Dale T. Mckinley

  • SOUTH AFRICA: The 'in-between' politics of Walter Sisulu

    BY DALE T. McKINLEY JOHANNESBURG — Two years ago I sat with veteran African National Congress leader Walter Sisulu in his modest Johannesburg home to talk about his days as a youthful ANC leader in the 1940s and 1950s. Although I had briefly met

  • SOUTH AFRICA: Manufacturing the 'new' enemy

    BY DALE T. MCKINLEY JOHANNESBURG &#151 Be afraid. Be very afraid. Lurking beneath the surface of an evidently otherwise contented and patriotic South African society, there lies a "new" enemy of the state and the people. According to those in the

  • SOUTH AFRICA: Behind the battle of Thembalihle

    BY DALE T. MCKINLEY JOHANNESBURG &#151 Until recently, not many people were aware of the community of Thembalihle (literal translation &#151 "place of hope"). Situated south of Soweto, Thembalihle had its beginnings when workers moved there to be

  • SOUTH AFRICA: The SACP-ANC political merry-go-round

    BY DALE T. McKINLEY JOHANNESBURG — "SACP in clash with ANC" and "ANC warned not to follow path of ZANU-PF" were some of the headlines that have graced the pages of South African newspapers following the latest political spat between the ruling

  • SOUTH AFRICA: No 'third way' for labour movement

    BY DALE T. McKINLEY JOHANNESBURG — Prior to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994, the labour movement here did not give much thought to the specific political, social and economic role that it might play in the new dispensation. If

  • ZIMBABWE: 'Only a new revolution will dislodge Mugabe'

    BY DALE T. McKINLEY HARARE — For a man who might soon find himself facing the life-threatening wrath of a former comrade turned despotic head of state, Dzinashe Machingura shows amazingly little concern. Maybe that's because Machingura is better

  • Dale McKinley: It's time to be offensive

    It's time to be offensive COMMENT BY DALE T. MCKINLEY "If you're not angry, you're not paying attention" — anonymous It's disgustingly consistent. Open the newspaper, turn on the television or radio, access the internet and you are more than

  • ANC leadership's class agenda

    By Dale T. McKinley JOHANNESBURG — Why does the predictable (if uneven) evolution of the African National Congress's (ANC) socioeconomic strategy and policy continue to be treated by the South Africa's media commentators as if it were a

  • The left after the ANC election victory

    The left after the ANC election victory By Dale T. McKinley JOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress (ANC) still commands overwhelming support amongst the South Africa's poor and working class, who are the vast majority of the population.