Amandla! magazine | Issue 84

and grassroots churches, and its strong influence in leftist social organisations. In spite of this, it continued to be, in a wa ...

with them, among others, was sustained. Popular fronts were built against the coup, firstly in 2015, and then for Lula’s release ...

By Alex Hotz A S WE EMERGE FROM THE pandemic, the impact of Covid-19 has exacerbated the converging social, economic, and ecolog ...

CLIMATE CRISIS for green technologies, including electric vehicles. Combined investments in low- carbon energy technologies have ...

CLIMATE CRISIS into Northwest Europe. The Northern Cape has been identified as a global hub for green hydrogen because of its su ...

Protest at COP26. Blah, blah, blah was Greta Thunberg’s telling comment on last year’s COP26. By Jeff Rudin This is an edited ve ...

CLIMATE CRISIS pay for the last Ukrainian willing to die fighting the Russians. Saying this is not in any way to justify the Rus ...

tribalism and even Freud’s death wish have been invoked as obstacles. The fossil fuel industry is often simplistically identifie ...

ANALYSIS H OW DID THE END OF APARTHEID affect South Africa’s white workers? An excellent question. And the answer can go a long ...

government. The same year, it passed South Africa’s first Industrial Relation Act. This enshrined an industrial colour bar and r ...

ANALYSIS state privatised the steel giant in the late 1980s. Under the ownership of the multinational Mittal Steel, the labour f ...

D OZENS OF SOUTH African civil society organisations, trade unions, academic and research bodies –and influential observers like ...

ANALYSIS back through taxation from higher-income earners (which they can). This is borne out by research evidence. Studies of i ...

H OW DO WE MAKE OUR CHOSEN representatives more accountable to the country’s general populace? That has been the focus of most o ...

ANALYSIS The two key issues Two issues drive this conflict. The first relates to the doctrine of two centres of power within all ...

Coronation of King Misuzulu kaZwelithini. At this stage, it is unclear whether King Misuzulu will steer the Trust in a new direc ...

LAND lease agreements with the Trust, to the exclusion of those whose land rights were affected. The judgment made it clear that ...

D URING THE WINTER OF 2010-2011, the Tunisian people rekindled a flame that was thought to have been extinguished forever - that ...

constitution emerged in 2014. It created a phony parliamentary political system, in which the balance of power was nullified by ...

I T WAS AUGUST 18TH, SIX DAYS before the election. Incumbent President João Lourenço was delivering a speech to a rather apathet ...