South Africa after the Marikana massacre
The police massacre of striking miners at Marikana is a watershed for post-apartheid South Africa.
View ArticleFunerals of slain South African miners held as unrest spreads
Burials for most of the 34 platinum miners massacred by police on August 16 took place Saturday.
View ArticleFour South African miners shot as strikes spread after Marikana massacre
Four gold miners were hospitalized after being shot at Gold One’s Modder East operation yesterday in South Africa.
View ArticleSouth Africa’s miners and the fear of “contagion”
The miners’ struggles have evoked a “fear of contagion” in ruling circles, as the issues confronting this oppressed layer of workers resonate not only in South Africa, but internationally.
View ArticleSouth Africa: Corruption exposed at Orkney and Grootvlei mines
Investigations into the Aurora Empowerment Systems, which has not paid workers at the Orkney and Grootvlei mines for years, have revealed a tangled and dirty web of criminality.
View ArticleSouth African miners speak on Marikana massacre
More than three weeks after the Marikana massacre, families are still searching for their missing siblings and husbands in hospitals and jails.
View ArticleStrikes spread in South African mines
Gold Fields Ltd.’s KDC gold mine has been hit by strike of 15,000 workers, the second wildcat action at the company in less than a week.
View ArticleMore ANC leading figures embroiled in gold mines asset stripping scandal
The liquidation of the South African company Pamodzi Gold Limited led to the awarding of rights to the Orkney and Grootvlei gold mines to Aurora Empowerment Systems (AES) in 2009.
View ArticleState of alert declared as unrest spreads in South Africa
The South African army has been put on a state of high alert, amidst an escalating strike-wave involving platinum and gold miners.
View ArticleSouth Africa: ANC orders security clampdown against miners’ revolt
A march by hundreds of striking miners in South Africa’s platinum mining belt was blocked and dispersed by police on Sunday.
View ArticlePolitical and historical issues in the South African miners’ revolt
The massacre of striking South African platinum miners and the spreading confrontation between miners and the ANC regime have exposed the reactionary character of racial and nationalist politics.
View ArticleMarikana massacre: France’s NPA sows illusions in South African government,...
It took three weeks for France’s New Anti-capitalist Party to write on the massacre of 34 South African miners on August 16 at the Marikana mine.
View ArticleANC President Zuma authorises use of South African army against miners
As miners at the Lonmin platinum producer in Marikana returned to work Thursday, President Jacob Zuma authorised the domestic deployment of the military to deal with continued unrest in the mining sector.
View ArticleMiners’ strikes add to fears of South African economic downturn
The African National Congress government has reaffirmed its determination to pursue right wing economic and social “reforms.”
View ArticleSouth Africa’s strike wave hits whole mining sector, spreads to transport
The strike wave that began at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine is now engulfing South Africa’s platinum, gold and coal mining industries and has spread to transport and other sectors.
View ArticleCOSATU federation leader expresses fear of social explosion in South Africa
In the midst of an escalating wave of wildcat strike action by miners, South Africa’s biggest trade union federation, COSATU, convened its 11th national congress.
View Article12,000 miners fired as South African strike wave grows
Anglo American Platinum fired 12,000 striking South African miners Friday as the transnational corporations, the ANC government and the COSATU union federation sought to quell a growing wave of wildcat...
View ArticleSouth African unions, government seek to quell spreading wildcat strikes
The state and the unions are attempting to gain control of a spreading wave of strikes that have erupted across South Africa.
View ArticleSilicosis rampant in South Africa’s mines
South Africa’s miners are among the workers worst affected by silicosis in the world.
View ArticleStrikes spread across South Africa despite mass sackings
In the face of a growing wave of walkouts by workers across South Africa, mining companies are announcing mass layoffs of striking employees.
View ArticleStrikes continue in South Africa amid deepening repression
Tens of thousands of South Africa miners remain on strike in wildcat action, following a breakdown in talks between trade unions and management.
View ArticlePresident Zuma calls on trade unions, state forces to end South Africa’s...
The main instruments of Zuma and the African National Congress for suppressing the mass strike movement are the Congress of South African Trade Unions and its affiliate, the National Union of Mineworkers.
View ArticleSouth African miners defy repression
Tens of thousands of South African workers remain in struggle and a new strike by platinum miners at Lonmin’s operation in Marikana delivered a blow to efforts to stem the working class upsurge.
View ArticleStrike leaders arrested following testimony before Marikana massacre inquiry
Four miners who testified Tuesday before the Farlam Commission into the Marikana massacre were immediately arrested by police. They are to be charged with murder.
View ArticleSouth Africa's unions use mass sackings and murder to suppress miners
Mass sackings, police intimidation and brutality are being employed in an effort to bring the wave of strikes in South Africa’s mines to a close.
View ArticleStriking South African miners oppose rally called by official unions
Saturday’s rally by South Africa’s COSATU union federation and the National Union of Mineworkers only exposed the hostility of broad masses of workers toward the official unions.
View ArticleSouth African miners shot dead by security
Mine security guards shot and killed two striking coal miners in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday, amid continuing tensions and clashes in South Africa’s mining sector.
View ArticleUnions collude in repression as South Africa’s strike wave ebbs
The South African Police Service is waging a brutal campaign of intimidation facilitated by the suffocation of strikes in the mining sector by the COSATU.
View ArticleCharges of evidence tampering at South African mine massacre inquiry
The inquiry into the South African police massacre of striking miners at Marikana heard evidence that police tampered with the scene to justify the killings.
View ArticleSouth African farm workers’ strikes inspired by events at Marikana
Militant struggles among South Africa’s impoverished workers have spread to the Western Cape province’s farms, following on months of upheavals in the mining industry.
View ArticleSouth African farm workers’ strike spreads
The three-week-long strike by farm workers in the fertile farmlands of the Boland in South Africa has now spread to 24 different areas and has led to further violent clashes with police.
View ArticleSouth African farmworkers speak on issues in strike
The trade unions and the political establishment are seeking to demobilize the farmworkers’ struggle, which follows and has been motivated by the eruption of strikes in the mining industries.
View ArticleThe failure of land reform in South Africa
The failure of the agrarian reform policies of the African National Congress has exposed the bourgeois nationalist liberation movement’s inability to resolve the land question.
View ArticleTrade unions shut down South African farm workers strike
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has called off a strike in the Western Cape Province in a bid to contain growing anger and resistance among farm workers.
View ArticleSouth African police fire on striking farm workers
Confrontations between striking farm workers and South African police and private security guards have left several people wounded and some 50 arrested.
View ArticleSouth African police murder Mozambican taxi driver
Opposition grows to the killing of 27-year-old taxi driver, Mido Macia, by South African police on February 27.
View ArticleSuid-Afrika se Marikana mynwerkers hou wildcat staking
Duisende Lonmin platinum mynwerkers in Marikana, Suid-Afrika het vandeesweek begin staak om protes aan te teken teen die uitvoering-styl moord op die organiseerder van die Association of Mineworkers...
View ArticleSecurity forces fire rubber bullets at striking South African miners
Police fired volleys of rubber bullets at striking South African miners at a mine owned by Lanxess Chrome Mining Ltd on Tuesday, near the city of Rustenburg.
View ArticleSouth Africa: Economic Freedom Fighters target voters fed up with African...
The EFF, led by ex-ANC leader Julius Malema, have targeted North West province's Madibeng municipality over water shortages amid the district’s worst drought in 80 years.
View ArticleRobert McBride appointed as South Africa police watchdog: The ANC’s “answer”...
Police brutality is rising amid protests that show no sign of abating.
View ArticleSouth African unions vie for control of militant workers
This is first in a two-part comment on the manoeuvres of South Africa’s trade unions to contain the growth of militancy in the working class.
View ArticleNorth West police commissioner appears before inquiry into Marikana massacre
Evidence belies the testimony of Police Commissioner Zukiswa Mbombo that the massacre at the Lonmin mine in 2012 was not a premeditated bloodbath.
View ArticleANC and its competitors stir up racialism in advance of South African elections
Some 500 people joined an African National Congress march in Cape Town on March 26 to demand better sanitation, housing and land from the ruling Democratic Alliance.
View ArticleSouth African police evidence in tatters as Marikana Commission enters phase two
At the Farlam Inquiry into the police murder of 34 striking miners in Marikana, evidence was heard that the victims were surrendering when they were killed.
View ArticleSouth Africa’s platinum strike in its 10th week
Some 70,000 members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union have been on strike at the three largest platinum producers since January 23.
View ArticleSouth African miners speak: “We are striking so our children don’t also end...
The World Socialist Web Site conducted an interview with two South African miners.
View ArticleSouth Africa: ANC and unions exploit popular anger over electronic toll...
In its efforts to limit its losses in the municipal elections due in 2016, the Gauteng ANC is relying on the services of COSATU.
View ArticleSouth Africa’s politically connected elites profit amid power outages
On Monday, ESKOM, the largest South African power utility, began implementing “managed” blackouts, cutting 2,000 megawatts from its grid.
View ArticleANC in crisis as President Zuma struggles to reassure big capital
The Economic Freedom Fighters, led by Julius Malema, are making political capital from the crisis confronting the ANC by posturing as a “left” anti-corruption alternative.
View ArticleSouth Africa: Police open fire on Modimolle water protests
Police opened fire last week with rubber bullets on residents who had gathered to protest against water shortages amid the worst drought in recent memory.
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