The persistence of racism in companies and resentment about white control can only be addressed by positive moves to empower workers.
The themes of religion, gender and global capital reflect in the artworks that draw on literary references, myths and symbols.
Gugu Ndima writes an open letter to the DJ in response to his recent marketing ploy with his MoFaya on a spoofed cover of Forbes magazine.
There is hope that this time, with a rise in grass-roots social activism, capitalism will not win.
The EFF says that Jacob Zuma, Gwede Mantashe and Cyril Ramaphosa all "hide behind black economic empowerment, a posture for capitalism".
Unlike the ANC, Mexico’s Zapatistas rejected both systems, giving us hope for real alternatives.
Big banks, energy giants and internet multinationals won’t change their bad behaviour by themselves – they must be forced to play nice.
No one wants even to conceive what will happen to our resource shares if commodity prices fall further from current levels.
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Mamphela Ramphele’s article, is but another reminder of how far backwards we have gone in "the new South Africa", writes Jeff Rudin.
Karl Marx noted that the last capitalist would sell the rope used for his own hanging and the burying of the system.
The ANC has used power allotted to it to create a black elite by implementing affirmative action in rather doubtful ways, writes Sampie Terreblanche.
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi says education and knowledge are embedded in class relations, and income inequality is still racialised.
After a decade of self-congratulation, SA is coming to a triple realisation that is exacting a heavy toll on its psyche, writes Achille Mbembe.
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/ 11 October 2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement has raised questions of who is allowed to fight the system. Can one take privileged protesters seriously?
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/ 18 December 2009
For Joel Kovel, a proponent of eco-socialism, failure of the Copenhagen negotiations is a forgone conclusion.
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/ 3 December 2008
South Korea is doing its bit to prepare young defectors from the North for the huge changes they face living in a capitalist state.
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/ 11 September 2008
In the first of a two-part series, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, argues that capital must be disciplined.