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T.O. Molefe on #South_Africa’s “War on Women”
▻http://africasacountry.com/t-o-molefe-on-south-africas-war-on-women

The essayist T.O. Molefe (he is a contributor here too) has a new op-ed column up at nytimes.com. He writes about “South Africa’s War on Women.” The oped opens with a discussion of why South Africans appear so blase about gender violence. Molefe writes, “… crimes against black lesbians don’t register on the public’s radar amid the […]

#OPINION #After_The_New_South_Africa #Oscar_Pistorius #sexual_violence

The winners of the platinum strike in #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-winners-of-the-platinum-strike-in-south-africa

On January 23 this year the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), a firebrand breakaway of the COSATU-affiliated National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), took an estimated 50,000 mineworkers to the plateaus of Rustenburg to demand a R12,500 (about US$1,250) basic salary. For months – without pay, their families going hungry and their spirits waning […]

#POLITICS #After_The_New_South_Africa #AMCU #Marikana