Mphutlane Wa Bofelo

On Saturday 12 September 2009, anti-capitalist activists including former and current members of the South African Communist Party met in Grahamstown for a plenary of the Conference of the Democratic Left. This was followed by a national meeting in Cape Town the week after.

Let me start by declaring a conflict of interests: I am an avid lover of the works of Lesego Rampolokeng and have an intimate association with him based on our common commitment to taking poetry out of the elitist enclave of ‘high-art’ to ma

Hardly a week after the announcement of the 2009 national elections, there were service delivery protests in Western Cape, complimented by threats by the MK veterans to render the province ungovernable.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is undeniably one of the most charismatic, suave and diplomatic statesmen that South Africa and the world ever had.

The current global economic recession is bound to provide a convenient excuse for the liberal and conservative establishment to prescribe an austere, minimalist state and major cuts on social spending as a panacea for all the economic woes of society.

June 16 is a day that brings both painful and joyous memories to me, as in the 80s a whole lot of things happened as we dodged bullets and caspirs, fighting to ensure that days like 16 June, 21 March, 1 May and 12 September are not treated as ordinary days.

‘The choice is no longer between socialism and capitalism. It is between capitalism and barbarism.’

Reacting to the rapid spread of cholera in Limpopo in particular, the South African government made equally vociferous efforts to deny that the rising number of cholera incidents were indicative of gaps and failures in the health system and the inability of current social policy to address the de

In a vintage case of the grass getting trampled when two elephants wrestle, Zimbabwe is under threat of completely disintegrating into ashes as the jostle for political power between Zimbabwe National Unity-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) creates an impasse

There is a great likelihood that the newly formed Congress of the People (COPE) in South Africa will be in control of the local government in my hometown of Zamdela in Sasolburg in the Vaal Triangle area after the national general elections of 2009.