Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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View ArticleSouth Africa: Behind the ANC breakaway
The decision of a number of former leaders to break away from the African National Congress and to set up a new party is the latest manifestation of the bitter conflict and infighting that has...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Zuma faces corruption charges after court reverses previous...
The Supreme Court of Appeals has effectively reinstated criminal charges against African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma.
View ArticleLetters on Rwanda
A selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site on Rwanda.
View ArticleA reply to correspondence on the Rwandan genocide
The World Socialist Web Site has received two letters strenuously objecting to our line on the genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1994, when hundreds of thousands of Rwandans identified as Tutsis...
View ArticleZimbabwe: MDC proceeds with power-sharing fiasco
Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change has been sworn in as prime minister in a power-sharing government in Zimbabwe.
View ArticlePopulist businessman takes power in Madagascar
Opposition leader Andry Rajoelina has been sworn in president of the Indian Ocean Island of Madagascar.
View ArticleIMF and World Bank reports predict bleak future for Africa
The IMF predicts the global economic crisis will have a huge and disproportionate impact on sub-Saharan Africa.
View ArticleSouth Africa: Charges dropped against Zuma in run-up to election
In the latest development in the longstanding legal conflict within South Africa’s ruling elite, corruption charges have been dropped against African National Congress President Jacob Zuma.
View ArticleSouth Africa: Zuma’s victory expresses deepening class tensions
The election victory of the African National Congress and its leader, Jacob Zuma, is a distorted expression of powerful social tensions within South Africa.
View ArticleSouth Africa: Zuma appoints cabinet to please investors
New South African President Jacob Zuma has appointed a business-friendly cabinet.
View ArticleSri Lanka: Jaffna University students speak to WSWS
Jaffna University students and staff recently spoke with WSWS correspondents over the run-down state of the campus, its desperate lack of basic facilities and the ongoing military repression.
View ArticleSouth Africa 20 years after Mandela’s release
On February 2, 1990, Nelson Mandela walked free from Victor Verster prison, heralding the end of the apartheid system. Two decades later, however, South Africa still ranks among the most unequal...
View ArticleFifty years since the Sharpeville Massacre: The nature of post-Apartheid...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, in which 69 people were gunned down by the police during a peaceful protest in South Africa.
View ArticleMurder of white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche destabilises South Africa
Eugene Terreblanche, a white supremacist leader in South Africa, was murdered in his sleep on his farm outside Ventersdorp, 100 miles west of Johannesburg, following a dispute over wages with a young...
View ArticleSouth African transport workers strike hits rail, ports
Workers at state-owned Transnet, the logistics company that runs the rail network and ports facilities in South Africa, are on strike.
View ArticleBook bares Israeli nuclear arms deals with apartheid regime
Israel agreed to sell nuclear arms to South Africa’s apartheid regime in the 1970s, according to a book published today. The revelation has surfaced at an inconvenient time for the US as it campaigns...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Riot police attack World Cup stewards pay protests
South African riot police respond to protests by thousands of stewards at the soccer World Cup, with tear gas attacks and rubber bullets.
View ArticleClaims of African economic growth hide stark divisions of rich and poor
Recent reports show growth of a stark divide between rich and poor in Africa.
View ArticleMore than one million public workers strike in South Africa
More than one million public workers in South Africa went out on strike on Wednesday demanding higher wages.
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