Amandla! spoke to Tendai, a victim of Operation Dudula, about her experience at the Spartan clinic in Ekurhuleni.
The story of a victim of Operation Dudula
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Gauteng
Budgets shape societies: the risk to our schools
The government’s political choices are weakening public schools and creating space for private actors to step in. This has concerning implications for equity and democratic control.
Water restrictions risk punishing the poor
In the world’s most unequal city, in one of the world’s most unequal countries, a water policy that ignores inequality is not neutral. It is harmful.
A disease called Dudula: how xenophobia infects public health
Problems in public healthcare are the result of budget cuts and staff shortages rather than migrant presence.
Education cuts are provincial choice within national programme
There are many ways in which the Provincial Treasury can reprioritise spending to secure teaching jobs.
The 1984 Vaal uprising: a turning point in the struggle
In September 1984, the Vaal Civic Association, with the support of other movements, mobilised against the rent increases.
Thoughtleader: Juju does Guy Fawkes?
Behold, the end of the world is nigh. The barbarians have breached the gates. Savages are redrawing maps without the superpowers. Journalists' heads are rolling - and not only at Independent Newspapers. Jihadists now speak with English accents. The Generations cast...
All That Is Solid Melts Into Sewage
February 14, 2013 The hyenas awake! (Apologies to actually existing hyenas, who are deeply impressive and sexually progressive beasts apart from their scrawny hind-legs.) The cannibals are sharpening their carving-knives! The vultures circle in the sunset! The...
The strike committees: Organising against all odds | by Amandla! correspondants
Whether the aftermath of Marikana will spell the downright end of the National Union of Mineworkers, the resentment against the traditional structures of bargaining and the union leadership is palpable in the platinum belt, sometimes bordering on murderous anger. The...