OPINIONISTA 13 October 2025 Conservatism’s grip on a fragile democracy — the social gap between leaders and the working class By Zwelinzima Vavi 8 min 1
OPINIONISTA 19 December 2024 Was this what we sacrificed our lives for in the struggle? A call for communities to organise midst the deindustrialisation of the Vaal triangle By Zwelinzima Vavi 8 min 14
OPINIONISTA 7 November 2024 The messy ideological morass that has given us President Donald Trump 2.0 By Zwelinzima Vavi 4 min 73
OPINIONISTA 5 August 2024 The true history of the origins of the National Union of Mineworkers By Zwelinzima Vavi 10 min 15
OPINIONISTA 29 April 2024 Workers of South Africa must not be fooled again by Zuma By Zwelinzima Vavi 14 min 32
OPINIONISTA 5 January 2022 Workers must unite to support the Zondo Commission report, even in the face of a backlash from the corrupt By Zwelinzima Vavi 5 min 0
OPINIONISTA 12 November 2021 ANC government refuses to give unemployed a basic income grant and instead affirms its commitment to neoliberal fiscal consolidation By Zwelinzima Vavi 6 min 6
OPINIONISTA 30 October 2021 No party will significantly change the crisis of neoliberalism austerity By Zwelinzima Vavi 8 min 6
OPINIONISTA 8 June 2021 The real state of South Africa’s still-failing capitalist economy: Parasitic, super-speculative and unpatriotic By Zwelinzima Vavi 8 min 10
OP-ED 25 May 2021 Vaccine roll-out: Government won’t keep its herd immunity promise this year By Zwelinzima Vavi 5 min 0
OPINIONISTA 18 March 2021 #FeesMustFall 2.0: Saftu will not hesitate to mobilise our 800,000-strong membership in solidarity with the students By Zwelinzima Vavi 7 min 9
OP-ED 16 December 2020 Why are established trade unions comfortable with the status quo and threatened by the rise of Saftu? By Zwelinzima Vavi 21 min 1