South Africa

Further articles on 'South Africa':

• 25/11/2014: South Africa: Metalworkers’ union expelled from COSATU
  WASP Reporters
• 03/11/2014: South Africa: Metal workers’ union clashes with Congress of South African Trade Unions
  Moses Mayekiso, WASP President and Numsa founding general secretary (elected while on trail for treason in 1987)
• 11/10/2014: South Africa: "A workers’ party must emerge"
  John Malanga, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)
• 11/09/2014: South Africa: Community protest over corruption widens
  WASP reporters
• 19/07/2014: South Africa: Metal workers’ strike
  By Workers and Socialist Party (WASP – South Africa) Reporters
• 03/07/2014: South Africa: 220,000 metalworkers’ on strike
  Mametlwe Sebei, Workers’ and Socialist Party (WASP) Deputy President
• 27/06/2014: South Africa: Victory in platinum miners’ strike!
  Workers’ and Socialist Party (WASP) statement
• 09/05/2014: South Africa: Elections 2014
  By Weizman Hamilton, General Secretary of WASP
• 24/04/2014: South Africa: Socialist election campaign at full throttle
  Workers and Socialist Party (WASP)
• 15/04/2014: South Africa: Enthusiastic response for WASP ahead of May elections
  Socialistworld.net
• 01/04/2014: South Africa: WASP manifesto launch success!
  Workers’ and Socialist Party (WASP)
• 13/03/2014: South Africa: WASP registers for the 2014 elections
  Workers’ and Socialist Party
• 06/03/2014: South Africa: Radio "Socialist summit"
  socialistworld.net
• 17/02/2014: South Africa: The end of Cosatu?
  WASP (Workers and Socialist Party) Reporters, S Africa
• 12/02/2014: South Africa: Struggles intensify as election draws closer
  By Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)
• 04/02/2014: South Africa: After NUMSA’s Congress
  Workers And Socialist Party (WASP) statement

2013:

• 20/12/2013: South Africa: NUMSA’s bold and historic decision
  Workers’ and Socialist Party
• 07/12/2013: South Africa: Mandela’s legacy
  Weizmann Hamilton and Thamsanqa Dumezweni, DSM (CWI South Africa)
• 05/09/2013: South Africa: Perspectives for the left
  CWI
• 23/08/2013: South Africa: Marikana: workers remember the massacre a year ago
  Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa) reporters
• 17/08/2013: South Africa: One year after the Marikana massacre
  Liv Shange, DSM (CWI South Africa)
• 07/08/2013: South Africa: Limpopo WASP Launch
  Meschak Komani, first published by WASP
• 25/07/2013: CWI Summer School: Seismic convulsions in South Africa
  Nick Chaffey, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
• 13/07/2013: South Africa: Repression defeated - Liv Shange back in South Africa
  By Meshack Komane, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
• 25/06/2013: South Africa: DSM activist threatened with deportation
  DSM (CWI South Africa) correspondents
• 11/06/2013: Obituary: Comrade Kemelo Ernest Mokgalagadi
  Mametlwe Sebei, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)
• 18/05/2013: South Africa: Mass retrenchment threat in mining industry demands mass action
  DSM (CWI South Africa) reporters
• 25/04/2013: Review: ‘South Africa - The Massacre that Changed a Nation’
  Alec Thraves, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
• 24/04/2013: South Africa: Workers and Socialist Party - first steps toward uniting struggles
  Liv Shange, DSM (CWI South Africa)
• 30/03/2013: South Africa: Workers and Socialist launch making waves within the combative SA working class
  Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) reporters
• 22/03/2013: South Africa: Media echo on WASP launch
  CWI
• 21/03/2013: South Africa: Workers & Socialist Party launched in Pretoria
  CWI reporters, South Africa
• 12/03/2013: South Africa: Struggle is the answer to women’s oppression
  Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)
• 21/02/2013: South Africa: Big response for Workers’ and Socialist Party
  Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) General Secretary
• 15/02/2013: South Africa: South African workers support DSM/CWI
  CWI reporter, Johannesburg
• 13/02/2013: South Africa: Democratic Socialist Movement national conference
  Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
• 31/01/2013: South Africa: Battle for control of mining sector
  Weizmann Hamilton, DSM (CWI South Africa)
• 28/01/2013: South Africa: WASP begins to take shape
  CWI reporters, South Africa
• 22/01/2013: South Africa: Twenty arrested in Flagstaff protest for basic services
  Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) reporters
• 11/01/2013: South Africa: Media reports on new workers’ party launch
  socialistworld.net
• 10/01/2013: South Africa – solidarity: Harmony Gold lock-out and mass eviction
  Liv Shange, DSM (CWI South Africa)

2012:

• 20/12/2012: South Africa: Founding of Workers and Socialist Party
  Press Release, 17 Dec 2012, DSM Executive Committee, the Strike and Workers’ Committee Representatives of Bokoni Platinum, Harmony Gold, Anglo Gold Ashanti, Royal Bafokeng and Murray Roberts.
• 11/12/2012: South Africa: From the miners’ strike to a new mass workers’ party
  Interview with Mametlwe Sebei, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa), by Mel Gregson, Socialist Party (CWI Australia)
• 01/11/2012: South Africa: Miners’ struggle continues
  From The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)
• 19/10/2012: South Africa: From apartheid to Marikana
  April Ashley, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) and black members’ rep on Unison national executive (personal capacity)
• 18/10/2012: South Africa: Workers confront brutal South African capitalism
  Alec Thraves, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). Alec has just returned from a visit to South Africa.
• 17/10/2012: South Africa: Strike Committee asks for financial support
  Appeal by Rustenburg Joint Strike Coordinating Committee
• 16/10/2012: South Africa: Striking miners take an important step forward
  Democratic Socialist Movement, DSM (CWI South Africa)
• 15/10/2012: South Africa: National Strike Coordinating Committee launched
  Mametlwe Sebei, DSM (CWI South Africa), speaking at press conference (13 October 2012)
• 13/10/2012: South Africa: Rustenburg workers host first meeting of national strike committee meeting
  Rustenburg Joint Strike Coordinating Committee statement, 12 October 2012
• 12/10/2012: South Africa: ’What are we doing about this government that is killing us?’
  Interview with Mametlwe Sebei, Democratic Socialist Movement, DSM (CWI South Africa)
• 06/10/2012: South Africa: "All out on united strike!"
  Socialistworld.net
• 02/10/2012: South Africa: Support the miners – donate to the Workers’ Defence Fund [updated]
  Weizmann Hamilton and Alec Thraves
• 28/09/2012: South Africa: ’Lonmin settlement a victory - struggle pays!’
  Statement of the Rustenburg Joint Strike Coordinating Committee, 19 September
• 21/09/2012: South Africa: Marikana massacre ignites the mass movement
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa), from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)
• 15/09/2012: South Africa: Paul Murphy MEP speaks on miners’ struggle
  socialistworld.net
• 14/09/2012: South Africa: Miners’ struggle spreads and intensifies
  socialistworld.net
• 07/09/2012: South Africa: Solidarity protests in Nigeria and Ireland
  Socialistworld.net
• 04/09/2012: South Africa: The Marikana Massacre
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
• 24/08/2012: Solidarity: International protests following Lonmin massacre in South Africa
  Socialistworld.net
• 22/08/2012: South Africa: Marikana massacre, the struggle continues
  Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
• 18/08/2012: Britain: [updated] Solidarity with South African miners
  CWI
• 17/08/2012: South Africa: Solidarity with Lonmin’s miners
   DSM (CWI South Africa)
• 14/03/2012: South Africa: One-day general strike shows workers’ willingness to fight back
  Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) Reporters
• 17/02/2012: South Africa: Video of protest against unfair dismissal of mine workers
  Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)

2011:

• 11/11/2011: South Africa: Assembly for working class unity held in Johannesburg
  Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)
• 11/08/2011: South Africa: Equal pay for equal work!
  By Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
• 12/07/2011: South Africa: Hundreds of thousands striking metal workers joined by petrol refinery workers
  Mametlwe Sebei, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)
• 11/06/2011: South Africa: Small but significant steps towards raising independent working class voice at local government elections May 2011
  Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement, South African affiliate of the CWI
• 10/06/2011: South Africa - solidarity needed: 1,400 Rustenburg mine workers still sacked
  By Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), South African affiliate of the CWI

2010:

• 23/12/2010: South Africa: Workers take over factory
  Reporters from DSM (CWI South Africa)
• 29/10/2010: South Africa: Stop union bashing at Supreme Spring!
  Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
• 26/10/2010: South Africa: Workers take over factory to defend jobs
  DSM (CWI in South Africa) reporters
• 13/09/2010: South Africa: Public sector strike “suspended” by union leaders
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)
• 01/09/2010: South Africa: Public sector struggle continues
  Leaflet produced by Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
• 31/08/2010: South Africa: Public Sector workers shut down city centres in day of marches
  Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
• 24/08/2010: South Africa: Government threatens right to strike...
  Pamphlet issued by the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)
• 12/08/2010: South Africa: 1.3 million public servants in one-day warning strike
  Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI in South Africa)
• 10/07/2010: World Cup security: A trial run for impending battles
  Stephen Jolly, Socialist Party (CWI Australia) Councillor, currently in South Africa
• 30/06/2010: South Africa: Socialist Party Councillor speaks to striking miners
  Steve Jolly, Socialist Party (CWI in Australia)
• 23/06/2010: Football: The other side of the World Cup
  Stephen Jolly in South Africa
• 15/06/2010: Football World Cup: Riot police attack workers’ protest at Durban stadium
  CWI
• 21/05/2010: South Africa: Towards a genuine left alternative?
  Edited version of an article by Liv Shange and Weizmann Hamilton, first published in Izwi labasebenzi, paper of the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)
• 16/05/2010: South Africa: Free education proposals
  by Liv Shange
• 15/05/2010: South Africa wins the World Cup ... of inequality
  by Sheri Hamilton, Weizmann Hamilton and Liv Shange

2009:

• 06/12/2009: South Africa: Rustenburg miners’ strike
  Mametlwe Sebei and Weizmann Hamilton, DSM (CWI in South Africa)
• 24/11/2009: South Africa: Rebellion, concessions and repression
  Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
• 03/08/2009: South Africa: Working class masses give president Zuma baptism of fire
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
• 09/05/2009: South Africa: ANC returned to power in landslide
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)

2008:

• 01/10/2008: South Africa: Mbeki dismissed by ANC as president of SA...
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
• 27/08/2008: South Africa: General Strike paralyses the country
  Sabelo Xotyeni, Democratic Socialist Movement, CWI South Africa
• 22/05/2008: South Africa: Xenophobic pogroms reveals capitalism’s barbaric underbelly
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)

2007:

• 06/12/2007: South Africa: As Cosatu presents its Pact to the ANC …
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement, cwi South Africa
• 05/12/2007: South Africa: The Lessons of the June Public Sector Strike
  Democratic Socialist Movement, (cwi South Africa)
• 05/07/2007: South Africa: Trade union leaders call off country’s biggest-ever strike
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa)
• 16/06/2007: South Africa: Public sector workers’ strike enters third week
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI), South Africa
• 07/06/2007: South Africa: Public sector workers in mass fightback
  Weizmann Hamilton of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - the cwi in South Africa)

2006:

• 19/06/2006: South Africa: The Soweto uprising 1976
  Weizmann Hamilton
• 18/05/2006: South Africa: DSM member and shop steward wins reinstatement at Super Spar
  Weizmann Hamilton, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 14/03/2006: South Africa: ANC wins majority but opposition protests reach new levels
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement, Johannesburg, South Africa

2005:

• 07/10/2005: South Africa: Activists’ conference discusses alternative to ANC
  Weizmann Hamilton, Johannesburg, Democratic Socialist Movement (cwi in South Africa)
• 11/08/2005: South Africa: Workers demand their share of economic boom in biggest strike wave since 1996
  Weizmann Hamilton, Johannesburg, Democratic Socialist Movement
• 28/06/2005: South Africa: Powerful general strike against bosses
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI), Johannesburg
• 09/06/2005: South Africa: Arms corruption trial shakes ANC government
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI), South Africa

2004:

• 22/09/2004: South Africa: Cosatu calls for two-day stay away
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement, South Africa
• 17/09/2004: South Africa: Students march for free education
  Liv Rhodin, Durban
• 22/06/2004: Obituary: Nimrod Sejake
  socialistworld.net
• 28/05/2004: South Africa: Warning-protest against exclusions at University of KwaZulu-Natal
  Liv Gustavsson Rhodin, DSM, South Africa
• 30/04/2004: South Africa: Student protests erupt at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg
  Weizmann Hamilton, South Africa
• 21/04/2004: South African general election: ANC wins overwhelming majority
  DSM South Africa
• 14/04/2004: South Africa: Thabo Mbeki set to win election
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement, South Africa

2003:

• 12/07/2003: South Africa: Union leadership attacks workers
  First published in the April-May edition of Izwi La Basebenzi (Voice of the workers), the newspaper of the Democratic Socialist Movement, affiliated section of the CWI in South Africa.
• 09/07/2003: South Africa: The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
  First published in the April-May edition of Izwi La Basebenzi (Voice of the workers), the newspaper of the Democratic Socialist Movement, affiliated section of the CWI in South Africa.

2002:

• 12/10/2002: South Africa: Democratic Socialist Movement conference
  Committee for a Workers’ International, 11 October 2002
• 27/09/2002: Germany: No choice elections
  Sascha Stanicic, Berlin, 26 September 2002
• 25/09/2002: South Africa: Two day general strike set for October
  Issued by the Democratic Socialist Movement, September 2002
• 05/09/2002: South Africa: Powell’s humiliation closes Earth Summit Fiasco
  Weizmann Hamilton, Johannesburg, 4 September 2002
• 03/09/2002: South Africa: Johannesburg Earth Summit
  Weizmann Hamilton, South Africa
• 23/07/2002: South Africa: Cosatu call two day general strike as SAMWU’S mass action breathes life into anti-privatisation campaign.
  Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement, South Africa, 23 July 2002

2001:

• 29/08/2001: South Africa: General strike against privatisation
  Weizmann Hamilton, CWI South Africa