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PUBLIC TRANSPORT IS ESSENTIAL to ensure people’s mobility so that they can travel for leisure and for work purposes. Apartheid spatial design put poor black people furthest out of town, away from the industrial areas. And this is still the reality today. Hence the...
The feature of this issue asks what has happened on the land over the last 30 years. We begin by hearing from small-scale farmer Norah Mlondobozi as she recounts why she joined the Rural Women’s Assembly, and all the obstacles she has faced. The local chief has laid...
THE ISRAELI REGIME IS RARELY described for what it is: a settler, colonial state that practices apartheid against Palestinians. Palestinians have been saying this for decades. Human rights organisations, such as Al Haq, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and...
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” - Martin Luther King SOUTH AFRICA SUFFERS FROM AN enormous burden of disease and ill health that affects all of us. It affects us as individuals. But it also affects us as a...
The residents of Kagiso, a west Johannesburg township, trooped out in their numbers to avenge the horrifying rape of eight women in late July 2022. These women were part of a video shoot at an abandoned mine dump in the vicinity. The gang rape, needless to say,...
The way out of global crisis requires global action. Under the hegemony of the global financial monopolies, the capitalist system is experiencing a general crisis internationally. This is happening at the same time as specific crises, such as the social and...
Amandla! Interview with Vuyelwa Magidela, member of the Simunye Standing Committee Amandla!: Simunye Workers Forum is an independent organization of workers based in Germiston. You recently won a victory in the Labour Court. Can you tell us about that victory? Vuyelwa...
This is an edited extract from a talk which Clara Mattei gave on International and Historical Experiences of Austerity at the Alternative Information and Development Centre. CAPITALISM IS ABOUT CLASS warfare. Capitalism is about winners and losers. There is no harmony...
Amandla! interview with Lydia Cairncross, Steering Committee member of People's Health Movement of South Africa and Head of Department of Surgery, University of Cape Town. Amandla!: Tell us about the environment in which you work. Lydia Cairncross: I'm a surgeon in...