From Soweto to Gaza, the struggle over language remains inseparable from the struggle for liberation.
From Afrikaans to Hebrew: Language as domination
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Colonialism
Ramaphosa, the G20 and the Empty Promise of a Just Transition
A just transition for Africa cannot be led by mining billionaires and presidents who answer to capital.
The Age of Fanon, 1
Frantz Fanon would have been 100 years old this year, a cause for sombre commemorations at a time when his words feel prophetic and empowering, yet devastating at the same time.
Decolonise the mind to power Africa’s green future
Green industrialisation in Africa is needed for the climate crisis and for a just development path.
Violence, trauma and mental health in South Africa
In the mental health field, it is imperative to develop a lifestyle model of mental health.
GOING BEYOND FAILED LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM
COLONIALISM, APARTHEID AND neoliberalism remain foundational in shaping the inherited dualistic, unequal and racially divided land and agrarian structure. And we still have that same structure some 29 years into South Africa’s democratic dispensation. At the heart of...
Letters
Human Rights Commission defends right to know Dear Amandla! AMANDLA! READERS WILL BE PLEASED TO know that in a recent landmark decision the Human Rights Commission (HRC)found that owners of private space used commercially for public purposes have no right of...
The Weapon of Theory- Amilcar Cabral
Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966 by Amilcal Cabral If any of us came to Cuba with doubts in our mind about the solidity, strength, maturity and vitality of the...
Aspects of the International Class Struggle in Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas| by Walter Rodney
Political conferences of the oppressed invariably attract a variety of responses - varying from cynical conviction that they are an utter waste of time to naïve optimism that they will change the face of the world. In actuality, popular struggle continues from day to...