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Afrique du sud : Issue #101 of Amandla ! magazine is out.

Amandla ! — 2026-05-17T03:00:00Z

STOP barbarism
We thought that Cyril Ramaphosa's fantasy state of the nation needed a response. He told us that we have turned a corner. We thought we would show him what the corners, where the majority of people live, actually look and feel like. So we have presented the ‘real' state of the nation.
The editorial reviews how, over the last 30 years, the ANC (and now the GNU) have not only failed to build the nation -they have torn it apart. As we approach the 50th anniversary of June 16, (…)

- Afrique du sud / communiqués partis amis et associations

Afrique du sud - Le dialogue national : crise, opportunité et défi pour la gauche

Amandla ! — 2025-10-26T04:00:00Z

L'Afrique du Sud entre dans sa quatrième décennie de démocratie en proie à une profonde crise sociale, économique et politique. Cette crise ne touche pas seulement l'efficacité du gouvernement, mais aussi, plus largement, le système post-apartheid lui-même. La pauvreté, le chômage et les inégalités demeurent parmi les plus élevés au monde. Les institutions étatiques sont dysfonctionnelles et s'effondrent dans des domaines clés, des services de santé à l'éducation, en passant par Eskom, (…)

- Afrique du sud / Analyse

Amandla ! ISSUE NO. 97 | APRIL 2025

Amandla ! — 2025-05-08T03:30:00Z

In the feature of this issue, we focus on the global era of Trumpism as the world which South Africa now has to inhabit.
The editorial makes no bones about identifying Trumpism 2.0 as neofascism, which it describes essentially as fascism with elections…of one sort or another. It argues that South Africa cannot continue along its current, already failed, path of ‘export-led growth. It must change course and reindustrialise around the basic needs of the population. Mass housing alone would (…)

- Afrique du sud

Amandla ! : COP 29 failed humanity

Amandla ! — 2024-12-21T04:00:00Z

In the feature of this issue, we focus on climate change and the just transition. We : Get a view of the failure of the COP process and a glimpse of an alternative ; Read about the crisis of the private pathway to electricity reform ; Hear from the NUM on how they see the just transition ; Learn the lessons from the failure of the Komati power station conversion ; Get an analysis of green colonialism and See how Africa can use the Global North's breaches of global trade regulations to our (…)

- Afrique du sud / communiqués partis amis et associations

Construire un large front uni sur le terrain

Amandla !, Sidney Kgara — 2024-09-23T03:00:00Z

Amandla ! : Beaucoup d'eau a coulé sous les ponts depuis notre dernière conversation. Vous parliez alors de la candidature du SACP (South African Communist Party, Parti communiste sud-africain NdR) aux élections. Nous avons maintenant un gouvernement d'unité nationale. Certains disent qu'il s'agit en fait d'une coalition avec la DA (Democratic Alliance, Alliance démocratique parti de droite NdR), qui se fait passer pour un gouvernement d'unité nationale. Une feuille de vigne pour cacher la (…)

- Afrique du sud / Analyse

Élections 2024 en Afrique du Sud : un appel au réveil pour la gauche

Amandla ! — 2024-05-16T10:00:00Z

Les élections nationales et provinciales du 29 mai en Afrique du Sud s'annoncent les plus déterminantes depuis les « élections de la liberté » de 1994. Reste qu'encore une fois aucune force de gauche ou anticapitaliste crédible n'est en lice. Selon l'appréciation générale, l'ANC ne devrait pas remporter une majorité absolue, ce qui implique des possibilités de nouvelles configurations de pouvoir. L'incapacité de la gauche de se faire une place dans le cadre des élections qui arrivent en dit (…)

- Afrique du sud / Election, Analyse

Afrique du sud : COSATU at the crossroads

Amandla ! — 2013-05-23T03:11:00Z

Tensions in SA's biggest labour movement play themselves out over the failure of the Polokwane project. The ANC's 2007 Polokwane Conference, which adopted a host of progressive policies, was supposed to usher in the developmental state and a jump to the left in economic and social policies.
A little more than five years later, COSATU, a main actor in constituting the Zuma block, has very little to show for its alliance with Zuma. In a number of instances the situation of the workers and (…)

- Afrique du sud / syndicalisme

AFRIQUE DU SUD : What the Fuck ?

Amandla ! — 2012-09-24T03:24:00Z

It is not usual to use an expletive in a publication like this, especially one as outrageous as the f word ... but WTF is going on with the post-apartheid state ?
First 34 mineworkers are killed, many, it would seem from new investigations, murdered in cold blood. And then, in a bizarre twist, survivors of the massacre are arrested and charged with killing their comrades.
This is an outrage !
A political turning point ? No event since the end of Apartheid sums up the shallowness of the (…)

- Afrique du sud

Afrique du Sud : VICTORY for Marikana – Lonmin workers 22% = R11 000 !

Amandla ! — 2012-09-23T10:15:00Z

A heroic struggle has tasted its first victory. The reported wage settlement with Lonmin of R11 000 is a massive victory, nothing less than the murder and sacrifice of so many workers dictated.
With an unholy alliance of Lonmin bosses, the bosses of the entire platinum sector, the army police, government and even the leadership of the SACP and NUM reigned against them Lonmin workers can turn from their wage struggle to the struggle for justice with enormous pride and their dignity (…)

- Afrique du sud / luttes ouvrières

A Brutal tragedy that should never have happened

Amandla ! — 2012-08-24T03:08:00Z

No event since the end of Apartheid sums up the shallowness of the transformation in this country like the Marikana massacre. What occurred will be debated for years. It is already clear the mineworkers will be blamed for being violent. The mineworkers will be painted as savages. Yet, the fact is that heavily armed police with live ammunition brutally shot and killed over 35 mineworkers. Many more are injured. Some will die of their wounds. Another 10 workers had been killed just prior to (…)

- Afrique du sud / Répression, luttes ouvrières