May 6 2012 at 09:36am By Donwald Pressly. Comment on this story Independent Newspapers Declaring that her ministry was not “a Hollywood” set, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson instigated a trail of destruction through her department on Friday by suspending the acting deputy director-general in charge of the fisheries sub-department, allegedly on the [...]
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Nationalisation and the Freedom Charter by Raymond Suttner
July 11, 2011
Recent calls for nationalisation of mines and expropriation of land without compensation have evoked a sense of anxiety and discomfort in sections of South African society, the international financial sector and observers of South Africa’s policy processes. These ideas are said to be to be based on the Freedom Charter, adopted by the Congress of the People, on [...]
Xolobeni – red card greed by NOMBONISO GASA
June 27, 2011
Newspaper article from Daily Dispatch: Xolobeni – red card greed by NOMBONISO GASA Uhlohlesakhe-khe-khe-khe-khe….! The big voice boomed from the wireless radio of my childhood signalling the beginning of a radio drama about a man who only stuffed his own stomach. That voice had the authority of ringing bells of a Christian church calling believers to pray on a Sunday morning. We, [...]
President Zuma State of the Nation Address
June 3, 2009
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town 3 June 2009 Honourable Speaker; Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces; Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP; Deputy President of the Republic, Kgalema Motlanthe Former [...]
The Elections Are Over – The War on the Poor Continues
May 20, 2009
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Tuesday, 19 May 2009 Now that the election is over and the politicians have finished hunting for positions they are running away from the people. It is impossible for a poor community to get a meeting with a politician. They only send in the police to break the people’s homes and [...]
A big devil in the shacks: The politics of fire
September 22, 2008
On average in South Africa over the last five years there are ten shack fires a day with someone dying in a shack fire every other day. Shack fires are not acts of God. They are the result of political choices, often at municipal level. Shack settlements are a poor people’s solution to a lack [...]
NEW FORMS OF LAND DISPOSSESSIONS
September 22, 2008
The advent of a new democratic order on 27 April 2007 resulted in an effort to reverse the adverse inequalities in the land ownership patterns in our country. Such efforts were complemented by a plethora of laws and legislations to give effect to this noble yet complicated process. However, such a process would not put [...]
Steve Biko’s paradise lost – an extract from “Biko Lives!”
September 11, 2008
“This is one country where it would be possible to create a capitalist black society, if whites were intelligent, if the nationalists were intelligent. And that capitalist black society, black middle class, would be very effective … South Africa could succeed in putting across to the world a pretty convincing, integrated picture, with still 70 [...]
The social value of land must come first
August 28, 2008
There has been considerable discussion after the announcement that the eThekwini Municipality is considering expropriating land from Tongaat-Hulett to finally move ahead with the long promised Cornubia development. We all know that in Durban, as in cities around the country, the question of housing is the biggest source of conflict between poor people’s organisations and [...]


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