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Former South Africa's president Jacob Zuma sings and dances after addressing his supporters outside the south Gauten High court in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 11, 2024
A TOP South African trade union leader today warned workers not to be “fooled again” by the country’s former president Jacob Zuma.
The opinion piece by Zwelinzima Vavi in today’s Daily Maverick newspaper follows Saturday’s celebrations to mark the 30 years since the end of the racist apartheid regime and comes as South Africa gears up for elections on May 29.
Mr Vavi, general secretary of the South African Federation of Trade Unions, said there was an attempt by Mr Zuma “to rewrite history” and to present the then former president as “a victim of the judiciary.”
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
The shared path of the South African Communist Party and the ANC to the ballot box has found itself at a junction. SABINA PRICE reports
SALEEM BADAT and VASU REDDY introduce a new book about an outstanding interpreter of the world, and an activist scholar committed to changing society
The charter emerged from a profoundly democratic process where people across South Africa answered ‘What kind of country do we want?’ — but imperial backlash and neoliberal compromise deferred its deepest transformations, argues RONNIE KASRILS