Ayanda Ngila, a leader of the eKhenana Commune in Durban, South Africa, has been assassinated Ayanda Ngidi was murdered by local ANC party thugs in Durban on 8 March 2022. His…
The Apartheid Wars: Non-Accountability and Freedom for Perpetrators Kenneth Good looks at the failure of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.
ANC: The Chosen Party for South African Capitalism The victory of the ANC in the South African election has yet again shown it is the capitalists’ chosen party for running South African capitalism…
New Boss, Same as the Old Boss Essay by Dennis Webster, first published in The Jacobin, on the ascension of Cyril Ramaphosa to the Presidency of the African National Congress.
Manichean Delirium (In the Time of Jacob Zuma) An essay by Richard Pithouse that, drawing on Frantz Fanon, looks at Manichaeism as ideology in the postcolony. The essay makes specific…
South Africa: Land Expropriation from Below Faces Brutal Repression As the ruling African National Congress promises, with an eye on a coming election and the collapse…
Out with the old, in with the not so new The article looks at the structural reasons why Ramaphosa replacing Zuma as the head of state in South Africa won't end corruption.
A return to repression in Durban: activist shot in the back After the conviction and sentencing of two ANC councillors for the murder of an Abahlali…
The capacities of the people versus a predominant, militarist, ethno-nationalist elite: democratisation in South Africa c. 1973 - 1997 From the early 1970s until the end of apartheid there was a major popular…
No Easy Path Through the Embers A reflection on the repression of Abahlali baseMjondolo at the hands of the ANC in the wake of the case against the Kennedy 12 being thrown out of court.
Michael Neocosmos on the Political Meaning of the Attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo An essay by Michael Neocosmos on the political significance of the attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo and the state of democracy in South Africa. He also develops a periodisation of the failures of post-apartheid democracy.
