Latest Articles
AFTER 30 YEARS, a middle-class election
Amandla! interviews Moeletsi Mbeki Amandla!: You said recently that “Democracy during the years 94 to 2024 can be characterised as the period when the African Middle Class consolidated its hold on power.” Could you expand on that a bit? Moeletsi Mbeki: Many people in...
National Development Plan autopsy confirms SA Left’s gloom-and-doom predictions
The two most prominent openly pro-corporate politicians active in South Africa since the early 2010s - Trevor Manuel and Cyril Ramaphosa - teamed up in 2009-12, during Jacob Zuma’s presidency, to produce a National Development Plan (NDP). They were supported by a...
Coalition governments – a labour perspective
Coalition governments have long existed throughout the world. Some countries, particularly those in the Global North, have managed to overcome many of the initial challenges presented by the various political formations that needed to work together on often...
ANC AND 2024 ELECTIONS: A NIGHTMARE OF COALITIONS, SPLITS AND NEOLIBERAL CRISIS
THE AFRICAN NATIONAL Congress is certainly fighting its most difficult election since the dawn of democracy in 1994. This may sound like a cliché that gets echoed every election, but now it’s true. The unabated decline of the electoral support of the ANC has been...
Elections: WAY FORWARD FOR THE LEFT
WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT is the profound effect this election is going to have on shaping the medium-term political landscape in the country. That means that it’s going to have a profound effect on how to go about trying to construct a Left party. And there are major...
EDITORIAL: 2024: WAKE UP CALL FOR THE LEFT
THE COMING 2024 NATIONAL AND provincial elections are the most significant since the ’94 ‘freedom elections’. Yet once again there is no credible left-wing or anti-capitalist force contesting. By all accounts, the ANC is not likely to win an outright majority, and new...
Amandla Magazine
Amandla! is a progressive media project. Producing, sharing and analysing information, Towards promoting community media for social justice