Afrique du sud : Amandla ! #102

Editorial

02 1976…2026. The continuing struggle for
education

News briefs

04 News briefs

Feature : 50 years of the ‘76 uprising

06 The 1976 uprising and its enduring
significance
Salim Vally
08 “Young, Gifted and Black” :
the 1976 generation of activists
Noor Nieftagodien
10 Upbeat magazine : SACHED’s response to
the 1976 student uprising
Koni Benson
12 From Afrikaans to Hebrew : language as
domination
Sadia Agsous-Bienstein
14 How the 1976 uprisings led to the people’s
education movement of the mid-1980s in
Soweto
Terri Maggott
16 Gender and the Black Consciousness
Movement
Sibusisiwe Nxongo
18 Led by learners : grief and revolt on Black
campuses
AnneHeffernan
20 Galeshewe : the uprising beyond Soweto
Happy Vena
22 June 1976 : Tembisa’s students rose up
Tshepo Moloi
24 Huhudi : students, civics and a struggle
against forced removals
Lopang Victor Molokwe
26 The forgotten uprising in Temba,
Hammanskraal
Precious Mashaba
28 A series of broken promises : the state of
education in South Africa 50 years after
1976
Itumeleng Mothlabane
30 Gen-Z : when the government goes right,
we should go left
Zolani Balekwa
32 A fiery baton : to the youth, we have
organising to do, majita !
Noncedo Madubedube
34 Amandla ! June 16 competition :
#TheChangeIWantToSee

Economy

36 Crisis of unemployment
Moegsien Ismail

Labour

38 The Labour Laws Amendment Bill is an
attack on the working class
Campaign to scrap the labour bills
40 NUFAS : we are not a funeral cover union ;
we are a servicing union
Interview with Vuyo Lufele

Community

43 The haves, the have-nots and the haveeverythings
Rea Mmethi
44 The army in the townships : militarising the
poor
Interview with Henriette Abrahams

Politics

46 Che Guevara
Zolani Balekwa

Afrophobia

47 Familiar Faces
Rea Mmethi
48 Understanding the rise of Afrophobia in
South Africa — and how we resist it
Faisal Garba

Land

50 Rural land rights still left in limbo :
unpacking the Ingonyama Trust refunds
process
Nokwanda Sihlali

International

52 Palestine : the genocide the world stopped
watching
Usuf Chikte
54 China in the driver’s seat
Alexander Korolev
55 Anti-fascist internationalism from below :
lessons from Porto Alegre
Madoda Cuphe
56 Hungary : some thoughts on Orbán’s
defeat
Fabrizio Burattini
57 Comic strip : The Reluctant Preside