Cape Town Perhaps nothing has taken the “bloom off the rose” in looking at post-Apartheid South Africa than the startling level of denial the government showed concerning the pandemic HIV/AIDS crisis in the country.  The denial of programs and initiatives, both internal and externally, allowing the use of anti-viral dosages with the impacted population was met …

Johannesburg and Cape Town Our Organizers’ Forum contingent was fortunate to meet with a lot of the backup and support troops for labor and other social movements while in South Africa.  Doing so gave us a better sense of the capacity and support for these struggles.  The largest of all of these operations was DITSELA — …

Johannesburg and Cape Town As we made our way around the country, we tried to take in some of the ways South Africa has marked their troubled time.  We visited the Apartheid Museum in Jo-burg, Nelson Mandela’s old house in Soweto outside of the city, the Hector Piedersen Museum in Soweto on the site of the …