Political Reawakening in Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe, is a post-nationalist politics propelled by progressive currents finally on the horizon? Has fatigue associated with the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union's (ZANU's) malgovernance and...
View ArticleZimbabwe, South Africa, and the Power Politics of Bourgeois Democracy
Since February 2000, when president Robert Mugabe suffered his first-ever national electoral defeat—over a proposed new constitution—Zimbabwe has witnessed confusing debilitating political turmoil. A...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Frustrating Decade of Freedom: From Racial to Class Apartheid
The end of the apartheid regime was a great human achievement. Yet the 1994 election of an African National Congress (ANC) majority-with Nelson Mandela as the new president-did not alter the enormous...
View ArticleLabor, the State, and the Struggle for a Democratic Zimbabwe
When Zimbabwe attained its first independent government in 1980, led by President Robert Mugabe and liberation fighters of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), there were...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Bubble Meets Boiling Urban Social Protest
As the June-July 2010 World Cup draws the world’s attention to South Africa, the country’s poor and working-class people will continue protesting, at what is now among the highest rates per person in...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Resource Curses and Growing Social Resistance
The African National Congress (ANC), led during the 1990s by the late Nelson Mandela, is projected to be reelected in South Africa’s May 7, 2014 national election by a wide margin, probably with...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Exploding with Rage, Imploding with Self-Doubt—but Exuding...
The fast-reviving South African left is urgently coming to grips with the most acute national crises of structure and agency the country has experienced since the historic freeing of Nelson Mandela in...
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‘Africa Rising’ in Retreat
The neoliberal export-oriented strategy has done enormous damage to Africa’s human development, gender equity, and natural environment. Reversing this project is the major challenge for Africans who...
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South Africa Suffers Capitalist Crisis Déjà Vu
Business tycoon Cyril Ramaphosa, who, according to Forbes, was worth more than $450 million in 2015, has been the president of the ruling African National Congress since December 2017. Despite the...
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