A Ramaphosa ANC will have to base its strategy on a continuation of the neoliberal strategy of the Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma governments.
GETTING OUT OF THE MESS
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Zuma
UNITED ACTION OF THE WORKING CLASS: AGAINST FACTIONALISM
How can we argue for a multi-class United Front, if we can’t create a working class united front?
RADICAL ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION: BETWEEN THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS
A complicated game of smoke and mirrors is being played as the battle unfolds for the ANC, the state and the inside track to plunder South Africa’s economic wealth.
ZUMA’S REGIME MUST GO
Ramaphosa instead of Zuma? Does it make a difference? Clearly, the crisis in South Africa runs much deeper than Zuma.
Amandla Issue 45 Editorial
Will the SACP go down with Zuma? There were three people who were key to Jacob Zuma winning the presidency of the ANC and the country: Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, ANC Youth League President Julius Malema and SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande. Of the...
LETTERS TO THE PRESIDENT
Jacob Thank you for the recent state visit. Joburg’s changed quite a bit since I was last there. (I was expecting to get hijacked, lol!) Sorry not to get to Nkandla and meet your people. But, please can you speak to your king? He’s causing chaos for my people on...
Letters
Human Rights Commission defends right to know Dear Amandla! AMANDLA! READERS WILL BE PLEASED TO know that in a recent landmark decision the Human Rights Commission (HRC)found that owners of private space used commercially for public purposes have no right of...
Getting the energy mix right: towards a publicly driven, socially owned renewable energy sector | by Sandra van Niekerk
In his State of the Nation address of 26 June 2014, President Zuma called for "a radical transformation of the energy sector, to develop a sustainable energy mix that comprises coal, solar, wind, hydro, gas and nuclear energy ". Not content with building Medupi and...
What, really, did the ANC deliver? Tokenistic social policy
What has the South African government delivered in 20 years? A massive welfare state with 16 million grant recipients (nearly a third of the population); 95% of the people served with clean water access; a rising rate of matriculation by 12th graders; a dramatic...