A review of Immanuel Ness, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto Press, 2016), £15 Since the 1980s the institutionalisation of global neoliberalism has been pursued based on a range of ideological claims which have been advanced… Continue Reading
On 16 August 2012 South African police shot and killed 34 striking workers at the Lonmin mine near Rustenburg.1 The massacre sent shockwaves around the world—and the implications of this political earthquake are far from played out. It is likely… Continue Reading
The massacre of 34 striking miners at Marikana, near Rustenburg in North West Province, on 16 August 2012 marked a watershed in the history of South Africa, ruled by the African National Congress (ANC) since the end of apartheid in… Continue Reading