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This article was first published in City Press. We are publishing a variety of views on the election results to stimulate debate. South Africa held its national and provincial elections on 29 May, amid the 30th anniversary of the end of apartheid. Contrary to...
This article was first published in ROAPE. We are publishing a variety of views on the results of the election in order to stimulate debate. For the first time in South Africa’s 30 years of democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to obtain...
This article was first published on the Elitsha website. We are publishing a variety of views on the results of the election in order to stimulate debate. Populism defined the recent elections, inviting reactionary ideas into the mainstream. What does the outcome of...
*This article is jointly published by Amandla! and the Daily Maverick A Puzzle Bad faith is involved when the billionaire President of South Africa and the ANC, who presides over the world’s most unequal country, dismisses the objections to the NHI Act on the basis...
Having waited what should be the requisite few days for the dust to settle before commenting on something as significant as the dramatic signing into law of the National Health Insurance Bill (NHI) on the 15th of May - I believe it is time for us as a nation to have...
Last week, our dear friend and comrade Ayanda Kota was diagnosed very unexpectedly with cancer and SIADH (Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion). A private hospital made the diagnosis following a very frightening time for Ayanda and his family....
Anti-extractivist movements, campaigns and networks such as the Right to Say NO in Southern Africa not only provide powerful critiques of extractivism and the growth-focused development model. They also have radical political potential. They are imagining just 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...
Land Reform - A critique of Traditional Leadership by Lwazi Ncapayi and Solomzi Ntungwa | 14 July 2018 | Amandla! Magazine The South African constitution recognises customary law as a source of law, and may be used in courts of Law as evidence, as per s211(3) which...