Building a political organisation requires addressing the urgent needs of the working poor and their communities while ensuring their protection, welfare, and dignity.
State of the working class and its movements
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Consultants and the climate con: management consultants are gobbling up scarce climate finance
Private consulting firms see energy and climate consulting as the new frontier for profit-making.
The #StopFunelaniNganeno Campaign: how the Human Rights Commission is protecting the girl child
On 21 March 1960, in the township of Sharpeville, 69 people died, and 180 were wounded when police fired on a peaceful crowd that had gathered in protest against the pass laws. This iconic date in the history of South Africa is the day we commemorate as Human Rights...
SOUTH AFRICAN GREEN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL
Amandla!: SAGRC has been going for nearly 40 years. Tell Amandla! readers who you are and what you have been doing. Matthews Hlabane: SAGRC is an environmental and social justice organisation based in Emalahleni. It started in the 1980s, when most of us, as youthful...
CAMDEN POWER STATION: THE WORKERS’ STORY
Interview with Camden NUM leadership Amandla!: So we're sitting here with load-shedding. It persists. In general, it gets worse. Why in your view is this the case? What is happening that is causing us to have this level of load-shedding or even load-shedding at all?...
The end of NUM’s hegemony: AMCU and new mlitancy
The Association of Mining and Construction Workers (AMCU) was born in 1998 out of a strike at Douglas Colliery, one of the oldest mines belonging to Ingwe Coal, when 3,000 workers occupied the underground works of the mine in protest against the dismissal of Joseph...
Amandla! Colloquium 2012 – South Africa’s low-wage regime
After the Marikana massacre and the revolt of workers in the agricultural sector, it has become clear that we must look beyond the ANC's conference in December to find a sustained and sustainable socio-economic response to the crises engulfing South Africa. The...
In labour: Zuma’s extractives empire hatched | Eleanor Momberg
President Jacob Zuma's nonprofit rural development project is diversifying into mining, just as the country faces a conjuncture in its extractive practices. A well-placed source has told Amandla! that the extended Zuma family is using the R2 bn Masibambisane Rural...