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This article seeks to respond to the questions posed by Amandla! which relate to the South African Left in particular: where is the Left intellectually,

This article seeks to respond to the questions posed by Amandla! which relate to the South African Left in particular: where is the Left intellectually, programmatically and organisationally? What has happened to it, and why has it become so fragmented and marginal? Given the broadness of the questions, it is necessary to engage with them within a particular timeframe. Therefore this article is located in the post-apartheid political moment.

In a recent media statement, the EFF said that people accused of serious gender-based violence should effectively be considered guilty until proven innocent. It’s an astonishing position from a party that has harboured such individuals within its own leadership. In a recent media statement, t...

Privatisation stands to deepen inequalities. But some experts say collaboration between business and government can work in everyone’s interest

This article aims to explain, from an anarchist / syndicalist perspective, the rapid rise and fall of Julius Malema, the controversial and corrupt multi-millionaire leader of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress’s (ANC’s) “youth league” (ANCYL). It is demonstrated that Malema’s posturing as radical champion of the black poor was simply a means to an end: rising higher in the ranks of the ANC, in order to access bigger state tenders and higher paying political office.