The leading union in COSATU, NUMSA, and the most vocal member within the Congress Alliance in its critique of the governing ANC, is positioning itself as the voice of the Left in South Africa. The union has more than 220 000 members in a sector accounting for 15% of the economy, three times the size of …
It began in Marikana, in the North West province, outside of the country’s economic province, Gauteng, but located in the platinum capital of the world, Rustenburg. In almost the same cultural expression as the Maji Maji Rebellion at the turn of the 20th Century, in what was then called German East Africa, toilers of the Rustenburg mines …
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