COSATU’s Central Executive Committee released a statement this week announcing a National Day of Action against state capture, corruption and job losses. cosatu.org.za/
Gauteng province has identified the waste economy as one with enormous potential to create employment and generate entrepreneurial opportunities for thousands of unemployed people in our communities. dailymaverick.co.za/
A report released by the Commission for Gender Equality has found that women are still victims of harassment and other forms of discrimination in the workplace. iol.co.za/
ICASA has listed a range of possible market interventions, particularly related to the acquisition and management of sports rights by broadcasters, as it moves to break MultiChoice’s dominance in South Africa’s pay-television industry. techcentral.co.za/
Even if embattled President Zuma were to leave (and replaced by, say, Cyril Ramaphosa), the country is nowhere near getting out of its political crisis. Why not? It is because the problem lies, essentially, in the captured polity of the South African state and economy. pambazuka.org/
Attempts to foster a Black capitalist class in South Africa in co-operation with white capital have failed spectacularly. The price that white capital extracted for their co-operation was a neoliberal state that trapped the Black working class and poor. pambazuka.org/
Local news from Khayelitsha, East London, Port Elizabeth, Alexandra and Orange Farm in English and isiXhosa
Online vigilantism has been around since the early days of the internet. So has “doxxing” — originally a slang term among hackers for obtaining and posting private documents about an individual, usually a rival or enemy. nytimes.com/
A swath of bills had been proposed around the country, largely in the South and primarily in response to Black Lives Matter and Dakota Access Pipeline related protests. The bills targeted leftist demonstrators who have increasingly shut down traffic by blocking roads and highways to bring attention to their cause. theintercept.com/
The brutal ‘Islamic State’ is a symptom of a deepening crisis of civilisation premised on fossil fuel addiction, which is undermining Western hegemony and unravelling state power across the Muslim world. middleeasteye.net/
Silkway Airlines (an Azerbaijani state-run company) transported weapons to conflicts across the globe for the last three years under the cover that these were diplomatic flights. trud.bg/
This forum on Uber, Lyft, Taxi Workers, Deregulation and Independent Contractors was held as part of LaborTech.net. on July 30, 2017. Speakers included:
Richard Meghoo: President SF Taxi Workers Alliance
Peter Miller: Exec. SF Taxi Workers Alliance & SFLC delegate
Edward Escobar: The Alliance For Independent Workers
Anne-Marie Slaughter, who runs the New America Foundation, fired all ten members of its Open Markets initiative for praising the $2.7-billion EU fine against Google for anti-trust abuses and calling for US anti-trust officials “to build upon this important precedent, both in respect to Google and to other dominant platform monopolists including Amazon.” nakedcapitalism.com/
Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’ medium.com/
Personal data is to the tech world what oil is to the fossil fuel industry. That’s why companies like Amazon and Facebook plan to dig deeper than we ever. theguardian.com/
Virtually no one knows the history of fiber optic broadband in America, much less what happened in their state, even though they were charged thousands of dollars per household. Instead, in 2017, we get embarrassing proposed laws. huffingtonpost.com/
WRITING
Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers
A wise editor once observed that the easiest decision a reader can make is to stop reading. This means that every sentence has to count in grabbing the reader’s attention, starting with the first. nytimes.com/
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Even if embattled President Zuma were to leave (and replaced by, say, Cyril Ramaphosa), the country is nowhere near getting out of its political crisis. Why not? It is because the problem lies, essentially, in the captured polity of the South African state and economy. 
A swath of bills had been proposed around the country, largely in the South and primarily in response to Black Lives Matter and Dakota Access Pipeline related protests. The bills targeted leftist demonstrators who have increasingly shut down traffic by blocking roads and highways to bring attention to their cause. 
