The Noise of Cairo Director Heiko Lange (2012) This film looks at the explosion of creativity in the 18 days that shook the world in Egypt 2011 and led to the fall of the Mubarak regime. It gives us the perspective of dancers, street musicians, poets, graffiti artists...
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Editorial – With friends like these who needs enemies?
AMANDLA ISSUE 25 | EDITORIAL: It is unfortunate that the incorporation of important days in the struggle for liberation as public holidays often results in the ritualization and hollowing out of their significance and meaning. The June 16 uprisings of 1976 marked a...
Letters – Working conditions on South African mines
Working conditions on South African mines Dear Amandla! There is an urgent need for intervention in the way in which mine workers continue to operate in South Africa, despite the presence of unions. The three existing unions seem to grapple with the nature of their...
Humour – Letters to Msholozi
Dear Msholozi, Just to let you know that now that e-tolling has been put on hold and we won't be able to contribute to the ANC's election coffers that way, we are working on new ideas to generate income and, of course, the party will get its 15%. One of the ideas...
Activists speak
Amandla! interviewed 3 youth activists on the meaning of June 16th Mntuwoxolo Ngudle, student at CPUT. YCL / ANCYL / ANC / SACP / SASCO Peter Tsholo, Free State. Progressive Youth Movement Wendy Tsotetsi, Gauteng, Youth Agricultural Ambassadors (YAA), ANC Amandla!...
Defend our right to strike! | by Roger Ronnie
The South African Constitution proclaims that everyone has the right to strike. The entrenchment of this right was bought at a high cost by the majority of working men and women through, amongst others, the use of the strike weapon as a measure of last resort in...
Crisis and Alternatives | by Achin Vanaik
Crisis for whom? Why after all this is it business more or less as usual? Because those who benefit think they can get away with it. Where there is greater ground level resistance – for example in Greece, significant political forces have put forward specific...
Guilt, Property, and sustainer Settler Consciousness in Palestine
In “Whiteness as Property,” Cheryl Harris tracks the construction of whiteness in the United States as legalized power, specifically as property. Defining property as the expectation of the right to property, Harris paints whiteness as a legalized sense of...
Barclays, the City, and a system in crisis | by James Meadway
Barclays was fined after admitting attempting to rig the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), a measure of how much it costs banks to borrow from each other. Libor is calculated by taking an average – each morning - of the rate that banks report they can borrow at....







