The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is a South African HIV/AIDS activist organisation which was co-founded by the HIV-positive activist Zackie Achmat in 1998. TAC is rooted in the experiences,direct action tactics and anti-apartheid background of its founder. TAC has been credited with forcing the reluctant government of former South African President Thabo Mbeki to begin making antiretroviral drugs available to South Africans.
Abdurrazack "Zackie" Achmat is a South African activist and film director. He is a co-founder the Treatment Action Campaign and known worldwide for his activism on behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa. He currently serves as board member and co-director of Ndifuna Ukwazi,an organisation which aims to build and support social justice organisations and leaders,and is the chairperson of Equal Education.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions is a trade union federation in South Africa. It was founded in 1985 and is the largest of the country's three main trade union federations,with 21 affiliated trade unions.
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is a South African businessman and politician serving as the fifth and current president of South Africa since 2018. A former anti-apartheid activist,trade union leader,and businessman,Ramaphosa is also the president of the African National Congress (ANC).
Fatima Hajaig is a South African politician,with the ruling African National Congress. She is a member of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament from South Africa. She used to be chairperson of the committee of foreign affairs of the South African parliament. She was a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Kgalema Motlanthe.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is the biggest single trade union in South Africa with more than 338,000 members,and prior to its expulsion on 8 November 2014,the largest affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU),the country's largest trade union federation.
Ronald Kasrils is a South African politician,Marxist revolutionary,guerrilla and military commander. He was Minister for Intelligence Services from 27 April 2004 to 25 September 2008. He was a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1987 to 2007 as well as a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP) from December 1986 to 2007.
Israel–South Africa relations refer to the current and historic relationship between the Republic of South Africa and the State of Israel. During the 1950s and 1960s,Israel became an open critic of the apartheid regime in South Africa,hoping to establish good relations with black-majority countries in Africa. However,most African countries severed ties with Israel in 1973 due to economic threats by oil-rich countries in the Arab world. This situation led Israel to deepen its diplomatic ties with South Africa throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Up to 1986,Israel had a vibrant economic relationship but was forced to sanction South Africa in 1987,mainly as a consequence of American pressure.
The "Third Force" was a term used by leaders of the ANC during the late 1980s and early 1990s to refer to a clandestine force believed to be responsible for a surge in violence in KwaZulu-Natal,and townships around and south of the Witwatersrand.
Racism in South Africa can be traced back to the earliest historical accounts of interactions between African,Asian,and European peoples along the coast of Southern Africa. It has existed throughout several centuries of the history of South Africa,dating back to the Dutch colonization of Southern Africa,which started in 1652. Before universal suffrage was achieved in 1994,White South Africans,especially Afrikaners during the period of Apartheid,enjoyed various legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights that were denied to the indigenous African peoples. Examples of systematic racism over the course of South Africa's history include forced removals,racial inequality and segregation,uneven resource distribution,and disenfranchisement. Racial controversies and politics remain major phenomena in the country.
There have been many political assassinations in post-apartheid South Africa. In 2013 it was reported that there had been more than 450 political assassinations in the province of KwaZulu-Natal since the end of apartheid in 1994. In July 2013 the Daily Maverick reported that there had been "59 political murders in the last five years". In August 2016 it was reported that there had been at least twenty political assassinations in the run up to the local government elections on the 3rd of August that year,most of them in KwaZulu-Natal.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is a South African Marxist–Leninist and black nationalist political party. It was founded by expelled former African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) President Julius Malema,and his allies,in 2013. Malema is President of the EFF,heading the Central Command Team which serves as the central structure of the party. It is currently the third-largest party in both houses of the South African Parliament. The party is also the official opposition in three of South Africa's nine provincial legislatures.
Thembelani Waltermade "Thulas" Nxesi is a South African politician and former trade unionist who has been the Minister of Employment and Labour since May 2019. A representative of the African National Congress (ANC),he has been a member of cabinet since October 2011 and the Deputy National Chairperson of the South African Communist Party (SACP) since July 2012.
Antisemitism in South Africa is the manifestation of hostility,prejudice or discrimination against South African Jews or Judaism as a religious,ethnic or racial group. This form of racism has not affected Jews in South Africa.
Reactions to the 2014 Gaza War came from around the world.
Zingiswa Phyllis Losi is a South African politician and trade unionist who is currently serving as the president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) since September 2018. She was formerly Cosatu's second deputy president from 2009 to 2018. She is a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and a former member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC).
Tyotyo Hubert James is a South African politician and trade union leader who was the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration,Performance Monitoring &Evaluation and a Member of the National Assembly for the African National Congress (ANC) from 2018 until 2023. He had previously served as the first deputy president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).
Sakhumzi Stoffels Somyo is a South African politician. A member of the African National Congress,he was elected to the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature in 2014. He was then appointed as the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) responsible for the Finance,Economic Development,Environment and Tourism portfolio. In 2018,he was fired as an MEC. Somyo was elected to Parliament in 2019. Soon after,he was elected Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Auditor General.
Fikile Zachariah "Slovo" Majola is a South African politician and former trade unionist who is currently serving as the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry since May 2019. He has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly since 2014,and before that he was the general secretary of the National Education,Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) from 1998 to 2014.
Mpumelelo Saziwa is a South African politician and trade unionist who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature since 2014. He also serves as the Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Eastern Cape and he was formerly the Provincial Chairperson of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu).
