South Africa

Ban South Africa coal exports to Israel

From South Africa to Syria: The rising perils for Palestine solidarity

Patrick Bond — The sudden overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria comes at a time that poses profound challenges for solidarity with Palestine in South Africa.
South African workers

South Africa: The populist threat and the response of the left

Amandla! — The ANC-DA Alliance is more deeply committed to neoliberalism than even its predecessors. The need for a consolidated voice of the working class and the poor is greater than ever.
2023 BRICS Summit — alternative to imperialism or an expression of the southern transactional capitalist class?

Multi-polarity: A new alignment?

Jerry Harris — Some see multi-polarity as a new stage of non-alignment, and even the creation of an anti-imperialist bloc. But the economic and political elites of the Global South are too deeply tied to transnational capitalism to be truly independent.
COSATU ANC SACP

Following a crushing defeat, is the ANC-DA coalition a stabilising or aggravating factor in South Africa’s social and political crisis?

Mazibuko Jara and Gunnett Kaaf look at the implications of South Africa’s new coalition government for the African National Congress-South African Communist Party-Confederation of South African Trade Union Alliance, and for the broader polity.
ANC DA GNU

South Africa’s ‘Government of Neoliberal Unity’ is constructed on shaky ground

Patrick Bond — Given declining living standards, an elite transition will not stick nearly as well as Nelson Mandela’s 1994-99 reign. It may be a matter of just months before the centre can no longer hold.
South Africa votes

ANC’s crushing electoral defeat: A nightmare of coalitions, splits and neoliberal crisis

Gunnett Kaaf — Voters have rejected the ANC, but other mainstream parties are not viable alternatives to exit the neoliberal crisis. That’s why South Africa is in the throes of a deepening political and social crisis.
ZASO

Zabalaza for Socialism (South Africa): Down with the Government of National Unity; unite and defend workers and the poor

Zabalaza for Socialism — The elections of May 29 and the inauguration of the Government of National Unity (GNU) mark a critical shift in the country’s political landscape.
Mandela Palestine

South African BDS Coalition’s Salim Vally: The global fight against apartheid Israel has reached a ‘tipping point’

Salim Vally discusses Israel’s war on Gaza and the global campaign against Israeli apartheid.
Mazibuko Jara

The ANC and South Africa’s radical left, 30 years after the first post-apartheid elections: An interview with Mazibuko Jara

Mazibuko Jara looks at the African National Congress’s (ANC) prospects of holding onto power after 30 years in office, and how some of the new right and left forces are likely to fare.
Cheran no political parties

On the eve of the elections, South Africans deserve better — and it exists

Shawn Hattingh — The people of South Africa deserve better and, in some places in the world, we can see glimpses of a better system being built by people themselves, without handing power to politicians.
Global Anti-Apartheid Conference

Toward a global anti-apartheid movement for Palestine: Johannesburg declaration on Israel’s settler-colonialism, apartheid and genocide

The following is the outcome document from the Global Anti-Apartheid Conference held at Johannesburg, South Africa, 11-12 May 2024.
anti-ANC protest

The ANC and South Africa's 2024 elections: A nightmare of coalitions, splits and neoliberal crisis (plus: Amandla!: Elections 2024 — A wake up call for the left)

Gunnett Kaaf — The African National Congress is certainly fighting its most difficult election since the dawn of democracy in 1994.