Media Statement by the Advisory Council of CASAC on the impact of Marikana on South Africa's constitutional order We believe that Marikana represents a turning point in South Africa's post-apartheid history. The  question is: in what direction will we now go? The serious violations of fundamental...

South Africa needs to dig itself out of a 19th-century mining business model, academic Mamphela Ramphele said on Wednesday. Speaking at a media briefing ahead of an international leadership education conference in Cape Town, she said a failure to change the nature of the industry was having devas...

Wildcat strikes were the key fighting strategy during the May 1968 protests in France, as too they were during the defiance campaign against apartheid of the 1980s, and early 90s. While the state may have changed, workers still find themselves trapped in the cycle of super-exploitation of labour,...

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WHAT RILES South African's the most about conservative Freedom Front + leader Pieter Mulder's recent statement about Nguni speakers? Is it the view that a history of occupation is the only criteria for considering a land claim? Is it the narrow-minded belief that only some may benefit from the la...

The Cape Time's own fuddy-duddy, the liberal gerontocratic columnist John Scott declaims on Occupy Rondebosch Commons. I could also call him a neo-liberal, but since he doesn't have any new ideas I won't. Appears to have taken his senility medication after a decade of often puerile writing