Globe & Mail May 23, 2008

In actual numbers, casualties of the “xenophobic” outbursts in South Africa this week have been low by world standards, even if the details are gruesome — deaths are in the dozens, with tens of thousands displaced, mainly immigrants from other African countries. The damage in the area of human hope and aspiration is more striking. (Keep reading…)

April, 27 2008 ZNet

South African neoliberal state brutality was on display last week in the famous Soweto suburb of Kliptown - where the African National Congress (ANC) “Freedom Charter” was signed 53 years ago - as the municipal-owned but commercially-oriented Johannesburg Water (JW) company felled a low-income resident with contaminated water. Cholera and E.coli scares spread across the city. Soon after, in nearby Lenasia, cops shot mercilessly at shackdwellers who were nonviolently protesting denial of water/sanitation services. (Keep reading…)

Le Monde Diplomatique
February 2008

The defeat of Thabo Mbeki, 13 years after the ANC came to power in South Africa’s first democratic elections, began a new era. Can it now be the time of the left? (Keep reading…)