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# WWMP

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## Posts

- [IEC announces voter registration weekend ahead of local government elections](https://wwmp.org.za/iec-announces-voter-registration-weekend-ahead-of-local-government-elections/) - The Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has announced the next voter registration weekend ahead of the the upcoming local government elections. The voter registration drive will take place on 20–21 June 2026 to allow citizens to register or update their voter details to be casting their ballot in the ward where they live,
- [Wave of farm evictions in Ceres leaves families without housing](https://wwmp.org.za/wave-of-farm-evictions-in-ceres-leaves-families-without-housing/) - The Ceres area in Witzenberg municipality was declared an eviction hotspot by the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Mzwanele Nyhontso, in September last year during a stakeholders’ meeting. Since then, the Witzenberg Justice Coalition (WJC) says they have come to recognise certain patterns in the wave of evictions from farms in the region.
- [Local Government in South Africa – Their purpose, role and functions, budgets and problems](https://wwmp.org.za/local-government-in-south-africa-their-purpose-role-and-functions-budgets-and-problems/) - A Popular Booklet for Educators and Community Activists
- [Promised toilets, Limpopo school told to close instead](https://wwmp.org.za/promised-toilets-limpopo-school-told-to-close-instead/) - Situated in Mabila Village, outside of Tshilamba in the Vhembe District, Limpopo, Mabila Primary School has been waiting for the provincial department of education to build new sanitation blocks for years, but they have recently learned that the wait was in vain. New sanitation blocks for rural Mabila learners were never built, and the already
- [‘Anti-poor’ and ‘pro-privilege’: The Cry of the Xcluded describe the national budget](https://wwmp.org.za/anti-poor-and-pro-privilege-the-cry-of-the-xcluded-describe-the-national-budget/) - The Cry of the Xcluded describes the 2026/27 national budget presented by the treasury on Wednesday as a political document that shows whose lives count as the finance minister told the poor that they do not matter. Leaders from The Cry of the Xcluded held a press conference earlier on Thursday to issue their response
- [People Against Budget Cuts march to parliament to demand a pro-poor budget](https://wwmp.org.za/people-against-budget-cuts-march-to-parliament-to-demand-a-pro-poor-budget/) - The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the Budget Justice Coalition say the budget as a whole fails to respond to the crisis facing poor people. The organisations were responding to the budget speech that was delivered by Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana on Wednesday afternoon. In a press statement, the trade union
- [I Write What I Like in Xhosa – Biko’s message for a new generation](https://wwmp.org.za/i-write-what-i-like-in-xhosa-bikos-message-for-a-new-generation/) - Nkosinathi Biko, the son of the Black Consciousness Movement leader and founder of the Steve Biko Foundation, says he hopes that the isiXhosa version of I Write What I Like will revive the urgent message of the book and become a part of mass political education. He was speaking at the Ibuyambo Book Festival held
- [Protection racket threat shuts Khayelitsha clinic](https://wwmp.org.za/protection-racket-threat-shuts-khayelitsha-clinic/) - The clinic in Town 2, Khayelitsha, was closed for two weeks due to an extortion incident, impacting the health of residents and their pockets. According to Ward 93 councillor, Thando Pimpi, the security guards working the night shift at the clinic on 31 January were approached by thugs who told them that they want the
- [Intermediate Shop Stewards Training Course: An Introduction to Labour Law for Shop Stewards](https://wwmp.org.za/how-to-use-the-law-in-the-workplace-a-guide-for-trade-unionists/) - Download An Introduction to Labour Law for Shop Stewards
- [How to use the law in the workplace: A guide for trade unionists](https://wwmp.org.za/use-the-law/) - Read How to use the law in the workplace: A guide for trade unionists
- [Grieving families in endless wait for answers as Enyobeni inquest stumbles again](https://wwmp.org.za/grieving-families-in-endless-wait-for-answers-as-enyobeni-inquest-stumbles-again/) - The parents of the 21 young people who died in Enyobeni Tavern will have to wait until at least the fourth anniversary of their deaths to know if anyone will be held criminally liable. The tragedy occurred in June 2022, almost four years ago, at the East London tavern, sparking widespread outrage and calls for
- [Young business owners in Khayelitsha say crime and costs are killing their dreams](https://wwmp.org.za/young-business-owners-in-khayelitsha-say-crime-and-costs-are-killing-their-dreams/) - Youth attending a roundtable event in Khayelitsha on Tuesday, told the deputy president and the minister in the presidency for women and people with disabilities about the barriers they face in making a living. A lack of access to capital to start and maintain a business, the prevalence of extortion rings in the township and
- [Community to appeal Bhisho court’s life sentences for vigilante killings](https://wwmp.org.za/community-to-appeal-bhisho-courts-life-sentences-for-vigilante-killings/) - The communities of Amagqunukhwebe have rejected the harsh sentences handed down by the Bhisho High Court to 16 Ndindwa residents for their role in the vigilante killing of 4 community members and are seeking re-adjudication of the matter. The court sentenced the 16 defendants to four life terms plus an additional 35 years. Residents from
- [After floods, Limpopo learners study under trees](https://wwmp.org.za/after-floods-limpopo-learners-study-under-trees/) - The recent heavy rains in Limpopo that resulted in flooding in several parts of Vhembe and Mopani, has left scores of people homeless and without shelters. The floods have also left learners without classrooms and delayed the January re-opening of schools as most of them were rendered inaccessible. Learners at J.R. Tshikalange Primary School, in
- [Universal basic income ‘the only meaningful way forward’](https://wwmp.org.za/universal-basic-income-the-only-meaningful-way-forward/) - The debate on basic income support has gained new urgency in South Africa, with civil society leaders, activists, economists and unemployed young people warning that the current R370 social relief of distress (SRD) grant does not uphold the constitution’s promise of dignity, equality, and justice. Speaking at a series of policy dialogues hosted at the Nelson
- [United front in Cape Town against US imperialism](https://wwmp.org.za/united-front-in-cape-town-against-us-imperialism/) - Waving Palestinian and Iranian flags and chanting ‘Hands off Venezuela’, protesters lined the road outside the United States of America Consulate General in Cape Town as part of ‘intensified protests’ against ‘American Imperialism’ on Thursday. Led by the alliance partners, Cosatu, SACP, ANC and Sanco, and with support from the PAC, EFF, PMC and civil
- [Floods in Limpopo: Scores left distraught, homeless and without essentials](https://wwmp.org.za/floods-in-limpopo-scores-left-distraught-homeless-and-without-essentials/) - Limpopo residents are feeling the wrath of nature as a result of heavy rainfall. Floodwaters have claimed lives as houses, roads, bridges and sanitation blocks have been washed away in various villages in Vhembe and Mopani. It has been raining in the two districts since last week, something which was last experienced in 2000 when
- [LGBTIQ+ groups in Khayelitsha see justice delayed in Kwakhanya murder case](https://wwmp.org.za/lgbtiq-groups-in-khayelitsha-see-justice-delayed-in-kwakhanya-murder-case/) - Free Gender and Khulani Khayelitsha Queer Hub say they are concerned about delays in the Kwakhanya Mhlanganisi murder case. The 16-year-old gay teenager was killed on 4 December 2025, in Site C, Khayelitsha, following an altercation with two acquaintances. According to the Western Cape police, he was assaulted and later succumbed to his injuries. At
- [South Africa Palestine Solidarity Toolkit](https://wwmp.org.za/south-africa-palestine-solidarity-toolkit/) - This toolkit equips South African journalists, activists, educators, and concerned citizens with knowledge, language and tools to expose the ongoing genocidal violence in Gaza and counter Israeli state propaganda (Hasbara) that distorts the war crimes being perpetrated against Palestinians. It is a response to decades of occupation, apartheid,ethnic cleansing, and the latest UN-acknowledged genocide confirmed
- [No-fee Hout Bay school achieves 100% pass rate in senior certificate](https://wwmp.org.za/no-fee-hout-bay-school-achieves-100-pass-rate-in-senior-certificate/) - All 154 grade 12 learners who sat for the 2025 matric exams at Silikamva High School, a quintile 3 no-fee school in Imizamo Yethu township, passed. Collaboration between the school and education stakeholders is said to be the reason behind the Cape Town school’s achievement. According to the Western Cape Education Department, the school achieved
- [2025: The wrap](https://wwmp.org.za/2025-the-wrap/) - We are coming to the end of 2025 and it has been an eventful year for most of us but moreso for marginalised communities that Elitsha aims to serve. Poverty and inequalities continue to deepen and there is also a rise of right-wing politics in the country and around the world. However, poor and working
- [Brutal killing of gay teen sparks protests outside Khayelitsha court](https://wwmp.org.za/brutal-killing-of-gay-teen-sparks-protests-outside-khayelitsha-court/) - Kwakhanya Mhlanganisi, also known as Ntlanganiso, was killed on Thursday, 4 December 2025, in Site C, Khayelitsha, following an altercation with two acquaintances. According to the Western Cape police, he was assaulted and later succumbed to his injuries. The bail hearing for the Khayelitsha teenager accused of murdering Kwakhanya was postponed to 17 December for
- [Patients at Limpopo clinic told to ‘bring their own water’](https://wwmp.org.za/patients-at-limpopo-clinic-told-to-bring-their-own-water/) - Despite countless complaints from both local residents and healthcare workers, Vyeboom Clinic has been operating without a running water supply for the past 2 years, negatively affecting the day-to-day running of the facility. Situated less than 15 kilometres from Vuwani township, in the Vhembe district, Vyeboom Clinic offers health services to residents of several communities
- [A Changing World, an Unchanged Injustice: Demanding innovation that delivers dignity and safe toilets](https://wwmp.org.za/a-changing-world-an-unchanged-injustice-demanding-innovation-that-delivers-dignity-and-safe-toilets/) - Each year, Equal Education (EE) undertakes advocacy to highlight the significance of water and sanitation, particularly for learners in schools that still use plain pit toilets as a form of sanitation. We speak about the dignity of learners as they use these unsafe and dangerous structures that have led to multiple injuries and taken several
- [PSC calls for withdrawal of The Kiffness from Kirstenbosch Summer Concert](https://wwmp.org.za/psc-calls-for-withdrawal-of-the-kiffness-from-kirstenbosch-summer-concert/) - The Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Mothers4Gaza picketed at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens earlier this week calling for the withdrawal of The Kiffness from the 2025/26 Summer Concert. Wearing keffiyahs and waving Palestinians flags, about 100 protesters stood outside of the South African National Biodiversity Institute (Sanbi) offices demanding to speak to a representative. The
- [Solidarity protest in Western Cape for striking CHEP workers in Gauteng](https://wwmp.org.za/solidarity-protest-in-western-cape-for-striking-chep-workers-in-gauteng/) - Dozens of activists from Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Ceres protested outside Contracta-Force offices in Somerset West on Thursday in solidarity with the striking CHEP SA workers. Supported by the Casual Workers Advice Office (CWAO) and Simunye Workers Forum, CHEP workers in Germiston, Johannesburg, have been on a protected strike since 21 August and are demanding
- [The politics of rage: Why refusal – not civility –moves history](https://wwmp.org.za/the-politics-of-rage-why-refusal-not-civility-moves-history/) - From a Hall of Fame stage in New York to festival fields in Britain and clubs in Australia, artists are reviving a grammar of refusal. In an age of war, apartheid, and climate breakdown, civility is the alibi of the powerful. Rage can be an ethic. We live in a time that praises “civility” while
- [Zohran Mamdani and the Sorcery of Soft Rebellion: The Limits of Left Power Inside the Democratic Machine](https://wwmp.org.za/zohran-mamdani-and-the-sorcery-of-soft-rebellion-the-limits-of-left-power-inside-the-democratic-machine/) - There is a seduction in the story of Zohran Mamdani. The insurgent from Queens. The son of an African exile and South Asian cinema royalty. A hunger striker for taxi drivers. A face of the new New York – brown, Muslim, global, young, fluent in solidarity, fluent in TikTok, fluent in that tender performance of
- [Employers ‘cut corners in every way’: Unions demand action after George Collapse Report](https://wwmp.org.za/employers-cut-corners-in-every-way-unions-demand-action-after-george-collapse-report/) - Trade unions have condemned employers in the construction sector who hire undocumented foreign nationals to save costs. This follows the report by the Department of Employment and Labour to parliament this week that the majority of the compensation claims that they received following the George building collapse, were from undocumented foreign nationals. In May 2024,
- [‘A Moral and Political Failure’: Civics, parliamentarians and the Public Protector blast Enoch Mgijima Municipality](https://wwmp.org.za/a-moral-and-political-failure-civics-parliamentarians-and-the-public-protector-blast-enoch-mgijima-municipality/) - Two community-based organisations in Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality (EMLM) in the Eastern Cape have lambasted the state of the municipality calling it a moral and systemic political and ethical failure. The Independent Komani Residents’ Association (Ikora) and Komani Progress Action (KPA) were responding to submissions that the municipality made at a recent joint oversight visit
- [Gauteng table tennis club suspended for opposing Zionism and genocide](https://wwmp.org.za/gauteng-table-tennis-club-suspended-for-opposing-zionism-and-genocide/) - The Gauteng-based T2 Table Tennis Club says that its recent suspension from league competition is due to their stand against Zionism and genocide. The club says it was penalised after it initiated a boycott of the Maccabi Table Tennis Club (now ‘Masters TTC’) due to its public affiliations with Zionism and support for the state
- [Public Works presents a plan to deal with construction project delays](https://wwmp.org.za/public-works-presents-a-plan-to-deal-with-construction-project-delays/) - The Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean McPherson has revealed that construction mafia are no longer the main reason for delays in construction projects around the country. Budget and supply chain management issues are rather at fault. McPherson told the media that since the Construction Summit in Durban last year, collaboration between public works,
- [Limpopo government to open abandoned Thohoyandou taxi rank – 12 years and R325-million later](https://wwmp.org.za/limpopo-government-to-open-abandoned-thohoyandou-taxi-rank-12-years-and-r325-million-later/) - A state-of-the-art taxi rank in Limpopo is finally set to be used by the public after more than a decade under construction. Situated at the heart of Thohoyandou shopping complex, the multi-million rand building was deemed to have failed to meet required safety standards upon its completion in 2013. While more than R275-million of tax-payers’
- [UN envoy says workers and consumers can help end the genocide in Gaza](https://wwmp.org.za/un-envoy-says-workers-and-consumers-can-help-end-the-genocide-in-gaza/) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese, has urged South Africans to use their consumer power to intensify their actions in support of the broader campaign for boycotting, disinvestment and sanctions directed at Israel and companies that support the state of Israel. Albanese was speaking at an event organised by the Palestine Solidarity
- [Where food is a right and good nutrition a luxury, millions in SA are stunted](https://wwmp.org.za/where-food-is-a-right-and-good-nutrition-a-luxury-millions-in-sa-are-stunted/) - International law recognises every human being’s right to adequate food. Our own constitution states that “everyone has the right to have access to sufficient food and water”. Despite this, our country is grappling with serious issues of hunger. A 2023 report by Stats SA estimates that 3.7-million households had some form of food insecurity. Of
- [The future of mining is a marriage of toxic legacies: The Anglo American-Teck merger](https://wwmp.org.za/the-future-of-mining-is-a-marriage-of-toxic-legacies-the-anglo-american-teck-merger/) - One story dominated the Joburg Mining Indaba earlier this month: the proposed merger between Anglo American and Canada’s Teck Resources, a deal that would create one of the world’s largest diversified mining groups. The merger, covering operations in more than 20 countries, has ignited global debate over whether the industry’s pursuit of “critical minerals” for
- [South Africa’s war on social justice defenders: The assassination of Shawn ‘Paps’ Lethoko](https://wwmp.org.za/south-africas-war-on-social-justice-defenders-the-assassination-of-shawn-paps-lethoko/) - When Shawn “Paps” Lethoko was shot dead in Stilfontein on 14 October 2025, it was not an isolated tragedy, it was the latest episode in South Africa’s quiet war on community activists who challenge power in the mineral economy. Lethoko, a 41-year-old organiser from Taung Village and national figure in the National Association of Artisanal
- [Food protests in Joburg and Cape Town](https://wwmp.org.za/food-protests-in-joburg-and-cape-town/) - Union Against Hunger marked World Food Day by marching to Shoprite in Centurion, Gauteng, and to the Cape Town International Convention Centre, demanding affordable food prices on essential items. In Johannesburg, picketers outside Shoprite Distribution Park in Centurion on Thursday called on retail giant Shoprite to lower prices on ten essential food items to help
- [Resistance to the Far Right and Struggles for Democracy – Lessons from Brazil](https://wwmp.org.za/resistance-to-the-far-right-and-struggles-for-democracy-lessons-from-brazil/) - AA Saloojee Annual Memorial Lecture, 9 October 2025, given by Israel Dutra.
- [MASS WEBINAR: The National Dialogue – What’s in it for the Working Class?](https://wwmp.org.za/mass-webinar-the-national-dialogue-whats-in-it-for-the-working-class/) - Thursday, 16 October, 6-8pm
- [MASS WEBINAR: The National Dialogue – What’s in it for the Working Class?](https://wwmp.org.za/mass-webinar-the-national-dialogue-whats-in-it-for-the-working-class-3/) - On Thursday 16 Oct. 6-8pm
- [MASS WEBINAR: The National Dialogue – What’s in it for the Working Class?](https://wwmp.org.za/mass-webinar-the-national-dialogue-whats-in-it-for-the-working-class-2/) - Thursday 16 October, 6 – 8pm Thami Hukwe – Coordinator – Abahlali base Freedom Park Anzio Jacobs – Programme Officer – Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund Zwelinzima Vavi – General Secretary – SAFTU Join Zoom here
- [Cape taxi sector deploys peace ambassadors](https://wwmp.org.za/cape-taxi-sector-deploys-peace-ambassadors/) - Taxi associations in Cape Town led by the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco), in partnership with the Western Cape Department of Mobility, launched a peace ambassador project at the Bellville taxi rank on Monday. The peace ambassador project was one of the resolutions taken at the Taxi Peace Summit that was held in August.
- [Serial killings of young women in Vhembe villages](https://wwmp.org.za/serial-killings-of-young-women-in-vhembe-villages/) - Vhembe district in the far north of Limpopo province has in recent weeks been jarred by the abduction and cruel killing of women and children by unknown perpetrators. Since August this year, three young women and one toddler have been reportedly abducted and murdered in a cruel way. All the victims’ bodies were found within
- [Bridging scholarship and struggle: International land conference at UWC calls for alternative property rights](https://wwmp.org.za/bridging-scholarship-and-struggle-international-land-conference-at-uwc-calls-for-alternative-property-rights/) - Land activists and scholars have called for unity and better strategies to fight against market-driven property rights. The call was made at an international conference on Land, Life and Society, organised by the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (Plaas) the Land Deals Politics initiative and is taking place at the University of the
- [From Snake Park to Mogalakwena: Communities expose mining’s human toll](https://wwmp.org.za/from-snake-park-to-mogalakwena-communities-expose-minings-human-toll/) - The Bench Marks Foundation (BMF) held its annual conference, under the theme, ‘(Un)just Transitions: Rethinking Mining’, earlier this week in Soweto. Community leaders, activists, policymakers, and researchers gathered to reflect on the future of mining justice in southern Africa. Bench Marks renewed its commitment to building solidarity among communities, civil society, and researchers to ensure
- [14 classrooms for 2,000 learners at Limpopo school as department delays construction](https://wwmp.org.za/14-classrooms-for-2000-learners-at-limpopo-school-as-department-delays-construction/) - For more than a decade now, Elim High School in Limpopo has been pleading with the provincial department of education to provide them with adequate infrastructure but they are still waiting in vain. Currently, the school is faced with a critical shortage of classrooms and adequate sanitation. Speaking to Elitsha, the chairperson of Elim’s school
- [Barghouti and Corbyn slam Trump’s 20-point peace plan](https://wwmp.org.za/barghouti-and-corbyn-slam-trumps-20-point-peace-plan/) - Palestinian physician, activist and politician, Dr Mustafa Barghouti has criticised Trump’s 20-point plan to bring peace in Gaza as a farce in that it favours Israel. Barghouti was speaking at a press briefing at the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town on Tuesday. On Monday, the presidents of the United States of
- [Thousands march in Cape Town to demand action against Zionism and Israel](https://wwmp.org.za/thousands-march-in-cape-town-to-demand-action-against-zionism-and-israel/) - Thousands of Cape Town residents, in solidarity with Palestinians, marched through the city streets on Saturday to renew calls for action against Israel. Led by the Muslim Judicial Council, Al Quds Foundation and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the marchers delivered a memorandum of demands to parliament calling for the enactment of the Apartheid Bill, termination
- ['Does the struggle still live, or has it been betrayed?'  – a poetic reflection on WWMP's work](https://wwmp.org.za/does-the-struggle-still-live-or-has-it-been-betrayed-a-poets-reflection-on-her-internship-at-wwmp/) - WWMP hosted 3 IFWEA YGAP students during 22–25 September 2025.
- [From docks to tech, workers resist complicity in Gaza genocide](https://wwmp.org.za/from-docks-to-tech-workers-resist-complicity-in-gaza-genocide/) - Over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, many trade unions have taken collective action in support of the victims of international crimes, and to oppose the perpetrators in their efforts to continue to carry out those crimes. Dockers in the United States refused to unload cargo from the Soviet Union to protest its
- [Commuters delayed as taxi violence closes Khayelitsha-Somerset West route](https://wwmp.org.za/commuters-delayed-as-taxi-violence-closes-khayelitsha-somerset-west-route/) - Taxi passengers from Khayelitsha are being seriously inconvenienced by the closure of the minibus route between Mfuleni, Somerset West, Nomzamo, Lwandle and Khayelitsha. The closure follows ongoing taxi violence between the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (Cata) and the Cape Organisation for the Democratic Taxi Association (Codeta) that has claimed the lives of eight people. The
- [Khayelitsha residents bash councillors and political parties](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-residents-bash-councillors-and-political-parties/) - Lack of housing, crime and gangs and poor service delivery in informal settlements are some of the issues that residents raised at a community imbizo held at the Mey Way Hall in Khayelitsha on Thursday. They spared none of the councillors from scathing criticism, the ANC, EFF, Patriotic Alliance, Good Party, Umkhonto weSizwe, People’s Movement
- [Taxi-owning cops behind violence in the transport industry – MPs](https://wwmp.org.za/taxi-owning-cops-behind-violence-in-the-transport-industry-mps/) - E-hailing drivers are the targets of violence because some members of police and other law enforcement agencies are involved in the transport industry. This was revealed by the chairperson of parliament’s transport portfolio committee, Donald Selamolela, during the economic cluster media briefing on Monday. Selamolela was responding to questions by transport stakeholders, including associations of
- [President Ramaphosa takes us back to greater secrecy, less accountability in private political funding](https://wwmp.org.za/president-ramaphosa-takes-us-back-to-greater-secrecy-less-accountability-in-private-political-funding/) - Politics is an expensive business. There’s no doubt that running nationwide electoral campaigns and operating a successful political party requires millions of rands. Although parties that are represented in parliament and provincial legislatures receive funding from the state – roughly R2.2-billion in the 2023/2024 financial year – raising funds from donors provides them with an
- [Workers stripped naked at luxury hotel dismissed after speaking out](https://wwmp.org.za/workers-stripped-naked-at-luxury-hotel-dismissed-after-speaking-out/) - Former housekeeping staff from Mount Nelson Hotel who were stripped naked in July last year want justice and compensation for the indignity and the trauma that they suffered as a result. Ten housekeeping staff members, all women, were strip searched by the hotel’s security guards after a client reported that they lost money. In an
- [SAPS hosts Interpol conference on organised crime](https://wwmp.org.za/saps-hosts-interpol-conference-on-organised-crime/) - Cross-border smuggling of motor vehicles, human trafficking or of drugs, illegal mining, and firearms proliferation remain priorities for the South African Police Services in the fight against transnational organised crime. So said the national police commissioner, General Fannie Masemola at the 27th Interpol regional conference that started on Wednesday in Cape Town. Organised under the
- [Manual de Formação Básica aos Membros de Comités Sindicais](https://wwmp.org.za/manual-de-formacao-basica-aos-membros-de-comites-sindicais/) - Basic Shopstewards' Manual in Portuguese
- [Basiese Vakbond Verteenwoordiger Opleidings Handboek](https://wwmp.org.za/basiese-vakbond-verteenwoordiger-opleidings-handboek/) - Less die Basiese Vakbond Verteenwoordiger Opleidings Handboek
- [Let's Get Organised - activist handbook](https://wwmp.org.za/let-s-get-organised-activist-handbook/) - Let's Get Organised!A Handbook for Trade Union and Community Activists
- [MPs defend talks with Operation Dudula amid healthcare access crisis](https://wwmp.org.za/mps-defend-talks-with-operation-dudula-amid-healthcare-access-crisis/) - Parliament’s health chair instead of condemning Operation Dudula for preventing people from accessing public healthcare facilities, said they are choosing to ‘engage’ the vigilante group that has gained control of some clinics and hospitals. Sibongiseni Dhlomo, the chairperson of the portfolio committee on health, was responding to a question by Elitsha during the social services
- [Tyre plant shut down leaves workers reeling – Numsa in rescue bid](https://wwmp.org.za/tyre-plant-shut-down-leaves-workers-reeling-numsa-in-rescue-bid/) - The National Union of Metal Workers (Numsa) says it won a retrenchment package for workers that improved on what Good Year South Africa was going to pay the workers following the closure of its manufacturing plant in Kariega (formerly Uitenhage). This was revealed during the press briefing by the union leadership on Monday. “The more
- [Award-winning injustice: Farm workers pay the price for ‘ethical’ profits](https://wwmp.org.za/award-winning-injustice-farm-workers-pay-the-price-for-ethical-profits/) - What does justice mean for a woman who has worked on the same farm her entire life, only to be evicted, silenced and denied basic rights while her employer is celebrated for ‘ethical’ production? At the Surplus People Project, we work alongside farm workers, farm dwellers and rural organisers across the Western Cape. What we
- [Exposed: The SA media propagandists for Israel](https://wwmp.org.za/exposed-the-sa-media-propagandists-for-israel/) - Recent media reporting clearly demonstrates that South Africans are opposed to the bribing, cajoling and influencing of journalists. Whether the bribery comes in a brown envelope or stacks of R200 notes or in other unknown forms, it is contrary to our democracy and a violation of the ethics and standards of journalism . Research by
- [Report on George building collapse finds engineer ‘incompetent’ – police preparing charges](https://wwmp.org.za/report-on-george-building-collapse-finds-engineer-incompetent-police-preparing-charges/) - The South African Police Services in George have confirmed that they have received a report from the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) following their investigation of the structural engineer of the George building. Last month, the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, the Council for the Built Environment (CBE) and ECSA presented the findings
- [Cosatu demands crackdown on UIF looting and inefficiency](https://wwmp.org.za/cosatu-demands-crackdown-on-uif-looting-and-inefficiency/) - The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) provides a temporary financial lifeline for workers who become unemployed or are unable to work due to illness, or maternity or parental leave. Workers and employers contribute 1% of the worker’s salary to the UIF monthly, for the benefit of the employee. It is workers’ monies and must be used to
- [Business, not bloodshed − Western Cape taxi summit urges regulation of industry](https://wwmp.org.za/business-not-bloodshed-−-western-cape-taxi-summit-urges-regulation-of-industry/) - “We need to write a new chapter and it cannot be written in blood.” These were the words of the South African National Taxi Council Western Cape chairperson, Mandla Hermanus, during the Western Cape Taxi Peace Summit which was held in Cape Town on Monday. Geared towards curbing violence in the industry and to create
- [Khayelitsha residents slam Shoprite for ignoring local labour and business](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-residents-slam-shoprite-for-ignoring-local-labour-and-business/) - Dozens of Khayelitsha residents protested outside Site C Plaza this week, demanding to be included in work and business opportunities with the main tenant, Shoprite. Community leaders said they want 70% of the retailer’s staff and the small businesses it contracts to be from Site C. This is not the first time that Site C
- [e-News bulletin 25 July 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-25-july-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 25 July 2025Israel continues to ravage Palestine | Colombian president objects to the killings in Gaza at the Hague
- [Survivors of George building collapse demand justice as report blames engineer, developer and contractor](https://wwmp.org.za/survivors-of-george-building-collapse-demand-justice-as-report-blames-engineer-developer-and-contractor/) - The survivors and the families of workers who died or were seriously injured in the collapse of a five-storey building in George in the southern Cape in May last year have called for justice and compensation. 34 construction workers died in the disaster while 28 were injured. At the time of the collapse, there were
- [e-News bulletin 18 July 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-18-july-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 18 July 2025Israeli settlers beat US citizen to death | seven children killed by Israeli military
- [Teen suicides raise alarm over mental health crisis](https://wwmp.org.za/teen-suicides-raise-alarm-over-mental-health-crisis/) - According to the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (Sadag), a child dies by suicide almost every day. The pressures of poverty, violence, bullying, and untreated mental illness weigh heavily on young minds – while access to mental healthcare remains painfully limited. In 2023, Gauteng’s MEC for Education, Matome Chiloane confirmed that more than 40 schoolchildren
- [e-News bulletin 11 July 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-11-july-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 11 July 2025Israel plans to confine Palestinians in Gaza to a camp | Companies are getting rich off the Israeli occuopation
- [SA’s insecurity cluster of overburdened detectives, ineffective courts and overcrowded prisons](https://wwmp.org.za/sas-insecurity-cluster-of-overburdened-detectives-ineffective-courts-and-overcrowded-prisons/) - The lack of capacity of the police’s detective services came under scrutiny during a security cluster media briefing in parliament on Monday. Ian Cameron, chairperson of the portfolio committee on police, revealed that one detective has a caseload of over 400 cases. Cameron said even though the police have a high number of arrests due
- [e-News bulletin 4 July 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-4-july-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 4 July 2025Starvation in Gaza continues | Tensions between Israel and Iran heighten
- [New regulations to curb underage drinking](https://wwmp.org.za/new-regulations-to-curb-underage-drinking/) - While the Eastern Cape Liquor Board said it has recorded more than 400 cases in the past three years, many cases of alcohol sales to children remain unreported. Gathered at a provincial summit held at Abbotsford Christian Centre on Saturday, various stakeholders emphasised the need for collaboration to fight underage consumption of alcohol. The summit
- [Shack dwellers in Khayelitsha endure another winter flood](https://wwmp.org.za/shack-dwellers-in-khayelitsha-endure-another-winter-flood/) - As cold, wet and windy conditions continue to sweep across the Western Cape, informal settlements in places like Khayelitsha, Gugulethu, Langa, Strand, Eersterivier and Bishop Lavis are flooded. Residents have been urged to stay vigilant. The torrential rain across the Cape metropole has prompted humanitarian relief operations by Gift of the Givers and the provincial
- [Mthatha, a scene of grief and trauma](https://wwmp.org.za/mthatha-a-scene-of-grief-and-trauma/) - It’s been two weeks since deadly floods ravaged Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, but the grief and trauma that the tragedy brought is still palpable. Walking this week around Slovo Park in Mthatha West – one of the worst affected areas – rescue teams and humanitarian aid organisations could be seen still busy. Speaking in
- [Freedom Isn't Free – The Freedom Charter today](https://wwmp.org.za/freedom-isnt-free-the-freedom-charter-today/) - The WWMP-produced documentary is free to view on YouTube.
- [e-News bulletin 27 June 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-27-june-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 27 June 2025Tensions between Israel and Iran heighten | Shipping giant divests from Israel | Youth protests break out in Nairobi against the Kenyan Government
- [Reporting from Gaza: Belal Khaled tells his story](https://wwmp.org.za/reporting-from-gaza-belal-khaled-tells-his-story/) - Visiting South Africa for the first time, Palestinian artist and war photographer Belal Khaled met with a mixed group of journalists, activists, and allies of Palestine at a press briefing hosted by Salaam Media earlier this week. The event took place on Monday in Sandton, at the Nelson Mandela Foundation. At the gathering, Khaled shared
- [‘Another Enyobeni waiting to happen’ as schools close and taverns open](https://wwmp.org.za/another-enyobeni-waiting-to-happen-as-schools-close-and-taverns-open/) - The Southern African Alcohol Policy Alliance (Saapa) has raised alarms about a repeat of the Enyobeni tragedy as schools close this week and learners go to #pensdown parties and drink alcohol. At a seminar held at the District 6 Museum in Cape Town on Wednesday, Saapa’s secretary general, Aadielah Maker-Diedericks called on the youth to
- [Transgender woman’s long walk to ‘Female’](https://wwmp.org.za/transgender-womans-long-walk-to-female/) - Murineni Katalia Ligavha waited over 27 years of her life to be finally recognised as a woman, a gender she believes she was born to embrace. Throughout those years, the soft-spoken Ligavha was referred to as male, which made her feel uncomfortable. From rural Nzhelele, outside of Thohoyandou in Limpopo, Ligavha is a transgender woman
- [‘No 10-year-old should be a mother’: Eastern Cape’s child pregnancy crisis](https://wwmp.org.za/no-10-year-old-should-be-a-mother-eastern-capes-child-pregnancy-crisis/) - More than 300 girls aged between 10 and 14 years have given birth in the Eastern Cape since April 2024. The high rate of teenage pregnancy in the province came under the spotlight at an indaba held at Osner Hotel, in East London on Thursday. Schools in the province continue to battle high numbers of
- [e-News bulletin 20 June 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-20-june-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 20 June 2025Iran and Israel engage in all out conflict | Israel still murdering Palestinians in Gaza
- [Bush toilets and bucket water for occupiers of RDP houses and their rightful owners](https://wwmp.org.za/bush-toilets-and-bucket-water-for-occupiers-of-rdp-houses-and-their-rightful-owners/) - Residents of Chicken Farm near Mdantsane are frustrated with the lack of basic services in the settlement and feel abandoned by the municipality. Without water, sanitation and electricity, these residents have lost hope. Mbulelo Nxomani says that without toilets, residents have to relieve themselves in the bushes behind their houses. “Some of our RDP houses
- [Defend Iran, Defeat Zionism and US Imperialism](https://wwmp.org.za/defend-iran-defeat-zionism-and-us-imperialism/) - On Friday 13 June, the Israeli regime attacked Iran, bombing the capital, Tehran and other cities. Iranian officials have reported 224 deaths, mostly civilians, while Israel said 24 of its civilians were killed by Iran’s counterstrikes. Residents of both countries have been evacuated or fled. Global oil markets are poised for big price increases following strikes on the world’s
- [Domestic workers demand end to abuse on International Domestic Workers’ Day](https://wwmp.org.za/domestic-workers-demand-end-to-abuse-on-international-domestic-workers-day/) - Apart from commemorating the 1976 Soweto student uprising on Youth Day on Monday, domestic workers in South Africa were also marking International Domestic Workers’ Day with a conference in Cape Town and Johannesburg. They called for the government and employers to give their work adequate protection, particularly to be registered with the Unemployed Insurance Fund
- [Sassa withholds grants from thousands for not disclosing their income](https://wwmp.org.za/sassa-withholds-grants-from-thousands-for-not-disclosing-their-income/) - The South African Social Services Agency (Sassa) claims that some grant recipients whose payments were withheld earlier this month, have received their grants. 210,000 beneficiaries did not receive their grant for June for failing to disclose their additional income according to the agency. Speaking at Hemingways Hotel in East London on Thursday, CEO Themba Matlou
- [e-News bulletin 13 June 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-13-june-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 13 June 2025Israel attacks Iran, sparking impending conflict between the two countries
- [Fight over RDP homes in East London](https://wwmp.org.za/fight-over-rdp-homes-in-east-london/) - Residents of Fynbos 1, East Bank, in East London paint a grim picture of how they were left in the dark ever since their RDP houses were occupied by other people in 2018. In 2015, more than two hundred families were removed by the municipality from an informal settlement, Squatter Camp A & B and
- [e-News bulletin 6 June 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-6-june-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 6 June 2025Netanyahu found arming clans opposed to Hamas | Freedom flotilla demands an end to the genocide
- [Once proud Vuwani boarding school now a squalid shame](https://wwmp.org.za/once-proud-vuwani-boarding-school-now-a-squalid-shame/) - LIMPOPO – Once proud Lwenzhe Technical Secondary School is now a place of filth and neglect as the school has not been maintained for years, resulting in buildings so dilapidated they pose both a danger and a health hazard to the learners. Lwenzhe is situated in Tshino village, a few kilometres away from the township
- [Zama zamas need state protection, not persecution](https://wwmp.org.za/zama-zamas-need-state-protection-not-persecution/) - The Stilfontein mining siege, which started in August last year and continued until January this year, claimed the lives of over 80 miners and left many others missing. It sparked an outcry from surviving miners, their families, and civil society. The police action to ‘smoke them out of the hole’ serves as a chilling reminder
- [e-News bulletin 30 May 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-30-may-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 30 May 2025Trump accuses South Africa of "white genocide" | IDF open fire on Palestinians at food site | climate crisis rages on
- [Cape Town’s central line reopens](https://wwmp.org.za/cape-towns-central-line-reopens/) - Cape Town’s central line is once again on track, with Minister of Transport Barbara Creecy officially relaunching what was once the busiest commuter rail line in the country. After years of disruption caused by theft, vandalism, and land occupations, the line is now partially operational, reconnecting communities with economic and job opportunities across the city.
- [Women farmworkers call for land redistribution to address hunger](https://wwmp.org.za/women-farmworkers-call-for-land-redistribution-to-address-hunger/) - On World Hunger Day, the Women on Farms Project has called for the South African government to introduce social protection for farmworkers during off-season and for the implementation of land redistribution for their benefit. The majority of farmworker in most parts of the country are employed as seasonal workers. This means they get hired to
- [Protest leaders arrested as tensions grow in Covid Village](https://wwmp.org.za/protest-leaders-arrested-as-tensions-grow-in-covid-village/) - Three community leaders from Covid Village in Mfuleni have been remanded in custody and will appear in Blue Downs magistrate court on Monday, where they will be expected to apply for bail. This follows their arrest after they allegedly burned down the houses of shack dwellers who refused to participate in a service delivery protest
- [e-News bulletin 23 May 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-23-may-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 23 May 202577th anniversary of the Nakba approaching | Trump's tariffs still causing global unrest | US sabotaging a nuclear deal with Iran
- [R284-million in Broken Promises: New report reveals widespread corruption and abuse of mining community funds](https://wwmp.org.za/r284-million-in-broken-promises-new-report-reveals-widespread-corruption-and-abuse-of-mining-community-funds/) - A detailed report by the Mining Affected Communities United in Action (Macua) has uncovered R284-million, meant to benefit local communities, that has been lost to shocking levels of corruption and neglect. Launched on the 15th of May, the report shines a spotlight on what Macua has named “crumbs capture”, referring to a system where even
- [Alternative budget calls for taxing of the rich](https://wwmp.org.za/alternative-budget-calls-for-taxing-of-the-rich/) - Organised labour and civil society organisations proposed an alternative budget ahead of the third budget speech today by Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana. Organised under the umbrella of People Against Budget Cuts, they presented a plan that will tax the rich and ensure more investment in public services instead of austerity measures. The statement by
- [Cape Town commemorates the 1948 Nakba as the beginning of the genocide underway](https://wwmp.org.za/cape-town-commemorates-the-1948-nakba-as-the-beginning-of-the-genocide-underway/) - Hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators chanted that they will never allow another Nakba on their watch as they commemorated the 77th anniversary of the Nakba. Led by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) they called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The Nakba or catastrophe took place in 1948 and led to the massive displacement of Palestinians
- [SA lags behind African unions in organising e-hailing workers](https://wwmp.org.za/sa-lags-behind-african-unions-in-organising-e-hailing-workers/) - South African trade unions have been urged to move with the times and start organising e-hailing workers who still work under bad conditions in South Africa. Such criticisms emerged from a two-day conference on e-hailing workers, held at the University of the Western Cape earlier this week. Organised by the International Alliance of App-based Transport
- [e-News bulletin 16 May 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-16-may-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 16 May 2025Trump welcomes White South Africans as "refugees" into the US | Norway's largest trade union boycotts Israel | Traore makes international waves
- [Farm workers march to demand services from the Department of Labour](https://wwmp.org.za/farm-workers-march-to-demand-services-from-the-department-of-labour/) - Fed-up farm workers marched today to the Western Cape Department of Labour in Cape Town to plead with it to fulfill its mandate. Led by Women on Farms Project, they demanded better services from the inspectorate and the provision of Unemployed Insurance Fund (UIF) services to rural areas. Ceres activist, Sindiswa Johanes said farm workers
- [Court rules against Home Affairs on Omotoso arrest](https://wwmp.org.za/court-rules-against-home-affairs-on-omotoso-arrest/) - The East London Magistrates Court has set free the controversial Nigerian televangelist Timothy Omotoso. The court ruled that he will not be deported until his application for a review of the Department of Home Affairs’s decision is heard in court. Omotoso’s legal team has filed an urgent high court application to overturn his prohibited status.
- [Clergy support closure of Omotoso church and his deportation](https://wwmp.org.za/clergy-support-closure-of-omotoso-church-and-his-deportation/) - Clergy and traditional leaders in Buffalo City are calling for controversial Nigerian televangelist, Timothy Omotoso, to be deported from South Africa. Omotoso was arrested in the early hours of Saturday in East London for contravening the Immigration Act. A statement released by Home Affairs on behalf of the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster confirmed
- [Ending the blesser-blessee exchange: A psychologist’s approach](https://wwmp.org.za/ending-the-blesser-blessee-exchange-a-psychologists-approach/) - Poverty and the lack of financial means to meet basic needs continues to push more young girls and women into transactional sexual relationships with older men. This is revealed in a research study conducted by Sibongile Sibanyoni, a clinical psychologist from the University of Pretoria. In a webinar hosted by the National Shelter Movement recently,
- [e-News bulletin 9 May 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-9-may-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 9 May 2025Palestinian villages are burning | Fighting in DRC worsening GBV
- [Court interpreters in W Cape on strike](https://wwmp.org.za/court-interpreters-in-w-cape-on-strike/) - Court interpretation services in the Western Cape have been disrupted since the beginning of the week as court interpreters stayed away from work due to non-payment of the services they rendered, for some as far back as 2023. About 70 interpreters for local and foreign languages, mainly from the continent, who are employed on a
- [e-News bulletin 2 May 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-2-may-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 2 May 2025US airstrikes in Yemen kill hundreds | Algeria-Mali tensions rise
- [Western Cape healthcare workers want what they have in Gauteng – permanent employment](https://wwmp.org.za/western-cape-healthcare-workers-want-what-they-have-in-gauteng-permanent-employment/) - During an indaba held at Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha on the eve of Workers Day, community healthcare workers (CHWs) shared stories about how they continue to play a pivotal role in the provision of primary healthcare but that the government does not want to employ them on a permanent basis. Dozens of CHWs from the
- [Enyobeni survivors testify in court](https://wwmp.org.za/enyobeni-survivors-testify-in-court/) - Survivors of the ‘pens down’ party at Enyobeni Tavern on 26 June 2022, that took the lives of 21 young people, testified at the inquest into the cause of the tragedy. 19-year-old Ovayo Mkhonkqo, who was just 16 years old at the time, told the court how she revived her unconscious friend that night, who
- [South Africans swim from Robben Island in support of Palestine](https://wwmp.org.za/south-africans-swim-from-robben-island-in-support-of-palestine/) - Twelve swimmers braved the cold water of Table Bay as they swam from Robben Island to Bloubergstrand to mark Freedom Day and show solidarity with the people of Palestine. The relay swim was also a way of raising funds for Gift of the Givers to continue its support of Palestinians. During colonial times and apartheid,
- [e-News bulletin 25 April 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-25-april-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 25 April 2025Airstrike in Yemen takes the lives of over 80 people | Climate inches towards tipping point
- [Shack dwellers from Khayelitsha protest in Cape Town](https://wwmp.org.za/shack-dwellers-from-khayelitsha-protest-in-cape-town/) - Scores of fed-up Khayelitsha residents demonstrated outside the Civic Centre and demanded that the City of Cape Town provide basic services in their areas. The protesters, mainly from informal settlements which were established or grew during the Covid-19 lockdown, carried placards that read, “We want electricity” and “We are tired of being lied to”, and
- [e-News bulletin 17 April 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-17-april-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 17 April 2025SA MP's Hasbara trip backfires | US causing destruction in Yemen | Trump's tariffs still hurting the market
- [Footage from Enyobeni security cameras show panic and tragedy unfold](https://wwmp.org.za/footage-from-enyobeni-security-cameras-show-panic-and-tragedy-unfold/) - Video clips from the night of the Enyobeni Tavern tragedy have been screened in court, showing scenes of patrons coughing, choking, and covering their noses and mouths. Some patrons were pushing and shoving each other in an attempt to escape from what seemed to be suffocating them. The inquest in the Mdantsane Regional Court is
- [Lack of toilets at Limpopo schools a reality and indefinite future](https://wwmp.org.za/lack-of-toilets-at-limpopo-schools-a-reality-and-indefinite-future/) - The Limpopo Department of Education has delivered empty promises, defied court orders and missed deadlines in failing in its responsibilities to learners pursing their education within public schools in the province. The department has not eradicated dilapidated and old pit toilets as ordered by court. In 2018, the Department of Basic Education (DBE) promised parents
- [e-News bulletin 11 April 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-11-april-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 11 April 2025Israel still committing war crimes in Palestine | Trump's tariffs causing global uproar | South Africa phasing out coal as an energy source
- [Enyobeni Tavern manager accuses court of fabricating evidence](https://wwmp.org.za/enyobeni-tavern-manager-accuses-court-of-fabricating-evidence/) - The Enyobeni Tavern inquest was filled with drama last week as Siyakhangela Ndevu, the manager of the tavern and husband to the owner, accused the court of fabricating evidence. “It is a concern to me that witnesses keep coming in, witnesses who were not on the list of those we were informed would testify at
- [Rage over rape of seven-year-old ‘Cwecwe’ in Matatiele](https://wwmp.org.za/rage-over-rape-of-seven-year-old-cwecwe-in-matatiele/) - Education bosses in the Eastern Cape addressed parliament on Friday on allegations of a case of sexual violation at a school in Matatiele. A seven-year old girl from Bergview College was allegedly raped in October last year. The rape of ‘Cwecwe’ only made news headlines after her mother went to a podcast to complain about
- [e-News bulletin 4 April 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-4-april-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 4 April 2025Israel bombs UN clinic killing over 20 people | Scientists predict that fossil fuels are making a increasingly dangerous impact
- [Prasa removes informal traders from Khayelitsha station](https://wwmp.org.za/prasa-removes-informal-traders-from-khayelitsha-station/) - About 80 small traders were scrambling to find places to ply their wares after the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) dispatched armed guards to remove them ‘without prior notice’ from Khayelitsha Station earlier this week. It is believed that their eviction by Prasa’s protection services, Rapid Rail Police Unit, SAPS and private security
- [Scopa slates Buffalo City for wasting hundreds of millions of rands on infrastructure projects](https://wwmp.org.za/scopa-slates-buffalo-city-for-wasting-hundreds-of-millions-of-rands-on-infrastructure-projects/) - The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) has severely criticised the senior management of Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality (BCM) for the poor costing and quality of all of its capital projects. In a two-day oversight visit, the watchdog went to the Mdantsane swimming pool, Zwelitsha wastewater treatment works in Qonce and Water World
- [e-News bulletin 28 March 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-28-march-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 28 March 2025Tensions between the US and South Africa rise | Conflict rages on in the DR Congo | Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked and arrested by Israel
- [Minibus taxi blockade shuts down East London](https://wwmp.org.za/minibus-taxi-blockade-shuts-down-east-london/) - East London came to a standstill on Wednesday following a blockade by Mdantsane East London Taxi Association (MELTA) taxi drivers as they shut down the city protesting what they called the persecution by law enforcement of their chairperson, Simphiwe Gabs Mtshala. Shops were closed, and patrons using public transport were prevented from going to work
- [Informal settlement residents protest for basic services on Human Rights Day](https://wwmp.org.za/informal-settlement-residents-protest-for-basic-services-on-human-rights-day/) - Residents of Social Distance informal settlement in Khayelitsha protested for electricity and water services on Human Rights Day. They held up placards that read: ‘Our kids study in darkness’, and ‘Sifuna amanzi’ (‘We want water’), singing struggle songs and blockading Mew Way with rocks and burning tyres since Wednesday. Social Distance is one of the
- [e-News bulletin 20 March 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-20-march-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 20 March 2025Israel breaks ceasefire killing hundreds of Gazans | Mahmoud Khalil still held in captivity | Tensions rise between South Africa and the US
- [Slow progress in migrating grant beneficiaries from Sassa gold to Postbank black cards](https://wwmp.org.za/slow-progress-in-migrating-grant-beneficiaries-from-sassa-gold-to-postbank-black-cards/) - The rural parts of the Western Cape are among the areas most delayed in the Postbank and the South African Social Security Agency’s (Sassa) card replacement process. This was revealed during a joint press briefing by the Postbank and Sassa on Monday. Postbank processes social grants for over 12-million beneficiaries, but only the 2.6-million who
- [Buffalo City Metro under fire for audit and governance failures](https://wwmp.org.za/buffalo-city-metro-under-fire-for-audit-and-governance-failures/) - Buffalo City Metro’s leadership has come under intense scrutiny after the municipality’s audit improvement plan was found to be ineffective in addressing financial mismanagement. This follows the 2022/2023 audit outcome by the Auditor General (AG), which highlighted severe irregular expenditure within the municipality. Tsakani Maluleke’s report painted a grim picture of the Buffalo City Metro.
- [e-News bulletin 14 March 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-14-march-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 14 March 2025South African outcry after finance minister raises VAT | Pro-Palestine student arrested at Columbia University
- [Civil society against the austerity budget](https://wwmp.org.za/civil-society-against-the-austerity-budget/) - Civil society groups have come out against the national budget and called for its rejection as it is anti-poor. Trade unions, non-governmental organisations and community-based organisations protested against the national budget speech which was delivered on Wednesday. The budget speech had been postponed due to disagreement between the political parties that form the governing coalition
- [e-News bulletin 7 March 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-7-march-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 7 March 2025Budget crisis is creating uncertainty in South Africa | Trump threatens to reign hell in Gaza | African struggles of resources continue
- [Students have higher education minister on-side against University of Fort Hare](https://wwmp.org.za/students-have-higher-education-minister-on-side-against-university-of-fort-hare/) - The Student Representative Council (SRC) at the University of Fort Hare is accusing the university’s management of delaying the resolution of students’ problems. Since the start of the academic year, sporadic protests have erupted at the university with students protesting against lack of accommodation, problems with registration, outstanding allowances and financial exclusion. Prompted by the
- [No public toilets at Home Affairs in Vhembe](https://wwmp.org.za/no-public-toilets-at-home-affairs-in-vhembe/) - There is no running water, the toilets are currently locked and they are not in a usable condition. These are some of the reasons given by officials to people when they ask to make use of the public toilets while seeking various services at the Vhembe district offices of Home Affairs in Limpopo. Situated in
- [e-News bulletin 28 February 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-28-february-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 28 February 2025Nearly 100 US mercenaries in Gaza | German elections steer the country toward the far right | USAID drops healthcare funding for South Africa
- [Cosatu launches one-stop-shop call centre for all workers](https://wwmp.org.za/cosatu-launches-one-stop-shop-call-centre-for-all-workers/) - The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), in partnership with Rand Mutual Assurance (RMA), has launched a new call centre for all unionised and non-unionised workers in South Africa. Hosted at Cosatu House in Braamfontein, the call centre aims to provide reliable support for workers, allowing them to voice their challenges and receive information
- [Student accommodation and debt at the centre of protests on East London campuses](https://wwmp.org.za/student-accommodation-and-debt-at-the-centre-of-protests-on-east-london-campuses/) - Students from two institutions of higher learning in East London have been protesting for days against lack of accommodation, problems with registration, outstanding allowances and financial exclusions. Students from the University of Fort Hare in East London, led by the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC) protested against what they call “the institution’s management handling
- [Anti-Apartheid Movement targets Israel](https://wwmp.org.za/anti-apartheid-movement-targets-israel/) - The council of the South African chapter of the Anti-Apartheid Movement is expected to sit for the first time this afternoon since it was launched in November last year. The council, according to convenor, Rev Frank Chikane, is made up of Palestine solidarity groups, political parties, trade union federations, and religious and community groups. Speaking
- [Sassa card replacement process proves costly for grant beneficiaries](https://wwmp.org.za/sassa-card-replacement-process-proves-costly-for-grant-beneficiaries/) - Sassa grant beneficiaries in Khayelitsha say that the card renewal system has proven to be a costly exercise marred by long queues because of poor planning. All social grant beneficiaries, around the country, are expected to replace their South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) gold cards with the new Postbank black cards by the 20
- [e-News bulletin 21 February 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-21-february-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 21 February 2025Israel strikes the West Bank despite orders to ceasefire | Gaza reported to be sitting over 35 billion square meters of natural gas
- [GNU differences postpone budget speech while People’s Budget petition falls on deaf ears](https://wwmp.org.za/gnu-differences-postpone-budget-speech-while-peoples-budget-petition-falls-on-deaf-ears/) - The budget speech was postponed to 12 March due to disagreement between the political parties that form the government of national unity. The general secretary of the South African Federation of Trade Unions, Zwelinzima Vavi, described the surprise move as clear evidence that the African National Congress (ANC), represents the interests of the ruling elite
- [Cosatu, Saftu and SACP unite against budget cuts](https://wwmp.org.za/cosatu-saftu-and-sacp-unite-against-budget-cuts/) - A speak-out at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on Tuesday saw activists from four provinces, unionists and members of the South African Communist Party, calling for an end to government austerity ahead of the budget speech tomorrow. Their demand was for a people’s budget which they described as one that works for the majority
- [e-News bulletin 14 February 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-14-february-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 14 February 2025Trump threatens Palestine's existence under his administration | Elon Musk may be involved in nuclear arms construction
- [Stun grenades, arrests but no beds for homeless students at CPUT](https://wwmp.org.za/stun-grenades-arrests-but-no-beds-for-homeless-students-at-cput/) - Long snaking queues have become a common sight at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology as hundreds of students brave the scorching sun hoping that they will get a place in the university’s residences. At night, the students sleep in TV rooms, the student centre and the SRC offices. On Monday, the university called on
- [Pit toilets replaced by substandard ‘improved’ pit toilets in EC schools](https://wwmp.org.za/pit-toilets-replaced-by-substandard-improved-pit-toilets-in-ec-schools/) - Despite the efforts by the provincial basic education department to replace traditional pit toilets at Eastern Cape schools with ventilated improved pit latrines (VIPs), the latter bring their own set of challenges and are frequently non-compliant with critical design and safety standards outlined in the 2016 Water Research Commission (WRC) guidelines. These alarming findings were
- [e-News bulletin 7 February 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-7-february-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 7 February 2025Israel increases killings in the West Bank | Trump threatens US takeover of Gaza
- [Protesters accuse government of mass murder in Stilfontein](https://wwmp.org.za/protesters-accuse-government-of-mass-murder-in-stilfontein/) - Activists and concerned residents of Cape Town, led by the African Climate Alliance, picketed outside the ongoing African Mining Indaba taking place at the Cape Town International Conference Centre in solidarity with the families of the zama-zamas who died in Stilfontein. Following a court order, the government was forced to facilitate a rescue operation at
- [Doctors, nurses and paramedics protest their unemployment](https://wwmp.org.za/doctors-nurses-and-paramedics-protest-their-unemployment/) - Gathered at the entrance of the national treasury in Pretoria on Friday, the 31st of January, over 1,000 unemployed doctors, dentists, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals handed over a memorandum to demand employment. Marches like this have recently been taking place all over the country, in provinces like Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and Eastern Cape, as young
- [Monumental judgement widens access to SRD grant](https://wwmp.org.za/monumental-judgement-widens-access-to-srd-grant/) - Lobby groups have described the recent court ruling on the social relief of distress grant as a positive development for millions of unemployed people. On the 23rd of January, the Pretoria High Court ruled that the application processes and regulations set out by the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) for the social relief of
- [e-News bulletin 31 January 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-31-january-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 31 January 2025Conflict breaks out between Rwanda and Congo | Israel continues its reign of terror in Palestine and Lebanon
- [Shack fire leaves hundreds homeless in Khayelitsha](https://wwmp.org.za/shack-fire-leaves-hundreds-homeless-in-khayelitsha/) - A raging fire broke out and destroyed about 150 shacks and displaced about 500 shack dwellers in Taiwan informal settlement, in Khayelitsha on Wednesday. The City of Cape Town deployed 40 fire fighters and 10 frontline “fire resources” to contain the blaze. Residents suspect the cause of the fire to have been a pot of
- [e-News bulletin 24 January 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-24-january-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 24 January 2025Trump Administration continues funding and supplying Israel with arms | Israel continues to bomb Gaza after ceasefire agreement
- [e-News bulletin 17 January 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-17-january-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 17 January 2025Hundreds of Stillfontein artisanal miners still in danger | Israel still attacking Gaza the day after ceasefire agreement
- [Bishop Lavis parents protest declining education standards](https://wwmp.org.za/bishop-lavis-parents-protest-declining-education-standards/) - Parents and activists from Bishop Lavis picketed outside some of the schools in the area on Wednesday to highlight the need to address a shortage of teachers, overcrowding and the lack of science subjects in the township’s schools. Led by the Bishop Lavis Action Community (BLAC), they were demanding the immediate end to teacher layoffs
- [Khayelitsha school achieves 99.3% pass rate](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-school-achieves-99-3-pass-rate/) - Joe Slovo High, a quintile 2 no-fee school in Khayelitsha achieved a remarkable pass rate of 99.3%, an increase of 12.1 percentage points from 2023. Announcing the results to the teachers, learners and parents, Western Cape education MEC David Maynier said that the school has doubled its bachelors pass rate and achieved 41 subject distinctions.
- [e-News bulletin 10 January 2025](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-10-january-2025/) - Workers World Weekly 10 January 2025Stilfontein crisis continues as miners testify in the Constitutional Court | People in Gaza still living in inhuman conditions
- [e-News bulletin 20 December 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-20-december-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 20 December 2024 96% of children in Gaza fear for their lives as thousands have been hospitalized for malnutrition | Violence in Syria continues
- [Wrapping up 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/wrapping-up-2024/) - Its that time of the year when we say goodbye. We will definitely be back in 2025. We have achieved a lot this year and are doing well in attracting and maintaining audiences. Below are some of the stories we covered that we think are worth recalling. Earlier this year, Mitchells Plain residents protested outside
- [e-News bulletin 13 December 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-13-december-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 13 December 2024 Syria is bombarded by over 250 airstrikes from Israel | The mortality rate of Palestinian children is at an all-time high
- [GNU, a setback for the working class and rural democracy](https://wwmp.org.za/gnu-a-setback-for-the-working-class-and-rural-democracy/) - The May 2024 elections have ushered in a grand multi-party coalition led by the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA), with additional support from the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Freedom Front Plus (FF+), and Patriotic Alliance (PA). For purposes of manufacturing public consent, it has been mischievously named a ‘government of national
- [e-News bulletin 6 December 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-6-december-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 6 December 2024 Artisanal Miners trapped underground in Stillfontein | Israel continues to bomb Gaza "Safe Zones" | Invasion takes place in Syria
- [A gloomy Christmas for food vendors barred from Limpopo schools](https://wwmp.org.za/a-gloomy-christmas-for-food-vendors-barred-from-limpopo-schools/) - A bleak, unpleasant and unwelcome festive season looms for many desperate mothers in rural Vhembe villages in Limpopo, who for years earned an income selling snack foods to public school learners. They have not been able to earn a income since the beginning of October due to safety restrictions put in place by the Limpopo
- [Cosatu and PSC call for boycott of US companies](https://wwmp.org.za/cosatu-and-psc-call-for-boycott-of-us-companies/) - On Friday, over 100 people, in solidarity with the people of Palestine protested outside the US Consulate office in Cape Town, and called for the boycott of South African retail companies that do business with the USA. Demonstrations were also held at the US consulate in Sandton, Johannesburg, and at the embassy in Pretoria. A joint
- [e-News bulletin 29 November 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-29-november-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 29 November 2024 France sides with Israel | Lebanon terrorized by the US and Israel | COP29 seemingly had negative effects on climate justice
- [Sea Harvest strike continues to second day](https://wwmp.org.za/sea-harvest-strike-continues-to-second-day/) - The strike by Sea Harvest workers demanding better pay and improved working conditions entered its second day. With solidarity support from workers at Selecta, a subsidiary of Sea Harvest, Sea Harvest workers at the production plants in the Waterfront and Airport industria, are demanding an across-the-board salary increase of 8% while the employer is offering
- [Sea Harvest workers go on strike](https://wwmp.org.za/sea-harvest-workers-go-on-strike/) - Scores of workers from Sea Harvest have embarked on a strike demanding increased wages and improved working conditions. Working on-shore as truck drivers, general workers, welders, forklift drivers and pipe fitters, they picketed alongside Buitengracht street in the Cape Town city centre and outside the Cape Town International Airport. Led by their union, the Independent
- [Eastern Cape Liqour Board issued Enyobeni with licence despite no approved building plan](https://wwmp.org.za/eastern-cape-liqour-board-issued-enyobeni-with-licence-despite-no-approved-building-plan/) - Eastern Cape Liquor Board (ECLB) officials told the inquest into the Enyobeni Tavern tragedy that despite the Buffalo City Municipality rejecting the tavern’s building plan, the board granted their application for a liquor licence. Vuyokazi Ndevu was granted the liquor trading licence on 22 August 2012 for on- and off-site consumption. The ECLB’s head of
- [PSC calls for NPA to prosecute South Africans involved in Gaza genocide](https://wwmp.org.za/psc-calls-for-npa-to-prosecute-south-africans-involved-in-gaza-genocide/) - Members of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and other civil society organisations protested in solidarity with the people of Palestine outside the offices of the National Prosecuting Authority in Cape Town on Wednesday afternoon. The protest follows calls from the PSC and other organisations for the NPA to prosecute 60 South Africans who served in
- [e-News bulletin 22 November 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-22-november-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 22 November 2024 The US and UK airstrike Yemeni capital | Azerbaijani Journalist exiled ahead of Climate Talks | Palestinian protests erupt ahead of the G20 Summit
- [Police failed to act on complaints against Enyobeni Tavern, officer tells court](https://wwmp.org.za/police-failed-to-act-on-complaints-against-enyobeni-tavern-officer-tells-court/) - Police sergeant Tabisa Kondile, attached to the Scenery Park police station, admitted to the court that police failed to take action against the Enyobeni owner though several complaints had been laid by the neighbours. She was testifying at the inquest to find who should be held responsible for the deaths of 21 young people at
- [Eskom comes under fire at Nersa public hearings](https://wwmp.org.za/eskom-comes-under-fire-at-nersa-public-hearings/) - The proposed Eskom electricity tariff hikes were heavily criticised by civil society and residents of Cape Town, during the two-day public hearing that was held by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa). Residents of areas such as Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Hanover Park were reacting to Eskom’s proposed 40% tariff increase and
- [In pictures – Mining affected communities march to DMPR](https://wwmp.org.za/in-pictures-mining-affected-communities-march-to-dmpr/) - Thousands of people from mining affected communities in Limpopo , Carltonville, and the North West, marched to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) on the 14th of November 2024 to show their determination to exercise their right to free, prior and Informed consent (FPIC) and have gathered an extensive mandate from thousands of
- [e-News bulletin 15 November 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-15-november-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 15 November 2024 Israel continues to refuse Gaza aid | Palestinian children still suffer at the hands of Israel | Uprising in Mozambique rages on
- [Khayelitsha’s most common dread disease – diabetes](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitshas-most-common-dread-disease-diabetes/) - 14 November marks World Diabetes Day, and residents of Khayelitsha received expert advice on how they can prevent and manage diabetes. Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects how the body turns food into energy. There are more than 4.3-million people living with diabetes in South Africa, according to Dr Abraham Opare, project manager for
- [Extortion rackets and City delays keep residents in the dark for almost a year](https://wwmp.org.za/extortion-rackets-and-city-delays-keep-residents-in-the-dark-for-almost-a-year/) - Residents of a new City of Cape Town housing development in Valhalla Park have been staying in their homes without electricity since December last year. The area, which residents have named ‘The Heights’, is occupied mostly by pensioners and unemployed people and is not yet completed. Some streets are still dirt, and piles of unused construction
- [Sex workers complain of police harassment and rape](https://wwmp.org.za/sex-workers-complain-of-police-harassment-and-rape/) - Sex workers and groups lobbying for the decriminalisation of sex work say they have noticed an increase in harassment by the police as the festive season draws near. The remarks were made at the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association (ILGA) conference taking place in Cape Town. According to Lloyd Rugara, the Western
- [e-News bulletin 8 November 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-8-november-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 8 November 2024 Palestinians starve as Israel terminates agreement for UN aid | Protests break out in Mozambique after election
- [Fury after taxi operator dies in police custody](https://wwmp.org.za/fury-after-taxi-operator-dies-in-police-custody/) - Following the recent death of taxi driver, Luvuyo Vimba, allegedly at the hands of the police and law enforcement officials, Codeta held a press briefing in Khayelitsha on Wednesday afternoon. The Cape Organisation for the Democratic Taxi Association (Codeta) says it will not take the abuse from the City of Cape Town’s law enforcement agencies
- [Artivist protest outside African Energy Week in Cape Town ](https://wwmp.org.za/artivist-protest-outside-african-energy-week-in-cape-town/) - On Tuesday, environmental activists from several organisations, opposed to extraction projects, protested outside the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) where the African Energy Chamber, and the African Energy Week conference is taking place. The activists held an ‘artivism’ themed demonstration to display how companies are threatening people’s livelihoods and the environment by planning to extract oil
- [e-News bulletin 1 November 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-1-november-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 25 October 2024 Israel denys UN aid entry into Gaza to rescue people trapped under rubble | Israel assault in Lebanon rages on
- [Court reserves judgement on opening access to the SRD grant](https://wwmp.org.za/court-reserves-judgement-on-opening-access-to-the-srd-grant/) - The Institute of Economic Justice (IEJ) and the #PayTheGrants campaign are challenging the regulations used by Sassa (South African Social Security Agency) to decide whether applicants are eligible to receive the social relief of distress (SRD) grant. After closing arguments in the two-day case, judge Leonard Twala, has reserved his judgement until the end of
- [Families of the deceased oppose demolition of Enyobeni](https://wwmp.org.za/families-of-the-deceased-oppose-demolition-of-enyobeni/) - The legal representatives representing the families of the 21 young people who perished in Enyobeni Tavern two years ago say they will file an application for the magistrate in the Enyobeni inquest to oppose the demolition of the tavern structure. The Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality (BCMM) was recently granted an order by the East London
- [Hundreds march to Parliament against budget cuts](https://wwmp.org.za/hundreds-march-to-parliament-against-budget-cuts/) - Hundreds of activists, social movements, and trade union members marched to parliament to hand over a memorandum against austerity measures ahead of the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), which was delivered by Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana. Leaders of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), the South African Federation of Trade
- [Activists ask: What happened to land reform?](https://wwmp.org.za/activists-ask-what-happened-to-land-reform/) - On Saturday, the fifth instalment of Ndifuna Ukwazi’s Land and Housing School convened at Community House in Salt River, Cape Town, to discuss housing issues and land reform. Veteran journalist and author, Lebogang Seale in his address to the participants said the issue of land reform has been muted. “It’s sad that, during the recent elections,
- [e-News bulletin 25 October 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-25-october-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 25 October 2024 Israel denys UN aid entry into Gaza to rescue people trapped under rubble | Israel assault in Lebanon rages on
- [Naledi Crisis Highlights Need for Accountability, Not Xenophobia](https://wwmp.org.za/naledi-crisis-highlights-need-for-accountability-not-xenophobia/) - The recent tragic deaths of six children in Naledi, Soweto, have reignited discussions about food safety, community relations, and the role of foreign-owned businesses in township economies. While emotions run high and fingers are quickly pointed, we once again witness the scapegoating of migrants – a ploy to divert attention away from those truly responsible:
- [Workers call on fashion brands and Bangladesh’s interim government to end their repression](https://wwmp.org.za/workers-call-on-fashion-brands-and-bangladeshs-interim-government-to-end-their-repression/) - An international campaign condemning the inaction of fashion brands and calling for 36 legal cases against worker groups and protesters to be dropped has been launched in Bangladesh. Led by the labour movement, the campaign criticises fashion brands including H&M and Zara over their failure to protect workers’ basic rights in the country. It has
- [Human Rights Commission hosts dialogue on racism at Western Cape schools](https://wwmp.org.za/human-rights-commission-hosts-dialogue-on-racism-at-western-cape-schools/) - On Monday the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) commissioner, Tshepo Madlingozi called on parents to have open conversations about issues of difference and prejudice with their children. Madlingozi was speaking on the sidelines of a dialogue on racism in Western Cape schools that was hosted by the commission in Cape Town on Monday. “Parents
- [e-News bulletin 18 October 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-18-october-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 18 October 2024 Massacre in Palestine continues without mercy | US deploys troops to Israel | Palestinians burn alive in Tent Massacre
- [Extortion and by-law infringement top priorities for police over festive season](https://wwmp.org.za/extortion-and-by-law-infringement-top-priorities-for-police-over-festive-season/) - Extortion and other serious crimes have been identified as key targets for the police in the Western Cape over the festive season. This was revealed during the launch of the ‘Safer Festive Season Operations’, in Mitchells Plain on Thursday. Various police units, City of Cape Town law enforcement and emergency units were on display at
- [Hunger and disease draws protesters to parliament on World Food Day](https://wwmp.org.za/hunger-and-disease-draws-protesters-to-parliament-on-world-food-day/) - Dozens of poor residents held up placards that read: “We are hungry”, “Healthy food for all” and “Children are dying” as they sang struggle songs to mark World Food Day outside parliament in Cape Town today. World Food Day is celebrated in more than 150 countries, according to the United Nations. The idea behind it
- [Khayelitsha residents march against gun violence and crime](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-residents-march-against-gun-violence-and-crime/) - Dozens of community crime fighters and residents sang: “We will move forward though they shoot us” and urged residents to report crime as they marched from Khwezi to Makhaza Police Station in Khayelitsha on Saturday. Others marched from Strand, Lwandle, Somerset West and Nomzamo to the same police station, where they all gathered. Phindile George,
- [e-News bulletin 11 October 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-11-october-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 11 October 2024 Israel escalates massacres in Gaza | Israel attacks UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon | US names Iran top enemy
- [Climate activists protest Africa Oil vampires](https://wwmp.org.za/climate-activists-protest-africa-oil-vampires/) - Climate change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion and the Green Connection picketed outside the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) on Tuesday. The demonstration was organised against the Africa Oil Week taking place inside, where Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe delivered the keynote address. Advocacy officer at the Green Connection, Lisa Makaula
- [Cosatu marches for decent work and against inequality](https://wwmp.org.za/cosatu-marches-for-decent-work-and-against-inequality/) - Workers from Cosatu affiliates took to the streets in major centres around the country in a general strike to highlight income inequality, poverty and high unemployment on the International Day of Decent Work. Some of the main demands and issues raised by the union federation include decent job creation for millions that are unemployed, the
- [Austerity cuts Western Cape teachers’ jobs](https://wwmp.org.za/austerity-cuts-western-cape-teachers-jobs/) - Workers across the country highlighted the impact budget cuts are having on education. Thousands of Cosatu affiliates participated in a general strike to mark the International Day of Decent Work. Unemployment, rising cost of living, crime and austerity measures topped the focus of the action this Monday. Last month, protests were held in different parts
- [South Africans push for the adoption of ‘Apartheid Bill’ to isolate Israel](https://wwmp.org.za/south-africans-push-for-the-adoption-of-apartheid-bill-to-isolate-israel/) - About 20,000 residents of Cape Town led by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Palestine Solidarity Alliance, and the South African BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Coalition marched to parliament on Saturday calling for the adoption of the ‘Apartheid Bill’ to isolate Israel. In May, South Africa ratified the Apartheid Convention and solidarity organisations have developed it
- [e-News bulletin 4 October 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-4-october-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 4 October 2024 Sayed Hassan Nasrallah is assassinated, leaving the world in shock | Israel devastates the Middle East
- [Hundreds march in Khayelitsha over crime and bad policing](https://wwmp.org.za/hundreds-march-in-khayelitsha-over-crime-and-bad-policing/) - About 400 people marched to the Lingelethu West Police Station and to the Khayelitsha Magistrates Court on Wednesday, calling for tough action against crime and poor service delivery in their community. Community members mobilised after yet another deadly shooting in Kuyasa on the weekend, where an innocent child was shot in crossfire and died. The
- [Illegal dumping overwhelms Delft residents](https://wwmp.org.za/illegal-dumping-overwhelms-delft-residents/) - When you enter Delft township on the Cape Flats, a rank stench hangs in the air. Piles of rubbish and pools of stagnant, filthy water are common sights – next to schools, storm water pipes and children’s parks with some being alarming dumping hotspots. Years of municipal efforts to curb illegal dumping in the area
- [e-News bulletin 27 September 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-27-september-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 27 September 2024 Tragedy strikes in Lebanon as Israel airstrikes civilian areas, killing almost five hundred people, wounding over a thousand
- [Khayelitsha gets a men’s health clinic ](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-gets-a-mens-health-clinic/) - On Thursday, the Anova Health Institute, in partnership with the Western Cape Department of Health, opened a men’s clinic at the Michael Mapongwana Clinic in Khayelitsha. Addressing the residents who attended the launch, Dr Qondisa Qina, programme director at Anova, said the clinic will play a big role in addressing men’s health in Khayelitsha and
- [Bilharzia infections plague Limpopo schools](https://wwmp.org.za/bilharzia-infections-plague-limpopo-schools/) - Limpopo learners and their parents are living in constant fear of being infected with bilharzia as the deadly disease plagues public schools in Limpopo. In recent weeks, more than 155 positive cases of bilharzia have been reported in Limpopo across various schools, more especially in the greater Tzaneen area. While the root cause behind the
- [Khayelitsha Book Festival breathes new life into work of forgotten Xhosa poet](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-book-festival-breathes-new-life-into-work-of-forgotten-xhosa-poet/) - Themed ‘Narratives of the resilient: our lived experiences become our literature’, the third annual Khayelitsha Book Festival over the weekend was a success. The event was held at the Kilombo Village in Mandela Park. Among the authors present at the event were Chumile Sali, author of the Bus People, and Kenyan political science professor, Dr Njoki
- [Damelin College found breaking labour laws in East London campus closure](https://wwmp.org.za/damelin-college-found-breaking-labour-laws-in-east-london-campus-closure/) - The recent closure of Damelin College in East London has left its employees, from lecturers and administrators down to the cleaners, unpaid and unemployed. The Department of Employment and Labour conducted an investigation of the college that found issues of unpaid salaries and severance pay, and a failure to issue UI19 forms to retrenched staff
- [Law enforcement officers fight dismissal](https://wwmp.org.za/law-enforcement-officers-fight-dismissal/) - Axed Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (Leap) officers carried placards that read: ‘’Bring back Leap officers,’’ and ‘’City officials must resolve dismissals’’ as they demonstrated outside Athlone Police Station yesterday. They were among over a hundred officers that the City of Cape Town dismissed in February for failing firearm and driving competency tests. Hlanathi Gagayi, provincial
- [e-News bulletin 20 September 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-20-september-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 20 September 2024 E-hailing drivers strike in South African cities | Technology systems explode in Lebanon, injuring and killing many
- [E-hailing drivers go on strike in Cape Town](https://wwmp.org.za/e-hailing-drivers-go-on-strike-in-cape-town/) - Drivers for e-hailing services Bolt, Uber and InDrive embarked on strike action on Tuesday demanding decisive intervention by government and the regulation of the e-hailing platforms. The work stoppage was prompted by the unfair and unilateral deactivation of drivers’ accounts by app companies, without any recourse. Scores of the drivers, switched off their phones and
- [Residents of Shaka’s Head march against evictions](https://wwmp.org.za/residents-of-shakas-head-march-against-evictions/) - Hundreds of Shaka’s Head informal settlement residents took to the streets of Ballito, on Monday 16 September, to protest planned evictions from the affluent town north of Durban. The march to the municipal offices, Nokukhanya Luthuli House, was led by Abahlali baseMjondolo and mobilised informal traders and unemployed workers from various communities. The target of
- [RDP homeowners without electricity for a year](https://wwmp.org.za/rdp-homeowners-without-electricity-for-a-year/) - Over 100 families have been living in new RDP houses without electricity since September last year, when they first moved into them in Wallacedene, Kraaifontein. Zandile Mtuse, who stays with her sister and brother-in-law and their three kids, moved out of her shack in Section 14 to occupy her new home. The new house and
- [Hundreds protest over planned teacher cuts in the Western Cape](https://wwmp.org.za/hundreds-protest-over-planned-teacher-cuts-in-the-western-cape/) - On Friday morning, teachers, parents, unions and civil society organisations protested outside the offices of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) in Cape Town, against the planned cutting of 2,407 teaching posts by the department. Protests were also held in other parts of the province, including Worcester, Grabouw, Hermanus and Elsies River. In a statement
- [e-News bulletin 13 September 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-13-september-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 13 September 2024 Workers strike at Mister Sweet factory | Israel attempts to erase Palestinian culture | Elections divide the US
- [Labour Court rules in favour of Mister Sweet strikers](https://wwmp.org.za/labour-court-rules-in-favour-of-mister-sweet-strikers/) - The attempt by Premier FMCG to obtain an urgent interdict against the striking workers who are demanding a R19,500 living wage has been dismissed by the Johannesburg Labour Court. The applicant, Premier FMCG which was also acting on behalf of non-striking workers, sought relief to protect the business and non-striking workers from what it called
- [Bitter, not sweet! Strikers call for Mister Sweet boycott](https://wwmp.org.za/bitter-not-sweet-strikers-call-for-mister-sweet-boycott/) - 23 community-based organisations and non-governmental organisations are calling for the boycotting of Mister Sweet products during a strike by workers at its Wadeville factory which is entering its fourth week. The workers have been on strike action since the 19th of August and are demanding a living wage of R19,500. Mister Sweet produces gums, jellies,
- [Despite provisional re-registration, Damelin shuts East London campus](https://wwmp.org.za/despite-provisional-re-registration-damelin-shuts-east-london-campus/) - On Tuesday, the Damelin College campus in East London abruptly shut its doors and left hundreds of students and staff members in the cold. The campus had sixteen employees who were permanent and some on contract, including lecturers, administrators and cleaners. Twelve of these employees have lost their jobs. Only three lecturers are retaining their jobs
- [e-News bulletin 6 September 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-6-september-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 6 September 2024 Flood from burst dam destroys homes in Riverlands | Israeli bombing murders 11 while polio vaccination efforts take place
- [Police plan to catch up with extortion gangs](https://wwmp.org.za/police-plan-to-catch-up-with-extortion-gangs/) - Police Minister Senzo Mchunu told parliament that the current wave of extortion has gone beyond the four provinces of Gauteng, Western and Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal and is causing anger, bitterness, insecurity and pain across the country. Mchunu made the statement during the National Assembly sitting on the South African Police Services’ plans to deal
- [PHOTOS | Riverlands flood damage](https://wwmp.org.za/photos-riverlands-flood-damage/) - The community of Riverlands, a small village between Atlantis and Malmesbury in the Western Cape, is still reeling from the loss of their homes, livelihoods and damaged infrastructure due to a flood resulting from the rupture of three dams on the Dassenberg Farm during heavy rains last month. On Thursday last week, in a show
- [Riverlands families still picking up the pieces a month after dam burst](https://wwmp.org.za/riverlands-families-still-picking-up-the-pieces-a-month-after-dam-burst/) - 21 days since the collapse of one of four dams on the Dassenberg Farm in Riverlands, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) launched a preliminary report into the cause of the disaster which devastated the community of Riverlands in the Western Cape and left dozens of people homeless. The report reveals that the Dassenberg
- [e-News bulletin 30 August 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-30-august-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 30 August 2024 Israel refuses to let Palestinian prisoners be seen by medical professionals | Namibia blocks Israeli weapons shipment
- [Farmworkers march to demand a ban on harmful pesticides](https://wwmp.org.za/farmworkers-march-to-demand-a-ban-on-harmful-pesticides/) - Dozens of farmworkers sang struggle songs as they marched to the German Consulate in Cape Town yesterday, carrying placards that read: ‘Don’t poison us, ‘Ban harmful pesticides’, and ‘End double standards’. Women on Farms Project (WFP) and Oxfam South Africa organised the march. Lebogang Ramafoko, executive director of Oxfam South Africa, said she and the
- [Government denounced for sub-contracting fight against GBV to NGOs](https://wwmp.org.za/government-denounced-for-sub-contracting-fight-against-gbv-to-ngos/) - On Saturday, hundreds of people braved the cold and rainy Cape Town weather and marched against gender-based violence and femicide. The march was organised by the Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation (UMF), in partnership with the University of Cape Town (UCT), Langa For Men, and the Makazole Mapimpi Foundation. Uyinene was brutally murdered at the Clareinch Post
- [Enyobeni inquest adjourned until October as suspicion falls on bouncer](https://wwmp.org.za/enyobeni-inquest-adjourned-until-october-as-suspicion-falls-on-bouncer/) - The Enyobeni inquest will resume on 28 October when more witnesses are expected to testify. On Friday, the Enyobeni bouncer became too emotional to continue giving evidence. The evidence leader, Advocate Luvuyo Vena recommended that Thembisa Diko consult with a psychologist. Thembisa Diko, a bouncer at the tavern on the fateful night that claimed the
- [e-News bulletin 23 August 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-23-august-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 23 August 2024 Colombia approves coal ban on Israel, South Africa soon to follow | Israel still holding Palestinians captive in the thousands
- [60 Intercape drivers demand their jobs back](https://wwmp.org.za/60-intercape-drivers-demand-their-jobs-back/) - Over 60 bus drivers who were fired by Intercape on 7 July, are demanding that their employer gives them their jobs back. They say the company fired them for joining the National Union for All Sectors (Nufas). One of the dismissed drivers, Muzi Kwankwa said Intercape was lying for saying they were fired for failing
- [Heineken workers on an indefinite strike in Gqeberha](https://wwmp.org.za/heineken-workers-on-an-indefinite-strike-in-gqeberha/) - About 80 workers of Heineken Beverages South Africa are on an indefinite strike at the company’s Gqeberha plant. The peaceful strike started on Friday, 16 August, after management and members of the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu), failed to agree on a new work shift regime. Workers are unhappy that they are forced to
- [Women’s shelters raise concern over missing GBV dockets](https://wwmp.org.za/womens-shelters-raise-concern-over-missing-gbv-dockets/) - The lack of police accountability and under-resourcing are some of the issues that allow gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) to go unprosecuted in South Africa. This has been revealed by the National Shelter Movement of South Africa (NSMSA). In a statement it released on Tuesday, the NSMSA, which serves as an umbrella body for 96
- [NPA opens rape crisis centre in Mitchells Plain](https://wwmp.org.za/npa-opens-rape-crisis-centre-in-mitchells-plain/) - The Thuthuzela Care Centres (TCC) have seen an increase in the numbers of reported matters where children were victims in the past eight years. This was revealed by Advocate Shamila Batohi of the National Prosecution Authority during the opening of the 65th Thuthuzela Care Centre in Mitchells Plain on Monday. Introduced in 1999, the Thuthuzela
- [PSC calls for Israeli academics at microbial conference in Cape Town to be disinvited](https://wwmp.org.za/psc-calls-for-israeli-academics-at-microbial-conference-in-cape-town-to-be-disinvited/) - The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) picketed outside the Cape Town International Convention Centre where the International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME), which included Israeli academics, was taking place. The Israeli academics who have been invited to the conference which started today and is expected to run until Friday have, according to PSC, “no record of
- [Testimonies at Enyobeni inquest trigger families](https://wwmp.org.za/testimonies-at-enyobeni-inquest-trigger-families/) - The families of Enyobeni victims are pleading for psychological support as the inquest into the deaths of their children continues. Speaking outside the Mdantsane court on Friday, Ntombizonke Mgangala, aunt to the late Sinothando, said the testimonies have evoked emotions. Mgangala said listening to those witnesses was becoming too much. “First of all I feel
- [City of Cape Town evicts homeless people](https://wwmp.org.za/city-of-cape-town-evicts-homeless-people/) - Since Monday, hundreds of homeless people who have been calling the streets of Cape Town CBD their home, have been moving to shelters while others are looking for alternative accommodation spaces. City spokesperson, Luthando Tyhalibongo, told Elitsha on Thursday that a total of 32 homeless people were transported to the city’s Ebenezer Safe Space in
- [e-News bulletin 16 August 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-16-august-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 16 August 2024 Israeli army massacres children at Gaza school | Racist riots break out in the UK
- [For domestic workers, women’s month marks their ongoing struggle](https://wwmp.org.za/for-domestic-workers-womens-month-marks-their-ongoing-struggle/) - The words of Pinky Mashiane sent chills down the spine as she said them. Seated in her corner office on the 4th floor of a Pretoria office block, Mashiane reflected on her life raised by women who were domestic workers, being a domestic worker herself, and her work as an activist and advocate for the
- [Enyobeni survivor recalls ‘dying’](https://wwmp.org.za/enyobeni-survivor-recalls-dying/) - Azola Witbooi (26) gave a testimony at Mdantsane magistrate’s court on Tuesday, recalling how she thought she was dying at a birthday celebration held at Enyobeni Tavern two years ago. Witbooi is the sixth witness to take the stand in the Enyobeni Inquest which is expected to continue until the 23rd of this month. The
- [e-News bulletin 8 August 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-8-august-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 8 August 2024 - US continues to send arms to Israel | ICJ rules that Israel is an apartheid state and that its occupation is illegal | Polio outbreak ravages Gaza
- [SACP and Cosatu lambast the ANC](https://wwmp.org.za/sacp-and-cosatu-lambast-the-anc/) - The South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) have heavily criticised their alliance partner, the African National Congress for forming a coalition government with “right wing political parties” and shifting rightward. The SACP and Cosatu leaders were speaking during the party’s 103rd anniversary celebrations in Khayelitsha on Sunday.
- [e-News bulletin 2 August 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-2-august-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 2 August 2024 Palestinian prisoners being detained without trial and severely tortured | Limpopo residents resist forced removal by mining company
- [Frustrated Khayelitsha residents march to demand Eskom re-open service centre](https://wwmp.org.za/frustrated-khayelitsha-residents-march-to-demand-eskom-re-open-service-centre/) - Over 400 residents of Khayelitsha took to the streets on Thursday, and marched to the Eskom community service centre, demanding the power utility re-open its offices. The march, which was led by the South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) was prompted by the closure of Eskom service centres in Khayelitsha and in Bellville early last month.
- [Dying to live: Residents of Ga-Molekana village live in fear of mining operations](https://wwmp.org.za/dying-to-live-residents-of-ga-molekana-village-live-in-fear-of-mining-operations/) - Investigation findings released by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in June this year found that the Anglo-American Platinum mine in Mogalakwena Municipality is violating the human rights of residents in surrounding villages. Some of these violations include harming their right to water and sanitation, health, and education. The investigation was conducted after several
- [Cosatu demands Sea Harvest be liable for the disappearance of 11 fishermen ](https://wwmp.org.za/cosatu-demands-sea-harvest-be-liable-for-the-disappearance-of-11-fishermen/) - On Wednesday, members affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) protested outside the offices of Sea Harvest Corporation on Cape Town’s waterfront. Cosatu was provoked by a 19 May 2024 sinking of a fishing trawler owned by Sea Harvest roughly 30 nautical miles (nearly 63 km) off Hout Bay. 11 fishermen were
- [Limpopo villagers resist removal by Anglo Platinum mine](https://wwmp.org.za/limpopo-villagers-resist-removal-by-anglo-platinum-mine/) - Children living in Motlhlotlo village in Mogalakwena Municipality have had no transport to get to school since June. and several, not since the beginning of the school term in April because there is no transport entering the village, which is located 3 km from the main road. Motlhlotlo village is one of the villages surrounding
- [e-News bulletin 26 July](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-26-july/) - Workers World Weekly 26 July 2024 South African workers march against contract termination | ICJ makes ruling against Israeli occupation
- [EPWP workers disrupt Durban waste collection to demand their jobs](https://wwmp.org.za/epwp-workers-disrupt-durban-waste-collection-to-demand-their-jobs/) - The city of eThekwini is currently experiencing significant service disruptions due to an ongoing protest by former Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers. The protest, which began on Monday, has seen workers camp outside Durban City Hall since Tuesday night, demanding permanent employment after years of short-term contracts. Last week Friday, EPWP workers marched to
- [Electricity tariff hikes ‘unsustainable’](https://wwmp.org.za/electricity-tariff-hikes-unsustainable/) - The recent electricity tariff hikes, approved by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa), are a big headache for even the middle class. The regulator approved 178 tariff hike applications for the 2024/25 financial year. These were implemented from the 1st of July 2024. Prepaid electricity consumers in Johannesburg are feeling the added pain of
- [Enyobeni inquest hears from witnesses](https://wwmp.org.za/enyobeni-inquest-hears-from-witnesses/) - The inquest into the death of 21 young people at Enyobeni Tavern two years ago has been remanded to August 12 to 23. The proceedings resumed on Monday. Its purpose is to establish if anyone can be held criminally liable, by commission or omission, for the deaths. The state has called to the stand four
- [Pit toilets in schools a constant worry for Limpopo parents](https://wwmp.org.za/pit-toilets-in-schools-a-constant-worry-for-limpopo-parents/) - Waiting, waiting and more waiting. That is how most public schools in Limpopo province have spent the past years, waiting for the provincial department of education to demolish and replace dangerous and old pit toilets which continue to endanger the lives of learners daily. 1,400 public schools in Limpopo continue to use plain pit toilets
- [Enyobeni inquest resumes in East London](https://wwmp.org.za/enyobeni-inquest-resumes-in-east-london/) - Parents of Enyobeni victims are relieved that the inquest into the death of their children has, after several postponements, finally resumed. The inquest into the deaths of the 21 victims in Enyobeni Tavern has yet to conclude, two years after the ‘pens-down’ party turned into a tragedy. The aim of the formal inquest, according to
- [New Water and Sanitation ministry faces multiple water crises](https://wwmp.org.za/new-water-and-sanitation-ministry-faces-multiple-water-crises/) - The magnitude of the country’s water-related problems requires someone who is up to speed with the issues in the sector rather than someone who has no relevant background and will dependon advisors and their director general for information. The appointment of a women to head the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is a positive
- [PHOTOS | Informal settlement residents bear the brunt of Cape floods](https://wwmp.org.za/photos-informal-settlement-residents-bear-the-brunt-of-cape-floods/) - Last week, Elitsha reported on the cries for help from residents of informal settlements as government officials were crisscrossing the city, exploiting their miserable situation for photo opportunities and political opportunism. The situation has gotten worse for informal settlement residents as they try mop up, which endeavours have been hampered by more rain and the
- [EPWP workers march in Durban against imminent job losses](https://wwmp.org.za/epwp-workers-march-in-durban-against-imminent-job-losses/) - Thousands of Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers under the Municipal and Allied Trade Union of South Africa (Matusa) marched from King Dinizulu Park along Pixley KaSeme Street (West Street) to the Durban City Hall to deliver a memorandum of demands just days before their contracts are set to expire. Earlier this month, an internal
- [FIFA postpones decision to ban Israel](https://wwmp.org.za/fifa-postpones-decision-to-ban-israel/) - The world football governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has postponed its decision on the proposal brought by the Palestine Football Association (PFA) to have the Israel Football Association (IFA) banned for alleged violation of the FIFA statutes. In a statement via X, FIFA said the legal assessments of the proposal by
- [e-News bulletin 19 July 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-19-july-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 19 July 2024 - Israel drops 2000 pound bombs on "safe zone" in Gaza | NATO promotes Neoconservatism | FIFA has grounds to suspend the Israeli Football Association
- [Justice at last for victims of Life Esidimeni calamity](https://wwmp.org.za/justice-at-last-for-victims-of-life-esidimeni-calamity/) - On Thursday, the Pretoria High Court ruled that both former Gauteng health MEC, Qedani Mahlangu, and former mental health head, Dr Makgabo Manamela, were responsible for the deaths of some of the psychiatric patients who died in the Life Esidimeni tragedy. The tragedy claimed the lives of 144 mental health patients who were moved from
- [Buffalo City residents protest against electricity price hikes](https://wwmp.org.za/buffalo-city-residents-protest-against-electricity-price-hikes/) - Buffalo City residents have urged the municipality to reconsider its controversial new prepaid electricity fixed charge. On Wednesday, the residents protested outside the office of Mayor Princess Faku, calling on her to immediately halt the charges. The protest was provoked by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa) approval of a 12.07% annual electricity
- [e-News bulletin 12 July 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-12-july-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 12 July 2024 - Israel attacks Palestinian schools during peace talks | UN experts say that Gaza has entered a state of famine | Kenyan protests continue
- [EPWP workers to lose their jobs in eThekwini](https://wwmp.org.za/epwp-workers-to-lose-their-jobs-in-ethekwini/) - About 9,000 workers who are under the Expanded Public Works Programme will lose their jobs this month as their contracts come to an end. An internal memorandum that was leaked on social media last week announces that all contracts for EPWP employees will end on July 25, 2024. The news came as a shock to
- [A week of misery for informal settlement residents](https://wwmp.org.za/a-week-of-misery-for-informal-settlement-residents/) - Informal settlement residents in the City of Cape Town, Winelands and Overberg district municipalities continue to bear the brunt of the inclement weather that has engulfed the Western Cape for over a week. Gale force winds and torrential rains have been the order of the day since last week Thursday and led to flooding and
- [Storms and flood waters devastate Cape Town’s informal settlements](https://wwmp.org.za/storms-and-flood-waters-devastate-cape-towns-informal-settlements/) - The severe weather conditions in the Western Cape over the past weekend have left a trail of destruction for residents of informal settlements around Cape Town. According to the City of Cape Town, over 200mm of rain was recorded from the start of the storm till Tuesday morning, 9 July 2024, with 40 – 60mm
- [City of Cape Town to remove homeless people from city centre](https://wwmp.org.za/city-of-cape-town-to-remove-homeless-people-from-city-centre/) - Over 200 homeless people living on the streets of the Cape Town CBD are set to be evicted by the end of this month. But, they don’t want to go to any shelter or safe space. Their imminent eviction follows a court order obtained by the city last month from the High Court, which gives them permission
- [Uprising of the youth in Kenya](https://wwmp.org.za/uprising-of-the-youth-in-kenya/) - The youth in Kenya are angry. On 25 June 2024, they stormed the National Assembly, setting part of it on fire. They ransacked the building, smashing everything on site. Some even ate the food in the cafeteria that was reserved for members of parliament and senators. Others smashed into the Senate chambers and took over
- [Not a tap nor a toilet for the 200 people living in this Cape Town informal settlement ](https://wwmp.org.za/not-a-tap-nor-a-toilet-for-the-200-people-living-in-this-cape-town-informal-settlement/) - Over 200 people, who are residents of the Gate 7 informal settlement, near the Maitland Cemetery, have been living without water and toilets for the past 30 years. As you enter the area, there are dirt covered roads with small shacks, separated by small passages. A stone’s throw from the informal settlement, there is a
- [Lesufi’s Green Army face a jobless tomorrow](https://wwmp.org.za/lesufis-green-army-face-a-jobless-tomorrow/) - After receiving sad news last week that their contracts won’t be renewed, thousands of Expanded Public Work Programme (EPWP) workers in Gauteng are rejoining the unemployment queue. They were part of Nasi iSpani, Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s employment initiative whose recruits were called the Green Army. They were employed last year for 12 months to clean
- [Residents protest for EPWP cleaning jobs](https://wwmp.org.za/residents-protest-for-epwp-cleaning-jobs/) - Shack dwellers barricaded Baden Powell Drive in Khayelitsha this Wednesday with burning rubbish and tyres to demand employment as street cleaners under the extended public works programme of the City of Cape Town. Community leader, Mzwakhe Matshoba said the shack dwellers wanted ward 95 councillor, Ayanda Thethani, and the City of Cape Town to change
- [Fetching water is daily pain for Vhembe women](https://wwmp.org.za/fetching-water-is-daily-pain-for-vhembe-women/) - Fetching water. That is how several women in water-starved rural villages in Vhembe, Limpopo spend most hours of their days, some even walking several kilometres, carrying buckets full of water on their heads. Every day, 51-year-old Hulisani Modjadji walks more than 3 kilometres from her house to buy water from her fellow villagers who have
- [e-News bulletin 28 June 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-28-june-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 28 June 2024 - Netanyahu refuses to end the war in Gaza | Theat of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah | Julian Assange walks free
- [New Khayelitsha police station has no forensics capacity, computer or phone](https://wwmp.org.za/new-khayelitsha-police-station-has-no-forensics-capacity-computer-or-phone/) - Lieutenant colonel Linda Mangaliso, Makhaza police station commander, told Elitsha during a brief interview that the police station is short-staffed and without cops trained to deal with fingerprints and ballistics. And they are still waiting for Telkom to install telephones. “We still rely on Harare police station for support as our mother,” Mangaliso said. Minister
- [Climate crisis threatens basic human rights – report](https://wwmp.org.za/climate-crisis-threatens-basic-human-rights-report/) - A report released by Section27 on Wednesday has revealed that the April 2022 floods that engulfed KwaZulu-Natal, were a striking example of how the climate change crisis affects school infrastructure and the right to access basic education. Titled, Climate Change as a Human Rights Risk: A Resource for Health and Education Rights Activists in South Africa, the report
- [e-News bulletin 21 June 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-21-june-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 21 June 2024 - South African elections result in the formation of the GNU | Starvation continues to ravage Palestinian citizens in Gaza
- [Xenophobia and the Scapegoating of Immigrants](https://wwmp.org.za/xenophobia-and-the-scapegoating-of-immigrants/) - Many South Africans will not openly admit to being xenophobic, yet subtle hints of it frequently surface in everyday conversations. Take for example a conversation I had this morning with an Uber driver who insisted that he has no problem with foreigners, but in the same breath complains about how “they” are taking “our” jobs.
- [Gauteng charities face closure as Dept of Social Development stops funding](https://wwmp.org.za/gauteng-charities-face-closure-as-dept-of-social-development-stops-funding/) - The NGO crisis in Gauteng has grabbed a lot of attention from civil society and trade unions alike. Last week, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) expressed deep concern about the NGO budget cuts that are crippling many organisations in Gauteng. “The Gauteng Department of Social Development changed the procedure through which it approves
- [Not a GNU, but a neo-liberal elite pact](https://wwmp.org.za/not-a-gnu-but-a-neo-liberal-elite-pact/) - It is important to name and characterise things for what they exactly are. To mischaracterise phenomena can lead to bad strategy and tactics. Based on this approach, we argue that following the outcomes of the May 29 general elections, South Africa is not about to have a government of national unity (GNU). Instead, we have
- [Don’t GNU forget about me](https://wwmp.org.za/dont-gnu-forget-about-me/) - Cry of the Xcluded – a political forum of the marginalised – has called for the government of national unity, just formed by the ANC and the DA, to implement policies that address the root causes of youth unemployment and economic inequality. In a speak-out that was held to mark Youth Day in Khayelitsha, residents
- [e-News bulletin 14 June 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-14-june-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 14 June 2024 - In a raid to free 4 hostages, Israeli soldiers murder over 250 Palestinians | UN supports US resolution for ceasefire in Gaza
- [Public Protector finds government is failing victims of GBV](https://wwmp.org.za/public-protector-finds-government-is-failing-victims-of-gbv/) - Civil society organisations fighting for victims of gender-based violence (GBV), say it is tragic that it took the loss of two lives, according to a report by News24, for the Office of the Public Protector to investigate the appalling treatment of victims of GBV by the departments of justice and constitutional development, and social development,
- [Populism at the heart of the 2024 elections](https://wwmp.org.za/populism-at-the-heart-of-the-2024-elections/) - What does the outcome of the 2024 general elections tell us about the consciousness of South African voters? It is a mixed picture with five main tendencies. The overwhelming majority of voters chose the broad ANC family as their elected public representatives. At the same time, voters enabled the ultra-liberal Democratic Alliance to emerge as
- [Despite a court order, the WC Education Department is still failing some learners](https://wwmp.org.za/despite-a-court-order-the-wc-education-department-is-still-failing-some-learners/) - The Western Cape Department of Education (WCED) is still failing to place some learners in school, despite a court ordering them to do so, alleging that some of their information is either incorrect or inadequate. Two weeks ago, the Western Cape High Court ordered that the WCED place all learners who applied to enrol in
- [e-News bulletin 7 June 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-7-june-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 7 June 2024 Woman murdered in Durban due to Islamophobic attack | ANC loses majority in recent elections | Union at UC strikes in solidarity with Palestine
- [Sex workers call for decriminalisation bill to be signed into law](https://wwmp.org.za/sex-workers-call-for-decriminalisation-bill-to-be-signed-into-law/) - A group of civil society organisations led by the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), have launched the #WhoSpeaksForUs campaign. The campaign is aimed at political parties and putting pressure on the government to finally sign into law the decriminalisation of sex work bill. Organisations who are rallying behind the campaign include: Asijiki Coalition
- [Election week photos](https://wwmp.org.za/election-week-photos/) - On Wednesday, South Africans took to the polls to choose the political parties that they would like to lead the seventh administration. According to the IEC, more than 27-million people were registered to vote but those who went to vote numbered just over 8-million. About 15-million of the voting population are women. In terms of
- [e-News bulletin 31 May 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-31-may-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 31 May 2024 - Tragedy strikes in Rafah as Israel blatantly defies ICJ ruling and massacres dozens of Palestinians | Elections leave SA citizens in anticipation
- [Nelson Mandela Bay residents vote for better services and jobs for youth](https://wwmp.org.za/nelson-mandela-bay-residents-vote-for-better-services-and-jobs-for-youth/) - Many Eastern Cape voters were frustrated with the manner in which the general elections kicked off on 27 May 2024. They bemoaned failures by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to organise the voting process efficiently. Topping their grievances was the late arrival of ballot papers, the malfunctioning of voting verification devices and having the ballot
- [Mamelodi votes for jobs](https://wwmp.org.za/mamelodi-votes-for-jobs-2/) - The streets were busy in Mamelodi East with different political party tents and stations set up along the streets in the area’s demarcated voting stations. Street view of Tsamaya Avenue, Mamelodi East, on the day of elections. Voters at the Stanza Bopape Community Hall slowly moved in and out of the voting station as there
- [Mamelodi votes for jobs](https://wwmp.org.za/mamelodi-votes-for-jobs/) - The streets were busy in Mamelodi East with different political party tents and stations set up along the streets in the area’s demarcated voting stations. Street view of Tsamaya Avenue, Mamelodi East, on the day of elections. Voters at the Stanza Bopape Community Hall slowly moved in and out of the voting station as there
- [Buffalo City votes for jobs and service delivery](https://wwmp.org.za/buffalo-city-votes-for-jobs-and-service-delivery/) - The voting process in East London’s Mdantsane township went smoothly, despite delays at some stations. Both young and elderly people came out in numbers. Before 10a.m., elderly people at Mdantsane’s Unit 7 Community Hall were already standing in long queues with some seated. A 24-year-old first-time voter, Neliso Zide said the process was easy: “Voting
- [Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain vote for crime reduction, youth employment and service delivery](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-and-mitchells-plain-vote-for-crime-reduction-youth-employment-and-service-delivery/) - Residents of the most populous areas of the Western Cape say they hope that the elections and whoever takes power afterwards will deal with the issues of crime and youth unemployment, and deliver quality social services. Elitsha spoke to voters from Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain. According to the Independent Electoral Commission, there are over 3.7-million
- [Job creation for the youth a priority for young voters in Vhembe](https://wwmp.org.za/job-creation-for-the-youth-a-priority-for-young-voters-in-vhembe/) - Having waited for years to cast their votes, young and elderly persons in Vhembe district, Limpopo, braced the morning cold and queued at their local IEC voting stations to vote for their favoured political parties. The voters Elitsha spoke to voiced their concerns on several service delivery issues, including a lack of water provision, the
- [Reflections on workers’ education before liberation in South Africa and Nigeria](https://wwmp.org.za/reflections-on-workers-education-before-liberation-in-south-africa-and-nigeria/) - Trade unionism and worker education, particularly in Africa, are rarely discussed through comparative lenses, and yet relatively highly industrialised countries in Africa have lessons for trade unions and workers the world over. The significant body of historical and contemporary literature on workers’ education in Nigeria and South Africa presents a valuable resource for comparative analysis.
- [e-News bulletin 24 May 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-24-may-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 24 May 2024 - ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu | South Africa supports the arrest of Israeli and Hamas officials
- [Over 45% of SA youth are unemployed – are they unemployable?](https://wwmp.org.za/over-45-of-sa-youth-are-unemployed-are-they-unemployable/) - When children are young, there are all sorts of folk tales, iintsomi, cautioning them against an assortment of dangers, from witches with poisoned apples, wolves dressed like sheep, wolves dressed like their grandmother, to Pinky Pinky waiting to attack little girls in the bathroom to the monsters hiding under the bed. Scarier than all the
- [Asylum seekers fear for their future in South Africa](https://wwmp.org.za/asylum-seekers-fear-for-their-future-in-south-africa/) - Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia (KAAX) has sent an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa and the Minister of Home Affairs, Aaron Motsoaledi, supported by over 40 civil society organisations, expressing their disagreement and fear for the implementation of the White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration, and Refugee Protection. It proposes many radical changes to migration and
- [Court orders WCED to find schools for all unplaced learners](https://wwmp.org.za/court-orders-wced-to-find-schools-for-all-unplaced-learners/) - Equal Education has described the Western Cape High Court order for the provincial education department to find schools for all unplaced learners as a hard-won victory for the parents and learners. On Friday, the Western Cape High Court ordered that the Western Cape Department of Education (WCED) place all learners, who on their own or
- [Khumbulani Pride march remembers victims of hate crimes](https://wwmp.org.za/khumbulani-pride-march-remembers-victims-of-hate-crimes/) - On Saturday, over 300 people marched from the Zolani Centre, throughout Gugulethu and handed over a memorandum of demands at the Nyanga Police Station. Rainbow coloured flags and outfits stood out as activists and members of the LGBTQIA+ community sang, and held banners with messages to remember those who have been silenced in hate crimes.
- [Remembering the Nakba and the ongoing struggle for Palestinian liberation](https://wwmp.org.za/remembering-the-nakba-and-the-ongoing-struggle-for-palestinian-liberation/) - “We are meeting today to commemorate the Nakba, a catastrophe that was visited upon the people of Palestine in 1948. I thought it is important to say that Nakba is continuing today. It was meant to ethnically cleanse Palestine for settler Jewish people from Europe. It was meant to dispossess and displace Palestinians and dispossess
- [The NHI is enacted: Five things you need to know](https://wwmp.org.za/the-nhi-is-enacted-five-things-you-need-to-know/) - The National Health Insurance (NHI) was signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 15 May, 2024, at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. In the presence of other members of government, the MECs of health from different provinces, as well as civil society representatives, Ramaphosa expressed excitement over turning the bill into an act that will
- [e-News bulletin 17 May 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-17-may-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 17 May 2024 - Elections polarize South Africa | UCLA anti-genocide protestors attacked by Zionist aggressors | Biden supplies weapons to Israel during raid of Rafah
- [Liquor board, police and municipality all complicit in Emoyeni deaths – EC Human Rights Commission](https://wwmp.org.za/liquor-board-police-and-municipality-all-complicit-in-emoyeni-deaths-ec-human-rights-commission/) - Despite underage drinking being a deadly challenge in the Eastern Cape, the province’s liquor board has failed to enforce compliance due to severe staffing shortages, with nearly two-thirds of its enforcement inspector posts vacant. The role of these inspectors include monitoring registered outlets, as well as conducting pre-registration inspections. They also have to follow-up returned
- [Employees of North West government-owned company go fourth month with no salary](https://wwmp.org.za/employees-of-north-west-government-owned-company-go-fourth-month-with-no-salary/) - Transport workers marched to the Department of Transport in Pretoria on Tuesday, the 8th of May, to demand that the department intervene to get their unpaid salaries paid. Led by the South African Workers Union Ya Bashumi (SAWU-Ya Bashumi) and supported by the National Economic Development Forum (NEDF) and members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF),
- [e-News bulletin 10 May 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-10-may-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 10 May 2024 - Aid to Gaza is cut off after IDF seize Rafah crossing | Israel plans 'Ethnic Cleansing' in Rafah | Al Jazeera shut down in Israel
- [Outsourcing waste collection leads to illegal dumping in Khayelitsha](https://wwmp.org.za/outsourcing-waste-collection-leads-to-illegal-dumping-in-khayelitsha/) - Residents are contending with the stench of uncollected rubbish following two months without any waste collection as the workers employed by the company contracted to collect rubbish are strike over non-payment. The city said it terminated Mbolompo’s contract last month because the outsourced company was ‘in breach of contract’. The city refused to explain how
- [e-News Bulletin 3 May 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-may-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 3 May 2024 Gaza encampments being set up internationally across universities | Freedom Flotilla delayed by Israeli government
- [A May Day Reflection on the Current State and Future of Workers in South Africa](https://wwmp.org.za/a-may-day-reflection-on-the-current-state-and-future-of-workers-in-south-africa/) - “There is a train that comes from Namibia and MalawiThere is a train that comes from Zambia and ZimbabweThere is a train that comes from Angola and MozambiqueFrom Lesotho, from Botswana, from SwazilandFrom all the hinterlands of Southern and Central AfricaThis train carries young and old, African menWho are conscripted to come and work on
- [Queer sports and free expression on Freedom Day](https://wwmp.org.za/queer-sports-and-free-expression-on-freedom-day/) - In Khayelitsha on Freedom Day this past Saturday, the Ubuntu Queer Collective joined members of the LGBTQIA+ community at the Desmond Tutu Hall in Makhaza, for a sports day to promote athleticism among one another. The participants played netball and soccer, as well as taking to a stage for live performances and an open mic
- [e-News bulletin 26 April 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-26-april-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 26 April 2024 Load Shedding still ravaging South Africa | Pro-Palestinian protests at US universities | US stokes crisis in Latin America
- [Blowey residents spend child grants on paraffin](https://wwmp.org.za/blowey-residents-spend-child-grants-on-paraffin/) - Shack dwellers have been living without electricity since October last year, when a fire destroyed 150 of their shacks in Blowey informal settlement, Khayelitsha. Community leader, Sbu Rhathiya said the fire victims now want Eskom to install electricity boxes in their newly rebuilt shacks. “You can’t stay with kids in a dark, unlit shack because
- [IEC commits political parties to respect the voter ahead of May election](https://wwmp.org.za/iec-commits-political-parties-to-respect-the-voter-ahead-of-may-election/) - The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in the Western Cape has called for mutual respect between the political parties contesting elections, the IEC and the voters. The call was made by the IEC’s provincial electoral officer, Michael Hendrickse, during the signing of the electoral code of conduct by political parties and independents who are contesting the
- [e-News bulletin 19 April 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-19-april-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 19 April 2024 Elections looming over South Africa | More Israeli attacks in Iran | Pro-Palestinian voices shut down by police in Germany
- [Impoverished workers barricade N2](https://wwmp.org.za/impoverished-workers-barricade-n2/) - Fed-up cleaners barricaded the N2 and Baden Powell Drive (R310) with burning tires and rubbish near Makhaza in Khayelitsha today. ‘’We shut down the busy roads because we want the City of Cape Town to respond to our demand for payment. We will continue to do so until we get a response,’’ said Masixole Mtyida.
- [Food prices must be investigated and Fall!](https://wwmp.org.za/food-prices-must-be-investigated-and-fall/) - Lobby group Amandla.mobi is calling on big businesses to drop the prices of essential foods. In their campaign petition – addressed to the President, big food business, supermarkets, and the ministers Trade and Industry, Agriculture, and Land Reform and Rural Development – they urge the Competition Commission to investigate the price difference between farm gate and
- [Parents close school for two days demanding the principal be investigated](https://wwmp.org.za/parents-close-school-for-two-days-demanding-the-principal-be-investigated/) - Angry parents halted teaching and learning at Mzamomtsha Primary School in Driftsands near Mfuleni, for two days last week and demanded that Ndileka Kama be removed as school principal, accusing her of corruption and nepotism. Kids played outside and inside the school premises while teachers basked in the sun. Community leader Teboho Saliwa said the
- [Nzimande puts NSFAS under administration](https://wwmp.org.za/nzimande-puts-nsfas-under-administration/) - After dissolving the board of the National Students Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) for poor management, Minister of Higher Education and Training, Blade Nzimande quickly appointed Sithembiso Freeman Nomvalo as the administrator of the embattled body. The minister described him as a seasoned administrator with extensive experience in public finance management who was until recently, the
- [e-News bulletin 12 April 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-12-april-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 12 April 2024 billions down the drain due to broken water pipes | Israel is still starving Palestinians of water | Netanyahu plots more conflict in the Middle East
- [The teachings of HIV, TB and Covid: Value community healthcare workers more](https://wwmp.org.za/the-teachings-of-hiv-tb-and-covid-value-community-healthcare-workers-more/) - World Health Worker day, which falls in the first week of April each year, aims to commemorate the work of healthcare professionals. As they do every year, Grow Great, a campaign committed to mobilising South Africans to halve stunting in young children by 2030, marks the day by celebrating the contribution of community healthcare workers (CHWs) to
- [Fires and storms hit Western Cape informal settlements hard](https://wwmp.org.za/fires-and-storms-hit-western-cape-informal-settlements-hard/) - Storms have wrecked havoc over the past few days in Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Paarl in the Western Cape, leaving a trail of destruction and thousands homeless. The humanitarian aid organisation, Gift of the Givers, through a media statement said that they responded to fires that broke out in Nyanga on Friday evening, and in
- [e-News bulletin 5 April 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-5-april-2024/) - Israeli war crimes this week: Al Shifa hospital massacre, aid workers killed, detainee torture | US sends more weaponsWorkers World Weekly 5 April 2024
- [Pens Down party mayhem in East London](https://wwmp.org.za/pens-down-party-mayhem-in-east-london/) - Hundreds of teenagers in East London converged on the beachfront this Saturday for a pens down party, despite warnings from authorities not to hold the party. The Eastern Cape Liquor Board (ECLB) last Wednesday issued a warning after receiving information of parties being organised for the Easter weekend targeting learners. “ECLB has received a tip-off
- [The abusive conditions of employment for women in SA’s garment industry](https://wwmp.org.za/the-abusive-conditions-of-employment-for-women-in-sas-garment-industry/) - The garment sector is riddled with cases of gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) that goes unpunished and most times, unreported due to a failure to implement company policies, according to a report by the Labour Research Services (LRS). The report covers different forms of violence such as rape, sexual assault, psychological abuse, bullying and more.
- [e-News bulletin 28 March 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-28-march-2024/) - Amadiba vs Sanral | UN: Genocide in Gaza is fact | Assange last-ditch appealWorkers World Weekly 29 March 2024|
- [‘Make Cape Town’s housing waiting list public!’](https://wwmp.org.za/make-cape-towns-housing-waiting-list-public/) - Approximately 630,000 people are still sitting on the housing waiting list in the Western Cape, according to The Housing Assembly. On Saturday, the housing advocacy organisation, joined by the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and hundreds of people without houses from Manenberg and surrounding communities, launched the ‘Accountability on the waiting list’ campaign. It is aimed at pushing the
- [Long walk to school for learners in rural Eastern Cape](https://wwmp.org.za/long-walk-to-school-for-learners-in-rural-eastern-cape/) - For many years learners from Ntabenkonyana Secondary School in Middledrift have been deprived of their right of access to quality education due to a lack of scholar transport. Built in the 1970s at the centre of surrounding villages in the Eastern Cape, learners at the school have not benefited from the national scholar transport policy
- [e-News bulletin 22 March 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-22-march-2024/) - SA mercenary in Israel lauded | Jared Kushner talks ethnic cleansing | US trojan port | DRC genocideWorkers World Weekly 22 March 2024
- [Poop keeps Khayelitsha pre-schoolers out of school](https://wwmp.org.za/poop-keeps-khayelitsha-pre-schoolers-out-of-school/) - A recurring sewage spill has been keeping 46 Grade R learners from attending classes since Monday at Philani Educare in L section of Site B, Khayelitsha. Water mixed with faeces gurgles out of a rodding eye located in a yard next to the crèche and flows into the yard of the crèche and a classroom.
- [Residents slam ‘dismal’ Western Cape health budget](https://wwmp.org.za/residents-slam-dismal-western-cape-health-budget/) - Health activists and residents who attended the Western Cape Health Budget Indaba earlier this week have described it as “not practical” and nothing but a “box ticking session”. The meeting was meant to unpack the 2024/25 Western Cape health budget with community and health stakeholders. The provincial health department has been allocated R30,489,211 to address
- [Congolese in SA protest DRC plunder and genocide](https://wwmp.org.za/congolese-in-sa-protest-drc-plunder-and-genocide/) - Congolese nationals, activists and various organisations took to the streets of Cape Town on Saturday to highlight the genocide that is happening mainly in the eastern parts of the mineral-rich country in the centre of the continent. Congo has experienced intense war and conflict since 1996 which has links to the Rwandan genocide which lasted
- [e-News bulletin 15 March 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-15-march-2024/) - Who is Martin Moshal? | The Antisemitism industry | Snuffing out Palestine suffering | The West's reckoningWorkers World Weekly 15 March 2024
- [Brewing nationwide bus strike](https://wwmp.org.za/brewing-nationwide-bus-strike/) - The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) vows to mobilise for a complete national shutdown of the passenger bus industry. This comes after the attempt for unions and employers to overcome an impasse in ongoing wage talks were unsuccessful. A meeting between Numsa and employer associations – South African Bus Employers Association and
- [Prasa promises trains for Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain by year-end](https://wwmp.org.za/prasa-promises-trains-for-khayelitsha-and-mitchells-plain-by-year-end/) - Raymond Maseko, regional manager of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) announced that trains would be running along the central line by the end of the year. Maseko was briefing civic organisations and the media on progress that Prasa has made in rehabilitating the central line . “We are hard at work to
- [Palestinian leader calls for an organised international campaign to isolate Israel](https://wwmp.org.za/palestinian-leader-calls-for-an-organised-international-campaign-to-isolate-israel/) - Palestinian politician and physician, Dr Mustafa Barghouti has called on South Africans to lead the isolation of Israel by supporting the consumer boycott of Israeli goods and services and the expulsion of Israel from the international football federation, and by expelling the its ambassador. Barghouti, who is a former Minister of Information in the Palestinian
- [Violated, abused and judged, report reveals cruel treatment of queer people in SA clinics](https://wwmp.org.za/violated-abused-and-judged-report-reveals-cruel-treatment-of-queer-people-in-sa-clinics/) - A lot of queer or transgender people, drug addicts or sex workers are victims of inhumane and ill treatment when they visit public healthcare facilities. In the worst cases, some are denied health services and chased away from clinics. This scathing finding is revealed in a report that was launched by Ritshidze recently. It is
- [Beware the future plots to capture the state](https://wwmp.org.za/beware-the-future-plots-to-capture-the-state/) - Civil society organisations under the umbrella of the Civil Society Working Group (CSWG) have issued a response to the Zondo Commission report on state capture that calls for various reforms to address shortcomings in the recommendations by the commission. Over 20 organisations participating in the CSWG – including Black Sash, Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Organisation
- [e-News bulletin 8 March 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-8-march-2024/) - Hamba kahle Eddie Webster | Palestinian Authority resigns | Germany named complicit in genocide | Gaorge Galloway elected MPWorkers World Weekly 8 March 2024|URL|
- [Toilet cleaners strike over non-payment](https://wwmp.org.za/toilet-cleaners-strike-over-non-payment/) - Scores of angry cleaners gathered at Khayelitsha Training Centre to demand that Mbolompo Property Specialists pay them their salaries by Friday. The cleaners told Elitsha that they started to work in wards 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 and 99 in January but have not yet been paid. The company is contracted by the City of
- [Civil society groups vow to intensify support for Palestine ](https://wwmp.org.za/civil-society-groups-vow-to-intensify-support-for-palestine/) - On Thursday, over 150 students, academics, and activists gathered at the Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education in Cape Town to reflect on South Africa’s role in supporting the people of Palestine. The multi-faceted discussion was organised under the theme, ‘From Crisis to Activism: Palestine and the Awakening of South African Consciousness’. On the same day, Al
- [e-News bulletin 1 March 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-1-march-2024/) - AMCU launches Labour Party | Israel massacres over 100 Gazans seeking aid | Aaron Bushnell | Israeli universities' complicityWorkers World Weekly 1 March 2024|
- [Lwandisa school community lose hope government will fix their school](https://wwmp.org.za/lwandisa-school-community-lose-hope-government-will-fix-their-school/) - The Lwandisa Primary School is still missing a roof over several classrooms since gale-force winds tore it off early last year. The learners, parents, teachers and SGB say they do not know when the roof will be fixed as numerous promises were made but never fulfilled by the education department in the province. Speaking during
- [e-News bulletin 23 February 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-23-february-2024/) - Budget 2024 | Hamba kahle Ayanda Kota | US vetoes ceasefire again | Israel assaults Nasser HospitalWorkers World Weekly 23 February 2024
- [Enyobeni owners fined for selling alcohol to a minor](https://wwmp.org.za/enyobeni-owners-fined-for-selling-alcohol-to-a-minor/) - The parents of the 21 Enyobeni victims said they are disappointed by the court’s decision to only fine the tavern owners. Siyakhangela and his wife, Vuyokazi Ndevu were found guilty on Wednesday of selling or supplying intoxicating liquor to a minor. The court found that the state had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt, that
- [Clinic built by Lonmin may collapse because of Samancor mine](https://wwmp.org.za/clinic-built-by-lonmin-may-collapse-because-of-samancor-mine/) - The Bapong community in Rustenburg, North West, is worried that the continued operation of open cast mining by Samancor in their area will result in their environment, lives and properties being destroyed. They say a few years back when the previous company closed the mine and left a dump, Samancor, another mining company then decided
- [Budget cuts, poor placement management and school incapacity keep learners out of school in Western Cape](https://wwmp.org.za/budget-cuts-poor-placement-management-and-school-incapacity-keep-learners-out-of-school-in-western-cape/) - The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) is still struggling to place almost 400 Grade 1 and Grade 8 learners who have applied for school since January this year. Last month, Elitsha reported that large numbers of parents were seen in long queues at all of the four education district offices in the Cape Town metropolitan area. Almost
- [Activists march for an alternative budget and a new vision](https://wwmp.org.za/activists-march-for-an-alternative-budget-and-a-new-vision/) - Community organisations, trade unions and activist groups protested against budget cuts ahead of the 2024 budget speech as they anticipated the likely continuation of the austerity measures being implemented. In his 2023 budget speech, the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana denied that he was presenting an austerity budget. “This is not an austerity budget. It
- [Public seminar: Revisiting Lenin’s Imperialism and the National Question](https://wwmp.org.za/public-seminar-revisiting-lenins-imperialism-and-the-national-question/) - Thursday 29 February 6-8pm Imam Haron Hall Community House Salt River, Cape Town
- [Victim families say July unrest report falls short](https://wwmp.org.za/victim-families-say-july-unrest-report-falls-short/) - The long-awaited report on the July 2021 unrest in South Africa, jointly conducted by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and the Cultural, Religious, and Linguistic Rights Commission (CRL), was released three weeks ago. According to the report, the violence was not merely a spontaneous outbreak but rather the result of deep-rooted social and
- [Palestine and South Africa share the cup](https://wwmp.org.za/palestine-and-south-africa-share-the-cup/) - The president of the Palestinian Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, has called for the international community to rally for the freedom of the people of Palestine and for Israel to stop the genocide. Rajoub was speaking in Cape Town on Sunday ahead of the final game between the South African Invitation XI and the Palestinian national
- [e-News bulletin 16 February 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-16-february-2024/) - Gazans kettled for slaughter in Rafah | The PA's future | Yemen's nightmareWorkers World Weekly 16 February 2024
- [Disabled residents demand Sassa reopen Khayelitsha office](https://wwmp.org.za/disabled-residents-demand-sassa-reopen-khayelitsha-office/) - Angry Khayelitsha residents demonstrated and demanded that Sassa (South African Social Security Agency) offices be moved back to the premises of the Western Cape Department of Social Development (WCDSD) near Khayelitsha Mall in Khayelitsha. They carried placards that read: “Stop making people sleep outside” and “Social Development stop shifting your responsibility” as they toyi-toyied and
- [Students’ registration in limbo as NSFAS crisis continues](https://wwmp.org.za/students-registration-in-limbo-as-nsfas-crisis-continues/) - As the opening of universities draws closer, students are becoming more and more anxious as uncertainties regarding their funding from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) remains undetermined. According to the Nsfas website, since the opening of Nsfas registration on 21 November 2023, there have been approximately 1,545,822 applications for the 2024 academic year,
- [Government won’t build you a house, Housing Minister Kubayi tells activists](https://wwmp.org.za/government-wont-build-you-a-house-housing-minister-kubayi-tells-activists/) - Housing activists and non-governmental organisations in the housing sector in Cape Town made their voices heard on the Draft White Paper on Human Settlements at a meeting organised by the Department of Human Settlements at the Civic Centre on Monday. According to the department, the Draft White Paper seeks to repeal the Housing Act of
- [South Africa vs Palestine in solidarity match](https://wwmp.org.za/south-africa-vs-palestine-in-solidarity-match/) - An exhibition match between the Palestinian national soccer team and the Western Cape SAFA (South African Football Association) invitation XI, that was played at Athlone stadium on Sunday, was hailed as a successful show of solidarity for the people of Palestine. The South African government has been at the forefront of calling for ceasefire and
- [NUPSAW workers picket against corruption in Department of Environment](https://wwmp.org.za/nupsaw-workers-picket-against-corruption-in-department-of-environment/) - On Thursday, workers affiliated to the National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (Nupsaw) protested outside the offices of the Department of Forestry Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), in Waterfront. They handed over a memorandum of their demands to ministerial advisor, Mphikeleli Ndlela. The workers are calling for the removal of DFFE Minister Barbara Creecy,
- [Alternative SONA reflects a nation far from the president’s fictions](https://wwmp.org.za/alternative-sona-reflects-a-nation-far-from-the-presidents-fictions/) - An alternative state of the nation address was organised in Cape Town by activists a few hours before the president’s, to speak about deepening poverty, youth unemployment, the effects of austerity measures that have been implemented by the government, and other social ills plaguing poor communities. Activist and trade union leader, Abeedah Adams decried deepening
- [e-News bulletin 9 February 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-9-february-2024/) - 'Mallification' of our cities | Israel bombs humanitarian aid and refugees | Hindu fascism hugs US far rightWorkers World Weekly 9 February 2024
- [Cape Town law enforcement officers protest dismissal](https://wwmp.org.za/cape-town-law-enforcement-officers-protest-dismissal/) - Dozens of dismissed law enforcement officers demonstrated outside the Civic Centre in Cape Town on Wednesday to demand their reinstatement. Led by the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu), the workers carried placards that read: “City is anti-workers”, and “City must comply with its policy” as they sang struggle songs. Hlalanathi Gagayi, the regional organiser
- [e-News bulletin 2 February 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-2-february-2024/) - Ecowas fractures | Threat of Middle East war | US and allies defund UNRWAWorkers World Weekly 2 February 2024
- [South African journalists stand in solidarity with their colleagues in Palestine](https://wwmp.org.za/south-african-journalists-stand-in-solidarity-with-their-colleagues-in-palestine/) - Solidarity vigils were held in major centres around the country to remember the media practitioners who have been killed in Palestine and in support of those who continue to risk their lives to report a genocide. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), as of January 27, 83 journalists and media workers were confirmed
- [e-News bulletin 26 January 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-26-january-2024/) - Israeli endgame | ICJ ruling on genocide | Oct 7 friendly fire orders exposed | Zionism and Hindutva | Argentine unions strikeWorkers World Weekly 26 January 2024
- [Mitchells Plain residents protest police silence over guns stolen from the cop shop](https://wwmp.org.za/mitchells-plain-residents-protest-police-silence-over-guns-stolen-from-the-cop-shop/) - Mitchells Plain residents led by the Cape Flats Safety Forum protested outside the Mitchells Plain police station, demanding the immediate suspension of the station commander and senior management. The protest was a response to recent reports of the disappearance of 15 firearms and 8 imitation firearms, presumed to have been stolen from the police station.
- [e-News bulletin 19 January 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-19-january-2024/) - Gaza famine | Israel's war on journalists | The IOF's Oct 7 crimes | World's 5 richest men richer stillWorkers World Weekly 19 January 2024
- [Doors of learning shut by budget cuts](https://wwmp.org.za/doors-of-learning-shut-by-budget-cuts/) - Long snaking queues of parents and learners outside the four education district offices in the Cape Town metropolitan area have become a common sight since the start of the week. According to a statement by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in the Western Cape released on Monday, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED)
- [e-News bulletin 12 January 2024](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-12-january-2024/) - Workers World Weekly 12 January 2024SA's case against Israel | War and trauma porn | Remembering: John Pilger and Peter Magubanehttps://mailchi.mp/wwmp/workers-world-weekly-19-january-2024
- [The ethnic cleansing of Palestine](https://wwmp.org.za/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine/) - The ethnic cleansing of Palestineby Ilan Pappé The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is a book authored by hstorian Ilan Pappé, examines the 1948 Palestine war, when around 720,000 Palestinian Arabs out of the 900,000 who lived in the territories that became Israel fled or were expelled from their homes.
- [South Africa's application to the International Court of Justice invoking the Genocide Convention against Israel](https://wwmp.org.za/south-africas-application-to-the-international-court-of-justice-invoking-the-genocide-convention-against-israel/) - This Application concerns acts threatened, adopted, condoned, taken and being taken by theGovernment and military of the State of Israel against the Palestinian people, a distinct national, racialand ethnical group, in the wake of the attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023. Download [pdf]
- [e-News bulletin 22 December 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-22-december-2023/) - Getting serious about genocide | Holocaust monopoly | Israel raids Freedom Theatre | Zuma launches MK | COP28 autopsiesWorkers' World Weekly 22 December 2023
- [e-News bulletin 14 December 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-14-december-2023/) - US vetos ceasefire | Israeli abuses detainees | Remembering Refaat Alareer | 2023: Elitsha wraps the year | COP28 drops fossil fuel phaseoutWorkers' World Weekly 14 December 2023
- [2023: The wrap](https://wwmp.org.za/2023-the-wrap/) - These are some of the best stories we covered this year. In February we brought you a story about violence that was directed at scholar transport by taxi associations in the Western Cape. The week-long blockade and associated violence led to thousands of learners in township schools losing days of learning and teaching. The taxi
- [BOOK REVIEW | The Bus People](https://wwmp.org.za/book-review-the-bus-people/) - A collection of short stories about township residents of Khayelitsha and Kariega (formerly Uitenhage), The Bus People is selling like amagwinya (fat cakes) says its author, Chumile Sali. At the recent launch of the book, he described himself as a social justice activist, a preacher at Ethiopian Episcopal Church (iBandla lamaTopiya) and a former leader
- [KDF wants shack dwellers gone to make way for a private hospital](https://wwmp.org.za/kdf-wants-shack-dwellers-gone-to-make-way-for-a-private-hospital/) - Shack dwellers rejected Khayelitsha Development Forum’s attempts to convince them to relocate and demanded that the City of Cape Town give them basic services instead at a community meeting held in New Bright, Khayelitsha over the weekend. Representatives of Khayelitsha Community Trust (KCT), the chairperson of Khayelitsha Development Forum (KDF), Ndithini Tyhido, Sub-council 10 manager,
- [e-News bulletin 8 December 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-8-december-2023/) - Gaza slaughter resumes | Israel's AI weaponry | Yemen attacks Israeli ships | Israel's erasure of PalestineWorkers' World Weekly 8 December 2023
- [Enyobeni inquest to resume next year](https://wwmp.org.za/enyobeni-inquest-to-resume-next-year/) - The inquest into the deaths of 21 young people at Enyobeni tavern in East London last year has again been postponed to 30 January 2024, this time to afford the state time to appoint two assessors. At Monday’s proceedings, the state prosecutor, advocate Mathaise Kgatwe, told magistrate Mvuselelo Malindi that the two assessors will be
- [e-News bulletin 1 December 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-1-december-2023/) - Palestinian prisoners | The gravity of genocide | The SANDF torture squad | Ultra corrupt COP28Workers' World Weekly 1 December 2023
- [Concerns of another Enyobeni as Pens Down 2023 parties start this weekend](https://wwmp.org.za/concerns-of-another-enyobeni-as-pens-down-2023-parties-start-this-weekend/) - As the final examinations come to an end this week, concerns about excessive drinking of alcohol by celebrating school children are growing. The Eastern Cape’s Liquor Board (ECLB) has on numerous occasions decried ‘Pens Down’ parties that are characterised by binge drinking. Following last year’s Enyobeni tragedy where 21 young people lost their lives, the
- [Protesters demand permanent Gaza ceasefire](https://wwmp.org.za/protesters-demand-permanent-gaza-ceasefire/) - Hundreds of people in Johannesburg joined millions around the world to protest in solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine. In a march starting at Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown to the Mandela Bridge in Braamfontein, the protesters said that not enough was being done to end genocide. They were led by organisations ranging from
- [e-News bulletin 24 November 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-24-november-2023/) - Workers' World Weekly 24 November 2023Israel's war on on hospitals | Pogrom against shack dwellers in Khayelitsha | Argentina's far-right new presidenthttps://mailchi.mp/wwmp/workers-wld-wk-1179197
- [Nsfas finally opens for 2024 applications](https://wwmp.org.za/nsfas-finally-opens-for-2024-applications/) - Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Blade Nzimande announced the official opening of National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) bursary applications for the 2024 academic year. The announcement on 21 November, highlighted recent incidents of gender-based violence at universities, the Nsfas mandate and the overall opening of the 2024 application season. Recently, Elitsha reported
- [Gugulethu residents march got access and better healthcare facilities](https://wwmp.org.za/gugulethu-residents-march-got-access-and-better-healthcare-facilities/) - Angry Gugulethu residents demonstrated and handed their memorandum to the Western Cape Health Department in Cape Town today. They are demanding the building of a District Hospital in Gugulethu. Their memorandum says: “We have gathered today because of our pain, suffering, anger and frustration related to the delay in building a new clinic, trauma centre
- [Toilet cleaning extortion attempts leave TR section in a stinky situation](https://wwmp.org.za/toilet-cleaning-extortion-attempts-leave-tr-section-in-a-stinky-situation/) - As the world observed World Toilet Day on Sunday, residents of TR section in Site B, Khayelitsha are living in unpleasant conditions as their bucket toilets remain uncollected for close to one month now. Initiated by the United Nations, World Toilet Day became official in 2012 to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis.
- [Shack dwellers flee violent pogrom](https://wwmp.org.za/shack-dwellers-flee-violent-pogrom/) - Residents of Siyakhana informal settlement claim that Mandela Park residents are intensifying a campaign of violence against them as some of them became victims of “‘”petrol-bomb” wielding maphara (drugged thugs) this week. Mzikayise Kebe, a resident of Siyakhana told Elitsha that thugs threw two petrol bombs at his house on Wednesday night. Last month, Elitsha
- [e-News bulletin 17 November 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-17-november-2023/) - All north Gaza's hospitals out of service | London's one-million march for Palestine | The end of Zionist Israel? | The Yes Men prank AdidasWorkers' World Weekly 17 November 2023
- [UWC students march against GBV and university’s silence on reported cases](https://wwmp.org.za/uwc-students-march-against-gbv-and-universitys-silence-on-reported-cases/) - Over a 100 students from the University of the Western Cape (UWC) marched last Friday against gender-based violence (GBV) on their campus. Led by UWC Womxn in collaboration with the student representative council (SRC), students resolved to march following an increase in GBV cases on their campus. The UWC Womxn movement, started by LLB student,
- [A Free Palestine “from the River to the Sea”](https://wwmp.org.za/a-free-palestine-from-the-river-to-the-sea/) - The ‘Groot Krokodil’s’ notorious Rubicon speech in 1985 signaled the collapse of South African apartheid in 1990. So too, Bibi’s recent Amalek genocidal speech and rhetoric calling for extermination of Gaza’s 2.3-million population now marks the pending disintegration of Zionist apartheid in Israel. According to military strategists such as Scott Ritter, Israel has already “lost”
- [e-News bulletin, 10 November 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-10-november-2023/) - Gaza a children's graveyard | How Israel approves bombing of hospitals | Eastern Cape starvation – SAHRC tells government to actWorkers' World Weekly 10 November 2023
- [Children are starving to death in Eastern Cape – Human Rights Commission tells government to act](https://wwmp.org.za/children-are-starving-to-death-in-eastern-cape-human-rights-commission-tells-government-to-act/) - The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in the Eastern Cape has given national and provincial government departments three to six months to submit reports outlining their efforts to address child malnutrition in the province. In findings released in East London on Thursday, the SAHRC concluded that government’s failure to ensure access to adequate food
- [Amathole Municipality defends Zondani’s appointment](https://wwmp.org.za/amathole-municipality-defends-zondanis-appointment/) - Nokuthula Zondani, the former municipal manager of Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality who is out on R5,000 bail, made a short appearance in East London Magistrate Court on Tuesday. Zondani was arrested by the Hawks on the 23rd of August on allegations of contravening the Municipal Finance Management Act when she authorised the doubling of a
- [e-News bulletin 3 NOvember 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-november-2023/) - Genocide in Gaza | American Christo-Fascism | MTBPS death by a thousand cuts | WWMP seeks deputy directorWorkers' World Weekly 3 November 2023
- [The Xcluded call for ‘More, not less!’ from finance minister](https://wwmp.org.za/the-xcluded-call-for-more-not-less-from-finance-minister/) - Members of the Cry of the Xcluded spoke out against Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s austerity measures and budget cuts during a speak-out held outside parliament in Cape Town, where he was expected to deliver a mini-budget speech today. Wearing Cry of the Excluded T-shirts, they sang: “We don’t want a capitalist agenda” and observed a
- [Extortion and murder hold back development in Delft](https://wwmp.org.za/extortion-and-murder-hold-back-development-in-delft/) - The Symphony Way housing project in Delft is one of the construction projects that has been put on hold by the City of Cape Town (CoCT). This comes after extortion threats and attempts resulted in the killing of Wendy Kloppers, an official of the city’s Environmental Affairs Department, in February this year. A security guard
- [Khayelitsha matriculants make up for taxi strike and stayaway](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-matriculants-make-up-for-taxi-strike-and-stayaway/) - The build-up to the final examinations has been particularly challenging for Khayelitsha matriculants this year. Their school attendance was disrupted by the scholar-transport stayaway earlier in the year, and the violent taxi protest in August as reported by Groundup. The taxi protest led to the closure of 30 schools based mainly in the townships of
- [Amathole District Municipality appointment unites opposition in outrage](https://wwmp.org.za/amathole-district-municipality-appointment-unites-opposition-in-outrage/) - A former manager of Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality who is currently facing corruption and fraud charges has resurfaced as Director of Community Services at Amathole District Municipality. Nokuthula Zondani was arrested in August by the Hawks for allegations of contravening the Municipal Financial Management Act (MFMA). “This emanates from allegations of amending the contract between
- [e-News bulletin 27 October 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-27-october-2023/) - Genocide: Gaza health system collapse | Israeli fascism | Solidarity with PalestineWorkers' World Weekly 27 October 2023
- [Housing project in Mandela Park stokes tension between backyarders and shack dwellers](https://wwmp.org.za/housing-project-in-mandela-park-stokes-tension-between-backyarders-and-shack-dwellers/) - Mandela Park Backyarders and informal settlement residents remain at loggerheads over who should be the beneficiaries of a housing project that is set to begin in Mandela Park. The Mahama housing project – an acronym for Mandela Park, Harare and Makhaza – was set to start in 2020, but due to Covid-19 and the land
- [WWMP Deputy Director Required](https://wwmp.org.za/wwmp-deputy-director-required/) - Workers’ World Media Productions (WWMP) is a dynamic and growing non-profit and alternative media organization serving the needs of the labour movement, working class communities and NGOs. We require an experienced and skilled Deputy Director of Operations and Projects to ensure successful implementation and meeting our objectives. The successful candidate will be required to: Ensure Workers’ World Media Productions (WWMP) is a dynamic and growing non-profit and alternative media organization serving the needs of the labour movement, working class communities and NGOs. We require an experienced and skilled Deputy Director of Operations and Projects to ensure successful implementation and meeting our objectives. The successful candidate will be required to: Ensure
- [Gugulethu residents live in fear after mass shootings](https://wwmp.org.za/gugulethu-residents-live-in-fear-after-mass-shootings/) - Despite the interventions made in Gugulethu after the mass shootings that took place in September, residents of the township remain fearful. Public trust and confidence in the police and other law enforcement agencies has been shaken by these crimes and whether the police’s actions to restore this lost confidence have succeeded is open to question.
- [e-News bulletin 20 October 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-20-october-2023/) - Israel bombs hospital | Palestine solidarity | World Bank, IMF on trialWorkers' World Weekly 20 October 2023
- [Goedverwacht community fed up with Moravian Church](https://wwmp.org.za/goedverwacht-community-fed-up-with-moravian-church/) - “This is going to be another Hammanskraal, but it can be avoided if we fight.” These are the words of Merle Dietrich during a community speak-out organised by the Western Cape Water Caucus about water supply and other services in Goedverwacht just outside Piketberg on the West Coast. The Moravian missionary town in Bergrivier municipality
- [Child support grant not linked to teenage pregnancy](https://wwmp.org.za/child-support-grant-not-linked-to-teenage-pregnancy/) - A report by the Children’s Institute has demystified long-held stigma that teenagers get pregnant to access the child support grant (CSG), contributing to a rise in teenage pregnancy. The University of Cape Town-based institute says that according to research evidence, the overall fertility rate has been declining for years, and that teenage pregnancy rates have
- [City of Cape Town takes on extortion mafia, spending millions on security](https://wwmp.org.za/city-of-cape-town-takes-on-extortion-mafia-spending-millions-on-security/) - The City of Cape Town (CoCT) launched an anti-extortion campaign aimed at fighting organised crime groups that target the construction industry and small businesses. The launch took place on Thursday, 12 October, in Khayelitsha at the construction site of what will be a MyCiti depot, which had been affected by extortion. “We know that this
- [e-News bulletin 13 October 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-13-october-2023/) - Gaza | Nsfas students still protesting | Modi's media crackdownWorkers' World Weekly 13 October 2023
- [Walter Sisulu University students arrested for demanding payment of allowances](https://wwmp.org.za/walter-sisulu-university-students-arrested-for-demanding-payment-of-allowances/) - For protesting the non-payment of their Nsfas allowances, 93 students from Walter Sisulu University (WSU) in East London were arrested and charged with public violence, but later released. Students who are beneficiaries of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) protested by burning tyres on Tuesday after the payment of their allowances was delayed yet
- [Khayelitsha water maintenance causes absenteeism on first day back at school](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-water-maintenance-causes-absenteeism-on-first-day-back-at-school/) - Several schools in Khayelitsha were affected by a water outage this Tuesday, the 10th of October, caused by maintenance conducted by the City of Cape Town (CoCT). The outage, which was communicated on the 7th, was due to a 450mm diameter valve being installed on the main water supply pipeline. “This work had started on
- [South Africans in solidarity with Palestine](https://wwmp.org.za/south-africans-in-solidarity-with-palestine/) - Hamas’ brigades conducted an unprecedented and widespread attack that saw thousands of rockets fired and fighters reaching Israel from the Gaza Strip, triggering Israeli airstrikes on the enclave that has been described as an “open-air prison” because of a land, sea, and air blockade by Israel. Israel has halted the supply of electricity, fuel and
- [Cosatu protests for decent work](https://wwmp.org.za/cosatu-protests-for-decent-work/) - To mark the World Day for Decent Work, workers from trade unions affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) held marches and pickets in major centres around the country. According to the statement by the trade union federation, the marches and the pickets were to “mobilise workers and cajole government and employers
- [Cape Floods: Eleven dead and thousands homeless without help from City](https://wwmp.org.za/cape-floods-eleven-dead-and-thousands-homeless-without-help-from-city/) - It’s been a week since heavy rains caused destruction in the Western Cape’s informal settlements resulting in multiple deaths and homelessness. As families plan to bury their loved ones, it is alleged that the City of Cape Town (CoCT) has not gone back to assist affected communities. The torrential rain on heritage weekend caused many
- [e-News bulletin 6 October 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-6-october-2023/) - Workers' World Weekly 6 October 2023Simba workers strike | Haiti intervention | Julian Assange | Why popular movements fail
- [Simba workers on strike over unlawful deductions](https://wwmp.org.za/simba-workers-on-strike-over-unlawful-deductions/) - Workers at Simba’s main plant in Isando and warehouse in Elandsfontein have downed tools against the company for unilaterally changing the conditions of employment. According to Simunye Workers’ Forum, the company has been unlawfully deducting money for the past six years from their wages for transport even though there was an agreement on free transport
- [Khayelitsha clinics equipped for eye screening](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-clinics-equipped-for-eye-screening/) - The Khayelitsha Eastern Substructure of the Western Cape health department has launched clinic-based eye screening services. In partnership with Orbis International, the substructure officially launched retinopathy screening services for diabetic patients on Wednesday. The purpose of screening is to identify people with diabetes who are at risk of developing sight-threatening diabetic complications. “Many of our
- [CPFs welcome police’s plan to recruit more detectives](https://wwmp.org.za/cpfs-welcome-polices-plan-to-recruit-more-detectives/) - The police ministry is in the process of re-enlisting former detectives back to the service. The announcement was made during a press briefing by the police on Tuesday in Cape Town. Community policing forums from among the most crime-affected areas in the Western Cape welcomed the announcement. Lieutenant-General Lineo Ntshiea, a divisional commissioner of human
- [Sexual violence in schools is worse than reported – report](https://wwmp.org.za/sexual-violence-in-schools-is-worse-than-reported-report/) - Underreporting of sexual violence by children in South African schools is the silent norm and little seems to be done to combat the situation, especially by their teachers. This is revealed by a recent research study conducted by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), attributing this underreporting to the negligence and
- [e-News bulletin 29 September 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-29-september-2023/) - Joburg water crisis | Naspers CEO paid R470,000 per day for 9 years | Syria, Ukraine now Armenia in US-did-it news | Remembering John SaulWorkers' World Weekly 29 September 2023
- [Nsfas students endure delayed payments and high bank fees](https://wwmp.org.za/nsfas-students-endure-delayed-payments-and-high-bank-fees/) - Students at two Cape Town-based universities who are beneficiaries of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) say that their situation has not improved despite the looming year-end exams. The students who spoke to Elitsha pointed out issues of delays in payment, unreliability of the service providers and exorbitant bank fees. Last month, students from
- [e-News bulletin 22 September 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-22-september-2022/) - Joburg inner city solidarity | Buthelezi memorial whitewash | Alliance of Sahel States | Austrian communists win | Close the gates of hell!Workers' World Weekly 22 September 2023
- [Inner city residents call for an inclusive Joburg](https://wwmp.org.za/inner-city-residents-call-for-an-inclusive-joburg/) - “A city cannot only be about the rich. It should also accommodate migrants who in the first place wouldn’t have been in the city if their economic conditions were better.” This was the sentiment shared by many residents at a meeting to build a collective response to the conditions of living in inner city Johannesburg.
- [Bus commuters knocked by fare increase](https://wwmp.org.za/bus-commuters-knocked-by-fare-increase/) - Residents of Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain say they are shocked at the recent announcement by Golden Arrow Bus Services (GABS) of fare increases to take effect from Monday. Both areas rely on buses and taxis for transport following the suspension of trains services on the central line since November 2019. GABS says that this average
- [e-News bulletin 15 September 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-15-september-2023/) - Mangosuthu Buthelezi's bloody legacy | Argentina's messianic right-wing | Pinochet coup 50-year anniversaryWorkers' World Weekly 15 September 2023
- [Residents of informal settlements on Cape Town’s railways ‘live in poop’](https://wwmp.org.za/residents-of-informal-settlements-on-cape-towns-railways-live-in-poop/) - Philippi and Langa residents occupying the central railway line have complained about a lack of service delivery in their informal settlements since occupying the railway in 2020. As plans, called Operation Bhekela, to relocate these residents were initiated by the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) earlier this week, it has come to light
- [The disintegrating classrooms of King William’s Town school](https://wwmp.org.za/the-disintegrating-classrooms-of-king-williams-town-school/) - Luzuko Primary School in Sweetwaters township near King William’s Town embodies the infrastructure crisis in the Eastern Cape. The classrooms are built from prefabricated boards, half of which are in a very bad state. The walls and the roof are broken and the paint has peeled. The chairperson of the school governing body, Thembani Booi
- [Attempts to relocate land occupiers on Cape Town railway going nowhere](https://wwmp.org.za/attempts-to-relocate-land-occupiers-on-cape-town-railway-going-nowhere/) - The relocation of people living in informal settlements along the railway line in Langa and Philippi, have caused what the departments of transport and of human settlements have called “a lack of cooperation” from the City of Cape Town (CoCT). This comes after the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) held a walkabout at
- [Jagersfontein community waits in vain for compensation](https://wwmp.org.za/jagersfontein-community-waits-in-vain-for-compensation/) - One year since the collapse of the mine tailings dam, the people of Jagersfontein in the Free State say they cannot forget the disaster. Vivid images of the heavy sludge sweeping away their houses, cars, furniture, land and livestock on the 11th of September last year is still etched in their minds. They fear that the
- [Enyobeni tavern owners insist they’re innocent as inquest stalls](https://wwmp.org.za/enyobeni-tavern-owners-insist-theyre-innocent-as-inquest-stalls/) - Enyobeni tavern owner Siyakhangela Ndevu and his wife Vuyokazi, say the inquest into the deaths of 21 children who died at their establishment last year is a waste of time. Ndevu reiterated his innocence of the death of the minors and sees the inquest as a way to implicate him. “I see this inquest as
- [Former Enoch Mgijima Municipal Manager facing fraud and corruption charges](https://wwmp.org.za/former-enoch-mgijima-municipal-manager-facing-fraud-and-corruption-charges/) - Nokuthula Zondani is a former municipal manager of Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality who stands accused in a case of corruption and fraud that was remanded to 2 October by the East London regional court to allow her to consult her lawyers. She was arrested by the Hawks on allegations of contravening the Municipal Financial Management
- [e-News bulletin 8 September 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-8-september-2023/) - Treasury calls for cuts | DRC hunger crisis | US-UK sends depleted uranium to Ukraine | Zimbabwe’s climate action planWorkers' World Weekly 8 September 2023
- [Migrant labour and superstitions combine to make elderly women and young girls in Lusikisiki vulnerable to rape](https://wwmp.org.za/migrant-labour-and-superstitions-combine-to-make-elderly-women-and-young-girls-in-lusikisiki-vulnerable-to-rape/) - A Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) report reveals that young and elderly women in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape, bear the brunt of violent crime and gender-based violence (GBV). For the past three years, the police station in Lusikisiki, a rural town north of Port St Johns, has been among the top three
- [DG's instruction to KZN treasury department to 'help close the fiscal gap'](https://wwmp.org.za/dgs-instruction-to-kzn-treasury-department-to-help-close-the-fiscal-gap/) - Acting DG of Treasury Ismail Momoniat's directive to cut spending, in a letter to the KwaZulu-Natal department, 31 August 2023
- [Families of Rheinmetall Denel Munition victims call for a formal inquest](https://wwmp.org.za/families-of-rheinmetall-denel-munition-victims-call-for-a-formal-inquest/) - Families of the eight workers who died in the deadly blast at the Rheinmetall-Denel Munitions (RDM) plant in Somerset West in 2018 say they want a formal inquest to be conducted to hold the arms manufacturing company responsible for the deaths. The families were speaking at the commemoration ceremony which was held at the munitions
- [Protect The West Coast’s victory checks Trans Hex mining](https://wwmp.org.za/protect-the-west-coasts-victory-checks-trans-hex-mining/) - Protect the West Coast (PTWC), a non-profit organisation (NPO), has won an out of court battle with diamond mining company, Trans Hex. The matter which was set to be presented on the 29th of August before the Western Cape high court, reached an out of court settlement that prohibits Trans Hex from mining around the
- [Parents of Enyobeni victims hope inquest will bring answers](https://wwmp.org.za/parents-of-enyobeni-victims-hope-inquest-will-bring-answers/) - The inquest into the cause of death of 21 young people at Enyobeni Tavern in Scenery Park in East London was postponed in the East London regional court on Thursday. The matter has been remanded to 11 September 2023 for the state to provide the contents of the docket to the legal representatives of the
- [Snakes and Ladders: The Cape Town TV Story](https://wwmp.org.za/snakes-and-ladders-the-cape-town-tv-story/) - DOWNLIAD THE PDF In 2004 the Arts and Media Access Centre (formerly CAP) approaches Workers’ World Media Productions (WWMP), Bush Radio, CVET and Public Eye with a proposal to work together to set up a community TV channel in Cape Town. A Steering Committee is established to drive the process which includes widespread civil society
- [Cape Town residents protest ‘unaffordable’ electricity tariff increase](https://wwmp.org.za/cape-town-residents-protest-unaffordable-electricity-tariff-increase/) - The City of Cape Town insists that implementing the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) guideline to increase electricity tariffs by no more than 15.1%, which is between four and eight cents per unit, would be “unsustainable for the city and would cause a R500 million budget deficit while bringing no relief at an
- [Plea to transform Clareinch Post Office to a place of healing as Uyinene is remembered](https://wwmp.org.za/plea-to-transform-clareinch-post-office-to-a-place-of-healing-as-uyinene-is-remembered/) - The Mrwetyana family whose child was brutally murdered at the Clareinch Post Office in 2019 want the building to be transformed into a place healing. The family was part of a march in memory of Uyinene to mark four years since her brutal murder and to remember all victims of gender-based violence. The march which
- [e-News bulletin 25 August 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-25-august-2023/) - Backyarders remove squatters in Mandela Park | Zim election | Brics summit | Ecuador stops oil drilling in Amazon parkWorkers' World Weekly 25 August 2023
- [Cosatu and SACP slam NPA decision not to prosecute Rheinmetall-Denel](https://wwmp.org.za/cosatu-and-sacp-slam-npa-decision-not-to-prosecute-rheinmetall-denel/) - The Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party in the Western Cape say they are extremely disappointed by the ‘refusal’ of the Director of Public Prosecutions Western Cape division to prosecute Rheinmetall-Denel Munitions for the 2018 explosion at the company’s plant in Somerset West that claimed the lives of 8
- [Khayelitsha residents march to Home Affairs](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-residents-march-to-home-affairs/) - Khayelitsha residents alongside various social movements and organisations marched to the Khayelitsha Home Affairs offices on Tuesday to protest the poor services delivered there. The public services campaign #UniteBehind organised the march, in collaboration with Social Justice Coalition (SJC), Neighbourhood Watch and Intlungu yaseMatyotyombeni. “We have tried to engage the manager here at home affairs
- [Activist advocate Ayanda Gladile ‘killed by the township he sought to better’](https://wwmp.org.za/activist-advocate-ayanda-gladile-killed-by-the-township-he-sought-to-better/) - A R100,000 reward has been offered for information that leads to an arrest of those responsible for the murder of Khayelitsha activist lawyer, Ayanda Gladile. Gladile was shot multiple times while reportedly intervening in a robbery close to his home. He succumbed to his wounds on 13 August in Makhaza, Khayelitsha. The 34-year-old advocate will
- [e-News bulletin 18 August 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-18-august-2023/) - Marikana - 11 years after | The cost of hunger in SA | Zimbabwe bars media ahead of elections | Gas find near SecundaWorkers' World Weekly 18 August 2023
- [Hungry Western Cape students march against Nsfas while CEO is put on leave](https://wwmp.org.za/hungry-western-cape-students-march-against-nsfas-while-ceo-is-put-on-leave/) - Students from the University of Cape Town (UCT), University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and Stellenbosch University (SU) marched to Parliament on Wednesday in protest against the shortfalls of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas). The march comes after various attempts to get Nsfas to improve their payment
- [Cape Town’s electricity tariff hikes bite](https://wwmp.org.za/cape-towns-electricity-tariff-hikes-bite/) - Cape Flats residents say they cannot cope with the recent hikes in the electricity tariffs charged by the City of Cape Town (CoCT). The city implemented a 17.6% hike, which kicked in on 1 July, blaming Eskom’s 18.5% increase as a contributing factor. Last year, communities marched to the city offices to protest the different
- [Farmworkers speak out against evictions](https://wwmp.org.za/farmworkers-speak-out-against-evictions/) - Farmworkers from the west coast, Boland and Langeberg regions of the Western Cape recounted their struggles against evictions during a speak-out in Robertson over the weekend. Organised by Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE), the Commercial, Stevedoring, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union (CSAAWU) and Mawubuye, farmworkers who are experiencing or have experienced evictions took
- [Thousands of learners left behind by taxi strike](https://wwmp.org.za/thousands-of-learners-left-behind-by-taxi-strike/) - Over 456,000 learners could not attend classes during the eight-day taxi strike in the Western Cape, with the Cape Town metro being the most affected. Learners in township schools could not make their usual way to school for fear their vehicle would be attacked. This is not the first disruption to the academic year in
- [e-News bulletin 11 August 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-11-august-2023/) - Cape Town taxi strife | Casual women workers organise | Ecowas to intervene in Niger. Or not | RIP: Sixto RodriguezWorkers' World Weekly 11 August 2023
- [Taxi strike closes five hospitals](https://wwmp.org.za/taxi-strike-closes-five-hospitals/) - Clinics and hospitals are operating on skeleton staff as transport in Cape Town has been jeopardised by the taxi protest. Healthcare facilities have suffered as neither nurses nor patients have been able to reach them, with several closed and vandalised. The protest which has seen the burning of buses and cars and resulted in five
- [e-News bulletin 4 August 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-4-august-2023/) - Workers' World Weekly 4 Aug 2023 EFF's 10-year birthday | Niger coup | The ongoing scramble for Africa | Revival of ancient germs
- [Ten points about ‘illegal’ mining](https://wwmp.org.za/ten-points-about-illegal-mining/) - ONE ‘Illegal miners’ are not exclusively ‘foreign’; there are many South Africans involved. TWO Those from places like Lesotho and Mozambique are often recruited by syndicates, labour brokers and subcontractors. THREE Mining companies abandoning operations are often the ones buying the gold from ‘illegal’ miners. It is much cheaper to extract the remaining gold without
- [e-News bulletin 28 July 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-28-july-2023/) - Trucking drivers' hell | Israel's never been a democracy | RIP Sinead O'ConnorWorkers' World Weekly 28 July 2023
- [Saftu backs an e-hailing drivers’ union](https://wwmp.org.za/saftu-backs-an-e-hailing-drivers-union/) - The South African Federation of Trade Union (Saftu) says it is going to meet Minister of Employment and Labour, Thulas Nxesi, regarding conditions of workers in the minibus taxi industry, e-hailing and in the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP). On Wednesday, the trade union federation held a press conference with some e-hailing drivers to announce
- [Men picket in Khayelitsha against GBV after teen’s rape and murder](https://wwmp.org.za/men-picket-in-khayelitsha-against-gbv-after-teens-rape-and-murder/) - The Western Cape Men’s Forum took to the streets of Site C in Khayelitsha to picket against gender-based violence on Thursday, 27 July. This comes after 18-year-old Sikelelwa Mona’s lifeless body, from Taiwan informal settlement, was found a few metres away from her home on Saturday, 8 July. Mona was allegedly given a drink mixed
- [Community health workers belong in the public sector!](https://wwmp.org.za/community-health-workers-belong-in-the-public-sector/) - The trade unions representing and organising community healthcare workers have come out against a proposed sectoral determination by the Department of Employment and Labour. The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (Nupsaw) and the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) say that the sectoral determination, which the department says is intended
- [Even in exile, Egypt makes life impossible for its dissidents](https://wwmp.org.za/even-in-exile-egypt-makes-life-impossible-for-its-dissidents/) - The regime of Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt is without a doubt one of the most repressive in the world. Reports on human rights conditions in the country read like a veritable catalogue of horrors, detailing all manner of abuse and cruelty: forced disappearances, brutal torture, extrajudicial executions, prisons in deplorable conditions, even
- [e-News bulletin 21 July 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-21-july-2023/) - Joburg explosion | Uber coop | Peruvian rage against coup regime | Iraq's climate crisisWorkers' World Weekly 21 July 2023
- [Labour department appeals ruling to register Simunye Workers Forum’s as a trade union](https://wwmp.org.za/labour-department-appeals-ruling-to-register-simunye-workers-forums-as-a-trade-union/) - The registrar of labour relations will be appealing the labour court’s decision to register the Simunye Workers Forum (SWF) as a trade union. This comes after a ruling delivered by Judge Andre van Niekerk, on the 22nd of June, in which he ordered that the registrar, Lehlohonolo Molefe, register SWF as a union and issue
- [Release of ‘Station Strangler’ reminds Cape Flats communities of the mid-90s serial killer](https://wwmp.org.za/release-of-station-strangler-reminds-cape-flats-communities-of-the-mid-90s-serial-killer/) - The Van Rooyen family in Strand is opposed to the release of Norman ‘Afzal’ Simons who was convicted of raping and murdering their 10-year-old son in 1995. Elroy van Rooyen and his cousin Ryno were, according to media reports at the time, lured by Simons to accompany him to the train station while carrying boxes
- [eSwatini dictatorship prepares for elections under police clampdown](https://wwmp.org.za/eswatini-dictatorship-prepares-for-elections-under-police-clampdown/) - Human rights groups are calling for the protection of human rights and government accountability ahead of general elections in eSwatini. Africa’s last absolute monarchy is set to hold general elections on September 29, as part of the country’s Tinkhundla constituency system, whereby the monarchy of eSwatini holds judicial and executive powers, and the king appoints
- [e-News bulletin 14 July 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-14-july-2023/) - SABC headed for business rescue | France riots | NATO summit | Orlando Pirates plays dirtyWorkers' World Weekly 14 July 2023
- [Orlando Pirates FC – Don’t play dirty. Don’t Play with Apartheid Israel](https://wwmp.org.za/orlando-pirates-fc-dont-play-dirty-dont-play-with-apartheid-israel/) - Orlando Pirates was once known as the People’s Team and, in later years, the Happy People. Today I can safely say they are neither. No one who values freedom and democracy is happy with their decision to play in a match dubbed an international friendly against Maccabi Tel Aviv. It is a stab in the
- [Helena Silvestre: “Occupation enables us to take part in the birth of a neighbourhood and think about new ways of living together”](https://wwmp.org.za/helena-silvestre-occupation-enables-us-to-take-part-in-the-birth-of-a-neighbourhood-and-think-about-new-ways-of-living-together/) - Helena Silvestre was born in 1984 in Mauá, in ‘ABC Paulista’, metropolitan region of São Paulo. She grew up in a favela, which led her to get involved, from a very young age, in the fight for the right to housing and, above all, in the land occupation movement. It was there that she acquired
- [e-News bulletin 7 July 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-7-july-2023/) - Amadiba: Sanral is captured! | Israel assault on Jenin | Astronomers confirm time stretchesWorkers' World Weekly 7 July 2023
- [Cry of the Xcluded speaks out against poverty, unemployment and crime](https://wwmp.org.za/cry-of-the-xcluded-speaks-out-against-poverty-unemployment-and-crime/) - Community activists from Cape Town and Boland used the launch of the Cry of the Xcluded in the Western Cape to speak out against deepening levels of poverty and lack of services from government. The Cry of the Xcluded is a political forum for the marginalised that was launched by the South African Federation of
- [Amadiba Crisis Committe on a roadshow to present an alternative route to the N2 Wild Coast Road](https://wwmp.org.za/amadiba-crisis-committe-on-a-roadshow-to-present-an-alternative-route-to-the-n2-wild-coast-road/) - At a recent seminar held at Miriam Makheba Centre of Performing Arts in East London, the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) vowed to continue the fight for the South African National Road Agency (Sanral) to reconsider its proposal for an alternative inland route (AIR). Various experts of ACC’s technical team, comprising an economist, town planner, lawyer
- [Taxi drivers in South Africa want to register their trade union](https://wwmp.org.za/taxi-drivers-in-south-africa-want-to-register-their-trade-union/) - The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) and Qina National Public Transport Workers Association (Qina Mshayeli) have written to the minister of employment and labour demanding the formal recognition of Qina as a union representing taxi drivers, marshals and taxi rank administrative staff. They held a joint media briefing to address this matter in
- [e-News bulletin 30 June 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-30-june-2023/) - Simunye Workers Forum members shot | Corporate profiteering causes inflation | Wagner in Africa | Israel needs the PAWorkers' World Weekly 30 June 2023
- [Family feud closes Mandela Park rehab](https://wwmp.org.za/family-feud-closes-mandela-park-rehab/) - The functionality of Ilisolakhe Rehabilitation Centre has been left in limbo because of a family feud that ensued after the death of the rehab’s founder, Shaheed Silwana. Silwana, who died on June 4, was a community leader under the South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO) and often had parents reach out to him for help
- [Their 100 problems leave Langa residents unmoved by township’s centenary](https://wwmp.org.za/their-100-problems-leave-langa-residents-unmoved-by-townships-centenary/) - The second oldest township in South Africa, Langa, was established in 1923 and celebrates 100 years since its establishment. However, the culturally rich township has not developed sufficiently socially and economically. The Old Flats in Langa, used to be single sex apartments, with two migrant workers in each apartment, as early as 1944. The flats
- [Simunye Workers Forum members shot during protest](https://wwmp.org.za/simunye-workers-forum-members-shot-during-protest/) - The Simunye Workers Forum (SWF) says that what was a peaceful demonstration and a cordial engagement with the employer ended in bloodshed on the weekend as the employer unleashed his trigger happy security guards on the union members. Four were shot and lie in hospital, two of whom are fighting for their lives in intensive
- [Langa centenary nothing to celebrate for hostel residents](https://wwmp.org.za/langa-centenary-nothing-to-celebrate-for-hostel-residents/) - Hostel residents of Langa find no joy in celebrating 100 years of the township’s founding as their living conditions deteriorate with each passing year. Langa is the oldest township in Cape Town. Built for men during the apartheid era, the hostels in Langa now shelter many families, in some cases three in one house. The
- [e-News bulletin 23 June 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-23-june-2023/) - African peace mission | Labour Court declares Simunye Workers Forum a union | Of drowned migrants and millionaires | Assange on last ditch appealWorkers' World Weekly 23 June 2023
- [Simunye Workers Forum Press Statement: Major Labour Court victory for new forms of worker organising](https://wwmp.org.za/simunye-workers-forum-press-statement-major-labour-court-victory-for-new-forms-of-worker-organising/) - SWF’s appeal against the Registrar of Labour Relations’ refusal to register SWF as a union succeeded. The Registrar was ordered to register the union within 14 days and pay costs.
- [Labour Court rules in favour of Simunye Workers Forum](https://wwmp.org.za/labour-court-rules-in-favour-of-simunye-workers-forum/) - The Simunye Workers Forum (SWF) has described the Labour Court ruling on its registration as a union as a major breakthrough for modern union organising of precarious workers. Following a fierce standoff with the registrar of unions last week at the court, SWF is having the last laugh as the court handed down a judgement
- [Undocumented Black migrant workers are caught in a vicious cycle of racism in North Africa](https://wwmp.org.za/undocumented-black-migrant-workers-are-caught-in-a-vicious-cycle-of-racism-in-north-africa/) - “There is a criminal plan to change the composition of the demographic landscape in Tunisia to erase its Arab and Islamic character and make it just another African country.” These words, spoken by Tunisian president Kais Saied in February at the Security Council meeting on irregular migration in Tunisia, sent out shockwaves and fuelled racism
- [e-News bulletin 15 June 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-15-june-2023/) - Kakistocracy | Ukraine counter-offensive | Assange's last ditch appeal | Representing King ShakaWorkers' World Weekly 15 June 2023
- [Is it a forum or a union? Simunye Workers Forum waits for labour court decision](https://wwmp.org.za/is-it-a-forum-or-a-union-simunye-workers-forum-waits-for-labour-court-decision/) - Members of Simunye Workers Forum (SWF) will have to wait for three months to find out if they will be a recognised – with all organisational rights – trade union. The forum made its presentation at the judgement, which was reserved by the Labour Court in Braamfontein on Wednesday (14 June). Formed in 2016 through
- [Family forgives scholar transport driver in tragic accident](https://wwmp.org.za/family-forgives-scholar-transport-driver-in-tragic-accident/) - The driver of the car that collided with a bus, claiming the lives of his five young passengers will appear at the Mitchell’s Plain Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Mninikhaya Mvuli is facing five charges of culpable homicide and reckless driving. The 55-year-old is said to have been driving without a scholar transport licence, has been
- [e-News bulletin 9 June 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-9-june-2023/) - Social movements against Dudula | Cornel West for president | Uh-oh CO2 surge | China's deep holeWorkers' World Weekly 9 June 2023
- [From checkpoints to punchlines: the emergence of Palestinian stand-up comedy](https://wwmp.org.za/from-checkpoints-to-punchlines-the-emergence-of-palestinian-stand-up-comedy/) - As the night unfurls its dark veil over the towering buildings of Ramallah, the spotlights illuminate the stage of the Ashtar Theatre, casting a captivating glow on what is no ordinary cultural event. It’s a gathering that blurs the lines between Palestinian spectators and performers, where comedians, poets, and musicians from all walks of life
- [“We won’t move” – Khayelitsha land occupiers defy eviction order](https://wwmp.org.za/we-wont-move-khayelitsha-land-occupiers-defy-eviction-order/) - Community members from New Brighton informal settlement near Khayelitsha Mall have vowed not to move out of the area to make way for the building of a private hospital. The informal settlement, now home to over 200 families, was established during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 when thousands of backyard dwellers occupied vacant land in
- [Ten years on from Rana Plaza, how much have conditions in Bangladesh’s garment industry improved?](https://wwmp.org.za/ten-years-on-from-rana-plaza-how-much-have-conditions-in-bangladeshs-garment-industry-improved/) - Ten years ago, on the morning of 24 April 2013, the world was shaken by the tragic collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story building that housed several garment factories in Savar, on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. Reportedly constructed on unsuitable land, the building also violated construction regulations, used substandard building materials,
- [e-News bulletin 2 June 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-2-june-2023/) - Cholera outbreak | Load shedding kills | Europe's tide against refugees | Kissinger at 100 | AI risks human extinctionWorkers' World Weekly 2 June 2023
- [Can climate-smart agriculture help build resilience against food, health and climate shocks in Malawi?](https://wwmp.org.za/can-climate-smart-agriculture-help-build-resilience-against-food-health-and-climate-shocks-in-malawi/) - For the last two years, Jakina Lameki, who lives in the town of Bangula in Malawi’s southernmost district of Nsanje, has experienced the catastrophic impact that climate change is having on her country first-hand. Last year, Lameki’s maize, millet, bean and sweet potato crops were washed away by Cyclone Ana, and then another tropical cyclone,
- [Residents unimpressed by Cape Town’s preparations for floods](https://wwmp.org.za/residents-unimpressed-by-cape-towns-preparations-for-floods/) - Informal settlement residents who stay in areas that have been identified as prone to flooding by the City of Cape Town have mixed reactions to the interventions that the city claims to have made to mitigate the risks associated with winter rains. The city has identified 46 flood-prone informal settlements across the metro and assembled
- [e-News bulletin 26 May 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-26-may-2023/) - SA's abysmal literacy score | Pakistani crackdown | Remembering Malcolm X | Scorsese's new epicWorkers' World Weekly 26 May 2023
- [As Sudan’s latest conflict intensifies, artisanal gold miners are caught in the crosshairs](https://wwmp.org.za/as-sudans-latest-conflict-intensifies-artisanal-gold-miners-are-caught-in-the-crosshairs/) - On 17 April 2023, just before sunset in al-Ibaidiya, a Sudanese mining town on the banks of the River Nile about 400 kilometres north of Khartoum, four soldiers stormed the home of Omar Sheriff and dragged him out of his house. For hours, according to Sheriff, two of the soldiers searched his home, while the
- [Thousands of seasonal workers to get unemployment relief](https://wwmp.org.za/thousands-of-seasonal-workers-to-get-unemployment-relief/) - Seasonal workers in De Doorns, who used to queue outside the department of labour offices in the area and in Worcester office overnight just to submit their Unemployed Insurance Fund (UIF) claims, have praised the intervention of a local paralegal office and activists that has resulted in the UIF unit of the labour department conducting
- [South African education among world’s worst](https://wwmp.org.za/south-african-education-among-worlds-worst/) - South Africa accounted for one of the lowest results in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (Pirls) of 2021, coming in at the bottom of the 50 countries assessed. The 2021 Pirls results revealed that 81% of Grade 4 learners in South Africa cannot read for meaning in any language, up from 78% in
- [e-News bulletin 19 May 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-19-may-2023/) - CPUT closed | Care work economy | Venezuela pillaged | 75 years since NakbaWorkers' World Weekly 19 May 2023
- [e-News bulletin 12 May 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-12-may-2023/) - Swapo and ANC in twin decline | WHO ends Covid emergency | Collective punishment in GazaWorkers' World Weekly 12 May 2023
- [Around the world, trade unions are championing LGBTQI+ rights in the workplace](https://wwmp.org.za/around-the-world-trade-unions-are-championing-lgbtqi-rights-in-the-workplace/) - While significant progress has been made in recent years towards the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) people, the political resurgence of the far- and extreme-right across the world is having a deleterious effect on these advances. At present, 64 countries worldwide still have laws criminalising homosexuality, leading to discrimination, repression,
- [Housing imbizo just another talkshop say residents of informal settlements](https://wwmp.org.za/housing-imbizo-just-another-talkshop-say-residents-of-informal-settlements/) - Community leaders and housing activists from over ten informal settlements who attended an imbizo hosted by the department of human settlements raised issues of housing, title deeds, sewerage and the overall lack of service delivery in informal settlements. Residents that were present were from Khayelitsha, Bishop Lavis, Philippi, Gugulethu, Kraaifontein, Mfuleni, Langa, Heideveld, Imizamo Yethu
- [CPUT shuts down after protest](https://wwmp.org.za/cput-shuts-down-after-protest/) - What started as a peaceful protest by Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) students fighting for their rights took an ugly turn as the student recreational centre and the cleaning supply room were set alight and students clashed with the police. Students at CPUT have since been left in shock after receiving news yesterday from
- [e-News bulletin 5 May 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-5-may-2023/) - Gauteng hospital food shortages | May Day crumble | Palestinian hunger striker diesWorkers' World Weekly 5 May 2023
- [The 1973 Durban strikes and the workers movement to end apartheid](https://wwmp.org.za/the-1973-durban-strikes-and-the-workers-movement-to-end-apartheid/) - The Sharpeville massacre in 1960 was followed by unparalleled repression of anti-apartheid and anti-capitalist organisations. This cleared the ground for South Africa’s economic expansion and the rise of monopoly capitalism in the 1960s. The emergence and domination of manufacturing in South Africa in the 1960s was linked to the expansion of monopoly capital. The sector’s
- [Ordinary working people are being priced out of Accra and pushed into inadequate housing](https://wwmp.org.za/ordinary-working-people-are-being-priced-out-of-accra-and-pushed-into-inadequate-housing/) - Bright Adu Larbi, a 38-year-old security guard making 500 Ghanaian cedis (US$45) a month, didn’t need the ongoing economic crisis to feel overwhelmed by the cost of living in Ghana’s capital city, Accra. For Larbi, the financial strain that came with his growing family had already pushed him to the edge. In 2021, stagnant wages coupled with
- [Films on disability, load shedding and black hair awarded at Khayelitsha festival](https://wwmp.org.za/films-on-disability-load-shedding-and-black-hair-awarded-at-khayelitsha-festival/) - Young and upcoming film-makers who were part of last weekend’s three-day film festival at Bertha Movie House in Khayelitsha have sung praises of the festival as a space to showcase their talent. The Raw Film Festival started on the 27th of April with the aim to promote aspiring film-makers and creatives. Ayanda Msebenzi, the Festival
- [Media workers in Cameroon face rising, violent repression; the murder of journalists is Exhibit A](https://wwmp.org.za/media-workers-in-cameroon-face-rising-violent-repression-the-murder-of-journalists-is-exhibit-a/) - In 2019, Paul Chouta was held for two years at the Kondengui Central Prison in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde, a maximum-security prison notorious for overcrowding and poor sanitary conditions, while awaiting a trial verdict. He was later sentenced to 23 months’ imprisonment in a defamation case which rights groups say was marred by fair trial violations.
- [Strike at Makro to spread to other Walmart-owned stores](https://wwmp.org.za/strike-at-makro-to-spread-to-other-walmart-owned-stores-23/) - The South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) announced during a press conference held in Johannesburg on Tuesday that it will double its efforts to fight for workers at Makro. This follows a march to the Makro store in Silverlakes, Pretoria, where the retail union tabled a memorandum of demands to management. In
- [Costs of basic necessities going up and up](https://wwmp.org.za/costs-of-basic-necessities-going-up-and-up-135/) - Most people in South Africa are struggling to survive in a context of high unemployment and skyrocketing prices for basic needs such as food, essential products, electricity and transport. Almost half of the population in South Africa is unemployed while government makes empty promises of job creation. Key data from the March 2023 Household Affordability
- [Women’s cooperatives overcome water wars and climate drought in Rojava](https://wwmp.org.za/womens-cooperatives-overcome-water-wars-and-climate-drought-in-rojava-52/) - Ever since devastating twin earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria on the night of 5-6 February killing over 50,000 people and displacing millions, the world’s attention has once again returned to the Turkey-Syria border. A catastrophe for all affected, it has been intensified for Kurds in Turkey and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
- [The decades-long legal struggle of Taiwanese electronics workers](https://wwmp.org.za/the-decades-long-legal-struggle-of-taiwanese-electronics-workers-130/) - In the late 1960s, the authoritarian government of Chiang Kai-shek invited the US firm Radio Corporation of America (RCA) to transfer part of its television manufacturing process to Taiwan. For the company, which had already invested in Mexico, the object of the exercise was to cut production costs and to benefit from a young, docile
- [Jagersfontein seven months after mine dam collapse](https://wwmp.org.za/jagersfontein-seven-months-after-mine-dam-collapse-23/) - The mining tailings dam collapse in Jagersfontein in September last year left a trail of destruction, despair, divisions within the community and a climate of fear in the small mining town 120 kilometres south-west of Bloemfontein. The nearby poor communities of Charlesville and Itumeleng have been left to fend for themselves while provincial and local
- [Nyanga commuters happy with resumption of train services](https://wwmp.org.za/nyanga-commuters-happy-with-resumption-of-train-services/) - Train commuters on Cape Town’s central line which services Khayelitsha and Mitchell’s Plain, the Western Cape’s most populous areas, have welcomed the partial re-opening of the central line. With more than three years of the central line’s closure, the residents had no choice but to use other, more costly means of transport. The partial opening
- [Dilapidated schools impair teaching and learning in the Eastern Cape](https://wwmp.org.za/dilapidated-schools-impair-teaching-and-learning-in-the-eastern-cape-9/) - The Eastern Cape Department of Education has revealed that 2,000 of the 5,000 schools in the province have poor infrastructure while about 1,000 schools have no electricity and over 100 schools still use pit latrines. This was disclosed during a roundtable discussion on infrastructure delays and how it compromises the quality of education in Eastern
- [Lili accuses the State Security Agency of ‘sleeping on the job’](https://wwmp.org.za/lili-accuses-the-state-security-agency-of-sleeping-on-the-job/) - Ses’khona People Rights Movement president and member of provincial parliament in the Western Cape, Andile Lili has questioned the effectiveness and relevance of the State Security Agency and the National Intelligence Unit in solving high profile cases that are linked to government tenders. Lili criticised the agency and the unit during the memorial service of
- [Bertha Movie House in Khayelitsha to host 3 day film festival](https://wwmp.org.za/bertha-movie-house-in-khayelitsha-to-host-3-day-film-festival-8/) - Bertha Movie House is set to host the first township film festival in the Western Cape. The three-day festival , which will take place at Isivivana Centre in Khayelitsha, is set to provide a platform for upcoming filmmakers. “There’s so much going on in Khayelitsha, and as much as there may be negativity around Khayelitsha,
- [Corruption of Cape Town’s housing waiting list being investigated](https://wwmp.org.za/corruption-of-cape-towns-housing-waiting-list-being-investigated-72/) - Housing Assembly, a social movement that seeks to address housing inequality across South Africa, has launched a campaign looking into the housing waiting list. The organisation has received mounting calls from citizens for assistance. Having surveyed a thousand residents of poor communities mainly in Cape Town, the organisation claims that the beneficiaries of houses could
- [e-News bulletin 21 April 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-21-april-2023/) - SA's crippling mining legacy | BRICS bank | Sudan civil war | Jack TeixeiraWorkers' World Weekly 21 April 2023
- [e-News bulletin 28 April 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-28-april-2023/) - De Ruyter allegations of Eskom corruption 'wild' | KZN school feeding collapse | End of the petrodollar? | Dirtiest air in the world in MP townWorkers' World Weekly 28 April 2023
- [Lili accuses the State Security Agency of ‘sleeping on the job’](https://wwmp.org.za/lili-accuses-the-state-security-agency-of-sleeping-on-the-job-8/) - Ses’khona People Rights Movement president and member of provincial parliament in the Western Cape, Andile Lili has questioned the effectiveness and relevance of the State Security Agency and the National Intelligence Unit in solving high profile cases that are linked to government tenders. Lili criticised the agency and the unit during the memorial service of
- [Jagersfontein seven months after mine dam collapse](https://wwmp.org.za/jagersfontein-seven-months-after-mine-dam-collapse-10/) - The mining tailings dam collapse in Jagersfontein in September last year left a trail of destruction, despair, divisions within the community and a climate of fear in the small mining town 120 kilometres south-west of Bloemfontein. The nearby poor communities of Charlesville and Itumeleng have been left to fend for themselves while provincial and local
- [The decades-long legal struggle of Taiwanese electronics workers](https://wwmp.org.za/the-decades-long-legal-struggle-of-taiwanese-electronics-workers-129/) - In the late 1960s, the authoritarian government of Chiang Kai-shek invited the US firm Radio Corporation of America (RCA) to transfer part of its television manufacturing process to Taiwan. For the company, which had already invested in Mexico, the object of the exercise was to cut production costs and to benefit from a young, docile
- [Women’s cooperatives overcome water wars and climate drought in Rojava](https://wwmp.org.za/womens-cooperatives-overcome-water-wars-and-climate-drought-in-rojava-51/) - Ever since devastating twin earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria on the night of 5-6 February killing over 50,000 people and displacing millions, the world’s attention has once again returned to the Turkey-Syria border. A catastrophe for all affected, it has been intensified for Kurds in Turkey and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
- [Costs of basic necessities going up and up](https://wwmp.org.za/costs-of-basic-necessities-going-up-and-up-134/) - Most people in South Africa are struggling to survive in a context of high unemployment and skyrocketing prices for basic needs such as food, essential products, electricity and transport. Almost half of the population in South Africa is unemployed while government makes empty promises of job creation. Key data from the March 2023 Household Affordability
- [Strike at Makro to spread to other Walmart-owned stores](https://wwmp.org.za/strike-at-makro-to-spread-to-other-walmart-owned-stores-22/) - The South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) announced during a press conference held in Johannesburg on Tuesday that it will double its efforts to fight for workers at Makro. This follows a march to the Makro store in Silverlakes, Pretoria, where the retail union tabled a memorandum of demands to management. In
- [Learners with spiritual calling ejected from schools](https://wwmp.org.za/learners-with-spiritual-calling-ejected-from-schools-24/) - Learners who have an African spiritual calling face derision from their fellow school mates and suspension from school. Inam Mathokazi, from Esangweni Secondary School in Kuyasa, is the most recent victim of this discrimination against learners who have a spiritual calling. Mathokazi, alongside other learners that wear traditional beads at the school, were told to
- [e-News bulletin 31 March 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-31-march-2023/) - 'Unjustified' food inflation in SA | Banking crisis | France in revolt | ICC Putin arrest warrantWorkers' World Weekly 31 March 2023
- [Water crisis in Nelson Mandela Bay](https://wwmp.org.za/water-crisis-in-nelson-mandela-bay/) - As the country observed National Water Week in the past few days, the continued scarcity of water in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality seems to be reaching critical levels despite the disaster getting the intervention of the national government. The metro has in recent months run awareness campaigns discouraging residents from wasting water as the dams
- [Makro workers begin ten-day wage strike with march in Pretoria](https://wwmp.org.za/makro-workers-begin-ten-day-wage-strike-with-march-in-pretoria/) - On Friday, over 400 workers affiliated to the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) marched to the Makro store in Silverlakes, Pretoria to hand over a memorandum of demands. The workers of the Walmart-Massmart-owned retailer are demanding: an across-the-board wage increase of R900 or 12%, whichever is greater; a minimum wage of R8,000
- [e-News bulletin 24 March 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-24-march-2023/) - EFF's national shutdown | China's Saudi-Iran deal | Iraq war 20 years onWorkers' World Weekly 24 March 2023
- [Climate activists march on Human Rights Day against fossil fuels](https://wwmp.org.za/climate-activists-march-on-human-rights-day-against-fossil-fuels/) - Nearly three hundred climate activists marched to parliament in Cape Town on Tuesday, to urge the government to “end exploitation of fossil fuel.” They carried placards that read: “Don’t gas Africa,” “We need good public transport,” and “Climate change is real” as they marched and sang struggle songs. Gabriel Klaasen, spokesperson for African Climate Alliance told
- [EFF, Saftu, PAC declare shutdown a success](https://wwmp.org.za/eff-saftu-pac-declare-shutdown-a-success/) - The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the South African Trade Union Federation (Saftu) have described the nationwide shutdown as a success as it managed to halt economic activities around the country. Addressing the protesters in Tshwane earlier today, the president of the EFF said that the shutdown managed to bring the economy to a standstill.
- [Saftu calls on communities to join National Shutdown, and those that don’t ‘counter revolutionary’](https://wwmp.org.za/saftu-calls-on-communities-to-join-national-shutdown-and-those-that-dont-counter-revolutionary/) - The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) appealed to South Africans from all walks of life to join the national shutdown called by the Economic Freedom Fighters on Monday. Addressing the media on Friday together with other organisations supporting the shutdown, the general secretary of the federation, Zwelinzima Vavi described this call as one
- [e-News bulletin 17 March 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-17-march-2023/) - EFF shutdown | Nehawu's strike ends | Bank crisisWorkers' World Weekly 17 March 2023
- [Nehawu strike comes to an end](https://wwmp.org.za/nehawu-strike-comes-to-an-end/) - The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) have accepted a settlement agreement tabled between all parties at the Public Services Coordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) on Wednesday. This brings an end to a week of strike action that was marked by the disruption of services at hospitals, state intransigence and police heavy handedness in
- [Nehawu strike to continue without essential workers](https://wwmp.org.za/nehawu-strike-to-continue-without-essential-workers/) - The National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) says that the indefinite strike by its members and other workers in the public sector is still continuing but without the essential workers and public sector workers not covered by the bargaining unit. This comes after the Labour Appeal Court issued an order interdicting Nehawu members
- [Nehawu promises to intensify strike](https://wwmp.org.za/nehawu-promises-to-intensify-strike/) - The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu), the biggest public sector union, has promised intensified action towards winning their wage demands and will continue as long as their employer is not prepared to listen. They reject the 3% wage increase and demand 10% or anything in line or above the inflation rate. Last
- [e-News bulletin 10 March 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-10-march-2023/) - International Women's Day | University students protest | Public sector strike | The West's threat to ChinaWorkers' World Weekly 10 March 2023
- [Late learners battle to get placed in school](https://wwmp.org.za/late-learners-battle-to-get-placed-in-school/) - The Western Cape Education Department says it is doing its best to place late applications it received in 2023. According to the education MEC, David Maynier, the department has since the beginning of the year received 4,045 and an additional 926 in February. There are a host of reasons that are given as an explanation
- [Striking workers clash with police outside hospital](https://wwmp.org.za/striking-workers-clash-with-police-outside-hospital/) - Scenes of confrontation between striking workers and staff members who are not part of the strike, and blocking of entrances to government buildings, including hospitals, have been reported around the country on days two and three of the strike by Nehawu. On Tuesday morning, public servants blockaded both entrances to Khayelitsha District Hospital (KDH) which
- [Nehawu goes ahead with strike](https://wwmp.org.za/nehawu-goes-ahead-with-strike/) - The National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) went ahead with strike action on Monday despite an interdict. On Saturday, the Labour Court granted an interdict to the Department of Public Service and Administration preventing public servants from embarking on an indefinite strike. But, after conferring with Nehawu’s legal team on Sunday, the union
- [Wits students protest against financial exclusion](https://wwmp.org.za/wits-students-protest-against-financial-exclusion/) - Wits University students clashed with police and private security guards on Friday as they intensified their demands for academic registration, accommodation and the scrapping of at least part of their debt. Acts of intimidation, looting of shops and damage to property were reported but the students vehemently denied this and claim it is an attempt
- [e-News bulletin 3 March 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-march-2023/) - Saftu and EFF unite | Thulani Maseko's probable assassin | Israeli pogrom in HuwaraWorkers' World Weekly 3 March 2023
- [SAFTU to join hands with the EFF on ‘National Shutdown’](https://wwmp.org.za/saftu-to-join-hands-with-the-eff-on-national-shutdown/) - After their three-day National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, the South African Federation of the Trade Unions (Saftu) took a decision to join the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in their call for a national shutdown on the 20th of March to demand that the government address the many crises racking the country and that the country’s
- [e-News bulletin 24 February 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-24-february-2023/) - National budget and protest | Roy on Modi | Israel-Palestine: One democratic state campaignWorkers' World Weekly 24 February 2023
- [Unions and unemployed unite against budget austerity](https://wwmp.org.za/unions-and-unemployed-unite-against-budget-austerity/) - The Cape Town city centre was a hive of political activity on Wednesday morning ahead of the budget speech by Minister of Finance, Enoch Godogwana. Public sector unions, activists and unemployed youth held separate and joint activities against the expected austerity measures and called for a budget that responds to the social and economic crises
- [Taxi association lifts blockade but learners still absent from schools](https://wwmp.org.za/taxi-association-lifts-blockade-but-learners-still-absent-from-schools/) - The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) says that while learner transport scheme buses were able to operate in Khayelitsha and Mfuleni on Tuesday, nearly 1,000 learners did not attend school as parents were still fearful and kept their children at home. Last week, taxi associations blocked and threatened learner transport operators from ferrying learners to
- [e-News bulletin 17 February 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-17-february-2023/) - Cape Town's education, transport, housing challenges | Public sector unions split | The West is worseWorkers' World Weekly 17 February 2023
- [Public sector unions split over stalled wage talks](https://wwmp.org.za/public-sector-unions-split-over-stalled-wage-talks/) - Speculation that public sector unions are weak and divided is rife after the Fedusa-affiliated unions decided to join fresh rounds of negotiations for the year 2023 while their Cosatu and Saftu counterparts are resolute that the outstanding wage matters of 2022 cannot be swept under the carpet. Without Fedusa, the Cosatu and Saftu public sector
- [Taxi blockade in Khayelitsha causes thousands of learners to miss school](https://wwmp.org.za/taxi-blockade-in-khayelitsha-causes-thousands-of-learners-to-miss-school/) - The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) says that thousands of learners in Khayelitsha and neighbouring areas have missed school due to what it calls harassment and threatening of learner transport operators, private car owners and parents by minibus taxi associations. “On Monday, over 5.000 learners missed school, with 4,200 absent on Tuesday and 4,500 today,”
- [Khayelitsha school aims for 90% in physical science](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-school-aims-for-90-in-physical-science/) - Intlanganiso Senior Secondary School in Site C Khayelitsha improved its physical science matric pass rate and was honoured at a recent award ceremony that was held at the premier’s residence. Despite a lack of resources that impacts the provision of quality education, the 2022 matric results in the Western Cape saw an improvement among schools
- [e-News bulletin 10 February 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-10-february-2023/) - SONA | Suspend MDDA board! | SA strike barometer | Seymour Hersh on Nord StreamWorkers' World Weekly 10 February 2023
- [Communities demand an end to loadshedding](https://wwmp.org.za/communities-demand-an-end-to-loadshedding/) - Not far from the city hall where the president was delivering the state of the nation address, residents, community organisations and NGOs held a protest calling for an end to loadshedding. Under the banner of Electricity Action Campaign, the groups held a speak-out as they were not allowed to march to the city hall. Residents
- [Qolani sues the City of Cape Town for R1,4- million](https://wwmp.org.za/qolani-sues-the-city-of-cape-town-for-r14-million/) - Housing activists and residents of informal settlements, who recently occupied land during the lockdown, marched to the City of Cape Town offices to mark Bulelani Qolani’s litigation against the city and to highlight the brutality that they continue to face at the hands of the city’s Law Enforcement Unit. In July 2020, the City of
- [Justice for Thulani Maseko!](https://wwmp.org.za/justice-for-thulani-maseko/) - Angry activists picketed outside Parliament yesterday under the banner of the Right to Say No Campaign to call for justice for slain lawyer Thulani Maseko and for democracy in Swaziland. Maseko was gunned down at his home in front of his kids in January this year. They lit white candles, held up flowers and placards
- [Top learners in the Western Cape awarded](https://wwmp.org.za/top-learners-in-the-western-cape-awarded/) - The Western Cape Education Department celebrated 2022’s top matriculants at its annual National Senior Certificate awards ceremony in Leeuwenhof, Cape Town on Thursday. David Maynier, the MEC for education in the Western Cape spoke about the challenges that the learners faced during their matric year. The 2022 group were in Grade 10 when the country
- [e-News bulletin 3 February 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-february-2023/) - Amadiba death threat | Strikes in France, UK | Don't Extradite Assange! | Peru coup protestsWorkers' World Weekly 3 February 2023
- [Calls for revolution at Social Justice Assembly](https://wwmp.org.za/calls-for-revolution-at-social-justice-assembly/) - The Social Justice Assembly (SJA), consisting of over 200 NGOs and community-based organisations from all over South Africa, held its first meeting in Pretoria last week to lay the basis for a collective response to South Africa’s multi-faceted socio-economic and political crisis. The two-day conference was instigated by a social justice sectoral review in 2019
- [Doctors march for jobs in the Eastern Cape](https://wwmp.org.za/doctors-march-for-jobs-in-the-eastern-cape/) - South Africa has an extreme shortage of qualified medical doctors with one doctor for every 2,000 patients, said the Eastern Cape chairperson of the South African Medical Association Trade Union (Samatu), Dr Mpumelelo Melamane. Melamane led dozens of unemployed Eastern Cape doctors in a protest march to handover a memorandum of demands to the office
- [e-News bulletin 27 January 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-27-january-2023/) - Myrtle Witbooi remembered | Washington’s coup in Peru | 1973 Durban strikesWorkers' World Weekly 27 January 2023
- [e-News bulletin 20 January 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-20-january-2023/) - Myrtle Witbooi | Electricity cry sies! | WEF in Davos | June-Rose NalaWorkers' World Weekly 20 January 2023
- [Myrtle Witbooi, International Domestic Worker Union Leader](https://wwmp.org.za/myrtle-witbooi-international-domestic-worker-union-leader/) - Obituary by Jennifer Fish Myrtle Witbooi, a pioneering leader of the domestic worker movement died on January 16 in Cape Town at age 75. Under South Africa’s apartheid rule, she began to organize women in the garage of her employer and went on to become president of the first global union led by women. For
- [e-News bulletin 13 January 2023](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-13-january-2023/) - West African jihadis and coups | Ukraine voices | Massacre in Peru | Socialism, an achievable necessityWorkers' World Weekly 13 January 2023
- [2022 in pictures](https://wwmp.org.za/2022-in-pictures/) - This has been an eventful year and Elitsha has been at the forefront of bringing you community, national and international news this year. In January, Food and Allied Workers Union members at Clover went on a national strike against factory closures, wage cuts and job losses. Clover workers picketing outside parliament calling for nationalisation of
- [Sex workers decry police abuse and call for decriminalisation of their work  ](https://wwmp.org.za/sex-workers-decry-police-abuse-and-call-for-decriminalisation-of-their-work/) - On Friday, several concerned organisations gathered in Rosebank to launch a damning report about the abuse of sex workers and presented evidence of the human rights violations they suffer. Leeroy Gumpo, from the Southern African Sex Workers Alliance (Saswa), said there are still many challanges that sex workers face in the SADC region. “Sex workers are
- [Public sector unions march to Parliament](https://wwmp.org.za/public-sector-unions-march-to-parliament/) - About 200 members of Sapu, Fedusa and Saftu marched to parliament to hand over a joint memorandum in Cape Town today. Wearing the different T-shirts of their unions, they sang struggle songs as they made their way through the city. The march was supposed to have taken place during the national strike action last month,
- [Zimbabwe | Public sector unions take government to court to enforce collective bargaining](https://wwmp.org.za/zimbabwe-public-sector-unions-take-government-to-court-to-enforce-collective-bargaining/) - Five associations representing government workers have dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Public Service Commission (PSC) to the High Court where they are seeking an order pronouncing that conditions of service for members of the civil service should be fixed through collective bargaining as provided for by the country’s constitution. In court papers filed on
- [e-News bulletin 9 December 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-9-december-2022/) - Jukskei River drownings | eSwatini: solidarity force attacks army camp | | Peru coup | Akleh case goes to ICCWorkers' World Weekly 9 December 2022
- [Remember Babita Deokaran! Act against corruption in department of health, demand activists](https://wwmp.org.za/remember-babita-deokaran-act-against-corruption-in-department-of-health-demand-activists/) - On Wednesday afternoon, activists from Defend our Democracy and other civil society groups held a picket outside the Gauteng provincial legislature to also mark Anti-Corruption Week, and Whistleblower Protection Week which is run between 3-10 December 2022. “We are calling on the Gauteng provincial government, Gauteng legislature and the premier to update the public about the Special Investigating Unit
- [Families and survivors of Jukskei River drowning shocked and traumatised](https://wwmp.org.za/families-and-survivors-of-jukskei-river-drowning-shocked-and-traumatised/) - Congregants of a church in Alexandra township who were participating in a baptism ceremony on Saturday, 3 December, are confirmed to have drowned in the Jukskei River. A survivor of the storm surge of water described what happened with a trembling voice and teary eyes. On that fateful afternoon, Zikhona Renge, went to the river
- [Activists march to end oil and gas exploration by Total Energies](https://wwmp.org.za/activists-march-to-end-oil-and-gas-exploration-by-total-energies/) - Environmental activists picketed in coastal towns and cities against the destruction of ocean life by offshore oil and gas exploration by Total Energies. The French multinational energy and petroleum company is about to submit its final application to drill up to five wells of oil and gas along the coast from Cape Town to Cape
- [e-News bulletin 2 December 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-2-december-2022/) - Phala-Pala impeachment | World Aids Day | Germany's Ukraine war fatigueWorkers' World Weekly 2 December 2022
- [HIV/Aids stigma still real](https://wwmp.org.za/hiv-aids-stigma-still-real/) - Over a hundred Khayelitsha residents, activists, and members of civil society organisations celebrated achievements in combating HIV/Aids and commemorated those who have died of the disease. The World Aids Day event which was held at Desmond Tutu Hall in Makhaza in Khayelitsha also commemorated victims of gender-based violence and hate crimes. The activists say that
- [WWMP Media internship offer for dynamic, committed and innovative graduate](https://wwmp.org.za/wwmp-media-internship-offer-for-dynamic-committed-and-innovative-graduate/) - Workers’ World Media Productions, a media NGO based in Cape Town in partnership with The Raith Foundation, is offering a 11-month internship to a suitably qualified candidate to start on the 1st of February 2023. The candidate will be trained and work as a content producer based in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, for WWMP mass media
- [Cape Town’s toilets that are too hazardous to use](https://wwmp.org.za/cape-towns-toilets-that-are-too-hazardous-to-use/) - As the rest of the world celebrated World Toilet Day on the 19th of November, women living in informal settlements of Khayelitsha raised concerns over the safety, cleanliness, access to, and maintenance of communal toilets. World Toilet Day is a United Nation observance day to inspire action to tackle the lack of sanitation services globally.
- [Private security to get police training in Zimbabwe](https://wwmp.org.za/private-security-to-get-police-training-in-zimbabwe/) - Trade unions organising in the security sector in Zimbabwe are not opposed to the idea of security guards receiving the same training as the police but are opposed to it being done by the government. The Zimbabwean government is proposing that private security guards receive police training in the wake of a spike in armed
- [e-News bulletin 25 November 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-25-november-2022/) - Taxi strike | Qatar WC: The deadliest sports event in history | Conference of the PollutersWorkers' World Weekly 25 November 2022
- [‘Betrayed’ by former comrades, public sector unions threaten full-blown strike](https://wwmp.org.za/betrayed-by-former-comrades-public-unions-threaten-full-blown-strike/) - Public sector unions affiliated to Cosatu, Saftu and Fedusa, unwavering in their demand for a 10% increase, have threatened a full-blown strike on the 2nd of December if their employer doesn’t concede. Their rejection of the imposed increase of 3% hasn’t waned. They told this to the acting Minister of Public Service and Administration Thulas
- [Backyarders in Stellenbosch want houses or might occupy the golf course](https://wwmp.org.za/backyarders-in-stellenbosch-want-houses-or-might-occupy-the-golf-course/) - Backyard dwellers from Cloetesville in Stellenbosch marched to the municipal offices on Wednesday to hand over a petition saying that their rights are continuously violated as they do not have houses and live under bad conditions. About 50 protesters, mainly women, handed over a petition of 966 signatures to the Stellenbosch municipality on Wednesday. To
- [Taxi protest in Cape Town – Photo essay](https://wwmp.org.za/taxi-protest-in-cape-town-photo-essay/) - On Monday taxi drivers and owners in the province under the umbrella of the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) embarked on a protest calling for an end to the impounding of their vehicles by City of Cape Town’s law enforcement, the reinstatement of the Blue Dot programme, and the formalisation of the taxi industry.
- [Diepsloot streets engulfed in rubbish for three weeks](https://wwmp.org.za/diepsloot-streets-engulfed-in-rubbish-for-three-weeks/) - “We’re sitting with rubbish here and it’s been over three weeks, almost a month now. We don’t know what happened with the waste collectors, we didn’t get any notice if they are on strike or their refuse trucks are not working. The filth is piling up and causing an unbearable smell for us,” said community
- [e-News bulletin 18 November 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-18-november-2022/) - SA public sector wage strike | Qatar 2022 cover up | COP27 sifts inconvenient truthsWorkers' World Weekly 18 November 2022
- [Public sector unions all united for better wages](https://wwmp.org.za/public-sector-unions-all-united-for-better-wages/) - Public unions affiliated to Cosatu, Fedusa and Saftu are planning to intensify their actions calling for better wages during a national day of action planned for next week on the 22nd of November in Tshwane. At their joint media briefing today, the first since last month’s collapse of wage negotiations at the public service bargaining
- [Ritshidze report reveals ill-treatment of vulnerable people at healthcare centres in KZN](https://wwmp.org.za/ritshidze-report-reveals-ill-treatment-of-vulnerable-people-at-healthcare-centres-in-kzn/) - A report launched by a community-led monitoring system, Ritshidze, on Thursday reveals that key population groups are treated badly in KwaZulu-Natal healthcare facilities. This is the second edition of the KZN State of Health report to be released by Ritshidze. Other organisations working on the project include health advocacy group, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the
- [Zim public sector unions to receive annual bonuses](https://wwmp.org.za/zim-public-sector-unions-to-receive-annual-bonuses/) - The government of Zimbabwe has bowed to pressure from public sector unions and has announced this year’s bonuses will no longer be performance-based as announced earlier. Public sector unions and the government met last Monday under the national joint negotiating committee (NJNC) where it was agreed every worker would get the bonus, albeit staggered over
- [e-News bulletin 11 November 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-11-november-2022/) - Russian revolution remembered | Israeli fascism | COP27 | Trauma of coal miningWorkers' World Weekly 11 November 2022
- [Public servants strike for 10% across the board](https://wwmp.org.za/public-servants-strike-for-10-across-the-board/) - Hundreds of Public Servants Association (PSA) workers in Cape Town joined the national strike in public services as they marched to parliament on Thursday. Public servants have been picketing around the country following the collapse of wage negotiations last month. The unions in the public sector are demanding a 10% salary increase across the board
- [Hebron’s roads are a nightmare to navigate](https://wwmp.org.za/hebrons-roads-are-a-nightmare-to-navigate/) - Residents of Hebron, under the Madibeng local municipality in the North West province, say their roads are so bad that when there is a funeral, families are at times forced to carry the coffin to the home of their deceased loved ones. Most roads in Hebron are impassible, especially when it rains, forcing residents to use
- [e-News bulletin 4 November 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-4-november-2022/) - Abolish SA's royals | Brazilian election | Israeli election | COP26 factboxWorkers' World Weekly 4 November 2022
- [Farmworkers say 2012 strike changed little](https://wwmp.org.za/farmworkers-say-2012-strike-changed-little/) - Farmworkers in the Boland region of the Western Cape say that their working and living conditions have not changed since the historic 2012 farmworkers strike that lasted over 5 months. The strike in August 2012 started a few days after the Marikana Massacre. The farmworkers at the time tabled 21 demands for improvement in their
- [Public sector unions demonstrate around the country](https://wwmp.org.za/public-sector-unions-demonstrate-around-the-country/) - The Congress of South African Trade Unions in the Western Cape has described the next two days as make-or-break in the public sector wage bargaining. Unions in the public sector and government representatives are locked in conciliation meetings today and Tuesday following the collapse of the public service wage negotiations. The 3% offer by government
- [e-News bulletin 28 October 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-28-october-2022/) - MTBPS ???? austerity | What Haiti crisis? | US-China cold war | Egypt's turn to COPoutWorkers' World Weekly 28 October 2022
- [River Club development highlights questionable process by City of Cape Town](https://wwmp.org.za/river-club-development-highlights-questionable-process-by-city-of-cape-town/) - The River Club development on the Liesbeek River highlights questionable processes undertaken by the City of Cape Town in relation to members of a large and influential group of property developers. This is exactly what Crispian Olver has written about – particularly in his book, A House Divided (2019). Leslie London and Tauriq Jenkins have
- [Activists march against austerity budget](https://wwmp.org.za/activists-march-against-austerity-budget/) - Dozens of community activists today gathered outside parliament in Cape Town and expressed their views on what Enoch Godongwana should include in his mid-term budget policy statement which he was scheduled to deliver inside. They toyi-toyied and punctuated their speeches with struggle songs while carrying placards thatread: “We demand a basic income grant,” “Stop privatisation
- [Public sector unions go back to the 10% salary demand](https://wwmp.org.za/public-sector-unions-go-back-to-the-10-salary-demand/) - The public sector unions affiliated to Cosatu say they remain resolute and won’t back down on their demand for a dignified wage increase. In their press briefing earlier today, the joint mandating committee of Cosatu led by Simon Hlungwani, said wage negotiations with the employer have collapsed and they are, therefore, now sticking to their
- [e-News bulletin 21 October 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-21-october-2022/) - SA urban water outages | 20 years after Iraq war | Haiti instability | UN special rapporteur on the OPTWorkers' World Weekly 21 October 2022
- [Eastern Cape healthcare needs fixing – Ritshidze report](https://wwmp.org.za/eastern-cape-healthcare-needs-fixing-ritshidze-report/) - The dilapidated state of the healthcare system in the Eastern Cape has again been exposed by a new report. The report is the second for the Eastern Cape using data from Ritshidze, a community-led monitoring system developed by organisations representing people living with HIV, including the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the National Association of
- [Zimbabwe struggles to end child labour](https://wwmp.org.za/zimbabwe-struggles-to-end-child-labour/) - The United States department of labour has added gold to the list of goods produced with child labour or forced labour in Zimbabwe while noting that the country has made little progress in ending the worst forms of child labour. A report, released last week, notes that children are working at artisanal and small-scale gold
- [e-Newsletter 14 October 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-14-october-2022/) - Numsa purge resumes | ZCTU near collapse | US did Nord Stream attack | Amazon's new robotWorkers' World Weekly 14 October 2022
- [Shack dwellers allocated then denied houses](https://wwmp.org.za/shack-dwellers-allocated-then-denied-houses/) - Shack dwellers say the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements (DHS) tells them that they had been allocated houses in Forest Village even though they still stay in shacks in Kanana informal settlement in Gugulethu. Three families who spoke to Elitsha say that they have been approved and allocated houses in Eerste Rivier but they
- [Science and maths success in township schools](https://wwmp.org.za/science-and-maths-success-in-township-schools/) - Kutlwanong Centre for Mathematics and Science in Philippi continues to improve the pass rate of township schools in Cape Town. With the aim of promoting the study of these subjects in township schools, the centre has managed over the past years to produce top learners who manage to get into universities. Kutlwanong’s origins go back
- [Health report scathing on Free State clinics](https://wwmp.org.za/health-report-scathing-on-free-state-clinics/) - Staff shortages and attitudes towards patients, long queues, poor infrastructure, a bad filing system and inadequate chronic medication are some of the problems identified in a recently released report on the state of health services in the Free State province conducted by Ritshidze, a health monitoring group, and partners including the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
- [Transnet workers on strike over wages](https://wwmp.org.za/transnet-workers-on-strike-over-wages/) - Thousands of workers at Transnet, who are members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) on Monday went on strike over a wage disagreement with their employer. Satawu secretary general, Jack Mazibuko told Elitsha that workers are not happy with the wage offer tabled by the employer. Members of the other major
- [ZCTU faces collapse](https://wwmp.org.za/zctu-faces-collapse/) - The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) faces imminent collapse amid allegations the newly elected leadership has been captured by the ruling ZANU PF. All has not been well in Zimbabwe’s biggest labour federation since the election last October of Florence Taruvinga as president. Taruvinga, who became the first ever ZCTU female president, was elected
- [Cosatu marches for decent work](https://wwmp.org.za/cosatu-marches-for-decent-work/) - To mark the World Day for Decent Work on 7 October, the Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu) held marches in major cities around the country. The federation is demanding that government and employers respect labour laws and take the calls for decent work seriously. In Cape Town Scores of protesters marched to the
- [e-News bulletin 7 October 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-7-october-2022/) - Electricity crisis | Sadtu accepts 3% wage offer | Nordstream sabotage | Dumb tech billionairesWorkers' World Weekly 7 October 2022
- [Zamimpilo residents hostage to Zama-Zama war](https://wwmp.org.za/zamimpilo-residents-hostage-to-zama-zama-war/) - Zamimpilo residents say that they are under siege as warring factions of zama-zamas hunt each other and innocents are caught in the crossfire. The informal settlement in the west of Johannesburg is infiltrated by zama-zamas who have made living in the area hazardous, they say. Residents told Elitsha that they wish the sun would not
- [e-News bulletin 30 September 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-30-september-2022/) - Cosatu congress | Iranian women revolt | Italy turns hard rightWorkers' World Weekly 30 September 2022
- [Former president Mbeki still in denial about AIDS](https://wwmp.org.za/former-president-mbeki-still-in-denial-about-aids/) - Health advocacy organisation Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) says former president Thabo Mbeki must apologise to the South African public for the “dissident” views he expressed about HIV/AIDS while delivering a speech at the University of South Africa (UNISA) last week Wednesday. “The repetition of his scientifically erroneous views with such insensitive arrogance is an insult
- [Yeoville Market traders still picking up the pieces three months after fire](https://wwmp.org.za/yeoville-market-traders-still-picking-up-the-pieces-three-months-after-fire/) - “That fire ruined our lives, I doubt things will ever be the same again for us. I lost stock that was worth R10,000 in that fire, as I had just came back from buying over that weekend, ” says Ivy Mbatha, one of the traders who lost their stands to the fire that burned down
- [Khayelitsha men talk about gender-based violence](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-men-talk-about-gender-based-violence/) - The men attending the Imbizo ya Madoda in Khayelitsha on Monday were asked what the factors are contributing to gender-based violence in the area and in broader society. They raised the issues of drug and alcohol abuse, unemployment, the failure of the police and courts to coordinate, and toxic cultural practices. The men’s gathering was
- [Cosatu delegates boo Mantashe off stage](https://wwmp.org.za/cosatu-delegates-boo-mantashe-off-stage/) - A roaring rendition of “Asinamali” and chants of “Hamba Gwede” filled the air as it was announced that the national chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe was about to deliver a message of support from the ANC. Delegates at the COSATU 14th National Congress refused to
- [Climate activists call for “system change”](https://wwmp.org.za/climate-activists-call-for-system-change/) - Hundreds of angry climate activists marched to Parliament to demand “system change” in Cape Town on Saturday. They held up placards bearing the words: “Green energy for green future,” “Solution, not pollution” and “End the use of fossil fuels” as they marched and sang struggle songs. Sarah Farrell, general manager of African Climate Alliance, said
- [Public servants plan nationwide strike after USD25 pay rise](https://wwmp.org.za/public-servants-plan-nationwide-strike-after-usd25-pay-rise/) - A showdown is looming between the government of Zimbabwe and its workers who have described the recent USD25 salary increase as a joke and vowed to down tools at the end of this month. Despite demands for the restoration of the October 2018 salary of USD540, the government Tuesday announced a 25 % wage increase
- [e-News bulletin 23 September 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-23-september-2022/) - Zama-Zama war | PA collaboration with Israel | Data shows capitalism stunts growthWorkers' World Weekly 23 September SDept2022
- [e-News bulletin 16 September 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-16-september-2022/) - 40 years after Sabra and Shatila | SA government policy on unemployment | British monarchy and colonialismWorkers' World Weekly, 16 September 2022
- [Zama-Zama war in Johannesburg’s west](https://wwmp.org.za/zama-zama-war-in-johannesburgs-west/) - The discovery on Wednesday morning of six mutilated bodies of suspected Zama-Zamas in the Bosmont area has led to calls from the community for the deployment of the army to protect them. A clash between rival groups of informal miners appears to be behind the mass murder. Faried Domingo, the chairperson of the community policing
- [Police Brutality in South Africa](https://wwmp.org.za/police-brutality-in-south-africa/) - Police brutality that still plagues South African communities seems to be embedded in a police culture that still embraces the use of force and violence as operational tools. https://anchor.fm/workers-world-media-productions/embed/episodes/Police-Brutality-in-South-Africa-e1njafp/a-a8gi39c
- [e-News bulletin 9 September 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-9-september-2022/) - Cosatu congress yawn | Chile rejects constitution | Google's evil futureWorkers' World Weekly 9 September 2022
- [Homophobia rife at work](https://wwmp.org.za/homophobia-rife-at-work/) - Workers who are members of the LGBTQI+ community say that despite policies against discrimination in the workplace, they still experience homophobia in workplaces with no one to understand their struggles. While they are members of trade unions, they have not had the benefit of union support. Homophobia is the irrational fear and prejudice towards homosexuality
- [Cosatu congress to reflect on the alliance again](https://wwmp.org.za/cosatu-congress-to-reflect-on-the-alliance-again/) - The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) says it will use its 14th national congress to be held in Johannesburg later this month to reflect on the state of the alliance with the African National Congress. During a press conference to release documents for the upcoming congress where more than 2,000 delegates are expected
- [Migrants in South Africa have access to healthcare: why it’s kicking up a storm](https://wwmp.org.za/migrants-in-south-africa-have-access-to-healthcare-why-its-kicking-up-a-storm/) - What does the law say about treating non-South Africans? According to South Africa’s National Health Act, primary healthcare facilities run by the state must provide free care to everyone, except for people covered by private medical aid schemes. The country’s Refugee Act of 1998 stipulates that refugees are entitled to the same access to treatment
- [e-News bulletin 2 September 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-2-september-2022/) - Xenophobes police healthcare | Reviled Gorbachev | Seismic Wild Coast judgmentWorkers' World Weekly 2 September 2022
- [e-News bulletin 25 January 2019](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-25-january-2019/) - |MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| E-NEWS BULLETIN 25 January 2019 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Mining will not bring jobs to Xolobeni Why, if residents of Amadiba support job creation initiatives, would they oppose mining? The consistent public claims about the job creation and developmental benefits of mining in Xolobeni have never been backed up by any research
- [e-News bulletin 23 Feb 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-23-feb-2018/) - Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser E-NEWS BULLETIN 23 February 2018 Links to present possibilities Editorial In his National Budget speech on Wednesday, the Finance Minister took the hard road that the new President pointed down last week with the State of the Nation address, stripped of the promises for radical economic
- [e-News bulletin 16 Oct 2015](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-16-october-2015/) - View this email in your browser E-NEWS BULLETIN Friday 16 October 2015 Labour news you cannot afford to miss ! SOUTH AFRICA: Digital terrestrial TV: The ANC has lost faith in Muthambi "It's now official: the ANC and the communications minister the ruling party deployed to the Cabinet are at war. There can be no
- [e-News bulletin 2 Oct 2015](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-2-oct-2015/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN Friday 2 October 2015 Labour news you cannot afford to miss ! GREECE: A Pyrrhic victory for Syriza in the snap elections of September 20 "After capitulating to the EU, the ECB, and the IMF on July 12 by signing a third package of the most barbaric austerity measures tied to a new
- [e-News bulletin 19 October 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-19-october-2018/) - |MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| E-NEWS BULLETIN 19 October 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA As Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic crisis worsens, SA remains silent – because of the Denel deal, critics claim While international criticism of the Saudi government over the disappearance of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been steadily amplifying, South Africa has been silence – raising
- [Zibonele FM back on air for Heritage Day](https://wwmp.org.za/zibonele-fm-back-on-air-for-heritage-day/) - Zibonele FM, the Khayelitsha community radio station, is back on air as from Thursday but for a limited period. According to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), the 28-year-old radio station that went off air in July due to non-compliance with broadcast regulations, has been granted a special events community sound broadcasting service
- [Xenophobia In South Africa](https://wwmp.org.za/xenophobia-in-south-africa/) - From time to time especially during economic recession periods in South Africa, xenophobia keeps rearing its ugly head and it is directed at African nationals. The Xenophobes have organised themselves and the attacks are becoming more and more violent. https://anchor.fm/workers-world-media-productions/embed/episodes/Xenophobia-in-South-Africa-e1lc91s/a-a8917fp
- [ZIMBABWE | Nurses’ union president dismissed](https://wwmp.org.za/zimbabwe-nurses-union-president-dismissed/) - Labour unionists and civil society organistions in Zimbabwe have expressed outrage over the dismissal of the president of the Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union (ZPNU), Robert Emmanuel Chiduku, for conducting his duties as a trade union leader. Chiduku was summarily dismissed through the Health Services Board (HSB) after he led a nurses’ strike to demand a
- [e-News bulletin 26 August 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-26-august-2022/) - Cosatu-Saftu general strike | Lindokuhle Mnguni | Europe's energy crisis threatens African landWorkers' World Weekly 26 August 2022
- [SAFTU and COSATU march against high cost of living and austerity](https://wwmp.org.za/saftu-and-cosatu-march-against-high-cost-of-living-and-austerity/) - The national strike, led by Saftu and its social partners alongside Cosatu, saw thousands taking to the streets in major centres around the country against the high cost of living and government’s austerity measures. The two rival trade union federations agreed to cooperate for the one-day national shutdown. According to Saftu president, Ruth Ntlokotse, the
- [SAFTU and COSATU to unite against austerity measures](https://wwmp.org.za/saftu-and-cosatu-to-unite-against-austerity-measures/) - Trade union federations, the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will join hands for a national shutdown tomorrow, 24 August, but the unity between the two rival federations remains fractured. The two federations agreed to cooperate in demonstrations but held two separate press briefings. During
- [Complaints about tavern foretold Enyobeni deaths](https://wwmp.org.za/complaints-about-tavern-foretold-enyobeni-deaths/) - Residents of Scenery Park allege that they complained to the police with no success about the activities that were taking place at Enyobeni tavern before the tragedy that claimed 21 lives in June. Confirming that complaints about the tavern had indeed been received by the police, spokesperson, Brigadier Thembinkosi Kinana said the complaints have featured
- [Public seminar on June 1976 in Cape Town](https://wwmp.org.za/public-seminar-on-june-1976-in-cape-town/) - Equal Education and Workers’ World Media Productions public seminar WHEN: Thursday 23 June TIME: 6 – 8.30pm WHERE: Isivivana Centre (cnr of Julius Tsolo and Mzala streets, Khayelitsha) Speakers Dinga Sikwebu (Activist), Ntuthuzo Nzomo (Equal Education - Deputy GS) Martin Jansen (WWMP - Director/Editor) ALL WELCOME. TRANSPORT HOME PROVIDED The student uprisings that started in
- [e-News bulletin 19 August 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-19-august-2022/) - Remembering Marikana | Saftu-Numsa divide | Israel raids Palestinian charitiesWorkers' World Weekly 19 August 2022
- [Khayelitsha tavern owners talk about GBV](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-tavern-owners-talk-about-gbv/) - Stakeholders who attended the Tavern Dialogue on the role alcohol plays in gender-based crimes, which was held in Khayelitsha on Thursday, admitted that conversations to put an end to the scourge must continue. In June, Elitsha reported that major-general Vincent Beaton, the cluster commander for Khayelitsha, said that most murders and gender-based, violent crimes in
- [Calls for unity and mobilisation to take the spirit of Marikana forward](https://wwmp.org.za/calls-for-unity-and-mobilisation-to-take-the-spirit-of-marikana-forward/) - Community activists, lawyers representing the families of Marikana workers and academics who gathered at the University of Johannesburg on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Marikana massacre, pledged to deepen mobilisation and unity against the strong arm of the state and big business. Even a simple apology for the brutal murders from the
- [Affected communities protest mining companies’ damages](https://wwmp.org.za/affected-communities-protest-mining-companies-damages/) - Women from mining-affected communities who were part of a picket outside parliament on Tuesday spoke about the effects mining by big companies has on their lives. Led by Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) and Women Affected by Mining United in Action (WAMUA), the protesters were calling for the government to involve communities in
- [Mining affected communities to picket parliament](https://wwmp.org.za/mining-affected-communities-to-picket-parliament/) - Activists from mining affected communities under the banner of Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) and Women Affected by Mining United in Action (WAMUA) say that they have reached a stage where they cannot continue to ask the government but will force engagement. According to national coordinator of MACUA, Meshack Mbangula, about 30 activists
- [Is Social Development in the EC concealing the numbers of children dying of hunger?](https://wwmp.org.za/is-social-development-in-the-ec-concealing-the-numbers-of-children-dying-of-hunger/) - The Eastern Cape department of social development has been accused of deliberately concealing the number of young children who die due to malnutrition. This revelation came to light during the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) inquiry on children’s rights to food and nutrition after children with severe acute malnutrition were admitted in the province’s
- [e-News bulletin 22 August 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-22-august-2022/) - Ten years after Marikana | Socialists attack SA independent media | Israel bombing Gaza againWorkers' World Weekly 12 Aug 2022
- [Marikana townships still squalid 10 years after the massacre](https://wwmp.org.za/marikana-townships-still-squalid-10-years-after-the-massacre/) - The tenth commemoration of the Marikana massacre bring feelings of sadness, disappointment and anger as residents of the townships around the mine reflect on their current living conditions. Their fellow residents paid with their lives fighting for a better life in the bloodiest labour dispute since the dawn of democracy. 34 people were killed and
- [e-News bulletin 5 August 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-5-august-2022/) - Zama Zamas | DRC conflict | Climate Justice CharterWorkers' World Weekly 5 Aug 2022
- [Informal traders resist forced removal by the City of Johannesburg](https://wwmp.org.za/informal-traders-resist-forced-removal-by-the-city-of-johannesburg/) - Informal traders who were evicted from their trading posts in central Johannesburg last month after what the City of Johannesburg refers to as ‘Operation Buya Mthetho’ say that it will take months or even years for them to recover the loss of income. On the 19th of July, over 400 informal traders were prohibited from
- [Period poverty ruins education for girls in rural Zimbabwe](https://wwmp.org.za/period-poverty-ruins-education-for-girls-in-rural-zimbabwe/) - Menstruation is a nightmare for many girls and young women in Zimbabwe. Besides the pain, many young girls find sanitary ware hard to get. This has left many finding themselves in embarrassing situations where they soil their garments in public, which demeans their dignity and self-esteem. Many families in rural Zimbabwe survive on a dollar
- [Mining affected communities discuss UN treaty](https://wwmp.org.za/mining-affected-communities-discuss-un-treaty/) - Emotions ran high and tempers flared as community and labour activists related their stories of human rights violations at the hands of big corporations whose sole pursuit is profit. Mining communities of Sekhukhune in Limpopo, Melmoth in KZN, Xolobeni in Eastern Cape and Marikana in North West bear the brunt of mining companies’ rapacious appetite
- [e-Newsletter 29 July 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-29-july-2022/) - Energy privatisation | Numsa congress | Rojava under attackWorkers' World Weekly 29 July 2022
- [Numsa to appeal labour court ruling](https://wwmp.org.za/numsa-to-appeal-labour-court-ruling/) - The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa has promised to defend the “decisions of the congress, legal status and standing of the congress with all our might and if necessary we will go to the constitutional court”. This comes after a Johannesburg labour court order that refused the union’s leave to appeal an interdict
- [A divided Numsa goes ahead with the congress](https://wwmp.org.za/a-divided-numsa-goes-ahead-with-the-congress/) - The 11th Congress of the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) held in Cape Town on Wednesday was marred by clear political divisions which included booing, threats and a walkout by the Western Cape and some Ekurhuleni region locals. The Congress, which was supposed to start on Monday and run until Friday, was interdicted after 50
- [Suspended Numsa leaders successfully Interdict the union’s National Congress from taking place this week](https://wwmp.org.za/suspended-numsa-leaders-successfully-interdict-the-unions-national-congress-from-taking-place-this-past-week/) - Read Labour Court judgement [pdf]
- [Khayelitsha community patrollers call for more resources](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-community-patrollers-call-for-more-resources/) - Plagued by mass shootings and violent crime, Khayelitsha residents and neighbourhood watches used the recent community imbizo to tell Bheki Cele how to deal with crime in the area. Held at the Desmond Tutu Hall on Monday, the ministerial crime imbizo was a follow up to a crime summit that took place in June at
- [e-Newsletter, 22 July 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-22-july-2022/) - Rampant mass shootings | Numsa suspensions | Remembering Don MatteraWorkers' World Weekly 22 July 2022
- [Zibonele management defend their mishandling of broadcast licence](https://wwmp.org.za/zibonele-management-defend-their-mishandling-of-broadcast-licence/) - Radio Zibonele went off-air on Wednesday following an instruction from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) since the station has been broadcasting without a licence since October 2018. The 28-year old Khayelitsha-based community radio station failed to submit an application for renewal of its licence before its expiry. In a press briefing held
- [Killings shock Alexandra township](https://wwmp.org.za/killings-shock-alexandra-township/) - After six people were killed in three hours within an one kilometre radius in Alexandra township last week, residents of the township are reeling in shock. Crime is rife in the area but never in history has such a spate of killings been committed in such a short period of time. The killings prompted a
- [Icasa unplugs Cape Town’s ‘number one’ community radio station](https://wwmp.org.za/icasa-unplugs-cape-towns-number-one-community-radio-station/) - The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has raised concerns on what it calls “unfortunate misinformation and misrepresentation of facts that have been spread on various media platforms about the reasons for the imminent closure of Zibonele Community Radio”. This follows a press briefing by the management of the Khayelitsha-based community radio station to
- [e-Newsletter 15 July 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-15-july-2022/) - Competition Commission vs Google | Pop. 8 billion | Remembering Ghassan KanafaniWorkers' World Weekly 15 July 2022
- [e-Newsletter 8 July 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-8-july-2022/) - New Frame closure | July 2021 looting anniversary | Global economic recession loomsWorkers' World Weekly 8 July 2022
- [Families of 21 Scenery Park teenagers await answers](https://wwmp.org.za/families-of-21-scenery-park-teenagers-await-answers/) - On the evening of June 26, in the under-developed township area of Scenery Park darkened by Eskom’s ongoing electricity loadshedding, a large group of local teenagers with others from the nearby Duncan Village and Nompumelelo informal settlement in Beacon Bay converged at the now infamous Enyobeni tavern to celebrate the end of the June school
- [e-News bulletin 18 April 2019](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-18-april-2019/) - Follow Workers' World E-NEWS BULLETIN 18 April 2019 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Still No Justice for Activist ‘Bazooka’ Rhadebe “It is absolutely shocking that three years on from the gruesome killing of ‘Bazooka’ Rhadebe, his family and the public at large remain in the dark about the motive for the killing” - Amnesty
- [e-Newsletter 1 July 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-1-july-2022/) - EP cancellation | US goes Gilead | Global food crisisWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 1 July 2022
- [e-Newsletter 24 June 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-24-june-2022/) - Workers' World Weekly e-newsletter 24 June 2022‘Arrest Ramaphosa’ | Colombia’s left lurch | FIFA must expel Israelhttps://mailchi.mp/wwmp/workers-wld-wk24jun22
- [e-Newsletter 17 June 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-17-june-2022/) - Youth Day | Ukraine's struggle for national liberation | Cabo Delgado violenceWorkers' World Weekly 17 June 2022
- [Khayelitsha residents call for better services to fight crime](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-residents-call-for-better-services-to-fight-crime/) - The installation and maintenance of CCTV cameras and lights, the training of police to handle cases of domestic violence and the activation of crime offices are some of the solutions that were proposed by Khayelitsha residents and stakeholders at the Khayelitsha Crisis Response Summit held at False Bay College on Youth Day. Organised by the
- [Workers uncertain about Komati power station switch-off and the just transition](https://wwmp.org.za/workers-uncertain-about-komati-power-station-switch-off-and-the-just-transition/) - With just few months before the complete switch-off of the Komati power station as a coal powered installation, workers claim that they were not consulted and that their future hangs in the balance. According to Eskom’s plan, Komati power station in Mpumalanga, will be switched off completely as a coal powered station. In 2021 there
- [e-Newsletter 10 June 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-10-june-2022/) - Working class clash in EC | ANC at war | Nato in AfricaWorkers' World Weekly 10 June 2022
- [Proposed labour migration policy slammed as xenophobic](https://wwmp.org.za/proposed-labour-migration-policy-slammed-as-xenophobic/) - Proposed changes to national labour migration policy have been described as having a potential to fuel xenophobic tensions. In its submission on the draft National Labour Migration Policy and the Employment Service Amendment Bill, the Socio-Economic Rights Insititute of South Africa (SERI) and Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) say that the policy and the bill
- [e-Newsletter 3 June 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-3-june-2022/) - ANC at war | Saftu congress reflections | US guns | Shell ❤ MantasheWorkers' World Weekly 3 June 2022
- [Nakba video](https://wwmp.org.za/nakba-video/) - VIDEO: Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians ideologically justified by religious myths and lies
- [e-Newsletter  27 May 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-27-may-2022/) - EFF vs France | SAFTU congress | Quad summit | Nakba DayWorkers' World Weekly 27 May
- [Constitutional Court case to ensure citizens get free-to-air TV](https://wwmp.org.za/constitutional-court-case-to-ensure-citizens-get-free-to-air-tv/) - People's Media ConsortiumPress Release24 May 2022 The #SaveFreeTV campaign calls on the Constitutional Court bench to consider the plight of the poor facing a TV blackout if analogue broadcasting is switched off too soon. Reflecting on the proceedings of the constitutional court case led by eTV to postpone the switch-off of analogue television, the #SaveFreeTV
- [e-Newsletter 20 May 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-20-may-2022/) - #SaveFreeTV | Starbucks-Amazon union bashing | Remembering the Nakba | Shireen Abu-AklehWorkers' World Weekly 20 May 2022
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- [No funds to re-employ EC Covid-19 healthcare workers](https://wwmp.org.za/no-funds-to-re-employ-ec-covid-19-healthcare-workers/) - Many unemployed health workers are not convinced that the provincial department of health in the Eastern Cape is serious about creating enough posts to re-employ them. They believe that the government has failed to fulfill its promises of re-employment despite the widespread evidence of a collapsing health service due to staff shortages in the province. About
- [e-News bulletin 3 July 2015](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-july-2015/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN Friday 3 July 2015 Labour news you cannot afford to miss ! The Future of Greece Without Illusions "In this country where we live today, on the very soil we tread, the “ideologist” of the Athenian Republic, Protagoras, proclaimed “Man is the measure of all things”, for the first time in the history
- [e-News bulletin 18 March 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-18-march-2016/) - View this email in your browser E-NEWS BULLETIN Friday 18 March 2016 Labour news you cannot afford to miss ! The Presidency Maintains No Recollection of Ms Mentor "The Presidency refutes the misleading media reports stating that the former ANC MP, Ms Vytjie Mentor "accompanied" President Jacob Zuma on a state visit to China in
- [e-News bulletin 3 April 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-april-2020/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial “Incompetent and heartless governments put the hammer down on society without any planning or concern for those with few resources. It is one thing for the elite or the middle class to stay at home, work using the Internet, and muddle through teaching their children from home; it is another for the billions of migrant labourers and day labourers, people who live hand to mouth, and people who have no homes. Lockdowns, quarantines, social distancing – these words mean nothing for the billions of people who work hard each day to socially reproduce the world and to produce the millions of commodities; they have not benefited from their work, but they have certainly enriched the few who are now hiding with their wealth behind their curtains, afraid of the reality that made them rich.” So says Vijay Prashad in the weekly newsletter of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. South Africa’s ANC government has been no exception to the manner in which they’ve responded to the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s as if they are oblivious to their over two decades of misrule, mismanagement and corruption facilitated by state power and its extremely conservative neoliberal economic policies. They responded late to the unfolding pandemic and finally took the necessary drastic step of declaring the country in a state of lockdown under the state of National Disaster provision. However, in doing so, its main concerns were the interests of the business community of local and foreign capitalists, with undertakings to subsidise companies and wages. Belatedly and more than a week into the lockdown it made concessions to the informal sector of street vendors and others. However, millions of South Africa’s unemployed, homeless and survivalist unemployed were not factored in at all for support from the state. Considerations for the poor and those who rely on social grants were neglected and at times dysfunctional causing poor recipients to return to unsafe SASSA pay-points. If anything, the pandemic has been the proverbial chickens coming home to roost with it exacerbating and brazenly exposing inequalities forced the government to pay attention to critical social issues that it has neglected for over two decades, such as access to clean water and de-densification of informal settlements etc. As we publish, many of our public hospitals and clinics still do not have all the required equipment such as respirators and materials to care for COVID-19 victims, nor the necessary protective clothing for healthcare workers. Like many left analysts have forewarned, during major crises like wars and pandemics, the ruling class rapidly takes advantage to maximise its gains during and after. Already we saw the supermarkets and wholesalers capitalise on middle-class’ hoarding by pushing up prices while globally major pharmaceutical companies are racing against time and each other to be the first to produce a vaccine against COVID-19. We also note how the government has relaxed regulations in healthcare to enable private companies to profit more while the environmental pollution legislation for toxic sulphur dioxide emissions by SA’s mineral-industrial complex’s companies like SASOL, will be allowed to pollute more and further cause asthma and related lung disease as well as cancer for members of communities who live close to these emitters of poison. Another ministry reinforced the government’s xenophobia by declaring that only SA owned spaza shops in townships would be allowed to operate during the lockdown. Moreover, with ratings agency Moody’s downgrade of South Africa to “Junk” status, Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, was said to be in a celebratory mood after getting the go ahead from the President with “structural reforms” a euphemistic technical term for more reduction in social spending and cuts in the public service, i.e. more attacks on the living standards of the working class and poor in a country where up to 50% of the population is unemployed or underemployed and inequality is the highest in the world. The SA government, unlike others in the world like Britain, Italy and Spain that have taken drastic measures to alleviate the effects of the pandemic on the general population, like nationalising private healthcare and guaranteed income for everyone during their lockdowns, the SA government has not adopted any extraordinary measures that will provide real relief to the poor. Instead the poorest and marginalised have been forced to endure harassment and violence from the armed forces to respect the lockdown and “social distancing”. The lockdown in SA entered its second week and already the signs are there that the situation is much worse than initially assumed with the statistics of tests results lagging behind by up to two weeks. With SA’s poor public health system, the unsafe and unsanitary living conditions and worsening general conditions of poverty with limited access to income and food, SA’s working class and poor is in for a nightmare and the country a social catastrophe. The COVID-19 pandemic has also exposed the weakness and limitations of our working class organisations and supportive NGO’s, after three decades of political degeneration and organisational decline. Moreover, the action that’s key for countering COVID-19, physical distancing and isolation, has by itself made it extremely difficult and nigh impossible for galvanising those worst affected into mass action and resistance. If anything it has proven that no amount of comfortable social media activism will achieve the necessary that will get us closer to a just and equal society. Addressing our weaknesses in the post-COVID-19 period will be our major challenge and task. This week’s articles and video production that follow illustrate all of the above. Aluta Continua. WWMP Editorial Team COVID-19: Reports from the Frontline
- [e-News bulletin 24 July 2015](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-24-july-2015/) - View this email in your browser E-NEWS BULLETIN Friday 24 July 2015 Labour news you cannot afford to miss ! Talk in Athens: The Dialectics of Revolutionary Strategy and Tactics "On July 9, 2015, Alex Steiner gave a talk at the Locomotivo Cooperative Cafe in Athens, Greece. The event was a huge success attracting a
- [e-News bulletin 13 May 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-13-may-2016/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN Friday 13 May 2016 Labour news you cannot afford to miss ! THE SCENE OF THE CRIME Report From Odessa On Murder And Assassinations Of Trade Unionists At Odessa Union Center Click here to watch..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2-dimsCtH8 POLITICS ◘ SOUTH AFRICA: Why I said all whites are racist ◘ SWAZILAND: Swazis to starve as government
- [e-News bulletin 8 May 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-8-may-2020/) - Empolweni residents rebuild their houses and lives 49 of the approximately 170 families forcibly removed from Empolweni informal settlement have re-built their homes, thanks to a court ordering their return. Queues at Khayelitsha Mall get worse The long queues at Khayelitsha Mall were especially long and winding this week as the coronavirus temporarily closed two
- [e-News bulletin 9 September 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-9-september-2016/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know • 9 September 2016 CONTENTS SOUTHERN AFRICA: 1. Genocide in Plain Sight: Shooting Bushmen From Helicopters in Botswana 2. Union leaders' court power bid backfires 3. Cosatu and the 'conveyor belt' threat 4. Strikers could be dismissed for misconduct - Parliament
- [e-News bulletin 16 September 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-16-september-2016/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know • 16 September 2016 CONTENTS SOUTH AFRICA: 1. Media houses guilty of price-fixing, fixing of trading conditions – Competition Commission 2. COSATU is planning and mobilising for a One Day National Strike during the International Day of Action on the 7th
- [e-News bulletin 30 September 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-30-september-2016/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know • 30 September 2016 CONTENTS SOUTH AFRICA: 1. R2K & ODAC welcome SCA’s ruling on signal jamming and open Parliament 2. SABC's R5 billion hole 3. ANC rejects calls for early conference 'out of hand' 4. Universities in crisis: Runs much
- [e-News bulletin 12 June 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-12-june-2020/) - |MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| Massive taxi fare increase threatens commuters A proposed taxi fare increase of 172% announced by two Alexandra taxi associations threatens to make employment outside of the township unaffordable for residents. 20 confirmed Covid-19 cases in E Cape schools Just in one week of schooling, the Eastern Cape Department of Education (ECDoE) has confirmed that
- [e-News bulletin 22 January 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-22-january-2016/) - E-News Bulletin Friday 22 January 2016 Labour news you cannot afford to miss ! WhatsApp faces possible regulation in South Africa Over-the-top (OTT) internet services, such as WhatsApp, could be regulated in South Africa depending on the outcome of planned Parliament hearings this month. http://www.fin Ukrainian government officials celebrate Nazism, anti-Semitism Several recent incidents in
- [e-News bulletin 5 August 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-5-august-2016/) - Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know • 5 August 2016 The fate of two Palestinian villages Dear friends, This is an urgent request for action as the communities of two Bedouin villages are under the immediate threat of demolition. Earlier this year we wrote to you about two Bedouin villages
- [e-News bulletin 4 November 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-4-november-2016/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know • 4 November 2016 CONTENTS SOUTH AFRICA: 1. NEHAWU calls for Zuma to resign INTERNATIONAL MIDDLE EAST: 1. Palestinians demand UK apology for Balfour declaration 2. Ivry-sur-Seine votes for BDS 3. Concern grows at destruction of democracy in Turkey Article of
- [e-News bulletin 29 May 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-29-may-2020/) - SOUTH AFRICA Workers ineligible for UIF can now claim Ters benefit Minister Thulas Nxesi has amended a directive pertaining to Ters to now allow workers to claim even where their employers did not register them for UIF. LISA STEYN | BUSINESS DAY Victory for workers – but how
- [e-News bulletin 7 August 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-7-august-2020/) - “Working Class Day Of Action” call for better living and working conditions Protests around the country to mark the start of a national campaign by different organisations to build and connect community struggles against covid-19 and government austerity took place on Saturday, 1 August. VELAPI, CHIRUME, SEHOAI, GCWABE Photo essay – Working Class Day of
- [e-News bulletin 17 April 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-17-april-2020/) - |MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| Community Careworkers continue to work without personal protective equipment Elitsha walked a day in the shoes of Cynthia Tikwayo while she did her work in the Ndlovini informal settlement in Khayelitsha together with a team of community careworkers. COVID-19: SOUTH AFRICA The biggest lockdown threat: Hunger, hunger,
- [e-News bulletin 26 August 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-26-august-2016/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know • 26 August 2016 SOUTH AFRICA: Fawu quits Cosatu “The Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) has resolved to leave Cosatu after six of seven provinces present at its national congress explained their members wanted nothing to do with the federation.
- [e-News bulletin 9 December 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-9-december-2016/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know • 9 December 2016 CONTENTS SOUTH AFRICA: Media Monitoring Africa Reveals SABC Failed to adhere to the ICASA order and the Public Protest Ban ​#DataMustFall – how cellphone giants are milking you INTERNATIONAL: Trump as Cyberbully in Chief? Twitter Attack on Union
- [e-News bulletin 17 July 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-17-july-2020/) - |MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| COVID-19 and Public Transport – From Crisis to a Crash Similar to all other areas of public services like healthcare, education, housing – for nearly thirty years South Africa’s public transport system has been in a serious crisis. MARTIN JANSEN Transport Workers An Elitsha video feature examining the difficulties of commuting under the lockdown
- [Changes in the agriculture industry and its impact on farmworkers](https://wwmp.org.za/changes-in-the-agriculture-industry-and-its-impact-on-farmworkers/) - Workers On Wednesday 13 November broadcast on SAfm 104-107 and online Wednesdays at 10 a.m. Call in number 089 110 420 Whatsapp voice note number 061 410 4107 Content hosted by iono.fm Two weeks ago a conference was held at the University of the Western Cape that focused on the changes in, and the future
- [e-News bulletin 1 July 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-1-july-2016/) - Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know • 1 July 2016 ◘ SOUTH AFRICA 1. SABC Crisis + Fort Calata's son calls out SABC: Is this what my father died for? + SABC's deliberate thought control campaign + To the Crossroads and Back: Jimi Matthews and the SABC 2. amaBhungane: Torture
- [e-News bulletin 26 February 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-26-february-2016/) - E-News Bulletin Friday 26 February 2016 Labour news you cannot afford to miss! View this email in your browser The budget in 10 easy steps Taxes are up for higher income earners, government spending is controlled and the deficit will be targeted. http://www.rdm Evo Morales Won't Run in 2019, But MAS Will Carry-On While Bolivian
- [e-News bulletin 24 July 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-24-july-2020/) - Health Department calls police against careworkers Police used rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse angry community careworkers who were protesting inside the offices of the Eastern Cape Health Department. NOMBULELO DAMBA-HENDRICK E Cape hospital workers struggle for protection Healthcare workers at Frere hospital in East London say that their working conditions have not changed
- [e-News bulletin 3 March 2017](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-march-2017/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 3 March 2017 Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know CONTENTS SOUTH AFRICA In defence of fallism: A response to #FeesMustFall critics Those ones who owned the mines, I hate them, I hate them very much The Grandmothers of Mthatha By the time they came for me [Zapiro] INTERNATIONAL
- [e-News bulletin 21 August 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-21-august-2020/) - Community care workers still locked out of permanent jobs In the midst of a pandemic against which they are frontline combatants, care work in the Eastern Cape remains a temporary job. NOMBULELO DAMBA-HENDRICK E Cape care worker protest ends with job offer Eastern Cape care workers were promised new jobs but care work will remain
- [e-News bulletin 2 November 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-2-november-2018/) - Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser E-NEWS BULLETIN 2 November 2018 Links to present possibilities Editorial As predicted, Bolsanaro, the neo-fascist has been elected as Brazil’s president. It is likely to have global ramifications with an end to the dominance of left governments in Latin America. It represents the tipping point of
- [e-News bulletin 10 June 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-10-june-2016/) - Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know • 10 June 2016 ◘ SOUTH AFRICA Shadow play: State Security, Marikana and a bogus union Killer cop gets 20 years’ jail Bold plans for SABC TV Israel's attempts to commodify South African Water - YCLSA press statement ◘ INTERNATIONAL Silencing America as It
- [The Crisis in State Owned Enterprises and Labour](https://wwmp.org.za/the-crisis-in-state-owned-enterprises-and-labour/) - Workers On Wednesday 20 November broadcast on SAfm 104-107 and online Wednesdays at 10 a.m. Call in number 089 110 420 Whatsapp voice note number 061 410 4107 Content hosted by iono.fm For the past two decades, South Africa’s state owned enterprises (SOEs) have been beset with crises. These include Eskom, SAA, PRASA and the
- [e-News bulletin 19 August 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-19-august-2016/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know • 19 August 2016 SOUTH AFRICA: Lonmin failing on 'appalling' housing for workers "Four years after Marikana killings, Lonmin fails to improve ‘appalling’ housing for thousands of workers 1. Lonmin only built three show houses in Marikana since 2006 2. Mine
- [e-News bulletin 11 November 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-11-november-2016/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know • 11 November 2016 CONTENTS SOUTH AFRICA: 1. Cosatu’s sudden turn was totally unexpected 2. Proposed Wolwerivier expansion is disastrous for Woodstock tenants 3. When Zuma goes, what will change? 4. Read Mathole Motshekga’s explosive document here INTERNATIONAL MIDDLE EAST: 1.
- [e-News bulletin 25 Sept 2015](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-25-sept-2015/) - View this email in your browser E-NEWS BULLETIN Friday 25 September 2015 Labour news you cannot afford to miss ! SOUTH AFRICA: Principled? Five reasons to boycott Pharrell “Pharrell Williams is pretty cool. He has a swag hat collection, a super successful line of Adidas sneakers, and apparently never ages. But we shouldn’t be giving
- [e-News bulletin 1 May 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-1-may-2020/) - May Day under COVID-19 in South Africa WORKERS' WORLD MEDIA PRODUCTIONS 24 hour May Day programing on mayday.pacifica.org. TUNE IN Pacifica COVID-19 Taskforce is hosting May Day with programing from throughout the world. Live streaming from South Africa, Korea, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and other countries. May Day on Pacifica Radio contains diverse struggles, issues
- [e-News bulletin 14 Aug 2015](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-14-aug-2015/) - View this email in your browser E-NEWS BULLETIN Friday 14 August 2015 Labour news you cannot afford to miss ! SOUTH AFRICA: Female mine workers – colleagues not sex objects "Women working in South African mines are subject to sexual harassment and abuse from male colleagues, says Phumeza Mgengo from IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the
- [e-News bulletin 14 October 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-14-october-2016/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know • 14 October 2016 CONTENTS SOUTH AFRICA: 1. Redefining Treason 2. Wits SRC will continue protesting for free, decolonised education 3. Nzimande: Free higher education for all won't be government policy for a long time 4. Urgent letter from an academic
- [e-Newsletter 13 June 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-13-june-2022/) - Antiwar in Russia | Swazi unions under attack | Shireen Abu AklehWorkers' World Weekly 13 June 2022
- [Fishers urged to form alliances with mining affected communities](https://wwmp.org.za/fishers-urged-to-form-alliances-with-mining-affected-communities/) - During a speak-out held in Salt River on Monday evening as part of the Alternative Mining Indaba, fishers and activists agreed that there is a need to form alliances with other struggles and make connections between the mining companies and big corporations that are involved in the ocean economy. Professor Moenieba Isaacs from the University
- [e-Newsletter 6 May 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-6-may-2022/) - May Day | NATO and Russia warmongers alike | West Bank expulsionWorkers' World weekly 6 May 2022
- [e-Newsletter 29 April 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-29-april-2022/) - Farming xenophobia | ANC mulls privatisation | Ukraine: Cold War 2.0Workers' World Weekly 29 April 2022
- [e-Newsletter 22 April 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-22-april-2022/) - Climate change frontline in KZN floods | SA xenophobia | US starves Afghanis | Israel violates Al-AqsaWorkers' World Weekly 22 April 2022
- [Healthworkers in the EC protest for re-employment](https://wwmp.org.za/healthworkers-in-the-ec-protest-for-re-employment/) - About 1,000 angry and frustrated healthcare workers whose contracts of employment were terminated in December last year and at the end of March this year by the Eastern Cape Department of Health protested outside the Health MEC’s offices in Bisho on Monday. The termination of contracts affected a wide range of healthcare workers such as
- [Paradise, Nearly Forty Years Later: The Liminal Experiences of Working‐Class Academics](https://wwmp.org.za/paradise-nearly-forty-years-later-the-liminal-experiences-of-working‐class-academics/) - AbstractIn 1984, Ryan and Sackrey’s Strangers in Paradise explored the challenges of the professoriate for those from working-class backgrounds. Nearly 40 years later, there is a substantial body of narrative and refective writing by working-class academics. We present fndings from analysis of 218 narratives from working-class academics. Through Ibarra and Obodaru’s reconceptualization of liminality in
- [Fire rages through Joe Slovo in Langa](https://wwmp.org.za/fire-rages-through-joe-slovo-in-langa/) - Residents of Joe Slovo informal settlement were going through the debris of what was their homes looking for anything to salvage after a fire destroyed over 300 structures and leaving about 1,500 people homeless on Saturday evening. An entire 600 square metre section of the settlement alongside the N2 highway in Langa in Cape Town
- [e-Newsletter 14 April 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-14-april-2022/) - KZN floods | Putin cool aid | Intifada 1987Workers' World Weekly 14 April 2022
- [e-Newsletter 8 April 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-newsletter-8-april-2022/) - SA rail privatisation | Save Saftu | First Amazon union | Qatar 2022Workers' World Weekly 8 April 2022
- [Butchered in Bucha, Gun-downed in Gaza](https://wwmp.org.za/butchered-in-bucha-gun-downed-in-gaza/) - By Hassen Lorgat Butchered in Buchaa dozen or moremangled, manslaughtered, murderedsilenced humans fleeing the Citymurdered in cold blood they lay in the streetthe unkempt mortuary of rotting humanswhilst the politicians bicker about who did it, or if it happened at allButchering humans in Bucha the other dayis wrong NOWit will always be so Butchered in
- [e-News bulletin 1 April 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-1-april-2022/) - Operation Dudula | Unemployment up and up | EC starvation | Nato imperialismWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 1 April 2022
- [Cape Town march against electricity hikes](https://wwmp.org.za/cape-town-march-against-electricity-hikes/) - About 50 community members and activists took to the streets of Cape Town in a march against Eskom’s electricity tariff hike. Eskom was approved by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) to increase electricity by 9.6% for Eskom’s standard tariff customers, and 8.6% for those that get electricity from municipalities. The flaring of
- [PHOTOS | Anti-xenophobia march in Cape Town](https://wwmp.org.za/photos-anti-xenophobia-march-in-cape-town/) - Xenophobia continues to rear its ugly head in South Africa as Operation Dudula carries out attacks on “illegal migrants” in Gauteng. People organised under the banner of this brown-shirt movement spew hatred towards foreign nationals causing immense pain and suffering. On Human Rights Day this week, a group of organisations, activists and African nationals marched
- [e-News bulletin 25 March 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-25-march-2022/) - Ukraine a Cold War death trap | Biden's Afghani sanctions | E-Hailing driver strike | Polar meltWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 25 March 2022
- [Arrest violent xenophobes! – Human Rights Day marchers](https://wwmp.org.za/arrest-violent-xenophobes-human-rights-day-marchers/) - Despite the Johannesburg march being stopped by the metro police, the Cape Town leg of the anti-xenophobia march went ahead on Monday to hand over a memorandum of demands to parliament. The Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia (KAAX) march was, according to a statement by the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI), prohibited by the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police
- [e-News bulletin 18 March 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-18-march-2022/) - ANC factions behind mayhem | Imperial war on Ukraine | Digital migration sell offWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 18 March 2022
- [‘We trip over dead bodies here at night’ – New Monwabisi Park](https://wwmp.org.za/we-trip-over-dead-bodies-here-at-night-new-monwabisi-park/) - On Monday, four men and a woman were shot and killed in New Monwabisi Park, Khayelitsha, The informal settlement is one of the newly occupied areas along Baden Powell Drive, and lacks basic infrastructure. Residents attending the ‘street imbizo’ called by the police ministry said the lack of street lights and road ways contributed to
- [e-News bulletin 11 March 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-11-march-2022/) - The West's hypocrisy on Ukraine | Ayanda Ngila | Remembering MthokozisiWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 11 March 2022
- [e-News bulletin 4 March 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-4-march-2022/) - Ukraine | Pandemic recovery | Numsa civil warWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 4 March 2022
- [San Francisco Labor Council Resolution to Support 5,000 Striking South African Clover Workers](https://wwmp.org.za/san-francisco-labor-council-resolution-to-support-5000-striking-south-african-clover-workers/) - Whereas, 5,000 South Africa Clover workers who are members of the General Industrial Workers Union of South Africa and Food & Allied Workers Union have been on strike since November 22, 2021 against Clover dairy which is the largest dairy company in South Africa; and Whereas, after a corporate take-over in 2019 by Milco and
- [Photos: Unemployed marched to parliament](https://wwmp.org.za/photos-unemployed-marched-to-parliament/) - On Wednesday, unemployed and marginalised workers and communities marched to the City of Cape Town and to parliament to deliver an “alternative budget speech”. About 1,000 mainly young people and activists from the Western, Eastern and Northern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal marched under the umbrella of the Cry of the Xcluded. They
- [e-News bulletin 25 February 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-25-february-2022/) - Ukraine | Budget speech | Rick TurnerWorkers' World Weekly 25 February 2022
- [Unemployed march to Parliament demanding jobs](https://wwmp.org.za/unemployed-march-to-parliament-demanding-jobs/) - Community-based organisations, assemblies of the unemployed and trade unions marched to the City of Cape Town offices and to parliament ahead of the national budget speech by Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana. Protesting under the umbrella of the Cry of the Xcluded, they delivered a memorandum to parliament calling for an end to the budget cuts
- [e-News bulletin 18 February 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-18-february-2022/) - Xolobeni SLAPP back | Clover strike | Reed, Rovics vs puritanical LeftWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 18 Feb 2022
- [e-News bulletin 11 February 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-11-february-2022/) - SONA | Bezos's superyacht | Zim's Rhodes legacy | Nuclear fusion!Workers' World Weekly e-newsletter 11 Feb 2022
- [Freedom of Expression and Media Freedom in Africa](https://wwmp.org.za/freedom-of-expression-and-media-freedom-in-africa/)
- [Police prevent SAFTU from marching to SONA venue](https://wwmp.org.za/police-prevent-saftu-from-marching-to-sona-venue/) - A march by the South African Trade Union Federation (Saftu) to the Cape Town City Hall where the state of the nation address (SONA) was to be held was prevented by the police on Thursday. The 2022 SONA was marked by a heavy presence of law enforcement agencies all over the city centre and on
- [e-News bulletin 4 February 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-4-february-2022/) - ANC and HCI extractivism | Clover strike | Ukraine | Amnesty Int. on apartheid IsraelWorkers' World Weekly, 4 February 2022
- [Chile: A bright, new world for women after new left wins the presidency](https://wwmp.org.za/chile-a-bright-new-world-for-women-after-new-left-wins-the-presidency/) - On the evening preceding the presidential election, a very real and terrifying prospect faced Chileans, particularly women. As stated by Rodrigo Saavedra, a Santiago lawyer and activist, it’s a “scary mood, never before in the past thirty years we’ve been so near to having a fascist as an elected president. Still, I have a hope
- [State capture: where were unions when they raided the kraal?](https://wwmp.org.za/state-capture-where-were-unions-when-they-raided-the-kraal/) - The first part of the Zondo commission report highlights the failure of unions to protect whistleblowers and prevent the capture of state institutions and companies.
- [e-News bulletin 28 Jan 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-28-jan-2022/) - No jab, no job | Ceppwawu plunder | Left turn in Chile | Nakba massacreWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 28 January 2022
- [Boric’s win paves the way for a bright, new world for women in Chile](https://wwmp.org.za/borics-win-paves-the-way-for-a-bright-new-world-for-women-in-chile/) - In a rejection of the Pinochet legacy and a victory for the Chilean left, 35-year-old Gabriel Boric was elected president.
- [e-News bulletin 21 Jan 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-21-jan-2022/) - Workers' World Weekly e-newsletter 21 Jan 2022 Clover strike | Imperial battleground Ethiopia | Sheik Jarrah demolition
- [Homeless man killed by City cop to be buried on Saturday](https://wwmp.org.za/homeless-man-killed-by-city-cop-to-be-buried-on-saturday/) - Dumisani Joxo who was fatally shot allegedly by a Cape Town law enforcement officer on the 9th of January will be buried in Mission Village in Butterworth on Saturday. He was shot during an altercation reportedly between his friend and the officer over the dousing of a fire. A homeless man, Joxo stayed with his
- [Clover deducts bonus payment as unions promise to intensify the strike](https://wwmp.org.za/clover-deducts-bonus-payment-as-unions-promise-to-intensify-the-strike/) - The unions representing the striking Clover workers announced at a press conference on Monday that the workers have not been paid full bonuses as instructed by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). According to GroundUp, the workers had through the CCMA managed to secure an agreement with the company to pay the overdue
- [Striking Clover workers picket outside parliament](https://wwmp.org.za/striking-clover-workers-picket-outside-parliament/) - Clover SA workers who have been on strike for more than seven weeks have described their employer as exploitative and always looking for ways to maximise profits at the expense of the workers. Two workers with more than ten years of service each are part of the 5,000 workers who have been on a national
- [e-News bulletin 14 Jan 2022](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-14-jan-2022/) - Lindiwe Sisulu | Clover strike | Chile and NicaraguaWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter, 14 January 2022
- [The future for unions:   Adapt or die](https://wwmp.org.za/the-future-for-unions-adapt-or-die/) - by Terry Bell (First published in City Press, December 26, 2021) Adapt or die! That is an expression that should be echoing — and taken very seriously — especially throughout the global labour movement at a time of massively growing joblessness and the ongoing decline of trade union membership.The expression is a brief paraphrase of
- [e-News bulletin 17 December 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-17-december-2021/) - SA xenophobia | US imperial threat to Ethiopia | Assange extraditionWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 17 Dec 2021
- [2021 – The wrap](https://wwmp.org.za/2021-the-wrap/) - The year has been difficult for everyone but for the black working class especially. Elitsha covered many stories of their plight, and how the pandemic made it worse. Disability grant applicants queue from 1am In January we covered a story of how grant beneficiaries defied the level 3 lockdown regulations to lead the queue outside
- [e-News bulletin 10 December 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-10-december-2021/) - Soweto electricity crisis | Omicron lessons from Steve Biko hospital | Pfizer pandemic profiteer Workers' World Weekly e-newsletter 10 Dec 2021
- [Gender-based violence hits Tsomo police](https://wwmp.org.za/gender-based-violence-hits-tsomo-police/) - As the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence comes to an end, in the Eastern Cape, police are investigating an assault case against a male captain in Tsomo Police Station. The case was opened by a sergeant last month accusing her captain of physical assaulting her at work. The incident is said to have
- [World Inequality Report 2022: South Africa](https://wwmp.org.za/world-inequality-report-2022-south-africa/) - Prepared by World Inequality Lab, coordinated by Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanual Saez and Gabriel Zucman
- [Local Government Elections 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/local-government-elections-2021/) - The lowest turnout for an election in democratic South Africa ushered in shaky coalitions that offer no new vision for a disillusioned electorate. A left alternative must return the 70% of eligible voters to participation in the polls, writes Noor Nieftagodien.
- [“We will disrupt the streets until Jesus comes! Eskom should come and engage us”](https://wwmp.org.za/we-will-disrupt-the-streets-until-jesus-comes-eskom-should-come-and-engage-us/) - Residents of Diepkloof Zone 3, who have been in the dark for more than two weeks say they will keep protesting until their electricity is restored by the state-owned power utility, Eskom. Nyaniso Gova, a resident and community leader in Zone 3 says Eskom is selfish and arrogant to them as customers. “Eskom is truly
- [Brazil’s labour justice system is battling with growing rights violations](https://wwmp.org.za/brazils-labour-justice-system-is-battling-with-growing-rights-violations/) - “It was chaos,” says Nilzete, a nurse at Souza Aguiar Hospital in Rio de Janeiro. Twenty-three years of experience had not prepared her for this. “The situation was already tough before, but when the pandemic wrought havoc in 2020, it became impossible. We were running out of everything. Getting hold of any kind of mask
- [Labour unions march against ailing healthcare services](https://wwmp.org.za/labour-unions-march-against-ailing-healthcare-services/) - More than 70 Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu) members in Nelson Mandela Bay district today held a peaceful march to the district offices of the Eastern Cape Department of Health where they handed in a memorandum of demands. The march was called for by the National Education, Health, and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu)
- [A tribute to Oupa Lehulere](https://wwmp.org.za/a-tribute-to-oupa-lehulere/) - Looking back to Comrade Oupa's contributions in Workers' World's Labour Show, we remember the activist intellectual who passed away this past Monday, 29 November 2021 after a long battle with cancer. Hamba kahle!
- [e-News bulletin 3 December 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-december-2021/) - Tribute to Oupa Lehulere | Shell's seismic survey of Wild Coast | Fourth Covid wave rising Workers' World Weekly e-newsletter 3 Dec 2021
- [Residents decry potholed roads in Cosmo City](https://wwmp.org.za/residents-decry-potholed-roads-in-cosmo-city/) - Residents of Cosmo City, north of Johannesburg say they are tired of poor services in the 16-year-old township. Nathi Radebe told Elitsha that he arrived in Cosmo five years ago and the roads have been in the same state ever since then. “Nothing has changed here. I think we are forgotten. The roads are worn out
- [Migrant truck drivers live in fear as government leads harassment campaign](https://wwmp.org.za/migrant-truck-drivers-live-in-fear-as-government-leads-harassment-campaign/) - The road freight and logistics industry has for the past two years been sucked in by violence resulting in the destruction of property and the torching of several trucks. At the source of the violence are allegations raised by local drivers against trucking companies they accuse of employing foreign drivers. The All Truck Drivers Forum
- [Clover workers strike against Israeli owners](https://wwmp.org.za/clover-workers-strike-against-israeli-owners/) - Hundreds of workers at Clover in Gqeberha are determined to continue with a strike that began on 22 November. The workers are accusing their employer of a raft of offences and are dissatisfied that the dairy company is arbitrarily implementing a programme of retrenchment. They say this will result in a greater workload for the
- [Activists adamant against seismic survey of EC coast by Shell](https://wwmp.org.za/activists-adamant-against-seismic-survey-of-ec-coast-by-shell/) - A group of activists from Hillcrest, along with Move One Million, Keep Crestone Clean and Eco Group, lined themselves up on Hillcrest Old Main Road forming a human chain from one Shell garage to the next to protest the oil giant’s intention to conduct an offshore seismic survey in search of oil and gas. Shell’s
- [Cape Town’s busiest railway still a long way from restarting](https://wwmp.org.za/cape-towns-busiest-railway-still-a-long-way-from-restarting/) - It’s been two years now since the Metrorail Central Line in Cape Town was operational, having last operated in November 2019. Infighting over tenders, political interference, poor management and vandalism during lockdown have all contributed to the collapse in the train service on this busy line which services the poorest of Cape Town’s townships. The
- [e-News bulletin 26 November 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-26-november-2021/) - 16 Days of Activism | SAPS ineptitude | Cuba's Covid vaccineWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 26 Nov 2021
- [KZN premier launches 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence](https://wwmp.org.za/kzn-premier-launches-16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence/) - As today marks the start of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children, KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala accompanied by Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane, Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu and KZN MEC for Social Development Nonhlanhla Khoza, visited Inanda police station north of Durban before the official launch at the
- [Gauteng premier urged to intervene in cancer patients crisis](https://wwmp.org.za/gauteng-premier-urged-to-intervene-in-cancer-patients-crisis/) - Hundreds of health activists concerned with the state of public healthcare in Gauteng, together with cancer patients marched to the office of Premier David Makhura in Newtown on Tuesday. According Linda Greef, the chairperson of Cancer Alliance, the province is battling a serious crisis that’s been worsened by poor management. “We are asking the premier for
- [Covid grant does even less as food prices soar](https://wwmp.org.za/covid-grant-does-even-less-as-food-prices-soar/) - Although many beneficiaries of the Social Relief of Distress grant (SRD) known as Ama350 are thankful and say it is better than nothing, but those with large families and responsibilities such as Smangele Jansen of Riverpark in Alexandra say the grant doesn’t help a lot. They say the biggest buy R350 can afford is a
- [Webinar on ongoing struggles in Swaziland](https://wwmp.org.za/webinar-on-ongoing-struggles-in-swaziland/) - You are invited to an ILRIG-WWMP Zoom webinar. When: Thursday 25 Nov 2021 05:30 PM (SAST)Topic: The Significance of the Second Wave of Struggle in Swaziland This event will take place on Zoom. Register in advance for this webinar:https://us02web.zoom.us/…/register/WN_A3kPD338Q5S7yJILixNQhA After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Please contact
- [Police admit failures during July unrest](https://wwmp.org.za/police-admit-failures-during-july-unrest/) - On the sixth day of the National Investigative Hearing into the July Unrest by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), the National Commissioner of Police, Khehla Sitole said the police could have done better in how they handled the riots and looting. The commission has heard testimonies of people from Phoenix, Bhambayi, Amaoti, Zwelisha,
- [e-News bulletin 19 November](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-19-november/) - Phoenix massacre hearings | US contra Ethiopia, Nicaragua | COP26 fallout Workers' World Weekly e-newsletter 19 Nov 2021
- [EC municipalities squander millions on sub-standard building projects](https://wwmp.org.za/ec-municipalities-squander-millions-on-sub-standard-building-projects/) - Eastern Cape municipalities continue to pay millions to construction companies with track records of sub-standard or incomplete building projects. Thalami Civils has been at the centre of the fiasco, being responsible for projects in Enoch Mgijima, Sakhisizwe, Intsika Yethu and Mnquma municipalities in the province. Another offender is Isivivana Construction. In 2014, it was awarded
- [Phoenix massacre victims relive trauma during SAHRC hearings](https://wwmp.org.za/phoenix-massacre-victims-relive-trauma-during-sahrc-hearings/) - “There was no humanity in Phoenix, no one came to help us.” This was the testimony of Ntethelelo Mkhize from Ntuzuma, north of Durban on the third day of the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC) investigation into the July unrest held at the Gateway Hotel in uMhlanga, Durban on Wednesday. The July Unrest
- [Joburg waste pickers decry abuse while making ends meet](https://wwmp.org.za/joburg-waste-pickers-decry-abuse-while-making-ends-meet/) - A growing community of waste pickers living near the Metro Centre in Braamfontein say besides their hardships brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, the City of Johannesburg’s Pikitup recycling service is their biggest stumbling block. Mawande Tomsana, originally from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape says their work would improve if Pikitup would stop taking work
- [e-News bulletin 12 November 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-12-november-2021/) - Cry of the Xcluded rejects MTBPS | Eskom a world's worst | Ethiopian civil warWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter, 12 November 2021
- [Activists and union members march for Basic Income Grant](https://wwmp.org.za/activists-and-union-members-march-for-basic-income-grant/) - Community activists, trade union members and the unemployed held protests under the banner of Cry of the Xcluded in major cities around the country ahead of the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) by Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana. The protests were held in Cape Town, Gqeberha, Makhanda, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and Mbombela. The protesters were demanding a
- [3 shelters for Joburg’s 15,000 homeless](https://wwmp.org.za/3-shelters-for-joburgs-15000-homeless/) - The City of Johannesburg has only three shelters that are meant to assist over 15,000 homeless and displaced people living in the hub of the country’s economy. They are Windsor West shelter, and the 1 Dan Street shelter and Kotze Street shelter situated in Hillbrow, very close to Constitution Hill. The Kotze Street shelter is
- [Thandanani residents blame eThekwini for spread of shack fire](https://wwmp.org.za/thandanani-residents-blame-ethekwini-for-spread-of-shack-fire/) - Residents of Thandanani informal settlement in Greenwood Park, Durban, are blaming eThekwini Fire Department for the slow response to the fire that burnt over 100 shacks to ashes on Saturday night. One person was injured in the fire. When emergency personnel arrived at the scene, they didn’t have enough water to extinguish the fire because,
- [Alex hostel dwellers bemoan basic services](https://wwmp.org.za/alex-hostel-dwellers-bemoan-basic-services/) - While the residents of Madala Hostel in Alexandra ward 75 can breathe a sigh of relief over the unfolding plan to refurbish their hostel, their counterparts at Nobuhle Hostel, just across the street on 6th and 7th avenue, are living in despair with no hope that their incomplete hostel will ever breathe life. The hostel
- [Activists march in Durban to highlight climate crisis](https://wwmp.org.za/activists-march-in-durban-to-highlight-climate-crisis/) - Over 200 people from different organisations marched on the streets of Durban on Friday, 5 November as a local manifestation of the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice, organised by the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA). The march, which started at the King Dinizulu Park and ended at the Durban City Hall, was
- [e-News bulletin 5 November 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-5-november-2021/) - Local government elections | COP26 | Horror movies slash capitalismWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 5 Nov
- [Three municipal construction projects in Mnquma stand incomplete](https://wwmp.org.za/three-municipal-construction-projects-in-mnquma-stand-incomplete/) - Three major construction projects in Mnquma local municipality in the Eastern Cape that cost the municipality millions of rands are a source of worry for the community: a community hall built four years ago yet to be handed to the community, a taxi rank that is unsuitable as it causes traffic jams and a driving
- [Paralysed mother of four proffered a rescue from living in squalor](https://wwmp.org.za/paralysed-mother-of-four-proffered-a-rescue-from-living-in-squalor/) - Thandeka Dlwengu has given up any shred of hope of ever leading a normal life after spending all her life living under squalid conditions in Kirkwood, Eastern Cape. Dlwengu (53) lives with her four adult children and a grandchild in a poorly built pole and zinc shack in Mpukaneni informal settlement, in Moses Mabhida township.
- [Voting for rubbish collection, electricity and much need services](https://wwmp.org.za/voting-for-rubbish-collection-electricity-and-much-need-services/) - Marked by low voter turnout, problems with the voters roll in some areas resulting in voters being turned away, network failure, loadshedding and a big number of independents, the 2021 local government elections went ahead despite the country being in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. In Cape Town Voters braved the rainy weather to
- [e-News bulletin 29 Oct 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-29-oct-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly e-newsletter 29 Oct 2021Municipal derelection | The ruin of Mswati | COP26 sponsors leading polluters
- [Numsa members want no deal with Sizwe Medical Aid](https://wwmp.org.za/numsa-members-want-no-deal-with-sizwe-medical-aid/) - Members of the National Union of Metalworkers South Africa (Numsa) at Volkswagen South Africa are angry that their union appointed Sizwe Medical Aid without consulting them. A group of Numsa members in Kariega last week marched to the union’s district offices where they handed over a petition demanding the agreement be nullified. They got wind
- [Millions paid for substandard and incomplete sports fields by EC municipalities](https://wwmp.org.za/millions-paid-for-substandard-and-incomplete-sports-fields-by-ec-municipalities/) - In Khowa town in the Eastern Cape (formerly known as Elliot) there is another shocking multi-million rand sportsfield linked to Thalami Civils. Two weeks ago Elitsha newspaper investigated the R15-million sportsfield in Komani built by Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality (EMLM), a R4-million taxi rank in Tsomo town under IntsikaYethu Local Municipality and a R64-million Centane
- [Phoenix community members demand bail for murder accused](https://wwmp.org.za/phoenix-community-members-demand-bail-for-murder-accused/) - A second placard demonstration calling for bail for all the accused in the July unrest killings in Phoenix was held at the Verulam Magistrate’s Court on Monday. This comes after the death of one of the Phoenix accused, Jeethendra Jaikissoon (29) who passed away while in custody on Friday at King Edward Hospital, after falling
- [Basic Shopstewards Training Manual](https://wwmp.org.za/basic-shopstewards-training/) - Read the Basic Shopstewards Training Manual
- [Vezinyawo residents not pinning their hopes on upcoming elections](https://wwmp.org.za/vezinyawo-residents-not-pinning-their-hopes-on-upcoming-elections/) - Scores of residents from the transit camp or the waiting rooms in Marlboro, Ward 109 near Alexandra, say the upcoming local government elections will come and soon be gone like others. They don’t anticipate any changes to their plight as they deem themselves forgotten. Every time during elections, they are told their vote is their
- [Eastern Cape Centane villagers go to court to try get clean water](https://wwmp.org.za/eastern-cape-centane-villagers-go-to-court-to-try-get-clean-water/) - The ministers of Water and Sanitation and of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, the Eastern Cape premier, the Amathole District Municipality (ADM), the Amatola water board and the chief executive officer of Rand Water are expected to file affidavits in Mthatha High Court today (October 22) stating their plan to provide clean water to Centane
- [e-News bulletin 22 Oct 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-22-oct-2021/) - Engineering industry strike ends | Great trek to Israel | 500 years after conquest of MexicoWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 22 October 2021
- [City plays blame game over heaps of rubbish in Cape Town’s Marikana settlement](https://wwmp.org.za/city-plays-blame-game-over-heaps-of-rubbish-in-cape-towns-marikana-settlement/) - Siphokazi Mandi fears for the safety of her children and others living in Marikana informal settlement as uncollected rubbish is piling up on their doorsteps. She blames the lack of services on the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC). Residents say life was better under the apartheid government because streets were cleaned weekly. Mandi told
- [TAC gives health minister and president  ultimatum](https://wwmp.org.za/tac-gives-health-minister-and-president-ultimatum/) - The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has given president, Cyril Ramphosa and health minister, Dr Joseph Phaahla seven days to act on corruption and maladministration that has plagued the national department of health. Over 200 TAC members marched from Loftus Stadium to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Monday. Also present and in solidarity with the
- [Careworkers in Gqeberha allegedly paid too well for Sassa grants](https://wwmp.org.za/careworkers-in-gqeberha-allegedly-paid-too-well-for-sassa-grants/) - Eastern Cape community care workers are up in arms over the provincial government’s refusal to employ them permanently. They have a raft of outstanding grievances they want addressed in order to alleviate their working conditions. The disgruntled workers have previously held several protests in their ongoing bid to have their grievances resolved. They accuse the
- [TAC urges political parties to fix crippled healthcare system](https://wwmp.org.za/tac-urges-political-parties-to-fix-crippled-healthcare-system/) - Health advocacy group, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has urged political parties to declare war against the broken healthcare system around the country. TAC secretary general, Anele Yawa, said that while South Africa has the largest number of HIV positive people in the world, we have fallen behind many countries in the region in addressing the
- [Workers' World Labour Show](https://wwmp.org.za/workers-world-labour-show/) - Workers and the Struggle for Liberation in SwazilandOn Cape Town TV, DSTV ch.263 Sunday 17 October 7pm | Tuesday 19 October 2pm WITH GUESTSWandile Dludlu Secretary generalPeople’s United Democratic Movement – PUDEMOBongani Masuku Head of secretariatCongress of SA Trade Unions – COSATUThabile ZwaneDeputy secretary National Public Service and Allied Workers Union – NAPSAWU
- [e-News bulletin 15 Oct 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-15-oct-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly 15 October 2021Homeless in the mother city | Metalworkers strike | Eskom the world's worst polluter
- [Homeless in the ‘Mother City’](https://wwmp.org.za/homeless-in-the-mother-city/) - It is affectionately known as the ‘Mother City’, but protests in recent years have amplified the criticism that Cape Town does not embrace all its citizens, particularly those who are homeless. Stories of homeless Capetonians being harassed by officers enforcing some harsh by-laws have been well-documented in the media. Last month the City of Cape
- [e-News bulletin 8 October 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-8-october-2021/) - R15m EC sportsfield | Numsa strike | Pandora papersWorkers' World Weekly 8 Oct. 2021
- [Eastern Cape municipality to answer for R15m stadium](https://wwmp.org.za/eastern-cape-municipality-to-answer-for-r15m-stadium/) - MEC of co-operative governance and traditional affairs in the Eastern Cape, Xolile Nqatha, has given the council of Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality (EMLM) at least 48 hours to answer for R15m spent on a sportsfield. On Thursday, Nqatha visited the multi-million rand Lesseyton sport field in Eastern Cape near Komani (formerly Queenstown). The Lesseyton sportsfield
- [NUMSA determined to win 8% increase](https://wwmp.org.za/numsa-determined-to-win-8-increase/) - The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has vowed to intensify its action and won’t accept anything less than the 8% that they are demanding, down from an initial 15% demand. Addressing hundreds of workers outside a community hall in Bellville South on Tuesday as part of the Cape Town leg of the
- [Motherwell families live in fear of eviction](https://wwmp.org.za/motherwell-families-live-in-fear-of-eviction/) - Several families in Motherwell, Gqeberha are living in constant fear of being evicted by a company that claims it bought their houses from various banks after they were repossessed. The families want the government to intervene and reverse the process arguing that some of them have paid for their houses in full, while others are
- [e-News bulletin 1 October 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-1-october-2021/) - Local elections, municipal collapse | Sewage sewage everywhere | CIA's Assange abduction plotWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 1 Oct 2021
- [Small scale fishers and coastal communities against Karpowership project](https://wwmp.org.za/small-scale-fishers-and-coastal-communities-against-karpowership-project/) - The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) claims that it conducted a full public participation process, which it says included a public hearing held on 19 August, before it approved seven generation licences for preferred bidders under the Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (RMIPPPP). Green Connection raised concerns that the Karpowership project,
- [Kliptown residents threaten election boycott](https://wwmp.org.za/kliptown-residents-threaten-election-boycott/) - Residents of Vaalkamers in Kliptown, Soweto, say they are not confident that they will go to the polls on the 1st of November as they are still subject to the use of the toilet bucket system and have been living in decrepit structures since the dawn of democracy. The area is densely populated, impoverished and
- [Khayelitsha residents protest against overflowing sewage](https://wwmp.org.za/khayelitsha-residents-protest-against-overflowing-sewage/) - Hundreds of angry residents demonstrated at the corner of Aliam Drive and Mew Way demanding that the City of Cape Town repair damaged stormwater drains and sewer pipes in Site B, Khayelitsha yesterday morning. While they sang struggle songs, the demonstrators waved placards that read: “Sidiniwe kuhlala nekk”, “Saze sayiphila ikk”, and ”Phantsi ngekk”. They
- [Tyeni villagers still live in fear after Sept 4 attack](https://wwmp.org.za/tyeni-villagers-still-live-in-fear-after-sept-4-attack/) - There is barely a single tap with running water, let alone a structured toilet for people living in Tyeni village in Port St Johns, where three people were shot dead and 18 homesteads set alight on September 4. If you need to use a toilet, one has to hike up the hills into the forest.
- [Climate activists call for sustainable solutions](https://wwmp.org.za/climate-activists-call-for-sustainable-solutions/) - Scores of climate activists and environmentalists handed their memorandum to officials representing the Office of the Speaker of Parliament, the Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture, and the Office of the ANC Chief Whip outside Parliament on Friday. The memorandum demands that “the leadership structure of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) be
- [Community stands behind four vigilantes accused of murder](https://wwmp.org.za/community-stands-behind-four-vigilantes-accused-of-murder/) - Four vigilante murder accused have been celebrated as heroes in Mdantsane, East London. Hundreds of residents from various units in Mdantsane, the second largest township in South Africa after Soweto in Gauteng, flocked the Mdantsane magistrates’ court to support Xolile Bala (57), Sipho Mtali (44), Buntu Kamlana (31), and 29-year-old Zimbabwean national, Thomas Bvukyimhuru, when
- [University workers demand insourcing and better working conditions](https://wwmp.org.za/university-workers-demand-insourcing-and-better-working-conditions/) - Hundreds of workers employed by a company contracted by the government to provide accommodation to university students are on a protected strike that began on 1 September. The disgruntled workers are demanding an increase in their salaries and an end to outsourcing, among other issues. Agitated workers of South Point Accommodation (PVT) Ltd have vowed
- [For India’s stigmatised and exploited sanitation workers, the pandemic has only made conditions worse](https://wwmp.org.za/for-indias-stigmatised-and-exploited-sanitation-workers-the-pandemic-has-only-made-conditions-worse/) - It is barely 5am and Borun Haari* is already out on the streets of Kolkata, pushing his waste handcart. A door-to-door garbage collector and street cleaner, for the past ten years Borun has been employed on a rolling, temporary contract by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. His thin, white mask dangles loosely beneath his nose as
- [Deep-sea mining: civil society sounds the alarm on the threat posed to biodiversity](https://wwmp.org.za/deep-sea-mining-civil-society-sounds-the-alarm-on-the-threat-posed-to-biodiversity/) - Sometimes referred to as the ‘oil of the 21st century’, metals such as nickel, cobalt and manganese are used to make the batteries that power electric cars and mobile phones. Though widely extracted from terrestrial mines, demand for the precious metals that fuel energy transition is growing even as many are in relatively short supply.
- [No end in sight to water crisis in Nelson Mandela Bay](https://wwmp.org.za/no-end-in-sight-to-water-crisis-in-nelson-mandela-bay/) - Nomalanga Sithole of Kariega (Uitenhage) scoffs the day she was transferred by her company from their George branch to Kariega to replace a colleague who had resigned. She says her excitement quickly turned into a nightmare when she arrived in a town buckling under a crippling water shortage. It was 2019 and the Eastern Cape
- [Ramaphosa residents demand foul jobs](https://wwmp.org.za/ramaphosa-residents-demand-foul-jobs/) - Dozens of angry shack dwellers from Ramaphosa informal settlement demonstrated outside Fezeka Sub-Council on Tuesday, demanding that the City of Cape Town hire a new company to clean their bucket toilets. Mshengu used to clean toilets in Ramaphosa before Moreki Distributors took over in August last year, said Sinesipho Mvalo, who led the angry demonstration.
- [Long way to peace in Phoenix](https://wwmp.org.za/long-way-to-peace-in-phoenix/) - “The July unrest destroyed the unity that had been built over the years in just ten days,” says Sham Maharaj of the Phoenix Peace Committee. Maharaj was speaking in Bhambayi, north of Durban, after a peace walk which was led by the KwaZulu-Natal premier, Sihle Zakalala, and some members of the executive council from the
- [Zimbabwe launches National Labour Migration Policy to help protect migrant workers](https://wwmp.org.za/zimbabwe-launches-national-labour-migration-policy-to-help-protect-migrant-workers/) - Although there is no reliable data, with an estimated 4 to 7 million people living outside of the country, Zimbabwe has one of the highest per capita rates of net migration in the world. Zimbabwe is also home to an estimated 207,000 migrants from neighbouring countries such as Malawi and Mozambique. Over the course of
- [E Cape villagers flee their torched homes](https://wwmp.org.za/e-cape-villagers-flee-their-torched-homes/) - Black smoke thickened in the sky as 18 homesteads were set alight at Tyeni village in Port St Johns on Saturday. Three people were gunned down, casualties it is believed of a factional battle. Two died and one is recovering in hospital. Police are investigating allegations that five villages – Gangata, Siphusiphu, Ziphondo, Maqhinebeni and Mhlotsheni
- [Alex informal settlement residents remain defiant](https://wwmp.org.za/alex-informal-settlement-residents-remain-defiant/) - Scores of residents in informal settlements near Alexandra vowed to keep connecting to electricity illegally until the City of Johannesburg formalises their areas with proper service infrastructure. This is after yesterday’s protests which ended with one protester shot dead and another admitted to hospital with rubber-bullet wounds. It is alleged that while protesting near Alex
- [Ditsela Siyakhuluma seminar](https://wwmp.org.za/ditsela-siyakhuluma-seminar/) - Screening: Freedom isn’t Free – The Freedom Charter today, and Discussion: Wealth economy and the poor, farmworkers, land evictions and the De Doorns strike under the spotlight Facilitator: Dr Leon Pretorius (School of Government) Presenter: Lunga Guza (WWMP) Date: Thursday, 18 October Time: 6 – 8 pm Venue: Goudini Conference Centre, Worcester For more information,
- [e-News bulletin 23 Sept 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-23-sept-2021/) - Alex resists disconnections | Digital Vibes Gucci shame | Ethnonationalism in Ethiopia Workers' World Weekly 23 September 2021
- [Educator's  training course for labour and community activists](https://wwmp.org.za/educators-training-course-for-labour-and-community-activists/) - Community, NGO and Trade Unions are invited to nominate candidates for this course. Candidates should be experienced activists and leaders who are committed to becoming active popular educators for their organizations. The course will cover theory, principles, politics and practice of popular education with an emphasis on practical skills for implementation. Please complete the registration
- [Attend the PVC’s People’s Assembly](https://wwmp.org.za/attend-the-pvcs-peoples-assembly/) - A CALL TO ACTION! Wednesday 8 September 20216 – 8pm To register in advance for this meeting CLICK ON THIS LINKAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. We need a United Mass Campaign Our campaign for lifesaving vaccines for all has entered a new phase and we need
- [e-News bulletin 17 September 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-17-september-2021/) - Phoenix peace march | Silicosis payments trickle | Africa's extreme climateWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 17 Sept 2021
- [What About the Universal Basic Income Grant Mr President?](https://wwmp.org.za/what-about-the-universal-basic-income-grant-mr-president/) - Statement by The Cry of the Xcluded and the Assembly of the Unemployed, 29 July 2021 On Sunday evening South African President Cyril Ramaphosa offered his in-frequent dictats to the nation via the so-called “family meeting”. Among the announcements made was the reinstatement and expansion of the eligibility for the R350 Social Relief of Distress
- [Deputy Director Required](https://wwmp.org.za/deputy-director-required/) - Workers’ World Media Productions (WWMP) is a dynamic and growing non-profit and alternative media organization serving the needs of the labour movement, working class communities and NGOs. We require an experienced and skilled Deputy Director of Operations and Projects to: Oversee and Manage WWMP Projects and Operations to ensure successful implementation and meeting our objectives.
- [Amadiba Crisis Committee: “We are in solidarity with the Jama community protests against Sanral!”](https://wwmp.org.za/amadiba-crisis-committee-we-are-in-solidarity-with-the-jama-community-protests-against-sanral/) - Since Monday 22 October, the residents of Jama community in inland Amadiba area have been blocking the works for the building of the Mtentu giant bridge. The blockade continued today. The people of Jama demand that Sanral keeps it promises of giving the jobs to the locals. They demand: The security with big guns must leave the site! The children are very scared when they go to school and local adults as well. The Project Liaison Committee and the Project Liaison Officer Mr Zeka Mnyamana must be changed! The PLO and PLO must be elected by the community. Sanral’s truck driving testing officer must leave. All experienced local drivers are failing his “tests”. Nobody knows why. Watch video of the blockade on the Amadiba Crisis Committee's Facebook page.
- [Victory for THORN workers at Spar: former labour broker employees to be insourced](https://wwmp.org.za/victory-for-thorn-workers-at-spar-former-labour-broker-employees-to-be-insourced/) - SAFTU press statement, 2 November 2018 The South African Federation of Trade Unions congratulates the workers at Spar South Rand and their union THORN on their victory today when they reached an agreement that all rights conferred on a recognized representative trade union are being granted forthwith to THORN. From 1 December 2018, all former employees of two labour brokers will be insourced and employed directly by Spar, and the grievances of these former Temporary Employment Service employees will be referred directly to Spar.
- [Coalition seeks comprehensive social security](https://wwmp.org.za/coalition-seeks-comprehensive-social-security/) - Black Sash press release, 28 November 2018 Arising from widespread concerns raised by civil society organizations, Black Sash hosted a Social Security Seminar from 21 to 23 November 2018 with the theme Facing A World Without Full Employment. The seminar focused on the causes for and options to address structural unemployment within South Africa.
- [Working Class Movement statement](https://wwmp.org.za/working-class-movement-statement/) - Issued 29 November 2018 The leadership of the 147 working class formations that convened and met at the Working-Class Summit in July 2018 to launch a working-class movement met again on 23 November 2018 to evaluate the programme adopted by the Summit. The leaders of the working class movement agreed unanimously that the situation that had necessitated the convening of the Working Class Summit has worsened.
- [A guide to unpaid benefits and lodging claims](https://wwmp.org.za/resource-guide-on-unpaid-benefits/) - Resource book on pension and provident funds and step-by-step guide to researching and lodging claims [2.05MB pdf]
- [SRWP Gauteng condemns the brutal capitalist ANC government for attacking the working class of Boipatong](https://wwmp.org.za/srwp-gauteng-condemns-the-brutal-capitalist-anc-government-for-attacking-the-working-class-of-boipatong/) - The Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) condemns in the strongest terms the brutal actions of the capitalist ANC government for attacking the working class of Boipatong in Sedibeng. On Wednesday the community marched to the local municipality to demand answers over the fact that they have been without electricity for three weeks. They were joined by members of the SRWP, NUMSA members who are on strike at Arcelor Mittal, as well as members of the United Front. They are united in their demand for electricity.
- [SOS Coalition Press Statement on ICASA and Minister of Communications](https://wwmp.org.za/sos-coalition-press-statement-on-icasa-and-minister-of-communications/) - Stella, Hands Off our regulator The SOS Coalition is seriously concerned by media reports that Minister of Communications, Ms Stella Nadabeni-Abrahams is threatening the independence of The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, (ICASA) by withholding the first tranche of annual funding to the regulator and insisting on it amending its Annual Performance Plan to remove references to 5G.
- [CWAO Statement on the state's threat to AMCU](https://wwmp.org.za/cwao-statement-on-the-state-s-threat-to-amcu/) - Resist state attacks on trade unions Casual Workers Advice Office press release 1 May 2019 Yesterday’s ‘constructive engagement’ between AMCU and the Registrar of Labour Relations over the union’s possible deregistration must lull no one into believing a crisis has passed. Quite the contrary. The AMCU incident signals a deepening of the state’s attack on trade unions, following the unprecedented 2018 legislative attack on unions’ ability to strike and picket. The Department of Labour’s threat to deregister AMCU is a continuation of that attack on worker organisations and must be resisted by all progressive forces.
- [RED ANTS suspension: R2K demands justice for Samuel Mabunda!](https://wwmp.org.za/red-ants-suspension-r2k-demands-justice-for-samuel-mabunda/) - Statement by the Right2Know campaign, 5 July 2019 The Right2Know welcomes the decision by the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSiRA) to suspend the services of the Red Ants pending an investigation into their conduct. In June 2017, the community of Ivory Park with the assistance of R2K Gauteng lodged a formal complaint with PSiRA against the Red Ants Security, Relocation & Eviction Services for the assault, murder, theft and destruction of property that occurred in Ivory Park on 22 May 2017. Similar conduct was observed in Midvaal and Lenasia.
- [GIWUSA Condemns the Selling of Clover to Israeli-led Consortium](https://wwmp.org.za/giwusa-condemns-the-selling-of-clover-to-israeli-led-consortium/) - The Competition Commission of South Africa has approved the sale of Clover to a consortium of companies led by Tel Aviv based Central Bottling Company. The General industry Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) condemns this deal. GIWUSA will be attending the pre-hearing of the Competition Tribunal on Friday, 2nd August 2019 to appeal to it not to sanction this sale.
- [CWAO office trashed and burnt](https://wwmp.org.za/cwao-office-trashed-and-burnt/) - Statement by the Casual Workers Advice Office, 3 September A wave of violence is sweeping over South Africa targeting first of all women and people perceived as foreigners. This sickening racist xenophobia, sexism and criminality is a direct result of the current intensification of the historic exploitation of the black working class by white monopoly capitalists and the state – the ultimate enemy. The immediate struggle now is about survival. Women and so-called foreigners from the rest of Africa are in the forefront, but no member or supporter of the working class can stand aside. There is no neutral ground. Violent sexists and xeno/afrophobes must be stopped.
- [Chile - We Have Changed - It Is True](https://wwmp.org.za/chile-we-have-changed-it-is-true/) - In an exclusive two-part WWMP report, Jeremy Daphne writes from Chile that the South American country "will never be the same again". His article covers key developments over the past ten days, and develops an argument that the popular uprising against neoliberal austerity has achieved real concessions from the state. Of the struggles that have
- [COVID-19 webinar | Challenges for labour and trade union responses](https://wwmp.org.za/covid-19-webinar-challenges-for-labour-and-trade-union-responses/) - https://zoom.us/j/2113048090?pwd=V1Vod1RGOWlGak0xWENybFhhenBidz09
- [What Can South Africans Learn from Cuba About Racism?](https://wwmp.org.za/what-can-south-africans-learn-from-cuba-about-racism/) - by Tembinkosi QondelaJuly 2007 The recent debate about “affirmative action” (AA) and/or “employment equity” (EE) started by Prof. Benatar opened an opportunity to bring in my experience and lessons of racism from my recent tour of Cuba. I must also say that it is courageous to note that most loud voices on this debate have
- [Hamba Kahle Tembinkosi Qondela](https://wwmp.org.za/hamba-kahle-tembinkosi-qondela/) - Thembinkosi Qondela, a longstanding socialist activist, died this week due to COVID-19 related complications. He was a lifelong activist for social justice. Not many people who knew him realise that he worked on the mines for a year in the early 1990s where he came to understand the need to defend workers’ rights and the importance of health and safety at work. That experience, along with others might have been the spark to turn on his calling to make justice, equity and worker’s rights a reality. After moving to Cape Town, he became involved in various progressive socialist organisations, including serving as Assistant Regional Secretary for the Western Cape Unemployed Workers Movement, part-time assistant librarian at both Khanya College and the Trade Union Library and Education Centre, and as Resource Coordinator and then Assistant Researcher at the International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG).
- [The United Eastern Cape Community Health Care Workers want an answer to their demand for permanent employment](https://wwmp.org.za/the-united-eastern-cape-community-health-care-workers-want-an-answer-to-their-demand-for-permanent-employment/) - Press Statement. 14 July 2029 On Monday 06 July The United Eastern Cape Community Health Care Workers together with other Civic organizations handed over a Memorandum to the Eastern Cape Health Department. We delivered this memorandum to SG Thobile Mbengashe demanding amongst other things permanent employment for all community healthcare workers. However, after all this, no one was there to receive the memorandum including MEC Sindiswa Gomba. Until we as United CHWs were adamant and clear that we will occupy the offices EC DoH until they come to receive our memorandum. After we as United Community Health Care workers arrived there at 08:00 am, SG Mbengashe came to receive the memorandum at 5pm, this after by the way the United Health Care workers promised to occupy those offices until they come receive our memorandum.
- [SAFTU supports the demands of the United Eastern Cape Community Healthcare Workers for permanent employment at a living wage](https://wwmp.org.za/saftu-supports-the-demands-of-the-united-eastern-cape-community-healthcare-workers-for-permanent-employment-at-a-living-wage/) - Press Statement. 15 July 2020 On Monday 06 July at 9am, Eastern Cape Community Health Care Workers together with other civic organizations handed over a Memorandum to the Eastern Cape Department of Health (ECDOH), to demand permanent employment and a living wage. Instead of receiving their demands, the ECDoH sent the police to meet the Community Health Workers. At 5pm, eight hours after the start of their protest and their expressed determination to occupy the Dukhumbane building, did the SG, Dr Thobile Mbengashe condescend to receive their memorandum.
- [Neville Alexander and the National Question in South Africa - A Warning Ignored](https://wwmp.org.za/neville-alexander-and-the-national-question-in-south-africa-a-warning-ignored/) - By Enver Motala and Salim Vally Neville Alexander dealt with the pervasive ‘reactionary nationalisms’ dominant both in the ideas of the apartheid regime and much of the liberation movement itself, refuting the 'propagation of bogus nationalisms, the main purpose of which is to dissipate the force of the class struggle'. Neville_Alexander_and_the_National_QuestDownload
- [e-News bulletin 10 September 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-10-september-2021/) - CT and Mamelodi housing struggles | E Cape community wars | Palestine's Great EscapeWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 10 Sept 2021
- [e-News bulletin 3 September 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-september-2021/) - Reflections on Phoenix massacre | The endless war on terror | Palestinian resistance inspires solidarityWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 3 Sept 2021
- [Covid-19 Vaccines – Conspiracies and fake news](https://wwmp.org.za/covid-19-vaccines-conspiracies-and-fake-news/) - According to the latest reports from government, they have managed to address the problem of insufficient supply of lifesaving vaccines but now have a challenge with insufficient demand and uptake by South Africans of the vaccines. In this show we look at the reasons for the relatively low and slow uptake of vaccines. In particular,
- [People’s Vaccine Campaign (PVC) Train the Trainer Manual](https://wwmp.org.za/peoples-vaccine-campaign-pvc-train-the-trainer-manual/) - Against a backdrop where myths and misinformation about vaccines against Covid-19 and immunisation programmes more generally are widespread, this manual aims to put public health messaging first. In this manual, we dispel common fictions and fears about the Covid-19 vaccine.
- [A new Chile in the making and the rise of the non-traditional left](https://wwmp.org.za/a-new-chile-in-the-making-and-the-rise-of-the-non-traditional-left/) - As a result of the uprising, Chileans voted on the 15th and 16th of May 2021 for a 155-seat constitutional assembly to forge a new constitution, along with electing governors, mayors and councillors across the country – with dramatic outcomes
- [The uprising in eSwatini and international solidarity](https://wwmp.org.za/the-uprising-in-eswatini-and-international-solidarity/)
- [Webinar: Left Politics and People's Struggles in Chile, Colombia and Peru](https://wwmp.org.za/webinar-left-politics-and-peoples-struggles-in-chile-colombia-and-peru/) - Date: Thursday 22 July 2021Time: 5.30pm-7pm (SAST) Speakers:Lorena Nuñez Carrasco (Chilean feminist and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Wits University)Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos (Activist, writer, and Professor of International Relations at the Federal University of Sao Paulo in Brazil)The discussion will be moderated by Rashie Mankoe (National Chair of WWMP Labour-Community Forum) This webinar will
- [e-News bulletin 27 August 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-27-august-2021/) - Record breaking unemployment | Compulsory Covid vaccination? | Imperial crimes in AfghanistanWorkers’ World Weekly e-newsletter 27 August 2021
- [Can employers make Covid-19 vaccination obligatory?](https://wwmp.org.za/can-employers-make-covid-19-vaccination-obligatory/) - We focus on a special issue that has emerged recently as the government’s roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines to the public gains full momentum. Can vaccination of employees can be made obligatory or compulsory by employers? This show will provide provides answers.
- [Covid-19 and its impact on creative industry workers](https://wwmp.org.za/covid-19-and-its-impact-on-creative-industry-workers/)
- [Homeless under Covid-19 Conditions](https://wwmp.org.za/homeless-under-covid-19-conditions/) - Over the past year we looked at Covid-19, the lockdowns and how it impacted on various groups of workers and communities. In this show we look at the situation of homeless people and how they coped under the severe conditions of Covid-19.
- [Why the People's Vaccine Campaign](https://wwmp.org.za/why-the-peoples-vaccine-campaign/) - Over the past year we have looked at Covid-19, the lockdowns and how it impacted on various groups of workers and communities. But in today’s show we want to focus on the response by civil society organizations and especially what they are doing to ensure equitable access to vaccines in the short-term and address inequality
- [Covid-19 and labour insurances – UIF and COIDA](https://wwmp.org.za/covid-19-and-labour-insurances-uif-and-coida/) - The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the world’s people. Millions have been infected by the virus and billions of workers’ livelihoods and lives have been negatively impacted upon. The pandemic has had a severe and disruptive effect on people’s lives including their livelihoods, job-security and social lives. Governments the world over have responded with financial
- [Covid-19 and gender-based violence in the retail sector](https://wwmp.org.za/covid-19-and-gender-based-violence-in-the-retail-sector/) - The Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected the world’s people. Millions have been infected by the virus and billions of workers’ livelihoods and lives have been negatively impacted upon. The pandemic has had a severe and disruptive effect on people’s lives including their livelihoods, job-security and social lives. However, according to reports, the social disease of
- [Economic sabotage and food riots in South Africa – What happened and where to from here?](https://wwmp.org.za/economic-sabotage-and-food-riots-in-south-africa-what-happened-and-where-to-from-here/) - South Africa was rocked by economic sabotage, food-riots, looting and mass destruction of business and state infrastructure. Nearly 300 people were killed as the country was shocked by this tsunami and the security forces struggled to contain the situation. What started off as protest and sabotage action against the jailing of former president, Jacob Zuma,
- [Covid-19 and Sex-workers](https://wwmp.org.za/covid-19-and-sex-workers/) - The Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected the world’s people. Millions have been infected by the virus and billions of people’s livelihoods and lives have been negatively impacted upon. Sex-workers are among the most marginalized and vulnerable in our society. They too were severely impacted upon during the lockdown and in today’s show we highlight the
- [Covid-19 - What is a vaccine and how does it help us achieve immunity from diseases?](https://wwmp.org.za/covid-19-what-is-a-vaccine-and-how-does-it-help-us-achieve-immunity-from-diseases/) - As the Covid-19 pandemic wreaks havoc in South Africa and across the globe, millions are dying and getting infected. Inoculating (vaccinating) a significant proportion of the population is the only realistic way to defeat the pandemic, globally and locally. This will require international co-operation and social solidarity, not vaccine apartheid, nationalism and corporate profiteering. Unprecedented
- [The Covid-19 pandemic and the rural poor](https://wwmp.org.za/the-covid-19-pandemic-and-the-rural-poor/) - The Covid-19 pandemic has had a severe and disruptive affect on people’s lives including their livelihoods, job-security and social lives. South Africa’s historically rooted crisis of poverty has been made worse by the virus. Below is the full show, including the insert above, looking at the plight of rural workers and the poor and their
- [e-News bulletin 20 August 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-20-august-2021/) - Marikana anniversary | Afghanistan | Covid vaccine hesitancyWorkers' World Weekly e-newsletter 20 August 2021
- [Covid-19 and the food crisis in South Africa](https://wwmp.org.za/covid-19-and-the-food-crisis-in-south-africa/)
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- [e-News bulletin 13 August 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-13-august-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly e-newsletter 13 August 2021Gauteng health system reeling | SA Women's Day | IPCC planetary alert
- [COVID-19: Reports from the frontline](https://wwmp.org.za/reports-from-the-frontline/) - The absurdities and cruelties of the covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown imposed to curb it.
- [Healthcare workers on the frontlines](https://wwmp.org.za/healthcare-workers-on-the-frontlines/) - In the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, Elitsha spoke to community healthcare workers in Khayelitsha about the hazards of doing their work and followed them on their way to visit patients in their homes.
- [May Day under COVID-19 in South Africa](https://wwmp.org.za/mayday-under-covid-19-in-south-africa/) - The Covid-19 lockdown cancelled any traditional celebration of international Workers’ Day. Workers' World assesses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and listens to the grassroots, hearing from activists, unionists, reclaimers and domestic workers.
- [Ex-mineworkers struggle for unpaid benefits and compensation](https://wwmp.org.za/ex-mineworkers-struggle-for-unpaid-benefits-and-compensation/) - Workers formerly employed in South Africa’s mines are living with occupational diseases acquired from working underground and living in the industry’s hostels. While the gold mines have admitted their responsibility for the ill health of their employees, the agreed compensation for silicosis is a pittance and the coal, platinum and other mines have still to
- [COVID-19: Reports from the frontline ‒ Transport Workers](https://wwmp.org.za/transport-workers/) - The full Workers' World Labour Show includes the above insert. In this show we look at and discuss passenger transport under conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdowns have shut down most economic and social activities, forcing billions of people to stay at home. Some middle class professionals are managing but for the majority of
- [The struggle for PPEs for essential workers](https://wwmp.org.za/the-struggle-for-ppes-for-essential-workers/) - The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the world’s people and their livelihoods. With millions infected and hundreds of thousands dying, we are still coming to terms with the pandemic and struggling to overcome it. Since the threat of the coronavirus virus became known, a major area of concern for healthcare workers initially, and later all
- [COVID-19 and gender-based violence](https://wwmp.org.za/covid-19-and-gender-based-violence-in-south-africa/) - South Africa is reputed to be the worst in the world for several social ills, especially violence in our society. Gender based violence, where mainly male partners or family members mete out violence against their spouses or especially female family members is rife and we have among the highest rates of femicide (the killing of
- [COVID-19 and Casual Workers](https://wwmp.org.za/covid-19-and-casual-workers/) - In this feature we look at and discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on casual and part-time workers and what can be done to improve their situation.
- [COVID-19: Reports from the frontline ‒ Home-based workers](https://wwmp.org.za/home-based-workers/) - Home-based work has been around for as long as human beings have roamed the Earth. In the modern period it is mainly women who perform domestic work – childcare, laundry and cooking – for no pay. They are effectively the slaves of the family. How are the home-based workers in the video feature different? Episode
- [The National Minimum Wage and marginalised workers in South Africa](https://wwmp.org.za/the-national-minimum-wage-and-marginalised-workers-in-south-africa/)
- [Foreign Migrant Informal Workers](https://wwmp.org.za/foreign-migrant-informal-workers/) - Over the past year we looked at COVID-19, the lockdowns and how it impacted on various groups of workers and communities. In today’s show we take a closer look at one our most vulnerable groups of workers, foreign migrant street traders who are self-employed and how Covid-19 conditions have impacted them.
- [COVID-19: Reports from the frontline ‒ Waste pickers](https://wwmp.org.za/reports-from-the-frontline-waste-pickers/) - The hardships faced by recyclers, sifting through bins for recyclable material or picking through the rubbish at landfill sites, have only become heavier during the covid-19 lockdown.
- [e-News bulletin 6 August 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-6-august-2021/) - End of non-racialism in SA | Phoenix race war | Tunisian coup Workers' World Weekly e-newsletter 6 August 2021
- [e-News bulletin 30 July 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-30-july-2021/) - Statements on rioting from Abahlali, CWCC and Assembly of the Unemployed with Cry of the Xcluded Workers' World Weekly e-newsletter 30 July 2021
- [New evidence confirms claims of murder and torture by Eswatini military and police](https://wwmp.org.za/new-evidence-confirms-claims-of-murder-and-torture-by-eswatini-military-and-police/) - Images and videos of murder, torture, beatings, torchings and other violence in Eswatini have emerged, showing a kingdom where human rights do not exist.
- [e-News bulletin 23 July 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-23-july-2021/) - Nestlé workers end 2-month strike | Peru's socialist president | Cuban popular protest | The Pegasus Project Workers' World Weekly e-newsletter 23 July 2021
- [Rioting leaves KZN township at a loss](https://wwmp.org.za/rioting-leaves-kzn-township-at-a-loss/) - Residents have been left to pick up the pieces after desperate people stripped the mall at the heart of Hammarsdale in KwaZulu-Natal.
- [eSwatini: Will Removing a King Bring Freedom?](https://wwmp.org.za/eswatini-will-removing-a-king-bring-freedom/) - The end of June brought with it reports that Africa’s last absolute ruler had fled his kingdom of eSwatini in the face of mass uprisings. Although this act was later denied by the government, the fact remained that the monarchy was undergoing its most serious challenge yet in its 53-year independence from colonial rule. This comes at a time of building class tension and follows a pattern of increasing unrest in sub-Saharan Africa.
- [Eswatini, Africa's last absolute monarchy, reaches a point of no return](https://wwmp.org.za/eswatini-africas-last-absolute-monarchy-reaches-a-point-of-no-return/) - The authors write that is tempting to assume the situation in eSwatini will return to normal. They spell out why it will not.
- [Mswati’s iron fists and hollow handshakes mask moves to conceal crimes against a mourning nation](https://wwmp.org.za/mswatis-iron-fists-and-hollow-handshakes-mask-moves-to-conceal-crimes-against-a-mourning-nation/) - The king of Eswatini has summoned the nation to convene at Ludzidzini Royal Palace on Friday ahead of another mass anti-monarchy protest as police collect bullets from dead bodies to conceal evidence for crimes against humanity.
- [PUDEMO calls for targeted sanctions against Mswati III](https://wwmp.org.za/pudemo-calls-for-targeted-sanctions-against-mswati-iii/) - Pudemo calls on international solidarity groups to support economic sanctions against Mswati III.
- [South Africa in flames: spontaneous outbreak or insurrection?](https://wwmp.org.za/south-africa-in-flames-spontaneous-outbreak-or-insurrection/) - By David Everatt, University of the Witwatersrand South Africans spent most of mid-July glued to their news outlets, from established media outlets to TikTok, from streaming news to old-fashioned printed words, to see just one thing: would Jacob Zuma blink? Would the country finally get some taste of revenge for the state capture, looting, destruction
- [Crisis in South Africa: No to a military solution](https://wwmp.org.za/crisis-in-south-africa-no-to-a-military-solution/) - Statement by Keep Left What started as a protest against the arrest of former African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma has turned into the most extreme looting ever imagined in our democracy. Many people are laying the blame for the destruction on the looters, who more often than not come from the ranks of
- [Urgently safeguard people’s access to healthcare, healthcare workers and medical supplies as social unrest deepens in South Africa](https://wwmp.org.za/urgently-safeguard-peoples-access-to-healthcare-healthcare-workers-and-medical-supplies-as-social-unrest-deepens-in-south-africa/) - Statement by Doctors Without Borders Doctors Without Borders (MSF) notes with deep concern the ongoing social unrest in two provinces of South Africa, including widespread looting and disruption of crucial healthcare services, and the consequences on public health and safety. To date, 72 people are reported killed in the violence with hundreds more sustaining injuries,
- [Riots in South Africa: the poor lash out](https://wwmp.org.za/riots-in-south-africa-the-poor-lash-out/) - By Ben Morken Over the last few days two of South Africa’s most economically important provinces have been rocked by widespread rioting. Riots in Kwazulu-Natal and Gauteng have been fuelled by anger, desperation and frustration over deepening poverty and the economic impact of COVID-19 restrictions. The riots started after the imprisonment of former president Zuma
- [C19PC Statement on Recent Civil Unrest – SA Deserves More](https://wwmp.org.za/c19pc-statement-on-recent-civil-unrest-sa-deserves-more/) - The C19 People’s Coalition mourns all those who have been hurt or killed and whose livelihoods have been affected during this time of unrest. We are a traumatised society and we need to heal. But healing must go hand in hand with economic justice.
- [Under investigation: Twelve masterminds planned and executed insurrection on social media, then lost control after looting spree](https://wwmp.org.za/under-investigation-twelve-masterminds-planned-and-executed-insurrection-on-social-media-then-lost-control-after-looting-spree/) - South Africa suffered an insurrection attempt this week with two provinces, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, disabled and national fuel and food supply lines disrupted. It is the first such campaign organised and orchestrated on social media and shows the potency of the medium. Just over 38 million South Africans are now on the internet and 25 million of us are on social media.
- [Protest politics: ANC members who instigated Free Zuma campaign nowhere to be found on the ground](https://wwmp.org.za/protest-politics-anc-members-who-instigated-free-zuma-campaign-nowhere-to-be-found-on-the-ground/) - The people who started the Free Zuma campaign are only visible on social media, leaving thugs to destroy people’s livelihoods and assets on the ground.
- [Durban food riots turn the wheel of history](https://wwmp.org.za/durban-food-riots-turn-the-wheel-of-history/) - South Africa’s social crisis has erupted as the people Cyril Ramaphosa and Jacob Zuma deem expendable, those who bear the brunt of the past and of the social costs of Covid-19, appropriate the bread of life.
- [Alex radio station trashed and looted](https://wwmp.org.za/alex-radio-station-trashed-and-looted/) - By Ramatamo Sehoai Recent destruction of businesses and mass looting on a grand scale took a very nasty turn when Alex FM in Alexandra was not spared. Looters or scavengers as they were to be known by the ire of many people could not leave anything behind, from medical supplies, ATMs and building materials, things
- [e-News bulletin, 16 July 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-16-july-2021/) - KZN-GP insurrection and looting | Delta Covid | Mswati opulence, Swazi indigence Workers' World Weekly, 16 July 2021
- [e-News bulletin 18 June 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-18-june-2021/) - SA arms Yemen | Israeli coalition unseats Netanyahu | Keeping Google monochrome Workers' World Weekly, 9 July 2021
- [e-News bulletin 25 June 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-25-june-2021/) - Devastating third wave | Unemployed elders march against unemployed youth | Left spurn EFF Workers' World Weekly, 11 June 2021
- [e-News bulletin 9 July 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-9-july-2021/) - Police brutality restrained and retained | Colombia national strike | Greenwashing fossil fools Workers' World Weekly, 9 July 2021
- [e-News bulletin 11 June 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-11-june-2021/) - Palestinian PTSD | Peru's incoming socialist president | Twitterless in Nigeria Workers' World Weekly, 11 June 2021
- [The Education Struggle - Workers and Student United?](https://wwmp.org.za/the-education-struggle-workers-and-student-united/) - Since the mid-1990’s, especially after the ANC government adopted its neo-liberal economic policy, GEAR, public education has become increasingly privatised and commercialised. Worst affected have been working class parents who struggle to pay school and/or university fees for their children in their quest to secure their part of “A Better Life for All” in the post-Apartheid era.
- [Workers Debt - Workers' World Weekly Labour TV show](https://wwmp.org.za/workers-debt-workers-world-weekly-labour-tv-show/) - Over the past number of years, the cost of living has increased for the majority of people in South Africa. Many struggle to cope with paying for food, housing, travel, school-fees and all other living expenses. In our reality of widespread poverty, many people turn to borrowing money. Little wonder then that a recent World
- [The Labour Law Amendment Bills - Workers' World Weekly Labour TV show](https://wwmp.org.za/the-labour-law-amendment-bills-workers-world-weekly-labour-tv-show/) - Watch the show on Cape Town TV ch 67 & ch 32 and DSTV ch 263 Thursdays 7 p.m. Sundays 6:30 p.m. Workers' World Labour Show 7 December Labour law amendment bills - a victory or setback for workers? On 17 November, three labour bills were gazetted. These bills propose major changes to workers’ rights
- [New labour law amendments](https://wwmp.org.za/new-labour-law-amendments/) - Over the past few years the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC), has been negotiating for a National Minimum Wage and amendments to our current labour laws. NEDLAC has reached an historic agreement for a national minimum wage of R3500 but at the same time proposed amendments to labour laws that impact on workers
- [The water crisis and its effects on the working class](https://wwmp.org.za/the-water-crisis-and-its-effects-on-the-working-class/) - The recent drought and water shortages in the Western Cape have highlighted the importance of water in our lives and the need to secure its supply. Other provinces have also faced problems of drought and water shortages as well as poor water management with water supplies being unfit for human consumption due to pollution and
- [Housing Crisis, Evictions, Backyard Dwellers, Informal Settlements](https://wwmp.org.za/housing-crisis-evictions-backyard-dwellers-informal-settlements/) - Over the past few weeks, Cape Town has been beset by housing protests that escalated into violence. It is well known that South Africa and Cape Town has a serious housing crisis. In recent years, this has been made worse by hundreds of evictions due to gentrification of areas close to the city and people
- [Western Cape housing crisis](https://wwmp.org.za/western-cape-housing-crisis/) - Every year, hundreds of families are forced out of their homes by government departments, municipalities, private individuals or corporations. Evictions are a common occurrence in South African cities, informal settlements and townships. What does the law say about evictions? We need to start with the Constitution, which shapes and gives power to all law in
- [World premiere: Freedom Isn't Free - the Freedom Charter Today](https://wwmp.org.za/world-premiere-freedom-isn-t-free-the-freedom-charter-today/) - Cape Town V&A Waterfront 6Sat 2 June / 3.30pm + Q&AThu 7 June / 8.15pm + Q&A Isivivana Auditorium, KhayelitshaSun 10 June / 6pm Johannesburg RosebankSat 9 June / 5.45pm Director Martin Jansen Country South Africa Year 2017 Duration 89 minutes Book tickets online: http://www.encounters.co.za/booking-info/ Freedom Isn’t Free challenges the ANC government with its failure to bring into being the words and resolutions of the Freedom Charter signed at Kliptown in 1955 when, from all over the country, Congress of the People delegates assembled to forge a new path for South Africa. Using excellent archival footage, intercut from that past into the present and informative commentary by new and older generations, the film demonstrates that for the overwhelming majority of South Africans, housed in sprawling shanty-towns, there has been little advance since apartheid ended – neither economically or educationally.
- ["Freedom Isn't Free - The Freedom Charter Today" : Anniversary screenings](https://wwmp.org.za/jhb-screening-freedom-isn-t-free-the-freedom-charter-today/) - Sixty-three years ago on 26 June 1955, the Freedom Charter was signed by the Congress movement as a statement of its ideals and objectives for liberation. To mark this occasion, Workers' World Media Productions is screening our new documentary, Freedom Isn't Free - The Freedom Charter Today. JOHANNESBURG CAPE TOWN Tuesday: 26 JuneTime: 5h30 pmVenue: Human Rights conference room, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Thursday: 28 June Time: 6 - 8 pm Venue: Bertha auditorium, Isivivana Centre 8 Mzala Road, Khayelitsha Admission is free. Synopsis from 2018 Encounters International Film Festival Freedom Isn’t Free challenges the ANC government with its failure to bring into being the words and resolutions of the Freedom Charter signed at Kliptown in 1955 when, from all over the country, Congress of the People delegates assembled to forge a new path for South Africa. Using excellent archival footage, intercut from that past into the present and informative commentary by new and older generations, the film demonstrates that for the overwhelming majority of South Africans, housed in sprawling shanty-towns, there has been little advance since apartheid ended – neither economically or educationally.
- [Interview with Martin Jansen](https://wwmp.org.za/interview-with-freedom-isn-t-free-the-freedom-charter-today-director-martin-jansen/) - Director of Freedom Isn't Free - the Freedom Charter Today , Martin Jansen speaks to Doc Street Radio:
- [Freedom Isn’t Free – A Review](https://wwmp.org.za/freedom-isn-t-free-a-review/) - By Lenny Gentle Adopted by the ANC and its fellow Congress Alliance partners at Kliptown in 1955 the Freedom Charter has been a rallying symbol and inspiration for many activists for decades. But it has as well been a source of divisions within the liberation movement – the PAC, for instance, split from the ANC in 1957 saying that the Freedom Charter represented the domination of white liberalism over the ANC. And at COSATU’s 1987 Congress the debate as to whether COSATU should adopt the Freedom Charter was one of the hottest and most divisive in its history – as some unions wanted to align COSATU with the ANC and others warned that what was needed was a Workers’ Charter which would focus COSATU on its goal of winning socialism.
- [Freedom Isn’t Free: The Freedom Charter Today - documentary film review](https://wwmp.org.za/freedom-isn-t-free-the-freedom-charter-today-documentary-film-review/) - By Carilee OsborneFirst published in Amandla magazine In the year of the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, Martin Jansen’s Freedom isn’t Free: The Freedom Charter Today couldn’t be more relevant. It comes at a time when many South Africans are questioning not only the legacy of their famous founding father and the party that he represented, but also that of the transition more broadly. Despite this, Mandela is barely present in the film. Jansen chooses rather to focus on a diverse range of voices to tell the history and contemporary resonance of the Freedom Charter.
- [An Educator's Handbook for Labour and Community Activists](https://wwmp.org.za/workers-education-manual/) - An Educator's Handbook for Labour and Community Activists
- [Basic Shop-stewards Training Course | 15–17 September](https://wwmp.org.za/basic-shop-stewards-training-course-15-17-september/) - ​Trade unions are invited to submit applications for our Basic Shop-stewards Training courses that will take place from Tuesday the 15th to Thursday the 17th of September. Each course will have an intake of 30 participants and will be held in spacious venues with all COVID-19 safety and prevention protocols observed. Download the registration
- [Solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli Apartheid and Colonialism  – A Call to Action!](https://wwmp.org.za/solidarity-with-palestinians-against-israeli-apartheid-and-colonialism-a-call-to-action/) - BLOCK THE BOAT! Stop ZIM Lines Issued by SA BDS Coalition Labour Committee Download the A4 pamphlet Over the past few weeks, we have again seen families destroyed, buildings smashed, police rioting in sacred places, lives crushed. We have seen the terrible evidence of Israeli determination to crush resistance among the Palestinian people. This has
- [e-News bulletin 4 June 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-4-june-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly, 4 June 2021
- [e-News bulletin 28 May 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-28-may-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly, 28 May 2021
- [Winning Strikes - A guide to strike action](https://wwmp.org.za/winning-strikes-a-guide-to-strike-action/)
- [e-News bulletin 21 May 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-21-may-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly, 21 May 2021
- [Nakba Day – Stop and Defeat Apartheid Israel](https://wwmp.org.za/nakba-day-stop-and-defeat-apartheid-israel/) - by Ronnie Kasrils​​ Nakba Day – 73 years since the onset of the ‘catastrophe’​, with Apartheid Israel having believed Palestinian memories would fade away, has witnessed unity and courage of a people unbowed, relentlessly fighting for their land and rights, and resisting the last of the colonial monsters. As in all anti-colonial struggles there is
- [e-News bulletin 7 May 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-7-may-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly, 7 May 2021
- [e-News bulletin 11 Sept 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-11-sept-2020/) - Workers World Weekly, 11 September 2020
- [e-News bulletin 18 Sept 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-18-sept-2020/) - Workers World Weekly, 18 September 2020
- [Workers' World Weekly 25 Sept 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/workers-world-weekly-25-sept-2020/) - Workers' World Weekly, 25 September 2020
- [e-News bulletin 1 October 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-1-october-2020/) - Workers' World Weekly, 1 October 2020
- [e-News bulletin 9 Oct 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-9-oct-2020/) - Workers' World Weekly, 9 October 2020
- [e-News bulletin 16 Oct 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-16-oct-2020/) - Workers World Weekly, 16 October 2020
- [e-News bulletin 23 Oct 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-23-oct-2020/) - Workers World Weekly, 23 October 2020
- [e-News bulletin 30 Oct 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-30-oct-2020/) - Workers World Weekly, 30 October 2020
- [e-News bulletin 6 Nov 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-6-nov-2020/) - Workers World Weekly, 6 November 2020
- [e-News bulletin 13 Nov 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-13-nov-2020/) - Workers' World Weekly, 13 November 2020
- [e-News bulletin 20 Nov 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-20-nov-2020/) - Workers' World Weekly, 20 November 2020
- [e-News bulletin 27 Nov 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-27-nov-2020/) - Workers' World Weekly, 27 November 2020
- [e-News bulletin 4 Dec 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-4-dec-2020/) - Workers' World Weekly, 4 December 2020
- [e-News bulletin 11 Dec 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-11-dec-2020/) - Workers' World Weekly, 11 December 2020
- [e-News bulletin 18 Dec 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-18-dec-2020/) - Workers' World Weekly, 18 December 2020
- [e-News bulletin 22 Jan 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-22-jan-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly, 22 January 2021
- [e-News bulletin 29 Jan 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-29-jan-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly, 29 January 2021
- [e-News bulletin 12 Feb 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-12-feb-2021/) - Workers World Weekly, 12 February 2021
- [e-News bulletin 26 Feb 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-26-feb-2021/) - Workers World Weekly, 26 February 2021
- [e-News bulletin 5 March 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-5-march-2021/) - Workers World Weekly, 5 March 2021
- [e-News bulletin 12 March 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-12-march-2021/) - Workers' world weekly, 12 March 2021
- [e-News bulletin 19 March 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-19-march-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly, 19 March 2021
- [e-News bulletin 26 March 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-26-march-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly, 26 March 2021
- [e-News bulletin 19 Feb 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-19-feb-2021/) - Workers World Weekly, 19 February 2021
- [e-News bulletin 30 April 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-30-april-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly, 30 April 2021
- [e-News bulletin 23 April 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-23-april-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly, 23 April 2021
- [e-News bulletin 9 April 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-9-april-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly, 9 April 2021
- [e-News bulletin 16 April 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-16-april-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly, 16 April 2021
- [e-News bulletin 1 April 2021](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-1-april-2021/) - Workers' World Weekly, 1 April 2021
- [e-News bulletin 4 September 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-4-september-2020/) - --> DISCLAIMER: This newsletter is intended to serve as a channel of special and alternative news, information and knowledge source for all those interested in issues relevant to promoting political, social and economic equality and the eradication of poverty. The articles contained herein are obtained from various electronic media platforms and do not necessarily reflect the
- [e-News bulletin 5 June 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-5-june-2020/) - KEF says it’s still unsafe for learners to return to schools The Khayelitsha Education Forum says that the Western Cape Education Department has no plan to deal with COVID-19 as the schools re-open while shifting responsibilities to schools. Parents picket against school re-opening When the Minister of Education announced last week that Grades 7
- [e-News bulletin 29 March 2019](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-29-march-2019/) - Follow Workers' World E-NEWS BULLETIN 29 March 2019 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Police union president beaten and tortured by SAPS officials South African Policing Union president, Mpho Kwinika, was arrested on trumped up charges and taken to the Sunnyside police station in Pretoria where eight police officials beat him for several hours. They
- [e-News bulletin 3 May 2019](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-may-2019/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| Follow Workers' World E-NEWS BULLETIN 3 May 2019 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Deregistration threat to Amcu calls for active union solidarity The Department of Labour’s threat to deregister the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union is a cause for concern. A failure to resolve this matter will only further entrench the view
- [e-News bulletin 24 May 2019](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-24-may-2019/) - Follow Workers' World E-NEWS BULLETIN 24 May 2019 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA End of the road for the Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party? And what future for Numsa? The party polled an embarrassingly low number of votes in the election. For now, at least, the dream of a political party that is
- [e-News bulletin 31 May 2019](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-31-may-2019/) - Follow Workers' World E-NEWS BULLETIN 31 May 2019 Links to present possibilities Dear reader, it is with much regret that Workers' World Media Productions has to announce that this is the final edition of our electronic newsletter. Funding constraints mean that we have no choice but to cut back on our operations. If any
- [e-News bulletin 15 May 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-15-may-2020/) - SASSA admits it was not prepared for Covid-19 grant Hunger and a social security agency that is unprepared for the disbursement of the Covid-19 relief grant is what is causing the long queues. Ex-mineworkers vow to continue fighting despite COVID-19 outbreak Ex-mineworkers in South Africa and in the region say they will continue
- [e-News bulletin 22 May 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-22-may-2020/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Dear Comrades and Friends, We were recently informed of the sudden termination of the weekly Workers on Wednesday (WOW) labour show by SAFM management. No substantive reasons were given, nor discussed with us - the show’s co-producers, a non-profit NGO, Workers’ World Media Productions (WWMP). This comes as a great surprise to
- [e-News bulletin 26 October 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-26-october-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 26 October 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA National Treasury and the financial services sector: Whose interests are really being served? Hundreds of thousands (potentially millions) of poor and destitute ex-workers and their families have lost their confidence in the integrity and ‘reputation’ of the Financial Sector Conduct Authority
- [e-News bulletin 16 November 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-16-november-2018/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 16 November 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Court overturns state’s approval of controversial coal mine The government’s hush-hush approval last year of a new coal mine within a critical biodiversity and water conservation area in Mpumalanga has been reversed by the North Gauteng High Court. dailymaverick.co.za/ Union celebrates victory in
- [e-News bulletin 23 November 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-23-november-2018/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 23 November 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Xolobeni community wins the RIGHT TO SAY NO TO MINING The Umgungundlovu community and the Amadiba Crisis Committee won the court case against DMR and Mr Gwede Mantashe. The judgement declares that it would be unlawful of DMR to grant the mining license
- [e-News bulletin 30 November 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-30-november-2018/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 30 November 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Weak but Vicious – EFF Edition The 2019 national elections were always going to get the political blood boiling, the stakes are that high. But the EFF’s leadership is already attempting to incinerate that political blood. The causes of their apparent fever are
- [e-News bulletin 7 December 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-7-december-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 6 December 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Mazzotti: It’s Mrs Malema’s property and she pays rent Growing revelations make clear how the EFF aligns its politics with its money flows. This week saw Malema's relationship with tobacco manufacturer and alleged smuggler, Adriano Mazzotti, in the spotlight. A Hyde
- [e-News bulletin 14 December 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-14-december-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 14 December 2018 Links to present possibilities This is the final edition of Workers' World weekly for the year. Happy holidays to all working people but worry that by the time you resurface in the New Year, it will be amidst the wreckage that capital has in the mean time wrought.
- [e-News bulletin 17 August 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-17-august-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 17 August 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Workers commemorate Marikana in Cape Town and Johannesburg Demonstrations in Cape Town and Johannesburg commemorated the Marikana massacre on Thursday. In Cape Town about 50 ex-miners and their supporters marched to demand unpaid benefits and access to their provident and
- [e-News bulletin 24 August 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-24-august-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 24 August 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Flight of the Boers South Africa's lead anti-land reform organization is cultivating its relationship with the international far right. Earlier this month, Kallie Kriel and Ernst Roest, the CEO and deputy CEO of AfriForum, undertook a trip to the United States to spread
- [e-News bulletin 7 September 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-7-september-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 7 September 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Eight killed in South Africa munition depot explosion An explosion at Rheinmetall-Denel Munitions' ammunition plant late on Monday has killed eight people. According to an RDM statement, the entire building, housing propellant for its ammunition products, was obliterated and the surrounding blast
- [e-News bulletin 14 September 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-14-september-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 14 September 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Crime stats from Hell – brought to you by years of instability, political pliancy and the SAPS’s internecine battles Against the backdrop of the Cabinet security cluster of police, state security and defence not having met for two years, and 250 vacancies
- [e-News bulletin 21 September 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-21-september-2018/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 21 September 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Unpaid Benefits Campaign media statement on the Constitutional Court’s decision to dismiss Rosemary Hunter’s application The Constitutional Court today closed the door on the skeletons that the Financial Services Board has been trying to hide in its judgement on Rosemary Hunter’s application for the
- [e-News bulletin 28 September 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-28-september-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 28 September 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Teargas and handcuffs at Mantashe’s meeting near Xolobeni village Human rights attorney Richard Spoor was arrested and charged with ‘incitement’ after an altercation with the Mining Minister during the his weekend tour to KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape to address community tensions
- [e-News bulletin 12 October 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-12-october-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 12 October 2018 Links to present possibilities Editorial The victory in the first round of Brazil's presidential election of 'The Thing', Jair Bolsonaro, is a frightening hard turn right. Even former Workers Party president, Dilma Roussef, placed fourth in her run for a senate seat. The more fascist a candidate, laments
- [e-News bulletin 29 March 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-29-march-2018/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 29 March 2018 Links to present possibilities Editorial Around this time about 2000 years ago, Pontius Pilate was considering the fate of one Jesus Christ. Much of our present-day preoccupations seem to be finding suitable prosecutors and messiahs to people modern versions of the same trope so that we may be able to
- [e-News bulletin 13 April 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-13-april-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 13 April 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Winnie Mandela was a hero. If she’d been white, there would be no debate Peaceful protest did not end apartheid: it took revolutionaries. And it shouldn’t be difficult to choose between a system of racial supremacy and a person who helped overthrow
- [e-News bulletin 1 June 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-1-june-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 1 June 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA GIWUSA rejects the passing of the Labour Bills! The passing of these Bills represents a dark day in the history of the South African working class. The three passed Labour Bills together constitute a huge setback for the working class of South
- [e-News bulletin 13 July 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-16-july-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 13 July 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA SA's new dawn - the devil is in the details As the country heads towards another general election, the ANC and the government, along with the opposition political parties, share one thing in common: the mantra that they alone can
- [e-News bulletin 20 July 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-20-july-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 20 July 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA The ongoing wave of land occupation struggles The recent wave of occupations started in April/May 2017 in Gauteng, in townships south of Johannesburg such as Eldorado Park and Freedom Park, and quickly inspired occupations in surrounding areas. Occupations continue to spread in
- [e-News bulletin 27 July 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-27-july-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 27 July 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA NUMSA wins landmark Constitutional Court decision on labour brokers! NUMSA welcomes the decision of the Constitutional Court on a judgement which strengthens the rights of temporary workers who are abused by labour brokers. We view this as the first step in ending the
- [e-News bulletin 3 August 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-august-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 3 August 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Huge number of job cuts on the way at Eskom: report Eskom chairman Jabu Mabuza has stressed the need for the state entity to shed jobs. A report in the Sunday Times, said that Eskom will release a restructuring plan in September 2018,
- [e-News bulletin 10 August 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-10-august-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 10 August 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA The fight against poverty and attacks on workers’ rights goes on! The National Council of Provinces’ select committee on economic and business development this week adopted the National Minimum Wage Bill, the Labour Relations Amendment Bill, and the Basic Conditions of Employment
- [e-News bulletin 27 October 2017](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-27-october-2017/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 27 October 2017 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Why now is the time for #FeesMustFall 2017 The Fees Must Fall movement would do itself and the country a great service to derive inspiration, in these unpredictable times, from the Latin aphorism, “carpe diem”. thedailyvox.co.za/ UCT students disrupt classes and join
- [e-News bulletin 3 November 2017](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-november-2017/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 3 November 2017 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA 'He is a gangster like us': New book reveals Zuma's 'darkest secret' Zuma was employed at a security company for at least four months after becoming president receiving a million rand a month for his work. It means that for the first
- [e-News bulletin 1 Dec 2017](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-1-dec-2017/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 1 December 2017 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Destruction of the Highveld For decades, the residents of Mpumalanga’s Highveld - which has eMalahleni, the “place of coal” at its dirty core - have been “subjected to horrific pollution” and have had to “carry the burden” of South Africa’s coal-based electricity
- [e-News bulletin 2 February 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-2-february-2018/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 2 February 2018 Links to present possibilities Editorial The announcement last week of the much delayed commission of inquiry into state capture comes at a time when the influence of private businesses over the South African government is being highlighted as corruption of democratic institutions since 1994. Sampie Terreblanche, the economist and
- [e-News bulletin 16 February 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-16-february-2018/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 16 February 2018 Links to present possibilities Editorial #handsoffGuptas - the Black First Land First picket sounds out the call of retreat that with Ajay Gupta currently on the run from the Hawks, seems a last gasp for the parasitic family. Yet with no defenders, the killers of Marikana have had
- [e-News bulletin 2 March 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-2-march-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 2 March 2018 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA Picket at Supreme Court of Appeal to challenge apartheid-era Intimidation Act! On Friday, 2 March 2018, the Right2Know campaign stands in solidarity with the activists challenging the Apartheid-era Intimidation Act at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. The SCA is hearing
- [e-News bulletin 9 March 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-9-march-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 9 March 2018 Links to present possibilities Editorial Remembering that politics is the contest of who benefits from what we produce, the political bargaining that has brought in Ramaphosa as president appears to have divvied up the cake between elites with the poor immiserated millions who actually bake it getting
- [e-News bulletin 16 March 2018](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-16-march-2018/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* E-NEWS BULLETIN 16 March 2018 Links to present possibilities Editorial This week has seen a clash of scientific method with socio-historical reality and the death of a brilliant and heroic scientist. Prof Stephen Hawking managed to overcome the confines of his body, not just with his ground-breaking theorisation but through his political
- [e-News bulletin 10 February 2017](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-10-february-2017/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 10 February 2017 Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know CONTENTS SOUTH AFRICA Amadiba Crisis Committee: “Only fraud can pass the criminal traditional leadership bill through parliament” Bill reinforces aparthied tribal system UNITED FRONT: Watch Out! The Xenophobia Monster is coming back Alt-Mining Indiaba: Extraction's dark side on display
- [e-News bulletin 17 February 2017](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-17-february-2017/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 17 February 2017 Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know CONTENTS SOUTH AFRICA Currency collusion scandal - the Great Global Bank Heist comes to SA Gupta-owned newspaper in line of fire of new Nielsen report House of Cards: SAPS Major-General, a businesswoman, implicated in Life Esidimeni tragedy The full
- [e-News bulletin 10 March 2017](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-10-march-2017/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 10 March 2017 Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know SOUTH AFRICA Workers at Turffontein Race course unite against xenophobia Press release: from the Progressive Movement of Grooms from the Turffontein Race Course This Friday 10th of march at 11 am, the progressive movement of Grooms will hold
- [e-News bulletin 17 March 2017](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-17-march-2017/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 17 March 2017 Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know SOUTH AFRICA NUMSA statement on ESKOM NUMSA is dismayed and shocked by the announcement which has been made by Eskom that it plans to shut down five power stations. At least 6000 workers jobs are on
- [e-News bulletin 31 March 2017](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-31-march-2017/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 31 March 2017 Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know Editorial: Shuffling the deckchairs on a sinking ship Zuma and his backers and the ANC that he leads have struck decisively to defend their interests with their cabinet reshuffle and to assert control over the much treasured treasury.
- [e-News bulletin 26 May 2017](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-26-may-2017/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 26 May 2017 A week's links to the making of the world SOUTH AFRICA Port Shepstone SAPS officers steal money and destroy homestead in Xolobeni At 3 a.m. Monday morning, the homestead of Danca in Mtentu village, Xolobeni woke up to a barrage of gun shots. A police car with uniformed police
- [e-News bulletin 30 June 2017](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-30-june-2017/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 30 June 2017 A week's links to the making of the world SOUTH AFRICA Media freedom repression by the Anti-Land Invasion Unit of City of Cape Town Metro Police The Zwelethu Community and Khayelitsha Backyarders are concerned and would like to note the unconstitutional and illegal manner in which the City of
- [e-News bulletin 20 October 2017](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-20-october-2017/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 20 October 2017 Links to present possibilities SOUTH AFRICA CPUT: a militarised campus is the new norm Entering CPUT Bellville, you immediately got the impression that the situation was abnormal. On Wednesday the campus gates were guarded by eight armed men, dressed in full military attire. The armed men are from private
- [Walmart Watch April/May 2013](https://wwmp.org.za/walmart-watch-april-may-2013/) - April / May 2013 Thousands March Against Walmart in Los Angeles Saccawu: Uniting Against Walmart in South Africa But what about the workers? Interview with retrenched worker from Game Stores Walmart Slave Shop Fire in Bangladesh Kills 122 Workers UPDATE: Walmart Bribery Scandal in Mexico Walmart in South Africa The Trade Union Response So
- [e-News bulletin 30 Oct 2015](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-30-october-2015/) - View this email in your browser E-NEWS BULLETIN Friday 30 October 2015 Labour news you cannot afford to miss ! #FeesmustFreefall Students take the lead...Again The student protest movement that unfolded over the past two weeks signals the beginning of the end for the ANC regime. Strangely reminiscent of the 1976 student uprisings that
- [Municipal workers continue their struggle against corruption](https://wwmp.org.za/municipal-workers-continue-their-struggle-against-corruption/) - A group of the former Midrand municipal workers at the 19 March 2014 march to Nedlac led by NUMSA As Pikitup workers continue their strike against the Johannesburg rubbish removal company, the knots of a much older labour dispute could be loosened this Thursday. A protest led by former municipal workers will be calling for the Mayoral Committee of Johannesburg to reopen the case of their dismissal from the Midrand municipality in 1994. They were dismissed for taking action against corruption in the now-defunct municipality, losing even their pensions in the process.
- [First May Day Rally of new labour federation](https://wwmp.org.za/first-may-day-rally-of-new-labour-federation/) - Earnest revolutionaries have been a familiar sight on the fringes of mass gatherings, usually handing out a pamphlet declaiming the alliance between the country’s largest labour federation and the ruling party. The ANC, goes the argument, is a bourgeois party advancing the interests of capital and for the achievement of socialism, any alliance with it would have to be broken. This heralded dawn is well past mid-morning for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) which together with other unions, celebrated the formation of a new labour federation. At the Workers’ Summit held the previous day, where 51 unions were represented, ten principles upon which the new federation will be established, were agreed.
- [e-News bulletin 21 December 2016](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-21-december-2016/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 21 December 2016 Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know This is the final edition of Workers' World weekly for 2016. Happy holidays and a better New Year ! CONTENTS SOUTH AFRICA The NUMSA Moment – Has it lost momentum? NUMSA Statement on its 10th National Congress INTERNATIONAL: Airport
- [e-News bulletin 3 February 2017](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-february-2017/) - E-NEWS BULLETIN 3 February 2017 Your weekly round up of alternative news you ought to know CONTENTS SOUTH AFRICA Statement by NUCWOSA on the Horrific Deaths of 94 Psychiatric Patients Is Our Privacy All But Gone? Another front in the perception war exposed - Kenny Kunene, founder and funder of Weekly Xposé INTERNATIONAL Steve
- [e-News bulletin 28 August 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-28-august-2020/) - African nationals remain outsiders in SA Having been unable to apply for any social security grants, food parcels or any payments from the rescue fund given to employers, African nationals living in SA are pushed to the margins. LILITA GCWABE Land occupiers homeless after sewage pipe burst Land occupiers whose homes in Empolweni and
- [e-News bulletin 14 August 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-14-august-2020/) - Life stinks for East London township residents Overflowing sewage pollutes numerous settlements around the Eastern Cape city and makes living there unbearable. MANDLA MNYAKAMA Families left homeless after houses are demolished Three families in Extension 7 Alexandra were left homeless and begging for shelter after the Johannesburg Metro Police Department demolished their houses. RAMATAMO
- [e-News bulletin 31 July 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-31-july-2020/) - Houses demolished, families evicted near East London Airport Despite the ongoing national state of disaster that prohibits evictions, the Department of Public Works says it demolished new and under construction structures that interfere with an airport runway. NOMBULELO DAMBA-HENDRICK Health workers in PE use Mkhize’s visit to highlight their plight During his visit to
- [e-News bulletin 10 July 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-10-july-2020/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Buffalo City claims that it loses millions to illegal connections The Buffalo City Metro Municipality in the Eastern Cape loses approximately R228-million to illegal connections per year. Informal settlement residents continue to reconnect themselves to the electricity grid after the municipality disconnects their illegal supply. Bakery workers fired for demanding better working
- [e-News bulletin 3 July 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-3-july-2020/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* SADTU accepts classroom assistants idea The teachers' union and Khayelitsha Education Forum say they are not opposed to the introduction of classroom assistants that would facilitate lesson plans for teachers who are working from home due to covid-19 vulnerability. Fear as Covid-19 plagues learning and teaching The chilling deaths of three teachers from
- [e-News bulletin 26 June 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-26-june-2020/) - Protest by Cecilia Makiwane Hospital workers forces decontamination Healthcare workers at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital in Mdantsane had to stage a silent protest for the hospital management to agree to decontaminate the hospital. Community leaders demand whole village get tested for Covid-19 A covid-19 cluster outbreak in a school in Mount Frere causes panic
- [e-News bulletin 19 June 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-19-june-2020/) - Parents shut down schools in Khayelitsha The WCED has condemned the shutting down of schools by parents demanding that the schools be deep cleaned after teachers test positive for covid-19. . Municipal workers in Port Elizabeth march for better working conditions Municipal workers in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality march for insourcing and danger
- [NAKBA DAY: SAJFP joins in commemorating the Palestinian expulsion](https://wwmp.org.za/nakba-day-sajfp-joins-in-commemorating-the-palestinian-expulsion/) - Ghassan Kanafani Ghassan Kanafani was a refugee, a journalist, an editor and a political activist. He was murdered in Beirut by a bomb planted in his car by Israel’s Mossad spy agency on 8 July 1972. He was 36 years old. At the time, he was the official spokesperson of the Popular Front for the
- [Petition: Reinstate the Workers on Wednesday labour show on SAFM](https://wwmp.org.za/petition-reinstate-the-workers-on-wednesday-labour-show-on-safm/) - Dear Comrades and Friends, We were recently informed of the sudden termination of the weekly Workers on Wednesday (WOW) labour show by SAFM management. No substantive reasons were given, nor discussed with us - the show’s co-producers, a non-profit NGO, Workers’ World Media Productions (WWMP). This comes as a great surprise to us because the show
- [e-News bulletin 24 April 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-24-april-2020/) - *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Homes destroyed in Makhaza by law enforcement Backyarders from Makhaza who occupied land near Empolweni were evicted and their houses demolished by law enforcement. Wastepickers say they are neglected and go hungry because of lockdown Wastepickers are one group of informal economy workers who have been hit hardest by the lockdown
- [e-News bulletin 10 April 2020](https://wwmp.org.za/e-news-bulletin-10-april-2020/) - > Community careworkers continue to work without personal protective equipment Even as public healthcare teeters on a precipice, healthcare workers are not issued with adequate gloves and masks to perform their duties safely. Healthcare workers on the frontline Nine farmworkers killed in truck collision on the N1 While their labour is deemed essential under the Covid-19 emergency, farmworkers are not considered important enough to be provided with safe transport. Informal meat traders in Khayelitsha ordered to stop trading Informal meat traders at Embengweni in Khayelitsha were ordered to stop operating because they sell cooked meat and have no original permits. Subscribe to the newsletter
- [WWMP Artwork on display at Head Office in Cape Town](https://wwmp.org.za/wwmp-artwork-on-display-at-head-office-in-cape-town/) - (by Donovan Ward and Selvin November) (by Donovan Ward)

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- [Television – Cape Town TV and Labour TV Shows](https://wwmp.org.za/projects/television-cape-town-tv-and-labour-tv-shows/) - In 2006, WWMP was part of a pioneering group that initiated the development and launch of Cape Town TV in 2008. Since then we have been an important stakeholder and was party to developing what is probably the first and only regular weekly labour TV show on the continent and probably the only regular weekly broadcasted
- [Introduction to Workers' World](https://wwmp.org.za/about/about-wwmp/) - WWMP is a non-profit organisation that specialises in developing democratic mass media and organisational platforms nationally and in several local communities that focus on socio-economic and political issues that affect them. Its activities include mass media productions, education and training and organising support for trade unions and working-class communities. Background WWMP was started in 1997,
- [Labour Advice Media and Education Centres (LAMECs)](https://wwmp.org.za/projects/labour-advice-media-and-education-centres-lamecs-2/) - This is an outreach project to address capacity and support problems in the labour movement and poor communities. As mentioned before in this report, many trade unions have neglected basic shop steward training and development. This has a real impact on our effectiveness, because it reduces the pool of empowered and capable activists we can
- [Survey to measure the impact Harambee/Workers' World Labour Show has had on its audience](https://wwmp.org.za/survey-to-measure-the-impact-harambee-workers-world-labour-show-has-had-on-its-audience/)
- [Survey measuring the impact that Elitsha has had on its readers](https://wwmp.org.za/survey-measuring-the-impact-that-elitsha-has-had-on-its-readers/)
- [People's Media Consortium](https://wwmp.org.za/projects/peoples-media-consortium/) - The People's Media Consortium (PMC) aims to contribute to the promotion and protection of human, democratic and labour rights by strengthening the media and organising capacity of poor communities and unemployed/vulnerable workers in South Africa to take up their own interests through democratic mass media interventions. We develop democratic community based alternative mass media platforms
- [About](https://wwmp.org.za/about/) - Introduction HistoryToday WWMP is a non-profit organisation that specialises in developing democratic mass media and organisational platforms nationally and in several local communities that focus on socio-economic and political issues that affect them. Its activities include mass media productions, education and training and organising support for trade unions and working-class communities. Our Aims To provide
- [People’s Media Consortium Members’ Survey 2026](https://wwmp.org.za/peoples-media-consortium-members-survey-2026/) - We are bound by the terms and provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act No 4 of 2013 ("POPIA") regarding the acquisition, usage, retention, transmission and deletion of your personal information. WWMP and the PMC will use the information you provide in strict confidence. By submitting this form, you thereby consent to the use
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- [Projects](https://wwmp.org.za/projects/) - We work on a range of projects: Past projects:
- [Africa Labour Media Project (ALMP)](https://wwmp.org.za/past-projects/africa-labour-media-project-almp/) - This project is essentially the expansion of our project work into the rest of Africa as a solidarity effort and includes partnerships with trade union federations of 10 participating countries. So far, we have had our radio shows broadcast by SABC Channel Africa, as well as by public broadcasters in Uganda, Ghana, Zambia and Malawi.
- [Mass education campaign](https://wwmp.org.za/past-projects/mass-education-campaign/) - We identified serious capacity issues among trade union and community activists, and decided to embark on a mass education programme, covering everything from basic shop steward training, political education through to paralegal support and media development. The education campaign has many facets and is delivered in different ways as outlined below, primarily via Labour-Community Media Forums
- [Labour Film Festivals](https://wwmp.org.za/past-projects/labour-film-festivals/) - We have organised a labour film festival every year since 2006. Films that focus on labour or issues of concern for the working class are taken on a roadshow and shown around the country, in cooperation with local unions, community organisations and NGO’s. The film shows are public events that include discussions and education. Our
- [Care Workers Unite & Fight](https://wwmp.org.za/past-projects/care-workers-unite-fight/) - Since 2010, the government has introduced “Re-engineering” of Healthcare in South Africa. They have focused mainly on rolling out this new system in three streams of primary health care (PHC): a ward based PHC outreach team for each electoral ward;strengthening school health services; anddistrict based clinical specialist teams. The Ward Based Outreach Teams (WBOT) are
- [Gender-based violence](https://wwmp.org.za/projects/women-and-young-workers/) - Gender-based violence (GBV) has been a constant area of work and topic annually on all our mass media platforms and an integral part of our popular education programme since 2011. For example, in 2019, we organised and hosted provincial workshops for the LCMFs, which were attended by an average of 40 to 50 participants that
- [Where we fit in](https://wwmp.org.za/about/where-we-fit-in/) - Workers’ World was launched in 1999, by labour movement activists with a history in the struggle as a project of the Labour Research Service (LRS) and within its strategic plan that highlighted three areas of concern that posed a direct challenge to the labour movement, namely the: Loss of leadership to government and big business
- [Where we come from](https://wwmp.org.za/about/history/) - Apartheid and the Labour Movement in South Africa The labour movement played a critical role in the end of apartheid. When black workers defied the apartheid regime in the docks of Durban and elsewhere in 1973 by taking wildcat strike action, they initiated a chain of events that led to the defeat of Apartheid. Crippled
- [Join online | Resistance to the Far Right and Struggles for Democracy: Lessons from Brazil](https://wwmp.org.za/listen-online-resistance-to-the-far-right-and-struggles-for-democracy-lessons-from-brazil/) - Register to join the 2025 AA Saloojee memorial lecture online, given by Brazilian socialist, Israel Dutra.
- [Resistance to the Far Right and Struggles for Democracy: Lessons from Brazil](https://wwmp.org.za/aa-saloojee-memorial-lecture-2025/) - With Brazilian socialist, Israel Dutra: "Resistance to the Far Right and Struggles for Democracy: Lessons from Brazil"
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- [Preview screening of WWMP's new documentary: "Where is the Better Life You Promised Us?"](https://wwmp.org.za/preview-screening-of-wwmps-new-documentary-where-is-the-better-life-you-promised-us/) - Register to attend preview screening of new documentary film produced by WWMP
- [Board Members](https://wwmp.org.za/about/board/) - Kelly Gillespie is an educator and cultural worker with a research focus on criminal justice and abolition in South Africa. She works at the department of Anthropology at the University of the Western Cape. She writes and teaches about urbanism, violence, sexualities, race and the praxis of social justice. Kelly has been involved in work
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- [FeesMustFall](https://wwmp.org.za/category/news/feesmustfall/)
- [Projects](https://wwmp.org.za/category/our-projects/)
- [LCMP](https://wwmp.org.za/category/our-projects/lcmp/)
- [SAWEN](https://wwmp.org.za/category/our-projects/sawen/) - Southern Africa Worker Educator’s Network
- [Community radio](https://wwmp.org.za/category/community-radio/)
- [Events](https://wwmp.org.za/category/events/)
- [LCMF](https://wwmp.org.za/category/our-projects/lcmf/) - Labour Community Media Forums
- [Palestine solidarity](https://wwmp.org.za/category/news/palestine-solidarity/) - includes BDS, PSC et al
- [Featured](https://wwmp.org.za/category/featured/)
- [International](https://wwmp.org.za/category/news/international/)
- [Covid-19](https://wwmp.org.za/category/news/covid-19/)
- [Freedom Charter](https://wwmp.org.za/category/video/freedom-charter/)
- [CTV Labour Show](https://wwmp.org.za/category/video/ctv-labour-show/)
- [News](https://wwmp.org.za/category/news/)
- [Burning and looting](https://wwmp.org.za/category/news/insurrection/)
- [eSwatini](https://wwmp.org.za/category/news/eswatini/)
- [Training](https://wwmp.org.za/category/training/)
- [Campaigns](https://wwmp.org.za/category/campaigns/)
- [South Africa](https://wwmp.org.za/category/news/sa/)
- [Labour](https://wwmp.org.za/category/news/labour/)
- [People's Media Consortium](https://wwmp.org.za/category/peoples-media-consortium/)
- [Podcast](https://wwmp.org.za/category/podcast/)

## Tags

- [Nakba](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/nakba/)
- [Ronnie Kasrils](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/ronnie-kasrils/)
- [Apartheid Israel](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/apartheid-israel/)
- [BDS](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/bds/)
- [Covid-19](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/covid-19/)
- [pandemic](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/pandemic/)
- [gender-based violence](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/gender-based-violence/)
- [Numsa](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/numsa/)
- [Cosatu](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/cosatu/)
- [home-based workers](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/home-based-workers/)
- [lockdown](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/lockdown/)
- [Chile](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/chile/)
- [Frente Amplio](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/frente-amplio/)
- [Communist Party of Chile](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/communist-party-of-chile/)
- [anti-neoliberal](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/anti-neoliberal/)
- [Palestine](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/palestine/)
- [Durban docks](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/durban-docks/)
- [Durban](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/durban/)
- [Palestine solidarity](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/palestine-solidarity/)
- [Zim Lines](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/zim-lines/)
- [Salim Vally](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/salim-vally/)
- [Enver Motala](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/enver-motala/)
- [race](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/race/)
- [nationalism](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/nationalism/)
- [Eswatini](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/eswatini/)
- [international solidarity](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/international-solidarity/)
- [Pudemo](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/pudemo/)
- [Communist Party of Swaziland](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/communist-party-of-swaziland/)
- [Colombia](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/colombia/)
- [Peru](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/peru/)
- [Latin America](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/latin-america/)
- [internationalism](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/internationalism/)
- [vaccines](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/vaccines/)
- [People's Vaccine Campaign](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/peoples-vaccine-campaign/)
- [KwaZulu-Natal](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/kwazulu-natal/)
- [Gauteng](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/gauteng/)
- [#FreeZuma](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/freezuma/)
- [#ShutdownSA](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/shutdownsa/)
- [looting](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/looting/)
- [riots](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/riots/)
- [Hammersdale](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/hammersdale/)
- [ANC](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/anc/)
- [healthcare](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/healthcare/)
- [MSF](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/msf/)
- [Mswati III](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/mswati-iii/)
- [absolute monarch](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/absolute-monarch/)
- [ITUC](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/ituc/)
- [The Swaziland News](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/the-swaziland-news/)
- [democratisation](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/democratisation/)
- [political violence](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/political-violence/)
- [repression](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/repression/)
- [Cry of the Xcluded](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/cry-of-the-xcluded/)
- [Assembly of the Unemployed](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/assembly-of-the-unemployed/)
- [basic income grant](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/basic-income-grant/)
- [Social Relief of Distress grant](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/social-relief-of-distress-grant/)
- [migrant workers](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/migrant-workers/)
- [informal economy](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/informal-economy/)
- [street traders](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/street-traders/)
- [national minimum wage](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/national-minimum-wage/)
- [marginalised workers](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/marginalised-workers/)
- [PPE](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/ppe/)
- [food crisis](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/food-crisis/)
- [food insecurity](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/food-insecurity/)
- [May Day](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/may-day/)
- [waste pickers](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/waste-pickers/)
- [reclaimers](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/reclaimers/)
- [poverty](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/poverty/)
- [rural areas](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/rural-areas/)
- [UIF](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/uif/)
- [COIDA](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/coida/)
- [Department of Labour and Employment](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/department-of-labour-and-employment/)
- [TERS](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/ters/)
- [Covid grant](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/covid-grant/)
- [retail workers](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/retail-workers/)
- [sex workers](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/sex-workers/)
- [homelessness](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/homelessness/)
- [arts and culture](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/arts-and-culture/)
- [creative industry](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/creative-industry/)
- [vaccination](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/vaccination/)
- [fake news](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/fake-news/)
- [conspiracy theories](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/conspiracy-theories/)
- [People's Health Movement](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/peoples-health-movement/)
- [Heinrich Böll Stiftung](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/heinrich-boll-stiftung/)
- [Media Monitoring Group](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/media-monitoring-group/)
- [Napsawu](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/napsawu/)
- [Oupa Lehulere](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/oupa-lehulere/)
- [Khanya College](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/khanya-college/)
- [Noor Nieftagodien](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/noor-nieftagodien/)
- [local government](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/local-government/)
- [Thomas Piketty](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/thomas-piketty/)
- [inequality](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/inequality/)
- [capitalism](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/capitalism-2/)
- [labour movement](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/labour-movement/)
- [Terry Bell](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/terry-bell/)
- [precariat](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/precariat/)
- [Gabriel Boric](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/gabriel-boric/)
- [feminist](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/feminist/)
- [feminism](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/feminism/)
- [Zondo Commission](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/zondo-commission/)
- [state capture](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/state-capture/)
- [Thuli Madonsela](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/thuli-madonsela/)
- [Satawu](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/satawu/)
- [Bosasa](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/bosasa/)
- [National Transport Movement (NTM)](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/national-transport-movement-ntm/)
- [Communication Workers Union](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/communication-workers-union/)
- [Clover](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/clover/)
- [Giwusa](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/giwusa/)
- [Fawu](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/fawu/)
- [San Fransisco Labor Council](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/san-fransisco-labor-council/)
- [Ukraine](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/ukraine/)
- [poetry](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/poetry/)
- [higher education](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/higher-education/)
- [class analysis](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/class-analysis/)
- [the academy](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/the-academy/)
- [Ruth Ntlokose](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/ruth-ntlokose/)
- [Irvin Jim](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/irvin-jim/)
- [Xenophobia](https://wwmp.org.za/tag/xenophobia/)