After the failure of the Green Economy

10 Theses of a critique of the Green Economy Working Group ‘ societal relationships with nature ’ (GesNat) of the Federal Coordination of Internationalismus (Bundeskoordination Internationalismus – BUKO ) It used to be called sustainability, but today it is the ‘...

It’s time for new left politics | by Mazibuko K Jara

Can the poor and the middle classes open a path to change the country? The magical year of 2010, a year of millennial promises and expectations, is drawing to an end, with South Africa still facing multifaceted social, economic, political and ecological crises. In...
The Amandla Blog

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...
Reconstituting emancipatory activism

Reconstituting emancipatory activism

Debates about the meaning(s) of activism have been perennial pre-occupations in postcolonial societies. In South Africa, the contours of this debate have been shaped, on one hand, by those who argue that attaining formal democracy renders struggle and activism...