On the 24th of April, one day after inspectors ordered the owners to evacuate the building, the Rana Plaza textile factory in Savar Bangladesh, employing over 3,000 workers, collapsed. Over a third of those inside were killed and many others sustained major injuries....
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Political Economy of Gender and Climate Change
Abstracts Gender Concerns in Climate Change need serious attention of all interested in sustainable development. Women in many developing countries are responsible for climatically sensitive tasks such as securing food, water and energy which ensure the life and...
Q & A with Minister of Health, Aaron Motsoaledi
Interview with Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health Part 1 Amandla!: How did you became politicised? Aaron Motsoaledi: I was born into a family of activists. Elias Motsoaledi, one of the Rivonia trialists, is my uncle. I became active in boarding school...
Global health crisis
The world is facing a global health crisis characterised by growing inequities within and among nations and millions of preventable deaths, especially among the poor. These are in large degree due to unfair economic structures which lock people into poverty and poor...
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...
Disempowering women through the “green economy” | by Clarissa Militante
“The Future We Want,” the text being discussed by governments for Rio+20, promotes rhetoric of empowering women but in reality, it not only disempowers them further, it also gives more rights and access to corporations. The basic step towards achieving women...
Disempowering Women through the Green Economy | by Clarissa Militante
“The Future We Want,” the text being discussed by governments for Rio+20, promotes rhetoric of empowering women but in reality, it not only disempowers them further, it also gives more rights and access to corporations. The basic step towards achieving women...
James Claassen – an icon of health transformation | by Professor Gregory Hussey
James did his medical training at the University of Cape Town in eighties, a period that saw an exciting new development in South African politics manifested by the emergence of an organised and highly motivated progressive health and social services movement across...
The Green Paper for National Health Insurance: universal healthcare threatened | by Alex Muller
The release of the Green Paper on National Health Insurance (NHI) has rekindled the heated debate around reforming South Africa’s health system. After a decade of denialism and neglect in the public health sector, it is evident that health is in a state of crisis and...



