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One evening while channel surfing at home, I stumbled upon what sounded like a rap cypher on the radio. Quickly, I got up to look for an empty cassette tape nearby. Once I found one (a see-through Sonotech C-60 if memory serves right), I hurriedly inserted it into the...
As we mark 20 years since the end of apartheid and the advent of democracy, there is a deep rupturing of the post-apartheid social consensus in the face of intensifying class struggle. The signals for its end are the Marikana massacre, the great mineworkers' strike...
by Katherine Robinson Johannesburg, 7 February: While South Africa celebrates 20 years of democracy this year, the country will also be holding its national election, the first since 1994, without Madiba. If the last two months are anything to go by, we will surely...
Dear Amandla! When one reads through any of our nation's major newspapers one is bombarded with endless stories of corruption in government, the civil service and of those in power pillaging state resources. But these stories are overwhelmingly confined to...
Dear President Zuma, I found donkey in my burger. Disappointed Dear Disappointed, I can understand why you feel the way you do. After all, I find caviar in my sushi, Johnny Walker Blue in my Coke and gold coins in my Sunday pudding. For me, every day is Christmas....
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...
Tax is a most personal matter. It seems that the more rich one is the greater is the resentment about 'my' hard-earned income being taken from 'me' to pay for 'them'. For the majority, on the other hand, tax is indirectly experienced in the increasing poverty of the...
The government promised to eradicate the bucket system by 2007 but five years after that deadline, Silvertown (SST) in Khayelitsha still waits – though no longer patiently. Its story shows why community struggles are still a main route to delivery. Silvertown came...
The government promised to eradicate the bucket system by 2007 but five years after that deadline, Silvertown (SST) in Khayelitsha still waits – though no longer patiently. Its story shows why community struggles are still a main route to delivery. Silvertown came...