The housing crisis is not merely confined to the cities and towns of South Africa; it is at the heart of political struggles in rural areas as well. Farmworkers not only face the same types of issues as those who dwell in urban areas, but also face some that are...
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The Amandla Blog
“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” Frantz Fanon The South African crisis: Post-apartheid South Africa can only be described as in a continuing state of crisis. After nearly twenty years of jobless...
Students Starve in a Show of Solidarity | by Micah Roshan Reddy
This year has borne witness to some staggeringly large student protests, with over 200,000 recently taking to the streets of Montreal in opposition to tuition fee hikes. But a less spotlighted action took place last week at the University of the Witwatersrand in...
Inventing Africa: History, Archaeology and Ideas (Pluto, 2011) | by Robin Derricourt
This book questions the assumptions and prejudices that appear as soon as Africa is considered. It opens with three geographical ways of defining Africa, then critiques assumptions made by writers and historians, the views of anthropologists and post-colonial...



