Africa’s startling new women poets. Makhosazana Xaba quizzes her about the South poetry scene …
Rich bailed out, workers sold out: Brutal reality of global crisis
According to Shawn Hattingh the global economic crisis is beginning to show an overriding trend. The rich elite are using …
Open invitation to death: Workers on roofless vehicles
South Africans have read from time to time about horrific accidents where workers at the back of open trucks and …
Not so sweet history of sugar unions in South Africa
To this day there is competition between the sugar unions in Kwazulu-Natal. Jason Hickel traces this rivalry from the early …