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For this special feature to commemorate 50 years since June 16, Amandla! ran a social media campaign. We asked young people to contribute writing and photos on the theme: #TheChangeIWantToSee. Thanks to all those who participated. We publish here a selection of the contributions we received.
Fifty years after the 1976 Soweto Uprising against Bantu Education and Afrikaans as a medium of instruction, the struggle for a dignified education in South Africa continues amid severe crises like overcrowding, teacher cuts, and the collapse of NSFAS, requiring a renewed political consciousness to achieve true liberation.
Economic liberation is essential to begin addressing South Africa’s social crisis.
South Africa’s ongoing and worsening mass unemployment stems from a deliberate, market-friendly, and pro-business economic consensus that has proven ineffective over the past 30 years.
Amandla! spoke to Tendai, a victim of Operation Dudula, about her experience at the Spartan clinic in Ekurhuleni.
Imperialism has transformed into an oligarchic project, with billionaires and monopolistic tech firms controlling the American state under Trump, imposing austerity and privatisation on regions abroad.
The government’s political choices are weakening public schools and creating space for private actors to step in. This has concerning implications for equity and democratic control.
South Africa’s inequality has not changed in ten years, with the wealthiest 10% holding 86% of the country’s total wealth. Yet there is still a tax policy that contributes to maintaining inequality. Treasury has the potential to address this in the upcoming 2026 budget announcement. Will they do it?
In the world’s most unequal city, in one of the world’s most unequal countries, a water policy that ignores inequality is not neutral. It is harmful.