South Africa

S'bu Zikode's article after Abahlali baseMjondolo's successful anti-electoral campaign in 2006.

This list of police abuses suffered by Abahlali baseMjondolo between 19 March 2005 and 13 November 2007 is an important document of record.

This article by Richard Pithouse, first published in Monthly Review, charts the rise of the militant South African shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo which first emerged in 1995 and has gone from strength to strength since then despite severe state repression.

Following on from previous libcom coverage, South African police opened fire on Delft residents…

1600 residents of Delft, Cape Town gathered on Monday in a mass meeting to organise resistance against the eviction of 2000 of Cape Town's poorest families.

The National Union of Mineworkers called out its 270,000 members on Tuesday in protest at the poor level of safety in South African mines.

A protester was accidentally killed during clashes between police and Soweto residents demanding improved housing conditions.

Miners in South Africa voted on Friday to launch an unlimited strike.

Striking workers in the metal and engineering industries said yesterday it was time they got a slice of the profits that they worked so hard to…

Unions have agreed to a government pay offer just 0.5% above inflation, describing it as "fantastic."

A fascinating and detailed account of a little known international seamens' strike in 1925, lasting…

Statement of support by the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (southern Africa) for the public…