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The two most prominent openly pro-corporate politicians active in South Africa since the early 2010s - Trevor Manuel and Cyril Ramaphosa - teamed up in 2009-12, during Jacob Zuma’s presidency, to produce a National Development Plan (NDP). They were supported by a...
Coalition governments have long existed throughout the world. Some countries, particularly those in the Global North, have managed to overcome many of the initial challenges presented by the various political formations that needed to work together on often...
THE AFRICAN NATIONAL Congress is certainly fighting its most difficult election since the dawn of democracy in 1994. This may sound like a cliché that gets echoed every election, but now it’s true. The unabated decline of the electoral support of the ANC has been...
WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT is the profound effect this election is going to have on shaping the medium-term political landscape in the country. That means that it’s going to have a profound effect on how to go about trying to construct a Left party. And there are major...
Amandla! spoke with Malcolm Campbell, an architect, urban designer and development planner, based in Cape Town, who has a long history of involvement in the delivery of affordable housing and supporting struggles around housing. Malcolm Campbell: I have become...
Interview with Zama Timbela and Mabhelandile Twani, leading activists in Intlungu Yasematyotyombeni. Amandla!: Tell us about the housing situation in Khayelitsha. Mabhelandile Twani: Here in Khayelitsha we have backyarders and people who have been in family houses for...
Interview with Gilbert Achcar Amandla!: The scale of Israel’s attack on Gaza is unprecedented. Do you see this largely as an act of vengeance or does it have a strategic purpose? Gilbert Achcar: Of course, one dimension of it resembles an act of vengeance. But it is...
ON AUGUST 31ST 2023, THE country woke up to the news that a fire had claimed the lives of over 60 people in the Usindiso building in the inner city of Johannesburg. As the death toll rose to 77, so did a national discourse about “hijacking” and blaming of foreign...
HOW SEVERE ARE SOUTH Africa’s housing and consumer debt crises, and what can be done to address them, at the root, finally; not just with existing tokenistic subsidy measures? By considering the class character of housing, fused with race, gender and environmental...