MINISTER PRAVIN GORDHAN RUNS A CABAL AND OPERATES A PARALLEL STATE APPARATUS IN SOUTH AFRICA Immediately after the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) Press Conference, on Tuesday, 16thOctober 2018, [...]

By Professor Elmien du Plessis In his farm novel Donkerland, Deon Opperman states that there is no place in history where one can stand back far enough and in telling your story be able to claim: [...]

Economic Freedom in Our Life’s time, is beyond our reach The world bank report(Overcoming Poverty and Inequality in South Africa : An Assessment of Drivers, Constraints and Opportunities) that [...]

The tiny African monarchy formerly known as Swaziland officially changed its name to “eSwatini” earlier this week in order to indigenize its identity and – in the words of King Mswati III – [...]

SAFTU condemns private-sector corruption More evidence is now emerging to support the view of the South African Federation of Trade Unions that the epidemic of corruption and fraud which has [...]

Ramaphosa no better leader than the rest: Towards the Polokwane conference, we were told how Zuma was a man of the people, a unifier and friend of the working class. Again, the media favored [...]

Is a coup indeed…albeit a soft one It is definitively a coup, the variance is in the characterization of the coup. Bizarrely, the coup emanated from internal political party mechanics that did [...]

Rudderless ANC surrendered radical economic transformation struggle immediately after their unbanning Over 40 years ago, Steve Bantu Biko said, ‘There is no running away from the fact that now in [...]

Great leaders know when to quit. When Nelson Mandela decided to quit active politics, most people felt it was premature and also feared that the reconciliatory tone would fizzle and retire with [...]

By Keith Somerville BY AFRICAN ARGUMENTS AUGUST 5, 2013 Review of Roger Southall, Liberation Movements in power: Party and State in Southern Africa, Woodbridge: James Curry and University of [...]

By John S. Saul Global Research, September 29, 2015 Socialist Project 29 September 2015 This paper was presented at a seminar at the University of Johannesburg on Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Albie [...]

Biofuel production is certainly one of the culprits in the current global food crisis. But while the diversion of corn from food to biofuel feedstock has been a factor in food prices shooting up, [...]

The EFF notes the 2017 first quarter employment statistics released by Statistics South Africa today. The report shows that South Africa lost 48 000 jobs in the first quarter of 2017 quarter on [...]

Economics/markets and factional politics don’t mix. The man from Nkandla is running riot and appears to be an astute master of factional ANC internal politics. His benefactors are triumphant [...]

There’s a growing debate of which is better between the past and the present, colonialism vs democracy? Lately, Helen Zille even think that after all colonization was not all that bad! Well, [...]

From CODESA, GEAR, NDP to the increasing noises of radical transformation, the ANC has not demonstrate any radical appetite to transform the economy. In fact, from CODESA, the ANC made too many [...]

Inequality and joblessness is amongst the reasons the masses are rejecting the establishment. Ordinary people are still recovering from the catastrophic 2008 recession. It was a sign that [...]

The US mainstream media failed in its election coverage to inform its audiences about Hillary Clinton’s real chances for winning the White House, thus providing the fuel for anti-Trump [...]

I hear that crowds of Americans are protesting the election of Donald Trump as the 45th US head of state. They blame the president-elect himself. Who is really at fault? And to whom or what [...]

This article was first published by Global Research in November 2014. Today Libya as a Nation State has been destroyed by US-NATO. What do you think of when you hear the name Colonel Gaddafi? [...]

Introduction  The decision of the Constitutional Court which found that President Jacob Zuma violated the Constitution and his oath of office, was accepted by the ANC leadership structures. It [...]

3 November 2016 The African National Congress (ANC) welcomes the release of the Public Protector’s report entitled “State of Capture” into allegations of improper and unethical [...]

Tensions within the Republican Party exploded into public recriminations Tuesday, with presidential candidate Donald Trump issuing a series of strident statements denouncing House Speaker Paul [...]

The free education fight is an old fight and have since claimed many causalities over the years. All former black or previously disadvantage institutions have been in this battle for free [...]

14 October 2016 The African National Congress (ANC) has noted developments surrounding the release of the outgoing Public Protector’s report into “State Capture”.  The ANC [...]

Given the ANC dwindling prospects in the Western Cape and its failure to regain lost power, it is currently unimaginable that the mighty ANC once governed the province and the city. As things [...]

The National Union of Metalworkers of South African is outraged at the levels of violence being inflicted by both police and private security companies on students who are campaigning for free [...]

Those who got land through unjust laws have manage to characterize the land restitution as a detrimental economic strategy. Basically, they are saying let’s move on, let bygones be bygones to [...]

Programme Director, Cde David Makhura Deputy Secretary General, Cde Jessie Duarte PEC Members here present NEC Deployees here present Veterans of our struggle here present REC Members here [...]

The election dust have barely settled and the new mayor of Ekurhuleni Mr Mzwandile Masina is already on a warpath.  He is the only ANC mayoral candidate in Gauteng to survive the DA/EFF onslaught [...]

23 August 2016 Municipalities across the country have begun constituting governments in line with the Municipal Structures Act that calls for the setting up of government within 14 days of the [...]

The oppositional style of the EFF at national level challenged the status quo. From being branded the anarchist, disrespectful to being accused of bringing the house into disrepute. The [...]

African National Congress remains dominate party over two decades after democratic transformation Perhaps the most observed local elections in decades were held in the Republic of South Africa on [...]

The greatest irony in the recent local government elections is that the opposition used former ANC leaders for inspiration, but the ANC itself could not be inspired internally by its leaders. The [...]

Due to historical reasons the African National Congress has millions of admirers who are not active members of the party. It is still a broad church, but it is rapidly losing the leader of the [...]

You may blame it on history. But, as one Jonathan Moyo would probably put it,  perennial wisdom from Devine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthily things, good or bad, [...]

Just over 100 days ago, we launched our local government election campaign with an offer of real and positive change for our country. With nearly all of the votes counted, it is now clear that [...]

Infrastructure financing needs of the five BRICS countries was discussed at the annual meet of the New Development Bank’s board of directors in Shanghai on Wednesday. The NDB was launched by the [...]

The 3rd of August is fast approaching and all the campaign will be subjected to the final test on the day. As we are moving closer to the faithful day, the campaign will intensify. Mudslinging [...]

One of the most unfortunate circumstances that have characterized democratic processes in South Africa is the puddling of falsehood that anyone who possesses scandalous past, questionable [...]

Washington and its Canadian vassal are trying to use a Western media-created Russian athletic doping scandal to ban Russian participation in the Olympic games in Brazil. Washington and Canada are [...]

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic [...]

Connecting The Three Pieces Each of the three forces described above have their own specific uses in the US’ destabilization template against Zimbabwe, but on their own, they’re insufficient to [...]

It is too early to know if the shooting of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge are the beginnings of acts of retribution against police for their wanton murders of citizens. The saying is that “what [...]

19 July 2016 The South African Communist Party (SACP) has noted and condemns in the strongest terms possible a fraudulent letter containing a forged signature of our General Secretary Comrade [...]

01 May 2016 The EFF expresses revolutionary gratitude to all the ground forces, regional and provincial structures for a successful Manifesto Launch Rally in Orlando Stadium on the 30 April, [...]

Money can definitely buy a PSL status. The only team that was base in Mpumalanga Province has been sold to Cape Town City FC. The supporters of Mpumalanga black aces have no choice but to [...]

In the aftermath of last night’s tragic  ‘terrorist’ attack in Nice, France, one of the most popular talking points which has emerged throughout much of the western media coverage is the idea [...]

4 July 2016 The latest report by the Quarterly Employment Survey that shows that in the first quarter of 2016, the formal non-agricultural sector of the South African economy shed 15 000 jobs is [...]

The Conservative Brexit  politics and its dynamics: It was in 2013 when David Cameron miscalculated the mode of the British people about the Euro-zone question. He made a promise for a referendum [...]

Johannesburg Water Managing Director Lungile Dhlamini has been appointed acting Managing Director of Pikitup, the City of Johannesburg’s waste management entity. This follows an [...]

Media Release                                                                                                 30 June 2016 Community Survey 2016 results The population of South Africa has [...]

29 June 2016 Financial census of municipalities for the year ended June 2015   According to the Financial Census of Municipalities results released by Statistics South Africa today, for the [...]

JULY 8, 2016 This week I have traveled around the City of Tshwane, hearing how people no longer feel safe in their homes, on the streets or at work. The fact is that the people in Tshwane do not [...]

7 July 2016 The African National Congress enters the Siyanqoba (we are winning) phase of our election campaign, confident of a decisive victory in all municipalities that we currently govern as [...]

5 July 2016 The African National Congress (ANC) has noted with grave concern recent developments at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) which have led to the resignation of the [...]

As is known, the conclusion of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement being lobbied for by Washington would create the world’s largest free trade zone and the free [...]

Oh what fun we have with the nonsense that flows out of the mouth of Donald J. Trump. The man is suffocatingly banal, racist, dishonest, inarticulate, uninformed, uneducated, narcissistic, a [...]

Author : Sefako Makgatho 16 December 1918 Memorial To His Most Gracious Majesty King George V of Great Britain and Ireland including the Dominions and Colonies, and Emperor of India. May It [...]

Choosing the best cadres to lead transformation A National Working Committee discussion document Why should we discuss this issue? As a movement for fundamental change, the ANC regularly has to [...]

Union of South Africa | 19 June 2013 Law outlawed purchase or hire by natives of land owned by non-natives (and vice versa) (June 19 1913) Act No. 27 of 1913 [Date of Commencement – [...]

Later today, the Chilcot Inquiry in to the 2003 invasion of Iraq publishes its report. If it says what it is widely expected to say, it could pave the way to a former Prime Minister being [...]

Countries like Germany that went through a painful history like ours, have enacted laws criminalizing both the denial of the Holocaust and the promotion of Nazi ideology. The aim of those laws [...]

Poor votes: Politicians knows very well that without the poor vote, they are very much poor themselves. Unfortunately until the masses learn that without accountability, there’s no reason for [...]

As Niccolò Machiavelli puts it “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” South Korea is a perfect example of rule by fear. The population knows they have to “fear and [...]

AUC Chairperson Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma emphasises the importance to celebrate the determination of women around the world for equal rights and have their voices heard Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, [...]

The Freedom Charter As adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955 We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa [...]

Author : John Dube Appeal to the British Public about The Native Land Act, 1913 by John Langalibalele Dube President, South African Native National Congress [This extract from the appeal was [...]