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After the review of the last 30 years of agrarian reform in Amandla! 89, the feature in this issue looks at ‘The housing mess’. Patrick Bond goes back to what he calls “the developer-driven, bank-centred model” of Joe Slovo’s housing policy, and notes how it has...
The Palestinian spirit is unbreakable. Like the mythical phoenix, defiant and heroic Gaza will rise from the fire. The aerial bombardment of Gaza’s most crowded Jabalia refugee camp piles on one massacre after another. It signifies Israeli barbarism and a fascist...
FROM 1949 UNTIL RECENTLY, generation after generation of “new youth” demanded their rights. But they were all harshly suppressed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Then, it seemed that most Chinese lost the courage to reassert their rights. Not long ago, the...
ON 29TH JULY 2023, TENS of thousands gathered at FNB stadium to celebrate the Economic Freedom Fighters’ 10th anniversary. Struggle songs soared into the air as the 95,000-seater stadium was filled to capacity and soaked in the vibrant red colours embraced by...
MINISTER OF MINERAL Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, recently shut down suggestions that “Zama Zamas” should be trained as artisanal miners and incorporated into the formal mining sector, to solve the illegal mining crisis currently engulfing South Africa....
AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE Liesbeek and the Black Rivers in Cape Town, Amazon (the tech and retail coloniser, not the river) is building its South African headquarters. The R4.6 billion mega-development is on a site so significant it is not an exaggeration to call it...
As astonishing as the break-out of the Gaza concentration camp has been, and ensuing attacks within Israel’s southern settler towns, seized from indigenous Palestinians in past ethnic cleansing, the reasons for the actions are clear for all with open minds and a sense...
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...