IN-DEPTH PERSPECTIVES
Deepening class inequalities: Minister Motshekga’s hidden agenda to open public schools!
“The government’s decision to postpone the June exams to December, and the silence about when the December exam is going to be held, is an admission that given the Covid-19 conditions it will be impossible for public schools to recover the time lost in 2020.”
Scientists Against Science: The campaign to open “the economy” in the time of COVID-19
“Firstly, what is important to note in this debate is that South Africa represents the first country in which “science” was harnessed to firstly, support the lockdown, and immediately thereafter, to “eradicate the lockdown completely”. It is the first country “science”…
Coronavirus and ‘race’ – Why the one’s most harshly affected by COVID-19 worldwide are disproportionately Black and Brown
COVID-19 is raging throughout the entire globe, and all politicians of the bourgeois establishment…
Alarm bells ring as healthcare facilities are closed due to COVID-19
Download PDF After a nurse tested positive for COVID-19, Duduza clinic on the East Rand in Gauteng was closed on 3 April. In KwaZulu Natal (KZN), following the death of three patients due to COVID-19, the Trauma Unit at Netcare St. Augustine’s…
The President, the Finance Minister, and the Economists
On 30 March about 76 economists and 29 other academics and experts in various fields of study published an Open Letter to President Ramaphosa on the COVID-19 crisis (hereafter ‘Open Letter’). The Open Letter (see here) had been in circulation in social…
Government protects private hospital profits as COVID-19 rages
This article was completed before President Ramaphosa announced the national lock-down on 23 March. The measures he announced, and the direction of these measures, continued his policy of private sector leadership of the fight…
Worshipping the markets while South Africa burns
“In the long history of ruling class responses to disasters, pandemics and catastrophes, nothing tells us more about the general approach of these classes than the way they allocate resources to these catastrophes…”
In the eye of the storm
The working class and the struggle against the corona virus The Coronavirus named COVID-19, which today (15 March), has infected at least 160 000 people worldwide and killed thousands has now landed…
