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Peoples Dispatch
Employees of South African Airport Services Firm Protest Demanding Payment of Salaries
29 Jul 2020
Workers of BidAir Services Ltd picketed outside the Department of Employment and Labor in Pretoria on Tuesday. They demanded that the government clear the dues owed to them under the Temporary…
Newsclick Production
Let's Talk: 1 Year to Go for Tokyo Olympics; S. Africa Struggles With COVID-19
27 Jul 2020
In today's episode, we look at the latest from the world of the Olympics, which has been postponed to 2021. Newsclick's Leslie Xavier talks about the planning that's going on around it and the way in…
Vijay Prashad
Time Is Not on Our Side in Libya
22 Jul 2020
UN Secretary-General Guterres has surrendered to reality. In his recent statement on Libya, he listed a series of “de-escalation efforts, including the creation of a possible demilitarized zone”;…
Pavan Kulkarni
Teachers’ Unions Mount Countrywide Campaign to Roll Back School Opening in South Africa
21 Jul 2020
The Educators Union of South Africa (EUSA) alleges that money meant for PPEs for students and teachers is being looted through corrupt tenders given at exaggerated prices by the department of basic…
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat
COVID-19 Tightens Its Grip on the African Continent
18 Jul 2020
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat provides a detailed overview of the economic, social and health impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the African continent.
Peoples Dispatch
Nigeria’s Human Rights Commission Blocks Workers’ Strike With Court Order
16 Jul 2020
Unionised workers of NHRC were set to embark on an indefinite strike to demand the implementation of national minimum wage and payment of missing wages.
Peoples Dispatch
Protests Against Economic Mismanagement Engulf Southern Tunisia
14 Jul 2020
Protesters have demanded that the Tunisian president, Kais Saied, visit the southern region and address the hardships faced by the local population, as well as respond to the police killing of a…
Danny Sjursen
US Allies Egypt and Ethiopia Squabble Over Nile Ignoring Bigger Threats
11 Jul 2020
Regional rivals Egypt and Ethiopia posture for a fight over water from the Nile, but the US is not listening, even as the two countries ignore larger climate-change concerns.
Peoples Dispatch
South African Unions Demand Dismissal of Finance Minister Tito Mboweni Over Airline Liquidation
08 Jul 2020
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and the South African Cabin Crew Association made the demand after the National Treasury under Tito Mboweni announced that no money would be…
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat
Xenophobia in South Africa Fractures International Working-class Solidarity
07 Jul 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has strongly impacted migrants in South Africa who have been facing increasingly violent attacks and marginalization over the past decade, reinforced by xenophobic rhetoric on a…