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This article was first published on the Africa is a Country website. We are publishing a variety of views on the results of the election in order to stimulate debate. Politics during apartheid had a certain straight-line simplicity. It was always pretty clear who the...
Amandla! spoke with Malcolm Campbell, an architect, urban designer and development planner, based in Cape Town, who has a long history of involvement in the delivery of affordable housing and supporting struggles around housing. Malcolm Campbell: I have become...
There have been moments when opportunities for a revival of the socialist Left looked promising. The late 1990s saw the flourishing of a range of social justice struggles, which began to pose a challenge to the ANC government’s shift to neoliberalism.
From the earliest days of post-Apartheid South Africa, major corporations have corrupted the state by offering bribes in order to get lucrative contracts.
The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), the publisher of Amandla!, is a founding member of the Right 2 Know campaign and is vigorously opposed to the idea of a media tribunal and other censorship. However, when reading the anti-union and anti-worker...
Harsh Realities The ideological, political, organizational, and socioeconomic realities of contemporary South Africa do not paint a flattering picture for the left:* The neoliberal variant of capitalism is not only practically dominant but generally in a phase of...
Theme: This paper examines the impact of the global economic recession on South Africa’s economy and society, the ways in which the country’s government has chosen to respond to that crisis, and its likely social and political fall-out. Summary: Despite initial...
Door-to-door Reflections It is Saturday (04/04/2009). The sun is unforgivably hot. Probably it is the absence of an umbrella on my part. How could I? None of the ANC volunteers can afford an umbrella; it would be rude and unfair of me to have one covering my head...