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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Zuma Imprisonment: “Riots” or “Insurrection” in South Africa?
21 Jul 2021
In the wake of the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma on corruption charges, two South African provinces were swept by riots that current President Cyril Ramaphosa called an attempted “insurrec
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops
29 Dec 2020
“South African police kill between two and three times as many people as US police do, per capita,” said Paul Clarke, a doctoral candidate in African and American Studies who has d
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Kwaito” Music Moves South African Youth
06 Jul 2020
Xavier Livermon, professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, sees “many parallels” between the US-based Hip Hop phenomenon and the Kwaito music belo
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Talking Marxism But Serving Capitalism in South Africa
14 May 2019
South Africa is the only place in the world where the entire Black political class speaks in the language of Marxism-Leninism, even when they are in cahoots with Big Capital.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
South African Sex Workers Embrace Feminism
12 Mar 2019
By studying feminism, sex workers learned “that self-identification of being a feminist actually strengthened our sex worker rights politics,” said Nkozo Yingwana, a doctoral stude
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of January 27, 2019
29 Jan 2019
MLK Fought for Workers’ Rights
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New South African Party to “Overthrow Capitalism”
29 Jan 2019
Irvin Jim, leader of South Africa’s largest union, told a People’s Forum audience in New York City that the newly formed Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party is not “another refor
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Poverty Criminalized in “Shackland” South Africa
21 Jan 2019
Twenty-five years after the end of apartheid, 5.2 million South Africans live in urban shack settlements that are unfit for human habitation, said anthropologist Kerry Chance, auth
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
ANC Tried to Purge Winnie Mandela
08 May 2018
Winnie Mandela, the political activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela who died last month at age 81, “became a target for her unwavering support of the ideas contained in the Freedom Charter,” s
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Winnie Mandela the Tallest of All
17 Apr 2018
South African freedom fighter Winnie Mandela, who passed away this month at age 81, “will outlive in her glory and marvel many of the presidents we’ve had since 1994,” said Ronnie Kasrils