Irwin Jim News Today

Populist rhetoric by revolutionary Marxist-Leninists can get you bums on seats in a stadium, but not very many on the seats of Parliament, as the electorate has shown.

Nehawu’s actions last week, in which union members blocked the entrances to hospitals, are a consequence of difficult economic conditions – as well as a lack of proper leadership within unions. The really bad news? These volatile realities are likely to only intensify.

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa condemned the killing of its shopsteward at Reagetswe Mining.

While the ramifications of the local election results for the ANC and the main opposition parties have been examined in many areas, it may be that the results of the poll lead to a fork in the road for other organisations too, including the ANC’s thus-far reliable partners, the SA Communist P...