The president is explicit: white monopoly capital causes black poverty, justifying the black elite being the only beneficiaries of economic change.
Two decades since 1994, we’re still stuck in the racial categories of the old regime – a colour-coding of class from which only the rich benefit.
South Africa can afford fee-free universities without squeezing them to make do with even less.
There is no trade-off between a lower carbon economy and unemployment and poverty.
The class of class struggle is much more than just an objective measure of poverty or wealth, of inequality or economic power.
Section 27 of the Employment Equity Act has been largely ignored since 1998, even by Cosatu, write Dick Forslund and Jeff Rudin.
An encouraging investment climate takes priority over good climate-change intentions.
The much-vaunted green economy is an illusion that hides that nothing much has changed, says Jeff Rudin.
Karl Marx noted that the last capitalist would sell the rope used for his own hanging and the burying of the system.