Afriques en Lutte

Afrique du sud : Both capitalists and working class prepare for unforeseen turmoil

Liv Shange — 2013-08-21T03:59:00Z

On August 16, 2012, at Marikana, a bloody line was drawn in South Africa's political sand when police in cold blood shot dead 34 workers and wounded 78. The few seconds of the massacre that were shown on TV tore down decades of carefully nurtured illusions about the ANC government and the capitalist state. The state's resort to the most brutal form of reaction against the striking Lonmin workers set in motion a new period of revolution and counterrevolution in South Africa. A year later, a (…)

- Afrique du sud / Analyse

South Africa : 1.3 million public servants in one-day warning strike

Liv Shange — 2010-08-13T16:18:32Z

Approximately 20,000 workers marched in Tshwane and 15,000 in Cape Town on Tuesday, 10 August, as 1.3 million public sector workers, organised in the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the smaller Independent Labour Caucus (ILC) and Federation Unions of SA (Fedusa), shut down public services like schools and hospitals almost completely. In other towns pickets were held.
The unions' main demands are for an 8.6% salary increase and a R1000 housing allowance. This is already (…)

- Afrique du sud / luttes ouvrières, syndicalisme