Cape Town In a country where the government concedes nearly 29% “official” unemployment and the argument rages over how to count disillusioned job seekers as they fall off the charts, no one seriously disputes the fact that unemployment is likely at least 40%.  In the world of numbers that means that in lower income areas a …

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 — …