An interview with former Trade and Industry Minister, Rob Davies, surveys the damage to the South African economy from the US tariffs and suggests that greater African cooperation is the way to go.
Rob Davies
Ruth First—100 years
As we marked the centenary of the birth of an important leader of the ANC and SACP, Ruth First, Amandla! talked with Rob Davies, former Minister of Trade and Industry and a colleague of Ruth First at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo before her assassination.
Climate sanctions against fossil-addicted capitalists
South Africa gifts CO2 emitters $9400 billion in implicit annual subsidies, contrasted with the 2024 GDP of $403 billion.
Africa can use Global North’s unilateral departures from trade agreements to support low carbon industrialisation
Africa is among regions contributing least to global warming, but among those most affected by it.
It’s wrong to assume that SA has credible leadership
Retired trade unionist Dinga Sikwebu’s characterisation of the current political situation as a stalemate — and therefore a basis for the much-vaunted national dialogue and social compact — fatally assumes that we have a political elite and business class with...
Back to the future
AMANDLA ISSUE 8 | EDITORIAL : The defeat of Mbeki and the old guard was enthusiastically endorsed by the predominantly black working class electorate and has created the hope that a new era has dawned, where AIDS denialism, the crisis of delivery, the disastrous state...





