Dale McKinley
South Africa's ANC: Mistaking consequence for cause
South Africa’s corporatised liberation: A critical analysis of the ANC in power
By Dale McKinley
March 31, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Pambazuka News — The ANC has become the key political vehicle, both in party and state form, of corporate capital; both domestic and international, both black and white, both local and national, and constitutive of a range of different ‘fractions’ of capital.
South Africa's 'freedom journey' stalled by poverty, unemployment and inequality
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South Africa: The political significance of NUMSA's expulsion from COSATU
NUMSA members dance at a demonstration.
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By Dale McKinley, Johannesburg
November 10, 2014 -- South African Civil Society Information Service, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with the author's permission -- It is arguably the most important political development of South Africa’s post-1994 era. In the early hours of November 8, South Africa’s largest union, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), was expelled by the majority of the leadership belonging to South Africa’s largest union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).
The political significance of NUMSA’s expulsion derives from three key, inter-related areas of impact.
South Africa: 'The SACP has become a vanguard of ANC power factionalism'
South Africa's ANC president Jacob Zuma (right) dances with SACP general secretary Blade