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30Jun

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Unpacking expropriation without compensation in South Africa

NOVANEWS Nombuso Mathibela After years of supporting a market-led land reform programme and not heeding criticisms of this policy, the African National Congress (ANC) leadership has adopted a radical policy of land expropriation without compensation, which would make it legal and within the constitutional bounds for the state to expropriate land in the public interest without compensation. This radical thesis was adopted in the ANC’s 54th National Conference in December 2017 and subsequently most vehemently motioned in the National Assembly by the opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). The motion was passed with 241 parliamentarians in favour and 83 against the motion. Slight amendments were made by the ANC mainly that it should be the task of Parliament’s Cons...

22Jul

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South Africa: An open letter of SAFTU to the Communist Party

NOVANEWS Why we are unable to honour the invitation to your Congress Nigel Sibanda Zwelinzima Vavi The South African Federation of Trade Unions turned down an invitation to the congress of the South African Communist Party. SACP is an ally of the ruling African National Congress. SAFTU says SACP is as guilty as the Jacob Zuma government in implementing a neoliberal programme that is anti-poor, anti-working class, pro-capitalist and anti-socialist. Dr Blade Nzimande General Secretary South African Communist Party Braamfontein Dear Comrade General Secretary, Thank you for the invitation to your elective 14th National Congress, which we have carefully considered. As the second largest and fastest growing trade union federation in the country, and one wi...

19Jul

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Open letter to Rotschild’s Trevor Manuel

NOVANEWS First post-apartheid finance minister denies existence of white monopoly capital Getty Sparks Motseki “Sir, you have served white monopoly capital with distinction. You have worked for them as an agent and a counter-revolutionary, selling out our right to have transformation of the apartheid economy. You have betrayed the values that define a disciplined cadre. Today you live large in arrogance and attempt to lecture us when we, as soldiers for our liberation, are dying as paupers.” Dear Mr. Manuel We read with interest your new conviction that our claim of white monopoly capital is a fallacy, invented by a public relations company named Bell Pottinger, as you recently did at the Nelson Mandela Foundation event you attended. We as the leadership...

13May

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Apartheid in Today’s South Africa: The Corruption of A Dream

NOVANEWS By Oupa Lehulere Socialist Project “Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” — Honoré de Balzac The SASSA scandal currently unfolding is probably the most dramatic expression of how far the African National Congress (ANC) has traveled since its days of opposition to apartheid. [SASSA stands for South Africa Social Security Agency, which is the agency that pays social grants to about 17 million beneficiaries.] Under apartheid, ANC activists were associated with laying down their lives in defending and advancing the interests of the mass of the people – in particular the black working class. Today, the cadre of the ANC is associated with stealing from the mass of people they used to die for. It is now commonly accepted, including in the ANC itself, that the co...

21Apr

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For South Africans, another ‘long trek’ looms

NOVANEWS Getty Images Abdulrazaq Magaji Stiff-necked apartheid high priests had their problems but none of them contemplated the type of weird political culture the ANC and Mr. Zuma are foisting on post-apartheid South Africa. Where is that country headed? From the look of things, another long, tortuous trek looms in South Africa. The ‘long trek’ has been primed by what many expected would be a honey-coated story but which has now left a bitter taste in the mouth of South Africans! Coming a little over two decades after South Africa threw off the yoke of apartheid, the trek threatens to replace white minority rule with black majority dictatorship. We can only hope the mere thought of South Africa sliding into dictatorship under President Jacob Z...

25Dec

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Black girls “throwing tantrums” over hair? Excuse me

NOVANEWS Screen-grab: looptt.com Sitinga Kachipande To call a conscious protest by schoolgirls resisting racism a “tantrum” is myopic. Although apartheid has long been legally dismantled in South Africa, racism still exists and whiteness there still means being part of a privileged group; one whose traditions, religion, food and appearance - including hairstyle - is still the default norm. It’s hardly surprising that BBC’s 2016 most influential women in the world list included Zulaikha Patel, one of the girls that led the protests at Pretoria High School for Girls (PHSG). She has reminded us that barely a decade after Indie Arie proudly sang, “I am not my hair”, matters of black hair are still very much political. The gains made by the Black Pride and ...

22Nov

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“Regime Change”? South Africa Targeted by Western Destabilization Efforts?

NOVANEWS By Abayomi Azikiwe Global Research Issues surrounding a minimum wage bill, education and services are being utilized in attempts to overthrow the African National Congress South African President Jacob Zuma has come out publically to state that there are efforts underway by the West to undermine the African National Congress (ANC) government which has held power for over 22 years. A myriad of challenges are facing the South African ruling party including an economic recession, the bringing of several allegations about corruption within the office of the presidency, a declining stock market and national currency along with increasingly worsening relations with the United States. In Africa there are numerous examples from the post-colonial period of the last five deca...