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In the midst of a pandemic against which they are frontline combatants, care work in the Eastern Cape remains a temporary job.
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Eastern Cape care workers were promised new jobs but care work will remain a temporary job in the province.
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Young unemployed people, mainly graduates clad in their graduation gowns and armed with their certificates, converged at Pretoria’s Church Square where they demonstrated to raise awareness of their plight.
RAMATAMO SEHOAI
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Two years after the report by the Panel of Experts on Policing and Crowd Management was completed, it has yet to be released to the public.
MZI VELAPI
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Media freedom is under threat in Zimbabwe under cover of lockdown regulations to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
CHRISTOPHER MAHOVE
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A Clover employee was fired after revealing his fears over Covid-19 in the workplace and being placed on sick leave for tension headaches and anxiety.
ANNA MAJAVU | NEW FRAME
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Big Pharma is already showing signs of putting revenue ahead of saving lives in the race to find a Covid-19 vaccine, according to experts.
PONTSHO PILANE | M&G
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Notwithstanding some ad hoc local collaborations, there has been no systematic engagement with community organisations from a government which is too distant and disorganised to directly access communities and ameliorate social distress.
TASNEEM ESSOP, KARL VON HOLDT | DAILY MAVERICK
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Uneven enforcement of restrictions on gatherings leaves protesters confused.
STANLEY MALEMATJA | GROUNDUP
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The government must close ALL (public & private) schools until Covid-19 infections are significantly reduced and the pandemic is under control.
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Millions of office workers, tech workers, and educators have been forced to adjust to working from home. This transition has several challenging components, not least of all the cost of equipment, space, and a decent internet connection.
SARAH DULLAERT, MATT MALEY | SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE
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The service delivery grievances that fuelled a surge of protests in February will still be there after lockdown.
KATE ALEXANDER, LEFA LENKA | BUSINESS DAY
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The unnamed author traces the history of violence in South African governance, from its colonial root, along its repressions of mass rebellion against apartheid, on to the branches of ethnic nationalism deployed against African immigrants and Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durban.
TRICONTINENTAL
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South Africans on Twitter are witnessing the rise of an influential anti-immigrant lobby and thousands, captured by a make-believe character, ‘Lerato Pillay’, have unwittingly become complicit in the explosion of a weaponised conversation.
JESSICA BEZUIDENHOUT | DAILY MAVERICK
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This was the submission delivered by the chairperson of the Trust on the ULTRA bill that aims to improve women’s access to land tenure.
JAN GERBER | NEWS24
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Children of mineworkers slain in Marikana in 2012 have lost faith that those responsible for the deaths of their fathers will be held accountable.
ALEX MITCHLEY | NEWS24
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The police had not originally planned to go ‘tactical’ and confront striking mineworkers on the afternoon of 16 August 2012. Marikana Commission of Inquiry chairperson Judge Ian Farlam said someone may come forward to explain why the SAPS was determined to end the strike that day.
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As Mali slowly disintegrates, France, which stands to benefit from this week’s coup, and the United Nations are turning a blind eye.
PAPE SAMBA KANE | AL JAZEERA
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Landed power, built on theft, slavery and colonial looting, crushes our freedoms. A new campaign seeks to decolonise the countryside.
GEORGE MONBIOT | THE GUARDIAN
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The Guardian, like the rest of the corporate media, has derided and vilified as “populism” the emergence of any real political alternative.
JONATHAN COOK | MONDOWEISS
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Advocates call for a stop to state repression and violence, a turn to accountability, and a clear path to free and fair elections.
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Coup president, Jeanine Áñez’s main achievement was to unleash a shameless wave of racist repression against Morales’ Movement for Socialism and the Aymara and Quechua Indigenous peoples.
MICHAEL OTTO | WORKERS.ORG |
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There is a much better way to deal with drug use and dependency: mounting evidence indicates these are best addressed as a social and public health issue, and not as crimes.
EDWIN CAMERON | TIMES LIVE
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The cancellation of a speech reflects an intense debate on the left: Is racism the primary problem in America today, or the outgrowth of a system that oppresses all poor people?
MICHAEL POWELL | NY TIMES
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This video is a recording of a webinar held on 6 August on global south perspectives to combat profit shifting and wage evasion, with the Alternative Information & Development Centre (South Africa), Asian People’s Movement on Debt & Development (Philippines), and Churches and Mining (Brazil) and Public Services International (PSI).
AMANDLA MEDIA
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The extraordinary level of suffering humanity is currently experiencing from air pollution is not necessary for modernity; it could be reduced, at a cost well below the net social benefits, with clean energy technologies on hand.
DAVID ROBERTS | VOX
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Estimates are that Israeli exports of arms and cybersecurity technology to the UAE comes to a few million shekels annually, all of it occurring under the radar in the absence of formal diplomatic relations.
HAGAI AMIT | HAARETZ |
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The only thing standing between Israel and the Palestinians reverting to using armed struggle to advance their goals is the current Palestinian leadership.
SAM BAHOUR | HAARETZ |
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Lev Davidovich Trotsky was, alongside Lenin, one of the two greatest Marxists of the twentieth century. His whole life was entirely devoted to the cause of the working class and international socialism. And what a life!
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With the arrival of thousands of his rediscovered negatives in the Magnum archive, Ernest Cole’s lens shows apartheid South Africa up close in freeze-framed inhumanity.
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