[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The African National Congress must rue the day when they appointed billionaire mine boss buffalo Bill Cyril Ramaphosa to expel the leaders of its own youth league, particularly…
1 May 2016 · 14:47David Van Wyk
David van Wyk is a freelance researcher who works for progressive civil society organisations and movements all over Central and Southern Africa. He also a member of Bench Marks Foundation, a non-profit organisation in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and monitors corporate performance against an international measuring instrument, the Principles for Global Corporate Responsibility.
Stories by David
29 storiesOn March 11, 1994, President Lucas Mangope of Bophuthatswana was finally forced to abandon his boycott of South Africa's first all-race elections, currently scheduled to take place on…
24 Apr 2016 · 12:02
To communities out there engaging with mining corporations who are eyeing your land and resources, Chris and I have been discussing our many years of field work. Note…
12 Apr 2016 · 13:09
As the fractions of the capitalist ruling class fight for control over the factions of the ruling party, we see the junior capitalists taking flight via Lanseria after…
10 Apr 2016 · 12:51
I frequently get asked what is the alternative to the current neo-liberal capitalist reality we find ourselves in. I have posted several suggestions in the past of what…
8 Apr 2016 · 12:44
The Bench Marks Foundation has written an open letter to the North West Commissioner of Police and the South African Human Rights Commission to draw attention to the…
8 Mar 2016 · 12:25
This week I celebrate a week in my life in which we the ordinary people of Mafikeng and Mmabatho shook South Africa in 1994 and showed the possibilities…
8 Mar 2016 · 11:43
I have previously posted on what a re-imagined society would look like. I wish to add to my earlier conception the following suggestions, after many suggested that I…
26 Feb 2016 · 11:18
The mine nationalisation debate is on. Mining is in crisis, and mining dependent economies such as the South African economy are scraping the bottom of the barrel literally.…
12 Feb 2016 · 11:08
It is really time for us to wake up out of our comfort zones and to think and act radically:
11 Feb 2016 · 11:01

