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SOUTH AFRICAN Communist leader Blade Nzimande called for a national mining indaba (conference) today to tackle the need to transform the industry through state intervention.
The Communist Party accuses the transnational corporations of the country’s three major platinum producers, Lonmin, Implats and Amplats, of avoiding centralised bargaining and competing among themselves on payments to workers.
“All of this has resulted in chronic labour market instability,” he said, after a three-day central committee meeting in Johannesburg.
ROGER McKENZIE looks at how ancient traditions practiced today can be the cornerstone of anti-imperialism in Africa
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
