Only Workers Unity Can Overcome Xenophobia
Full responsibility for the outbreak of xenophobic violence must be laid at the door of the Ramaphosa ANC government.
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2019 Election Results
The 2019 general elections will be seen, in time, as the most important since the advent of democracy. For the first time since 1994, less than half of the voting age population cast their ballots. There are 35.8 million eligible voters. Of these 26.8 million are on the voters roll. In other words approximately 9 million are not registered. Only 65.9% of registered voters went to the polls.
What role can Saftu play in uniting the working class?
Workers are under attack by the bosses and the politicians that defend the capitalist profit system. There have been tens of thousands of job losses on top of existing mass unemployment. To boost their profits the bosses will use the new R3,500 poverty-level minimum wage as a wage-ceiling and not a wage-floor.
Reserve bank nationalisation: ANC window dressing
On 7 March President Ramaphosa announced in parliament that the ANC government will nationalise the Reserve Bank. However, coming from the billionaire Ramaphosa, this latest announcement is not aimed at genuinely transforming the lives of working class and poor people.
The Midrand Workers: A hard won victory!
A 24 year campaign for reinstatement of municipal workers dismissed for exposing corruption has finally ended in victory. Izwi spoke to Stena Molepo, convenor of […]
The Ramaphosa Presidency
Ramaphosa’s government is a bosses’ government through to its bone marrow. Ramaphosa’s first budget ensured that the poor and the working class will pay the main price for capitalism’s failures.
Zuma Ousted
Inside two months following his election as ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa has realised the ambition he reportedly set himself whilst still at high school – to become the country’s president.
2017 ANC Conference
Irrespective of the outcome of a possible court process, however, the ANC’s 54th national conference has failed spectacularly to resolve the underlying divisions in the factional war for control of the ANC.
Sassa Crisis Capitalism and Corruption: Two Sides of the Same Bloody Coin!
by Weizmann Hamilton The contract awarded to Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) to distribute social welfare grants to 17 million people reveals everything that is rotten […]
Local Elections Message – Need For a Mass Working Class Party
3 August 2016, will go down at an electoral level, as a turning point in the ANC’s post apartheid history – a point at which the arrow of its political fortunes is now firmly pointing south.
