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/ 28 October 2008
An application for parole by Clive Derby-Lewis, killer of former SACP leader Chris Hani, was postponed in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday.
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/ 28 October 2008
Clive Derby-Lewis, killer of former SACP leader Chris Hani, is expected to apply for parole in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday.
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/ 22 October 2008
Conflict within the ANC is caused by people who want the party to be one for a civilised class of people only, says Gwede Mantashe.
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/ 20 October 2008
One of Pretoria’s main streets should be renamed after former Cuban president Fidel Castro, the SACP said at a street-name hearing on Monday.
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/ 18 October 2008
Compelling as it may be, getting too absorbed in the intrigue of palace politics and personalities will lead us away from clarity in this crisis.
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/ 14 October 2008
The Young Communist League has defended SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande, accused of once being a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party.
Jara was expelled from the Young Communist League over his criticism of the party’s backing for the presidential aspirations of Jacob Zuma.
The complete absence of left-wing leaders in President Kgalema Motlanthe’s Cabinet has heightened fears among Jacob Zuma’s left-wing supporters.
As the global markets have gone into meltdown, South Africa is relatively isolated — but only relatively.
North West University managers have challenged Naledi Pandor’s intervention at the unrest-torn university over a commission of inquiry.
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/ 26 September 2008
The Congress of South African Trade Unions called on new President Kgalema Motlanthe on Friday to eradicate poverty and create jobs.
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/ 16 September 2008
The South African Communist Party has taken a swipe at senior ANC members who left the army to make money from arms sales.
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/ 12 September 2008
The African National Congress does not necessarily share the economic views of its leftist allies, party treasurer Mathews Phosa said on Thursday.
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/ 10 September 2008
The political left in South Africa is at a crossroads in the history of its revolution, the SACP said in a document released on Wednesday.
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/ 9 September 2008
Former treasurer of the SACP Phillip Dexter, involved in a row over an alleged donation to the party, has resigned from the organisation.
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/ 7 September 2008
The SACP in the Western Cape supports an electoral pact with the ANC, and considers contesting the elections in its own right.
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/ 5 September 2008
The NPA is yet to make a final decision on how to proceed with a claim that a R500 000 donation given to the SACP’s Blade Nzimande went missing.
While Blade Nzimande attacks the media and judiciary, South Africans must heed the words of the Constitution’s caretakers.
With politicians harping on about human capital, it should come as no surprise that the SACP has put price tags on its most influential members.
The SACP has voiced its concerns over a court decision to grant a temporary order against the RAF’s policy of paying claimants directly.
Britain’s MI5 and the United States’s CIA are the masters of the Scorpions, a public hearing into their dissolution heard in Durban on Tuesday.
The SACP has poured cold water on the government’s plans to embark on a national campaign against poverty, saying the move won’t benefit the poor.
The SACP is to lay a complaint with the Independent Complaints Directorate over the alleged of assault of David Masondo.
Thousands march in Durban in protest against job losses caused by the electricity crisis and spiralling food, fuel and other prices.
Thousands of unionised South African workers downed tools on Wednesday to protest against a sharp jump in food and fuel prices.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the voice of reason as the SAHRC opposes statements made by Julius Malema and Zwelinzima Vavi.
South African Communist Party (SACP) stalwart and former journalist Brian Bunting died at his home in Rondebosch, Cape Town, on June 18.
SACP stalwart and former journalist Brian Bunting died at his home in Rondebosch, Cape Town, on Wednesday at age 88, the party said on Thursday.
The businessman at the centre of the controversy surrounding an alleged R500 000 cash donation to the South African Communist Party (SACP) demanded on Thursday that the police ”get a move on” with the investigation into what happened to the money.
The government’s knee-jerk reaction to the pogroms that swept across the country speaks volumes to the politics of African nationalism. We were told they were ”criminal” acts in the service of a ”third force” agenda. This last term has a particular saliency in the South African context, writes Ivor Chipkin.
POINT: In April 2001, 22 months after Thabo Mbeki became president, the Mail & Guardian ran a full-length front-cover photograph of him alongside the question: ”Is this man fit to rule?” Letters to the paper the following week convey the intensity of the reaction. ”Who are these racists masquerading as newspapermen?”
President Thabo Mbeki has failed to provide leadership and should be recalled from the presidency to make way for early elections, the South African Communist Party (SACP) said on Sunday. The SACP blamed Mbeki for a recent wave of violence against foreigners in which 62 people have been killed.