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Amid the chaos in our higher education system, protesting students have been unswerving in their demand for a “decolonised” education. With universities around the country forced into the uncertain task of reimagining their curricula, departments of psychology have...
With the current discourse on “decolonization,” it is likely that universities around South Africa will intensify their efforts—if not their rhetoric—to “Africanize” their respective curricula. For one discipline in particular, however, such efforts have been...
By Brian P. Jones From Monthly Review Black Lives Matter and the Struggle for Freedom In late April 2016, at a town hall-style event in London, President Obama complained about the rising movement against the state-sanctioned murder of black people often referred to...
“We do not fight racism with racism. We fight racism with solidarity. We do not fight explosive capitalism with Black capitalism. We fight capitalism with basic socialism.” Bobby Seale in Seize the Time In the midst of the student struggle, let's pause to remember the...
In issue 45 of Amandla!, we opened the pages to the important debate on race and class. In this Article Motala clarifies the meaning of “race” as a social construct. He warns against the continued reference to apartheid racial categories, particularly by the ANC and...
By: Richard Raber. Origially published in the Daily Maverick Rejecting Postracialism: Whiteness, Morality and Decency Beginning with the contention that most white people view racism conceptually as bad, evil or at least something that is undesirable to be associated...
The student uprising, which erupted in Soweto on 16 June 1976 and quickly spread to other areas throughout the country, was a turning point in South Africa’s politics.
A defining feature of the 1976 uprising was the decisive entry of black students onto the stage of history.
Amandla interviews Marcus Solomon on his reflections on the 1976 student uprising, its significance and lessons for today.