This paper was presented at a seminar at the University of Johannesburg on Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Albie Sachs and Ben Turok served as discussants and a lively, disputatious but comradely exchange followed – with some challenging interventions from the large audience as well.
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NEC report says ANC leadership not just bureaucratised, it is also united in resisting expropriation of imperialists.
Ideological Reflections and Responses to Some of the Recent Attacks
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
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1. The political context
1. The working class is (...)
ESSAY: The roots of the Marikana massacre lie in the ANC’s deep antipathy to those it relied upon to rise to power: the black working classes.
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MP Giyose went to school with Chris Hani in the 1950’s. Like Hani, he was from the Cofimvaba district of the Transkei. The two met again in Botswana when Hani was in prison in Lobatsi. They planned to form a youth movement of South African, in Lusaka in 1971. In the last six years before their (...)
The ANC held a policy conference in June, after being South Africa’s ruling party for almost two decades. There are many ideas and policy perspectives up for discussion but the `big idea’ framing the discussion is captured in a 47-page long document entitled: `The Second Transition? Building a (...)
James Ngculu joined Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) after the 1976 uprising of Soweto. He occupied a variety of posts within MK and spent most of his time abroad in exile, where he became one of Chris Hani’s closest companions. After 1994, he acted as the Provincial Secretary of the ANC and as Provincial (...)
‘My blood will nourish the tree that will bear the fruits of freedom. Tell my people that I love them. They must continue the fight.’ Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu – 10/07/1956 – 6/04/1979
The Amandla! Editorial Collective joins millions of our compatriots, comrades and friends in South Africa and (...)
In 1956, in an article in the journal Liberation, Nelson Mandela explained aspects of the Freedom Charter:
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There is good and obvious reason to celebrate the long history of the ANC: the organisation’s marked dedication over one hundred years to the cause of the betterment of the lot of the oppressed African people in South Africa. It has also sustained an honourable commitment to a multi-racial, (...)
As we mark the centenary of the ANC there are, as we might expect, idealised versions of its history being trotted out. These tend to present the ANC’s hundred years as a righteous procession from early beginnings, through persecution and heroic resistance, to inevitable triumph. Across twelve (...)
The ANC celebrated its hundredth anniversary on the 8 January 2012. This is indeed a major achievement for the oldest liberation movement in Africa. In its history it has had to negotiate many difficult challenges, perhaps none more so than retaining a broad unity while maintaining the ability (...)
The African National Congress, South Africa’s ruling Party will hold its 52nd Conference in Polokwane, the capital of Limpopo province, one of the poorest in the country. A dramatic succession battle has been raging between the incumbent President of the ANC, Thabo Mbeki and the ANC’s deputy (...)
This contribution is part of a dossier —“Discussing Left Strategies”— published by the South-African magazine Amandla!.
The SACP and COSATU have been fiddling with the same strategic and political choice for over 15 years now. First choice: to be junior partners in an Alliance they will never (...)
South Africa’s new president Thabo Mbeki has all the credentials to sell the eclectic blend of left rhetoric and right politics that has come to characterise the ANC in government.
In the wake of the country’s second round of elections, the ANC holds sway over the national and provincial (...)
As adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955.
[ The Freedom Charter was the statement of core principles of the South African Congress Alliance, which consisted of the African National Congress and its allies the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress (...)
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