Amandla! is free here, but we welcome donations.
Jacob Thank you for the recent state visit. Joburg’s changed quite a bit since I was last there. (I was expecting to get hijacked, lol!) Sorry not to get to Nkandla and meet your people. But, please can you speak to your king? He’s causing chaos for my people on...
In his State of the Nation address of 26 June 2014, President Zuma called for "a radical transformation of the energy sector, to develop a sustainable energy mix that comprises coal, solar, wind, hydro, gas and nuclear energy ". Not content with building Medupi and...
Developments in NUMSA are of considerable significance, portending substantial changes in the South African political landscape. Notably this entails the possible fatal split of COSATU and the ANC-led alliance. But as with all break-ups, one cannot be certain what...
Dear Amandla! I have recently moved from Johannesburg to Cape Town to work as an educator. I worked in Soweto before this and was quite looking forward to relocating to a different place. I had heard a lot about Cape Town's beauty and the pictures testified to that. I...
The Devil's Lair A film by Riaan Hendriks 2013 Incarcerated Knowledge Dylan Valley 2013 There's a growing body of Cape Flats gangsta-chic in both print and film that is all the vogue popping up in publications and film festivals worldwide. Much of it makes spurious...
As the 2014 elections approach and the ANC continues to weaken under Zuma's leadership a host of new political parties and formations, from Agang to WASP, are beginning to enter the political scene from. The latest emerge is the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) led by...
Even with the death of Venezuela's Chávez, his continuing legacy – 'chavismo' or the Bolivarian revolutionary process – is here to stay. Twenty years of social, political and ideological change are not easily reversible. Chavismo represents a process of revolutionary...
BREAKING NEWS-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Government officials must be forced by law to use public services What is good enough for us, should be good enough for you Johannesburg, South Africa, 06 September 2012-September NationalImbizo, SNI, will be going on a protest...
by Jared Sacks To those of us that know revolution and understand the manner in which the composition of forces are repositioned and counter-hegemony is asserted by the revolutionary left, it is becoming increasingly clear that a new counter-revolutionary threat...