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mindsword
21st April 2014, 12:14
Do they even exist??

Tim Cornelis
21st April 2014, 13:01
Define "real".

There's various small Trotskyist groups (no surprise), some anarchist groups here and there, Stalinist parties, and the most notable is Abahlali baseMjondolo -- a personal favourite or its implicit use of orthodox Marxist strategy.

A few:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abahlali_baseMjondolo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awareness_League
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_and_Socialist_Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_Fighters (this one's terrible and if it comes to power it will enact Zimbabwean style disastrous policies I'm sure)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_People%27s_Party (reformist)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx,_Engels,_Lenin,_Stalin_Movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Communist_parties_in_Africa

mindsword
21st April 2014, 13:28
Abahlali baseMjondolo
Cool! Didnt know about this. Just came home from SA, n never heard a word.

Hrafn
21st April 2014, 14:02
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_South_Africa#Re-emergence:_1990s.E2.80.93Present