Striking at the World Cup

Leftfield has already reported how the World Cup, far from being an economic benefit to South Africa, has in fact been a license for FIFA and international capitalism to loot the country. Now it looks as if the full force of the law might be used to keep the electricity supply to fans’ TVs running, [...]

Posted by Jack on July 2nd, 2010 | 1 Comment Posted in Uncategorized

The Capes of Rath

By Calum Nelson, MPharm In South Africa there’s a popular comedian called Matthias Rath. Here’s one of his jokes: “Patient: Doctor Doctor, I’m worried about transmitting HIV to my unborn baby. Doctor: Don’t worry, just have some potatoes. Whatever you do, don’t take any poisonous anti-viral medicine which will actually cause AIDS.” It’s a screamer [...]

Posted by neldo on June 14th, 2010 | 3 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

The great World Cup rip-off

Today sees the launch of the 2010 football world cup in South Africa. It’s great news for football fans, and we’re playing our part with a world cup raffle (comment if you’d like to get a ticket!) and South Africa night for the final (watch this space for details.) But great as it might be [...]

Posted by Jack on June 11th, 2010 | 2 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Official position on death of Terreblanche

As the SSP candidate for Glasgow Central, I feel the burden of being an official member of civil society. To my mind, the norm when a prominent death occurs is for the media to do the rounds of Important People, gathering their balanced reactions. In order to assist our friends in the press, I have [...]

Posted by James N on April 4th, 2010 | No Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Fookn nasty South African racist killed.

SSY has a long and proud record of celebrating when fascists die in embarrassing and or unfortunate circumstances. Whether it’s the sad loss of BNP founder John Tyndall (we coincidentally had a BBQ the day he popped his clogs – remember Tyndall burgers?), homophobic Austrian Fuhrer Jorg Haider who killed himself in a car crash [...]

Posted by Andy Bowden on April 4th, 2010 | 41 Comments Posted in Uncategorized

Zuma mania!

Jacob Zuma, the President of South Africa, has been in the UK meeting the Queen and causing a stir. The Daily Mail has whipped itself into a frenzy, calling Zuma a “vile buffoon” and a “sex-obsessed bigot”, as well as repeatedly calling him “Zulu Boy”. The Telegraph is appalled that he has been invited after  [...]

Posted by TheWorstWitch on March 5th, 2010 | 1 Comment Posted in Uncategorized