Mark Waller
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Waller
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Politics
South Africa: A shift to the right despite a mass hunger for progressive change
July 9, 2024Backed by big money, the right moved in to take advantage of divisions on the left.
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World
South Africa bans old racist flag as hate speech
August 22, 2019A landmark Aug. 21 ruling by South Africa’s Equality Court has criminalized gratuitous displays of the national flag of the apartheid era.
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No blank check for ANC after election win in South Africa
May 14, 2019The African National Congress has been returned to power after bruising national and provincial elections.
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World
South Africa’s women demand an end to gender-based violence
August 2, 2018South Africa joins the list of countries around the world in which women are on the march for basic human rights that have been denied them for far too long.
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South Africa: Workers and poor the biggest losers in Zuma’s state capture
March 2, 2018It’s been a surreal time in South Africa, where during February events went into overdrive after a period of political torpor.
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World
South Africa inquiry: Police killed Ahmed Timol, anti-apartheid activist
October 13, 2017In October 1971, he was arrested for being in possession of Communist Party leaflets. A few days later, he was dead.
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South African Communist Party to run candidates, forge new popular front
July 17, 2017The 14th national congress of the South African Communist Party put the party on a new path to contesting state power by committing it to fight elections in its own name.
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Politics
South Africa: Communists convene broad front to halt country’s decline
May 24, 2017South Africa is facing greater uncertainty and dysfunction than at any time since the height of the struggle against white minority rule.
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