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Vishwas Satgar

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Many womxn who live and work on farms have suffered immensely during the Covid-19 lockdown. (Rogan Ward/Reuters)

Light a fire under SA’s climate policy

State inaction over global warming is increasing inequality in the country

The impact of climate change on agriculture will affect food supplies.

Food sovereignty the viable alternative to ANC, EFF land solutions

Among the issues are the need to ensure food security in the future and whether expropriation of without compensation can happen through just the law

Godlimpi warned that even though current polls showed the ANC winning 48% of the vote next year with Cyril Ramaphosa as president, that figure was not guaranteed if the governing party could not resolve the electricity crunch.
(Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)

SA must resist another captured president: This time by the markets

Jacob Zuma was removed by the people’s effect, which connected the dots of corruption, a mismanaged state and rapacious capitalism.

Zuma’s Cabinet reshuffle inaugurates South Africa’s Zimbabwe moment

An entrenched private sector and an active civil society are unlikely to yield to a kleptocracy.

Bitter memories: David Majatladi

​The EFF’s wrecking ball politics is fascist rather than left

People must choose: solve problems through democratic dialogue or intolerant violence, writes Vishwas Satgar.

In several African countries, students continue to raise concerns about affordability and inclusion.

#FeesMustFall: The poster child for new forms of struggle in South Africa?

#FeesMustFall represents a new populist crowd politics. It brings forth strengths but also weaknesses.

​Students, protest in a way that doesn’t endanger your or your university’s future

Faced with failing economies and climate change, free education fights need better solutions than shutdowns and technocratic responses.

The slide into authoritarian populism began with then ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma’s rape trial in 2005.

It’s up to us to make sure Zuma goes

The campaign for the president to go sends a message that no one is above the Constitution.

#ZumaMustFall protests last year.

What #ZumaMustFall and #FeesMustFall have in common

The rage of both campaigns has its roots in opposition to Zuma’s surrender of national sovereignty through globalising South African capitalism.

Break the food chain to build our humanity

For society’s sake, we can’t ignore food crises, politics and greedy white-controlled corporates.

The climate is ripe for social change

Forget the UN, social justice movements offer the only viable solution to global warming.

‘Numsa moment’ leads left renewal

Socialist symposium has given the union enough ideological firepower to take capitalism head on.

In 2024, 64 countries will head to the polls for national elections (Gallo)

‘No!’ tells the ANC enough is enough

Tactical voting is an option, but only if there are parties that reflect your values and aspirations, writes Vishwas Satgar.

We need a truly transformative democracy

Democrats on the left need to be given a voice to rescue South Africa’s failing political culture.

A seemingly peaceful Lonmin mine

Marikana marks rift in ANC ideology

On August 16 the Marikana massacre brought to the fore two forms of violence present in the everyday lives of workers.

New times require new democratic left

New times require new democratic left

Dire consequences unless a people-centred, ecologically sensitive new world order takes shape.

On a road to nowhere

The Gauteng government’s public transport summit, convened by its Transport Minister Ignatius Jacobs this week, was a crude bluff. In the context of failed taxi recapitalisation,…