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Amandla! interviews Moeletsi Mbeki Amandla!: You said recently that “Democracy during the years 94 to 2024 can be characterised as the period when the African Middle Class consolidated its hold on power.” Could you expand on that a bit? Moeletsi Mbeki: Many people in...
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...
The coming 2024 national and provincial elections are the most significant since the ’94 ‘freedom elections’. Yet once again there is no credible left-wing or anti-capitalist force contesting.
IN LATE SEPTEMBER 2023, THE MAIN trade union federations from BRICS countries converged in Durban for their annual trade union forum (BRICS TUF). The theme was “Cooperation for Fair and Inclusive Development for all Peoples of the World…” Their gathering was...
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...