South Africa: The Return of Government's Iron Fist and Numsa's Mission to Crush It

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There is one reason why the security cluster ministers are taking Public Protector's Nkandla report on judicial review. Because they can. Who can stop them? Certainly not Citizen Voter. In five years when people get to vote again, this action will be long forgotten.

The opposition parties in the new Parliament do not have sufficient seats to give the ANC any real trouble. Civil society? How? This is what 62.15% of the vote has delivered: invincibility for the political elite, once more. Enter Numsa and its new working class movement. It might take a while, but the ground is already rumbling.

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