Cape Town has a plan to manage its water. But there are big gaps
Jasper Knight, University of the Witwatersrand The City of Cape Town – and southwest Africa more generally – experienced its worst drought on record between […]
Month: February 2019
Africa’s student movements: history sheds light on modern activism
On 9 March 2015, a student hurled faeces at a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes. This act led to the statue’s removal. It also inspired the […]
How environmental health workers can help climate change mitigation
All the evidence tells us that the world’s changing climate will affect more than the environment. It will have serious consequences for people’s health too. Southern Africa is […]
In Cambodia, Chinese workers earn more, but pay the price with diminished labour rights
When dusk falls over the city, the diggers roars to life. The small team of workers laying the base of the 46-storey Morgan Tower in […]
Ilitha Park residents protest high tariff bills
Ilitha Park and Phakamisa residents in Khayelitsha protested outside the municipal offices against high water bills on Thursday.
The future of labour is female
Women have put on yellow vests and joined the demonstrations. Women who do double-shifts at home and at work to keep the creaking social state going for […]
SAFTU and working class formations march for a pro-poor budget
Saftu led a march on Parliament to bring demands to the finance minister on the day of his budget speech.
Cosatu and SACP opposed to unbundling of Eskom
Cosatu demands a labour-absorbing economic growth path, the reversal of the VAT hike and an end to state capture and corruption.
SAFTU demands a people’s centred budget
SAFTU believes that the budget speech that will be delivered on Wednesday will not be different to the ones before it.
What to expect as 84 million Nigerians go to the polls
Nigerians go to the polls on February 16 in the first of two sets of elections to choose the president, national assembly and state legislators. […]
Cosatu strike reveals weaknesses of the federation
Thousands of Cosatu-affiliated union members marched through the streets of South Africa against job losses, crisis at Eskom and high cost of living.
In Zimbabwe, an unpopular government is lashing out because “it fears its own people”
With at least 17 unarmed civilians killed by the military in the recent spate of anti-government protests, and many more injured, abducted, raped and imprisoned, labour […]
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