Long Paper

The struggles between President Zuma and Pravin Gordhan has been portrayed as anti-corruption struggles against one individual and one family. The reality is that what the struggle is about attempts by a black middle class that has been blocked from accessing the commanding heights of the economy, and a white monopoly capitalist class that still exercises enormous power in South African society.
“Behind every great fortune there is a crime” – Balzac
The SASSA scandal currently unfolding is probably the most dramatic expression of how far the African National Congress (ANC) has travelled since its days of opposition to apartheid.

Oupa Lehulere argues that, instead of orientating to Cosatu, the task for militants is to orientate towards the struggles that are emerging outside of it as the best way to build the working class movement.
The “launch”, by COSATU and some ‘civil society organisation’, of the ‘new United
Democratic Front’ in the Western Cape

Oupa Lehulere argues that over the last ten years COSATU has moved from being a militant socialist organisation to becoming an organisation whose policies are now acceptable to the capitalist class in South Africa.
Over the last few weeks the South African

The transition to democracy in South Africa deepened the structural inequalities inherited from apartheid, and notwithstanding the democratic gains the transition has reinforced the power and wealth of the apartheid ruling classes. The current crisis in South Africa owes its origins to these features of the transition.February 1990 stands out as the most important month