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Fifty years after the 1976 Soweto Uprising against Bantu Education and Afrikaans as a medium of instruction, the struggle for a dignified education in South Africa continues amid severe crises like overcrowding, teacher cuts, and the collapse of NSFAS, requiring a renewed political consciousness to achieve true liberation.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address was an exercise in spin. The claim that South Africa is on a path to recovery contradicts a harsh and worsening reality.
Amandla! has always been more than a magazine. It is part of an ecosystem of movements, thinkers, activists, workers, feminists, youth organisers, and internationalists committed to building a just, democratic, and egalitarian society.
The National Dialogue is incapable of addressing the structural roots of inequality, unemployment and state collapse.
South Africa is indeed a sick patient. But neoliberalism is not the cure. It is the disease.
For calling out Israel’s genocide, the South African government is subject to Trump’s punitive actions. And no doubt more is to follow.
The tragic deaths of the children and the suffering of informal mineworkers should unite South Africans in demanding systemic change rather than scapegoating vulnerable groups.
The ANC-DA Alliance is more deeply committed to neoliberalism even than its predecessors.
Polarising ideological polemics, which shed more heat than light, should be avoided at all costs.