Editorial - Amandla! Issue No. 8 June/July
 The defeat of Mbeki and the old guard was enthusiastically endorsed by the predominantly black working class electorate and has created the hope that a new era has dawned, where AIDS denialism, the crisis of delivery, the disastrous state of public health and schooling, and pro-business economic policy will be reversed. The mass of South Africans voted for change – change that is meaningful especially for black working class and poor people. They no longer wish to be confined to the third class compartment of the transformation train.
In all the excitement of the announcement of the new cabinet by the New ANC, under new president Jacob Zuma, one can easily forget that we have been here before.
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Honduras: Obama's first coup d'etat? |
by Eva Golinger
[As of 11:15 am, June 28, Caracas time, President Manuel Zelaya is speaking live on Telesur from San Jose, Costa Rica. He has verified the soldiers entered his residence in the early morning hours, firing guns and threatening to kill him and his family if he resisted the coup. He was forced to go with the soldiers who took him to the air base and flew him to Costa Rica. He has requested the US government make a public statement condemning the coup, otherwise, it will indicate their compliance. At 5 pm, Roberto Micheletti, head of Honduras' Congress was sworn in as de facto president. At 7 pm, the Organization of American States condemned the coup. US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has formally condemned the coup. For continuing updates, visit Eva Golinger's web site at http://www.chavezcode.com/.]
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Education and class struggle in the new South Africa |
by Neville Alexander
 The fundamental question that we have to ask ourselves as radical educationists and educators is how we can use an essentially conservative social reproductive process such as the schooling system in order to empower working class communities and working class youth. This particularly in the context of a national and global capitalist system that is characterised by the most brutal forms of exploitation and inequality justified in terms of the hegemony of the economic orthodoxy today.
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The world financial meltdown: What now for African women? |
by Hilary N. Ervin & Caroline Muthoni Muriithi
As the global economic crisis takes its toll on Africa’s fiscal revenues and household incomes, Hilary N. Ervin & Caroline Muthoni Muriithi fear that the continent’s achievements in human rights and development may be reversed, worsening the condition of women already struggling against an ‘entrenched patriarchy’. Despite embracing commitments to gender equity on paper, Ervin and Muriithi say many countries lack the funding and resources to implement policies and legislation. Programmes focused on women, largely funded by multi-lateral donors, are likely to decline as aid dries up the authors warn, while at a domestic level many households will prioritise the education and welfare of sons over daughters, with ‘long-term consequences for overall development’.
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