https://znetwork.org/category/place/africa/south-africa/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:37:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/africa/south-africa/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-blocked-from-g20/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-blocked-from-g20/#respond Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:37:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292104 South Africa says it will step back from next year’s G20 meetings after the U.S. indicated it won’t extend an invitation, citing concerns over alleged discrimination against the white Afrikaner minority. In this episode, Innocent Semosa speaks to Political Analyst Patrick Bond to unpack the politics behind the fallout, and later connects with DIRCO spokesperson [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-blocked-from-g20/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/g20-cop30-and-more-mickey-mouse-multilateralism-to-come/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/g20-cop30-and-more-mickey-mouse-multilateralism-to-come/#respond Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:07:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291606 The third weekend in November offered the world two disastrous days for solving polycrisis problems, starting in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém at the United Nations climate summit (‘COP30’) on November 22, just as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa hosted (most of) the Group of 20 leaders in Johannesburg. The G20 comprises 19 of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/g20-cop30-and-more-mickey-mouse-multilateralism-to-come/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-genesis-of-israeli-ultra-apartheid/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-genesis-of-israeli-ultra-apartheid/#respond Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:20:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291473 On November 10, the Israeli parliament passed the first reading of a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners convicted of killing Israeli individuals, with 39 votes in favor and 16 against out of 120 members.  The bill would make it mandatory for Israeli courts to impose death penalty against individuals convicted of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-genesis-of-israeli-ultra-apartheid/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/south-african-activists-allege-israel-used-shadowy-ngo-to-traffic-palestinians-from-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/south-african-activists-allege-israel-used-shadowy-ngo-to-traffic-palestinians-from-gaza/#respond Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:02:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291315 South African activists have alleged that Israel is using a shadowy humanitarian group to force Palestinians out of Gaza, in what they decried as the latest form of ethnic cleansing to take place since October 2023. On Thursday, a plane carrying 153 Palestinians from Gaza landed at South Africa’s OR Tambo International Airport, but the plane was held on the tarmac for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/south-african-activists-allege-israel-used-shadowy-ngo-to-traffic-palestinians-from-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-manipulation-of-south-african-finances-from-an-imf-office-cubicle/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-manipulation-of-south-african-finances-from-an-imf-office-cubicle/#respond Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291199 Since February 19, a battle has raged over who pays taxes to Pretoria and for what, a technical and political fight about state finances that has never been so intense in post-apartheid history. The first victim was Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s desire to raise the Value Added Tax (VAT) on all consumers by 2%, to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-manipulation-of-south-african-finances-from-an-imf-office-cubicle/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-solidarity-becomes-spectacle/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-solidarity-becomes-spectacle/#respond Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:03:44 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291020 There is a particular theatre to South African political life: we know how to gather, how to convene, how to fill auditoriums when history arrives clothed in urgency. We clap when we should clap. We nod with seriousness. We ask familiar questions with grave voices. And then we go home feeling as though participation is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-solidarity-becomes-spectacle/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/planting-seeds-of-quiet-agroecological-resistance-in-south-africas-fields/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/planting-seeds-of-quiet-agroecological-resistance-in-south-africas-fields/#respond Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290834 A quiet rebellion is taking root in rural South Africa. Led by women armed not with tractors or chemicals, but with seeds, soil, and agroecological knowledge, this movement rejects the export-led farming model that has long dictated what they grow and how they live. This agroecological resistance is feeding bellies and a growing rural resilience, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/planting-seeds-of-quiet-agroecological-resistance-in-south-africas-fields/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-western-financial-whip-was-just-lifted-from-south-africas-back-but-now-we-need-another/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-western-financial-whip-was-just-lifted-from-south-africas-back-but-now-we-need-another/#respond Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:37:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290534 The October 24 decision by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to end the ‘grey list’ stigmatization against the banking systems of South Africa, Mozambique, Nigeria and Burkina Faso raises tough questions about these societies’ self-interest, in contrast to the real winners from the move: free-wheeling financiers of capital flight, of drugs and of (alleged) [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-western-financial-whip-was-just-lifted-from-south-africas-back-but-now-we-need-another/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/nelson-mandela-annual-lecture-by-francesca-albanese/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/nelson-mandela-annual-lecture-by-francesca-albanese/#respond Sun, 26 Oct 2025 13:21:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290446 Enhancing peace and global cooperation.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/nelson-mandela-annual-lecture-by-francesca-albanese/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/victory-for-the-poor-the-high-court-rules-in-our-favour/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/victory-for-the-poor-the-high-court-rules-in-our-favour/#respond Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290245 On Friday the High Court in Pietermaritzburg delivered a landmark judgment in favour of Abahlali baseMjondolo, ruling that the KwaDukuza Municipality can only evict our members from ERF 1410 Shakas Head if certain conditions are met. The court has directed that the eviction be suspended pending an order that it is satisfied that the eviction [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/victory-for-the-poor-the-high-court-rules-in-our-favour/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zoe-wicombs-local-universalisms/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zoe-wicombs-local-universalisms/#respond Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:01:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290198 Zoë Wicomb’s passing, on October 13 at the age of 76, has prompted an outpouring of tributes from black women writers and scholars across the globe, a reflection of the immense political and literary impact of her work. Figures like Pumla Gqola and Gabeba Baderoon have highlighted her fearless critique of colonial and racial mythologies, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zoe-wicombs-local-universalisms/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-solidarity-discussions-in-johannesburg-stress-ongoing-protest/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-solidarity-discussions-in-johannesburg-stress-ongoing-protest/#respond Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:27:00 +0000 Will the Trump-Netanyahu deal at least pause the mass killing of Gazans? Maybe, and Gazans have every right to celebrate. But we have repeatedly learned how brief any reprieve in Israel’s genocidal attacks on Palestine can be. And as Hamas releases 20 living Israeli hostages and has no further internal leverage, can anyone trust Tel [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-solidarity-discussions-in-johannesburg-stress-ongoing-protest/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/back-on-track/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/back-on-track/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:46:58 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289461 The train moves through landscapes stitched with violence, carrying bodies and destinies alike… where to every birth its blood flows on tracks of both exile and homecoming. — Mongane Wally Serote Trains loom large in the narrative of Black South Africans, alien artifacts, metallic centipedes of colonial extraction that carry the weight of colonialism, dislodgment, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/back-on-track/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/1948-israel-south-africa-and-the-question-of-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/1948-israel-south-africa-and-the-question-of-genocide/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288671 If the United Nations decides to amputate a part of Palestine in order to establish a Jewish state, no force on earth could prevent blood from flowing there. … [O]nce such bloodshed has commenced, no force on earth can confine it to the borders of Palestine itself. Dr. Mohamed Hussein Heykal Pasha, Egyptian delegate to UN [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/1948-israel-south-africa-and-the-question-of-genocide/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stop-south-african-coal-exports-to-genocidal-apartheid-israel/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stop-south-african-coal-exports-to-genocidal-apartheid-israel/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287593 The case for the South African government to respect Boycott Divestment Sanctions and ‘Hague Group’ mandates against Glencore/ARM exports and all other fuel supplies to Israel South African coal exports to Israel since the genocide of Palestinians have reached 1.5 million tonnes by mid-2025. These shipments mean Pretoria is now saying, in effect, “Hague Shmague” [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stop-south-african-coal-exports-to-genocidal-apartheid-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/womens-day-political-camp/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/womens-day-political-camp/#respond Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:34:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287079 Tomorrow, as the Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League, we will come together to hold a political camp under the theme: “20 Years of Women’s Resistance – Ubuhlalism Begins with Us.” This theme allows us to reflect together on the long and difficult road we have travelled. We will remember the founding of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/womens-day-political-camp/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/anc-nec-meeting-us-tariffs-gnu-brics-trade-relations/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/anc-nec-meeting-us-tariffs-gnu-brics-trade-relations/#respond Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1286928 SABC: The ANC says it is happy with the case made by the South African delegation led by President Cyril Ramaphosa to the US in May this year. This is despite the team failing to convince the US administration to lower its proposed tariffs against Pretoria. The Donald Trump administration has slapped South African goods [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/anc-nec-meeting-us-tariffs-gnu-brics-trade-relations/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/massive-us-eu-trade-pact-signed/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/massive-us-eu-trade-pact-signed/#respond Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1286793 n a surprise deal struck in Scotland, the United States and European Union have agreed to a 15% tariff on key European exports and a $750-billion EU commitment to buy American energy. Political economist Prof. Patrick Bond weighs in on the economic and geopolitical impact of the agreement. Newzroom Afrika: The United States and the European [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/massive-us-eu-trade-pact-signed/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/solidarity-with-seri-and-other-organisations-under-attack-by-operation-dudula/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/solidarity-with-seri-and-other-organisations-under-attack-by-operation-dudula/#respond Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286337 Around the world, right-wing forces are scapegoating migrants for the devastation caused by capitalism and, in countries like South Africa, extreme corruption.  Our movement has always put human dignity at the centre of our struggle. We began our struggle by demanding the recognition of our own humanity and dignity from the ANC and the state [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/solidarity-with-seri-and-other-organisations-under-attack-by-operation-dudula/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/patrick-bonds-letter-to-department-of-mineral-and-petroleum-resources-trans-hex-and-srk/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/patrick-bonds-letter-to-department-of-mineral-and-petroleum-resources-trans-hex-and-srk/#respond Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:49:00 +0000 Date: 14 July 2025  To: Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Trans Hex and SRK – [email protected] Subject: Objection to off-shore Prospecting Application, near Lepelsfontein and Doringbaai,  DMPE ref no.: WC30/5/1/1/2/1047PR – Diamond Mining Rights in Marine Concession Areas  11B and 13B, West Coast, South Africa  SUMMARY: Please consider this a critique of Trans Hex [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/patrick-bonds-letter-to-department-of-mineral-and-petroleum-resources-trans-hex-and-srk/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/real-and-fake-antidotes-to-trumps-latest-tariffs-seen-from-south-africa/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/real-and-fake-antidotes-to-trumps-latest-tariffs-seen-from-south-africa/#respond Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286077 U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own MAGA lower-middle-class social base – especially consumers of cheap imports – will soon become evident when price inflation rises.  But since Trump hit South Africa [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/real-and-fake-antidotes-to-trumps-latest-tariffs-seen-from-south-africa/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/abahlali-basemjondolo-movement-wins-decisive-victory-for-land-and-housing-justice/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/abahlali-basemjondolo-movement-wins-decisive-victory-for-land-and-housing-justice/#respond Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285119 On Saturday 14 June our movement held a successful meeting with national, provincial and municipal government. The meeting was attended by a national delegation from our movement and several senior politicians, including Mr Hlabisa, the CoGTA Minister, and the Minister of Human Settlements, Ms Thembisile Simelane, among others. Important commitments were made in terms of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/abahlali-basemjondolo-movement-wins-decisive-victory-for-land-and-housing-justice/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-youth-of-today-live-in-crisis-not-freedom/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-youth-of-today-live-in-crisis-not-freedom/#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:25:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285077 Frantz Fanon teaches that every generation must discover its own mission, fulfil it, or betray it. The youth of 1976 discovered their mission to directly confront the apartheid regime, and they carried it out with courage. Today we are told that we are free but most of us live in poverty. There are very few [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-youth-of-today-live-in-crisis-not-freedom/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-people-are-starving/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-people-are-starving/#respond Thu, 29 May 2025 15:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284351 Millions of our people have been impoverished by the system of oppression that makes the poor to be poor and the rich to be rich. Hunger is a very painful part of impoverishment. Some people feel ashamed and hide this pain and suffer alone. Many parents are missing meals to feed their children. Some are [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-people-are-starving/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-mass-movement-for-land-and-housing-in-south-africa/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-mass-movement-for-land-and-housing-in-south-africa/#respond Wed, 21 May 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284038 On August 9, Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), a mass movement of socialist shack dwellers based in Durban, South Africa, celebrated National Women’s Day, a public holiday in memory of the more than 20,000 Black, Indian, colored, and white women who in 1956 marched in Pretoria demanding the  repeal of the pass laws that prevented Black people from entering areas of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-mass-movement-for-land-and-housing-in-south-africa/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-south-african-unionists-struck-for-us-workers/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-south-african-unionists-struck-for-us-workers/#respond Tue, 20 May 2025 18:39:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283999 In many ways, Donald Trump owes his political career to deindustrialization, the late-twentieth-century process in which multinational corporations eliminated millions of unionized manufacturing jobs in the United States by callously abandoning working-class communities in pursuit of quick and easy profits. Trump has won two presidential elections in part by presenting himself to voters as the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-south-african-unionists-struck-for-us-workers/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/south-africas-american-refugees/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/south-africas-american-refugees/#respond Sat, 17 May 2025 10:39:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283857 While US President Donald Trump has given Afrikaners refugee status in the United States on the false premise that they are victims of human rights abuses at the hands of the South African state, Americans live comfortably in Cape Town as “digital nomads.” The term digital nomad refers to people who work remotely while traveling [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/south-africas-american-refugees/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-undignified-democracy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-undignified-democracy/#respond Fri, 02 May 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283256 Thirty-one years after the fall of administrative apartheid, South Africa stands at an uneasy juncture between the promise of a rights-based democracy and the lived reality of widespread inequality, bureaucratic inertia, and eroded public trust. The 1996 Constitution enshrined administrative justice—the right to lawful, reasonable, and procedurally fair decisions by public bodies—and elevated human dignity [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-undignified-democracy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-tariffs-trade-war-on-south-africa-the-working-class-with-patrick-bond/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-tariffs-trade-war-on-south-africa-the-working-class-with-patrick-bond/#respond Thu, 01 May 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1283226 The imposition of tariffs on countries around the world has had a major impact on South Africa and many other countries in Africa. University of Johannesburg political economist Patrick Bond discusses the role of the Trump and Musk In South Africa.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-tariffs-trade-war-on-south-africa-the-working-class-with-patrick-bond/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-denounce-fake-freedom/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-denounce-fake-freedom/#respond Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282902 We have been collectively mourning UnFreedom Day since 2006. This year we will be holding rallies and protests in three provinces to show the world that we are not free and to build the unity and power of the poor in struggle. We are not free because millions of us remain impoverished, hungry and without [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-denounce-fake-freedom/feed/ 0