Access to healthcare is highly inequitable; only 14.6% of the population is covered by medical aid, yet those individuals still face significant out-of-pocket costs, while the majority of the population suffers from a crumbling and inefficient system.
Accountability
COP 30: entrenching the crisis of climate politics
COP30 summit in Belém was a failure that highlighted the growing chasm between international climate policy and the reality of a warming world.
Free State – a province in crisis, and Botshabelo – the symbol of broken promises
Botshabelo, and the Free State at large, deserve better than bucket toilets, fake RDP houses, and broken infrastructure.
The silent crisis – Water Boards and the unfolding disaster in South Africa’s water system
Water, instead of being a public service, has become an increasingly expensive service, leaving those at the bottom of the social ladder to fight for basic survival.
Life without wages: the scale, the reasons and the alternatives
The post-apartheid mass unemployment crisis is rooted in the structure of the South African economy.
Why Numsa has degenerated
This article has been jointly published with Daily Maverick. Comrades who have been unlawfully suspended by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) have been repeatedly asked one question over the past couple of weeks: “Why is this happening?” Why...
Reclaiming Our Unions: The Crisis in SAMWU and the Continuing Fight for Democracy from Below | Amandla! Correspondent
As this issue of Amandla! goes to press, we read disturbing accounts of South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) shop stewards being prevented by private security personnel from entering the union's Johannesburg headquarters, and being physically attacked with...
Rebuilding the Zimbabwean state: an idea whose time has come? | by Thomas Deve
Beginning in 2000, Zimbabwe experienced a decade of unprecedented political and economic crisis that was only temporarily alleviated by the inception of a government of national unity in 2010. Despite the occasional populist and radical pronouncements of the head of...
Editorial Comment
VICTORY for Marikana – Lonmin workers 22% = R11 000! Now for the struggle for Justice A heroic struggle has tasted its first victory. The reported wage settlement with Lonmin of R11 000 is a massive victory, nothing less than the murder and sacrifice of so many...








