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. Its primary role is organising and enforcing the exploitation of the working class even when this means downing strikes in bloodshed as we saw at Marikana in 2012 (see leftcom.org).
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 reference to South Africa under Jacob Zuma and was first published in The Con.
South Africa: Land Expropriation from Below Faces Brutal Repression
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 baseMjondolo activist in May 2016 there was a marked decline in the repression faced by Abahlali baseMjondolo. But the recent shooting of an activist in the Bhambayi land occupation seems to mark a return to repression.