Reports by Sadtu regions in the Eastern Cape add to concerns raised by members of parliament over the state of readiness of schools to re-open in the province.
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New Khayelitsha vegetable garden is on land set aside for a provincial housing project.
VINCENT LALI | GROUNDUP |
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The Transvaal(!) Agricultural Union will declare a dispute with the minister of labour and employment regarding the new minimum wage which they want to put on ice until the dispute can be settled.
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The need for a basic income grant was established at least two decades ago. It’s now time for real commitment from the government and concrete steps on how it will be implemented.
HANNAH DAWSON | THE CONVERSATION |
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Rail infrastructure has virtually gone extinct. Train stations like New Canada, Westgate, Kliptown and many others around Johannesburg are shells, stripped down to the last metal.
DON MAKATILE | IOL |
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The long, slow structural decline of the sector in South Africa has reached the point of no return.
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Gold Fields and Sibanye-Stillwater both reported a surge in annual earnings on Thursday, lifted by soaring commodity prices. Sibanye announced something rare: A new gold mine in South Africa and the expansion of its Marikana PGM mine.
ED STODDARD | DAILY MAVERICK |
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Bulungula Incubator is using its Xhora Mouth health point to respond to infections in this rural Eastern Cape area, where the nearest government clinic is a three-hour walk away.
BARRY CHRISTIANSON | NEW FRAME |
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While getting a vaccine is a matter of national and international concern, there are small, low-cost high-impact strategies that can be put in place in every hospital right now that will strengthen our healthcare system.
GILLES VAN CUTSEM | DAILY MAVERICK |
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Rich countries hoard available and future vaccines, as poor countries wait.
FRANCK KUWONU | AFRICAN RENEWAL
As of February 17, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 3,763,067. Reported deaths in Africa reached 99,412 and 3,318,841 people have recovered.
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with the pandemic still raging, Moderna’s successful vaccine is anything but accessible. The company has sold most of the early doses to rich countries. Poorer countries have been almost entirely shut out.
EMILY RAUHALA | WASHINGTON POST |
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Ahead of critical talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) civil society and trade unions from the Global South are calling on rich countries’ leaders to stop blocking a proposal to waive certain intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines and other medical products.
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A growing body of evidence suggesting that Vitamin D can play a critically important role in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19.
JONATHAN COOK | COUNTERPUNCH |
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they found that essential workers, whom they defined as those in the “food/agriculture, transportation/logistics, facilities, and manufacturing sectors,” experienced a 22 percent higher mortality rate
BRYAN DYNE | WSWS |
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Since Saturday, a strong popular opposition has been growing in Myanmar against the military coup d’état that occurred February 1 with increasingly militant demonstrations.
PHILIPPE ALCOY | LEFT VOICE |
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Max Blumenthal speaks with Ben Norton, who is reporting from Ecuador, on the historic February 7 election, and how the US government, regime-change networks, and wealthy oligarchs are trying to prevent the return of the socialist Citizens' Revolution movement of former President Rafael Correa.
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Delhi-based journalist, Radhakrishnan, explains why farmers are rising up, how they are organized, and how the neoliberal government of Narendra Modi has responded to the movement.
ANYA PARAMPIL | THE GRAYZONE
Twitter has complied with some of India’s orders but refused to remove accounts of journalists, activists and others that the company says are appropriately exercising their right to criticize the government.
SHIRA OVIDE | NEW YORK TIMES
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Despite its dark history, the German state still has a problem with neo-Nazis. Today, neo-Nazi cells are regularly found in the police and military, and an investigation by redfish reveals how state agencies either failed to stop far-right attacks or worked hand-in-hand with the terrorists.
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Amid the maelstrom of footage emerging from the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol in Washington DC, a video of a white South African rioter emerged. It is one piece in a long trail of evidence that connects white ethno-nationalist extremists in South Africa with QAnon conspiracists and white supremacy groups in the United States.
HALEY MCEWEN | OPEN DEMOCRACY
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At least 28 garment workers died following heavy flooding in a sweatshop in Tangier, Morocco.
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In countries with weak governance institutions, natural resource wealth tends to be a curse instead of a blessing. A new book explains the manifestations of the oil curse in Nigeria and Angola since independence.
ROSS HARVEY | THE CONVERSATION
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PETITION
Rio Tinto understood the role of the union with regards to the Supreme Law of Namibia and Labour Act 11 of 2007. This all started to change when Rio Tinto sold all its shares in Rossing Uranium Ltd to China National Nuclear Corporation.
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Amid the COVID-1 pandemic, Israel insisted that the immunization of Palestinians is the responsibility of the Palestinian Authority. Since it occupies the Palestinian territories, Israel has a legal obligation to provide the vaccines.
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Since late 2019, Israeli forces have been waging a campaign of mass arrests, targeting hundreds of young women and men in Palestine.
MAJD KAYYAL | MIDDLE EAST EYE |
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"What I was witnessing in Hebron and across Israel and the land it occupies, was also apartheid – a system of domination and control that systemically privileges Jewish lives over Palestinian lives."
BRIAN WALT | TRUTHOUT |
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First, the media and political opportunists tried to convince us life-long anti-racist Jeremy Corbyn was Hitler-in-waiting. Now, life-long anti-racist Ken Loach is being attacked by the same witch hunt.
KERRY-ANNE MENDOZA | THE CANARY
The Bigots of St. Peter’s College, Oxford Try to Ban Ken Loach from Speaking – All in the Name of ‘anti-Semitism’ of course!
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Since there is no sign that Abbas is ever willing to give up collusion with the occupation, the question is whether Hamas’ leaders have decided to join Fatah in administering the occupation on behalf of Israel.
ALI ABUNIMAH | ELECTRONIC INTIFADA |
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The revelation that a leftwing journalist, Nathan J Robinson, has been sacked as a Guardian US columnist for criticising Israel on Twitter – and that he was pressured to keep quiet about it by Guardian editors – should come as no surprise.
JONATHAN COOK | INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE |
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Everything about Cape wine farms and restaurants, from their names and the Cape Dutch architecture to the memorabilia, such as colonial maps on the walls as artwork, points to “the old world”.
MARY FAWZY | VITTLES |
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ROAPE’s John Saul writes about who won and who lost in the apparently seismic transition to a liberated South Africa in the early 1990s. He sees a parallel recolonization of South Africa both by global capital and by the self-interested actions of local political elites.
JOHN SAUL | ROAPE |
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Self-identified anarchists and anarchist organizations remain important. Anarchist ideas must be maintained, nurtured, and sharpened. Revolutionary movements and societies beyond the state and capital will benefit from them.
GABRIEL KUHN | COUNTERPUNCH |
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Across western and northern Europe, unions in diverse sectors have begun to organise temporary labour migrants. The same is true in Asia, where unions in several key destination countries have reached out to foreign workers. And, as the Asian experience shows, advocacy, servicing and organising are all valid and useful strategies for engaging with temporary labour migrants.
MICHELE FORD | GLOBAL LABOUR COLUMN |
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The Egyptian revolution, which flared from early 2011 to mid-2013, is usually presented in the media (and some academic circles) as a “Facebook Revolution” or at least as one gigantic event that was ignited and organized online. The truth is slightly different.
HOSSAM EL-HAMALAWI | ROAR MAGAZINE |
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The dream of a better tomorrow expressed by millions during the Arab Spring in 2011 was to be brutally dispelled as the old regimes counter-attacked. Crueller and more repressive than ever, they reasserted themselves, or where they had fallen, they were replaced by chaotic violence and foreign military intervention.
PATRICK COCKBURN | COUNTERPUNCH |
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Though his fantasy of becoming emperor of Mars probably won't materialize, we have to scale back the unchecked power of deranged Bond villain types like Musk before it extends from Earth to the skies.
LUKE SAVAGE | JACOBIN |
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Located in Tanzania, with a height of almost 6,000 metres, Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s tallest mountain. Over the years, there’s been extensive urbanisation and development at the base of the mountain, which could change what lives on the mountain.
ANDREAS HEMP, CLAUDIA HEMP | THE CONVERSATION |
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Cattle, oil palm, soy, cocoa, rubber, coffee and plantation wood fiber — accounted for 26% of global tree cover loss from 2001 to 2015.
MICKAELA WEISSE, ELIZABETH DOW GOLDMAN | WRI |
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According to a new study by scientists from Harvard and three British universities, the staggering death toll is more than double the WHO's 2017 estimate of deaths caused by air pollution.
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NEW TECHNOLOGIES / NEW FORMS OF LABOUR
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On Thursday, Facebook blocked all news sites from Australia. This is a result of a battle between media corporations but independent media are suffering as well. This article from the Australian socialist newspaper Red Flag currently cannot be shared on Facebook.
DANIEL TAYLOR | LEFT VOICE |
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Moronic conspiracy theories about Bill Gates wanting to microchip the world only detract attention from the vast, unaccountable power he wields.
BREDA O'BRIEN | IRISH TIMES |
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Unlike, classical fascism which used printed newspapers and radio, digital fascism transmits its hate messages through the Internet. These so-called social media are in fact anti-social media. They aren’t socially organised. Instead, a few monopoly corporations run Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and all the rest.
THOMAS KLIKAUER, NORMAN SIMMS | COUNTERPUNCH |
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Cold war mandarin, George Shultz, died last week at the age of 100. He was almost singularly responsible for convincing President Ronald Reagan that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wanted detente and arms control with the United States.
MELVIN GOODMAN | COUNTERPUNCH |
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