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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/
Report by Benchmarks Foundation and Bread for the World looking at Marikana 5 years after the massacre. (pdf 5.5MB)
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/
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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. 
