South Africa

Every year hundreds of young men and boys die at initiation schools from botched circumcisions, assault or dehydration, yet government, traditional and “cultural” authorities have done very little to intervene.

The book, “Getting Away With Impunity: International Criminal Law and South African Apartheid Criminal”, is written by Dr. Munyonzwe Hamalengwa who has been practicing criminal law in Canada for twenty five years.

“By the end of next week, the opportunity to reform COSATU may be gone,” said Zwelinzima Vavi, the former general secretary of the South African labor confederation that was once a pillar of the struggle against white minority rule, but now acts as an extension of the ruling political party, the

On Friday night 3 July, three more women fell prey to Glebelands warlord. After threatening letters stating “If you want to die, stay in your room,” were shoved under their doors, they were shot at and forced from their rooms in Blocks 45 and 48.

With around 100 books of progressive political economy and political ecology penned about South Africa since 2000, the Marxist intellectual project here is utterly chaotic, but by no means in tatters.

Among political scientists - and many of the South Africans who can speak - it is fashionable to label this country’s democracy a ‘party dominant system’.

To HE Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma
Chairperson of the African Union
10 June 2015

Dear Madam,

South Africa is emerging from the most severe spate of xenophobic attacks since 2008, although the attacks have never really stopped. What lessons need to be learned from the latest attacks, and what needs to be done to prevent similar attacks from taking place in the future?

When South African security services prevented a Cape Town girl from boarding a plane allegedly to join ISIS, many South Africans were pleased but at the same time surprised at how swift the reaction of our security services were.

In April 2015 another wave of xenophobic violence swept over South Africa. Starting in Durban, the attacks on foreigners spread to suburbs in Johannesburg and to Cala in the eastern Cape. Between six and 15 people were killed.