Du Plessis: New political era dawning – ANC’s future Opposition is a Labour...
To understand the present, read history. Trade union Solidarity’s General Secretary Gideon du Plessis helps us to cut through the noise and confusion in this excellent blog where he traces the roots of...
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The apartheid-era land use system caused degradation of land, Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana has said. “All these forms of degradation have compromised the capacity of black rural communities to...
View ArticleMaize price fixing probe. Cosatu concerned traders manipulating drought.
CAPE TOWN, Jan 19 (Reuters) – South African competition authorities said on Tuesday they would investigate allegations that soaring maize prices were being manipulated by traders to the detriment of...
View ArticleHerbst: ANC & Western Cape farmers – an affair set to spark food riots
By Ed Herbst* “I am a farmer. It is not for sissies, trust me. They get murdered. There is no security. They are prone to be violently attacked and murdered, land tenure is under threat. We have to...
View ArticleKnives out in the final act of Zuma’s tragi-comedy?
OK, now it’s getting serious. When three members of Zuma’s cabinet demand that he step down and that a secret vote be held to finally settle the matter (at an NEC meeting this last weekend), that’s...
View ArticleZuma survives three gruelling days of NEC attacks.
When influential members of your own cabinet ambush you with a surprise call for your resignation, you must feel the pressure – jetting off to Cuba to attend Fidel Castro’s funeral immediately...
View ArticleDu Plessis: New political era dawning – ANC’s future Opposition is a Labour...
To understand the present, read history. Trade union Solidarity’s General Secretary Gideon du Plessis helps us to cut through the noise and confusion in this excellent blog where he traces the roots of...
View ArticleMinister says apartheid caused land degradation
The apartheid-era land use system caused degradation of land, Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana has said. “All these forms of degradation have compromised the capacity of black rural communities to...
View ArticleMaize price fixing probe. Cosatu concerned traders manipulating drought.
CAPE TOWN, Jan 19 (Reuters) – South African competition authorities said on Tuesday they would investigate allegations that soaring maize prices were being manipulated by traders to the detriment of...
View ArticleHerbst: ANC & Western Cape farmers – an affair set to spark food riots
By Ed Herbst* “I am a farmer. It is not for sissies, trust me. They get murdered. There is no security. They are prone to be violently attacked and murdered, land tenure is under threat. We have to...
View ArticleKnives out in the final act of Zuma’s tragi-comedy?
OK, now it’s getting serious. When three members of Zuma’s cabinet demand that he step down and that a secret vote be held to finally settle the matter (at an NEC meeting this last weekend), that’s...
View ArticleZuma survives three gruelling days of NEC attacks.
When influential members of your own cabinet ambush you with a surprise call for your resignation, you must feel the pressure – jetting off to Cuba to attend Fidel Castro’s funeral immediately...
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