Amandla! is free here, but we welcome donations.
The people of Mpondoland are determine theird to save their land from mining by an Australian company which wants to tear apart their pristine coastal dunes to mine titanium. Four years ago, they succeeded in reversing a decision to allow the destruction of the Wild...
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...
Conversation with Özlem Onaran From the start, the neoliberal project in Europe was marked by a striking pro-capital redistribution of income, wealth and power. This seemed to be a good solution to overcome the profitability crisis, but it sowed the seeds of another...
After the Marikana massacre and the revolt of workers in the agricultural sector, it has become clear that we must look beyond the ANC's conference in December to find a sustained and sustainable socio-economic response to the crises engulfing South Africa. The...
Abandon tax pegging! Tax according to ability to pay! The development of Personal Income Tax in SA since 1994 and the "25% TAX revenue to GDP" rule 23rd October 2012, Alternative Information & Development Centre By Dick Forslund {phocadownload...
Amandla (A!): Is platinum the new gold for the South African economy and how has the global crisis impacted on the industry? GC: Platinum has historically been a relatively marginal metal in the world economy. South Africa has 88 percent of the world's known reserves...
South AfrIca's coal-fuelled development path delivers jobs that are less than decent and results in massively negative externalities – water contamination, air pollution, loss of farmland and community commons and livelihoods. With theexception of Sasol, coal is still...
President Jacob Zuma's nonprofit rural development project is diversifying into mining, just as the country faces a conjuncture in its extractive practices. A well-placed source has told Amandla! that the extended Zuma family is using the R2 bn Masibambisane Rural...
A Mining company can uproot an entire community for the meager sum of R600: a prospecting permit from the Department of Mineral Resources costs only R500 and a mining permit is R100. In contrast, tribal, cultural and community structures in rural areas have been...