Radio feature on women in mining
The mining industry has been the backbone of the South African economy since gold was discovered over a century ago. Through colonial exploitative practices, the […]
Month: August 2017
Land and housing activists: “We will take the land because it belongs to us”
There has been an increasing number of land and housing activists that have been murdered lately. Mthunzi “Ras Moziah” Zuma was shot and killed during a road blockade next to the land they were occupying near Khayelitsha Mall. Less than a month later another land and housing activist in Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay 41 kilometres west of Khayelitsha was shot by the police during a housing protest and later died in hospital.
Land and housing activists have pledged to continue taking and occupying vacant land despite brutal repression by the state and the killing of those who fight for land. The commitment was made at seminar in Khayelitsha Monday night where different groups of organisations representing activists from Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town met to share their experiences of state and police brutality.
Trade union accuses police of colluding with farmers
CSAAWU has accused the South African Police Services of colluding with farm owners when it comes to farmworkers laying charges against farmowners. This comes after a farmworker was taken to a deserted place and threatened with violence and death following a break-in at a farmer’s house in Paarl.
Brazil’s prisons still “ticking time bombs”
The images of the clashes and massacres in Brazilian jails that reached Europe a few months ago were met with shock and horror. Yet the […]
Locals fight evictions and zooming rents as old Lisbon gentrifies
In the picturesque Alfama district of Lisbon, Carla da Cunha and her family wonder where they will go when they are eventually forced out of […]
Uber driver still has “flashbacks” of acid attacks
Kgomotso Tiro, an Uber driver cannot believe he is alive to share his traumatic and life threatening experience. He has just been discharged from Helen Joseph Hospital. He spoke of how he narrowly missed death on the night of the 6th of August 2017 when an unknown assailant disguised as a passenger dragged him to an isolated place, poured him with an acid and set him alight.
“ANCYL activists” claim the Western Cape ANCYL PEC is illegitimate
There is no legitimate ANCYL Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) in the Western Cape Province says a group of ANCYL members who call themselves “ANCYL activists”
Radio feature on women in trade unions in Africa
A radio feature on women’s participation and influence in trade unions on the continent. Produced by WWMP in 2014.
After Grenfell, the UK government faces urgent demands for more regulation and fewer fire service cuts
More than two months since one of the worst disasters in modern British history and the fallout from London’s Grenfell Tower fire continues to have […]
Careworkers demand better working conditions
Care workers are classified by their employers as volunteers and not employees. As such, the proposed minimum wage does not cover them. They get paid less than R2,000 a month. If they fall pregnant, women are forced to quit their jobs or take unpaid leave.
Evictions in central Joburg leave families stranded
The gentrification that is taking place in central Johannesburg has left families evicted from Fattis Mansions last month, stranded in tents set up in a stadium south of the city. In what is effectively a refugee camp, the living conditions are bad. The Mayor of Johannesburg, Herman Mashaba from the Democratic Alliance, is an advocate for gentrification of the inner city, not the rights of the people living there.
Radio feature on the widows of Marikana
This radio feature looks at how the Marikana widows are surviving and the promises that were made to them. It was produced by Workers’ World Media Productions in 2014, two years after the massacre.
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