Dar es Salaam  Throughout my visits in Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania, I asked some of the same questions, particularly to union brothers and sisters and the comrades in the allied trades that supported unions in one way or another.   One question was always about density coupled with the system of dues collection and the level …

Cape Town Reading history as a boy, it was hard not to be moved by the stories of the ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the bottom of Africa and then heading off to the Indian Ocean and yet more adventures in the days when spices from the Far East were worth more than …

Cape Town Earlier in the Organizers’ Forum visit in South Africa we had started in a church in Orange Farm outside of Johannesburg that was ministered by one of the national leaders South Africa’s CBCO — Church Based Community Organizations.  Now in Cape Town we met one the Cape Town lead organizer, Deborah , and some …