The proposal entails Anglo significantly lowering its exposure to South Africa by demerging its holdings in beleaguered Anglo American Platinum and Kumba Iron Ore
The experience of Chile’s Salvador Allende illustrates how the private sphere and superpowers control investment and natural resource exploitation
Chile and Brazil are leading the pack with their recent interest rate cuts but South Africa is on its own timeline
The sugar industry says new regulations aimed at combating health problems will hurt profits and jobs, but a civil society coalition strongly disagrees
Seven right-wing governments have been defeated, while Brazil is set to join the wave of liberation next month
Former president Lula is in the lead in the polls ahead of the first round of elections on 2 October. These elections will be transformative for Brazil and will ramifications around the world
Amazon plans to move into South Africa in 2023 and the world’s biggest online marketplace might give local companies a run for their money
It provides profit to billionaires but exhausts the land and its people
The larger class struggle in Chile is mirrored in the struggle for better working conditions for the workers who are rewriting the constitution
Mainstream American politicians — establishment figures in both major parties — apply the denial and displacement mantra to many problems, especially inflation
The new movement in Chile has significant potential to continue its already ground-breaking march to a new world for all Chileans, and women in particular
Without tighter capital controls, regulating the flow of money in and out of their economies, Turkey and South Africa are vulnerable to the whims of the financial markets
South Africa, the continent’s largest emitter, is not among several African countries that joined the UK-led coalition committing to phase out the fossil fuel
A new constitution is being written after a series of student protests rocked Chilean politics. Now, an upcoming presidential election could shift the country towards economic and social change
Children from the age of six months to 17 years will take part in vaccine trials
We need a commission of inquiry to find the central characters in the tragic event that played out in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
Once again, people of all races, religions and ages have come together to sort out the devastation that can largely be laid at the doorstep of our government
The shake-up has seen young, feminist and anti-neoliberal voices emerge from the 15 May general election
The levy has generated R5.4-billion in revenue since its inception two years ago, and an increase will help the fight against Covid-19
Pushback from strong social movements have recovered democracy for the people of Bolivia and Chile
Business associations are urging companies to continue seeking alternative energy sources in light of Eskom’s court judgement which would allow the utility to bump up electricity prices up to 15% from next year April 2021.
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Suicidal man confesses on a live radio phone-in to participating in the deaths of opponents of the late military dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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