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SOUTH AFRICAN trade unions welcomed a new land reform law yesterday which allows expropriation to reverse centuries of colonialism.
The African National Congress-dominated parliament in Cape Town passed the Expropriation Bill on Thursday, replacing the apartheid-era 1975 Act of the same name.
The legislation replaces the “willing buyer-willing seller” principle of land redistribution with the “just and equitable” principle of the 1994 post-apartheid constitution.
ARTHUR WEST surveys the achievements of the Scottish campaign against South African apartheid and how we can draw on them to fight a rising far right
History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
ROGER McKENZIE looks at how ancient traditions practiced today can be the cornerstone of anti-imperialism in Africa