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southern africa / indigenous struggles / non-anarchist press Monday March 01, 2010 - 19:58 by Richard Pithouse
A scathing attack on the corruption and authoritarianism within the ANC. ... read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Monday March 01, 2010 - 15:14 by Cosatu and Palestine Solidarity Movement
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The first week of March 2010 marks the International Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) which began in Toronto, Canada in 2005 and now includes a wide range of activities which differ from one country to another as, according to the international committee of the campaign, “An important aspect of IAW is that activists in each city decide what IAW should look like in their city”. ... read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / imperialism / war / other libertarian press Saturday February 27, 2010 - 15:19 by A
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This coming week is Israel Apartheid Week, a week during which people around the world unite in protest against the brutal oppression of the Palestinian people in Gaza and elsewhere. In support of this great initiative, we have decided to host this week's screening in collaboration with the Palestinian Solidarity Committee, who will be at the event to discuss the current situation, history and underlying issues of the conflict. Our documentary is 'Bil'in My Love', a moving film about the nonviolent struggle in the West Bank village of Bil’in against construction of the Israeli separation wall. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday February 24, 2010 - 02:17 by Anti-Privatisation Forum
This week has opened with furious defensive statements from the ANC Youth League against the weekend’s media reports about the lavish lifestyle of its president and the millions he has made from tenders awarded to companies he has interests in. Our response to this news cannot just be of disgust at the self-enrichment of those individuals in positions of political influence. Neither can our response be plaintive calls for public officials to account for the vanishing funds. Instead, we can only resist the underdevelopment of poor communities that this culture of greed is causing. These are called protests against the lack of service delivery. But more than that, these are protests against the corruption of development projects opened by privatisation and pursued by the tenderpreneur class. The tendering system to deliver services is only empowering a few at the expense of community upliftment. ... read full story / add a comment
région sud de l'afrique / luttes dans la communauté / presse non anarchiste Monday February 15, 2010 - 18:30 by "Echanges" n°131
Le 26 septembre 2009, une bande de quarante hommes armés a attaqué le squat communautaire de Kennedy Road à Durban, la deuxième ville d’Afrique du Sud. Au cours de ces attaques, ils ont tué quatre personnes, déplacé plus d’un millier de résidents et mis le feu à des habitations. Menacés de mort, les membres dirigeants de l’organisation de squatters Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM, littéralement « mouvement des squatters ») de Kennedy Road vivent dorénavant dans la clandestinité. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Monday February 15, 2010 - 17:24 by Richard Pithouse
On Thursday, Jacob Zuma promised us a government that will work "faster, harder and smarter." It sounded a little like the old Standard Bank slogan, "Simpler. Better. Faster." The ANC's 2009 election slogan was "Working Together We Can Do More," which was just a word away from the British cell phone company's advertising campaign, launched the year before, that declared "Together we can do more." But the slogan was good for a smile when activists in Jo'burg took the opportunity to grab cans of spray-paint and stencils and conclude it with words like 'corruption' and 'evictions' when it appeared on election posters. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / education / non-anarchist press Thursday February 11, 2010 - 14:44 by Swaziland National Union of Students
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The objective of this press statement is to highlight the essence and objective of the numerous protest actions by students in tertiary institutions following a meeting of all SRC in the country under their umbrella body, SNUS. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday February 11, 2010 - 04:10 by Anti-Privatisation Forum
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After a mass meeting in the Siyathemba stadium earlier today (with the assistance of APF organisers), residents of the community – grouped together in an organisation called Dipaleseng – have decided to march on, and shut down, the local Benstone Mine early tomorrow (Monday). ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / other libertarian press Friday February 05, 2010 - 19:25 by Richard Pithouse
For as long as Eskom continues to see public utilities as an opportunity for private profit, and electricity as a commodity for private consumption rather than a common good, civil society should invoke the tradition of civil disobedience and support communities and popular movements to resist state repression while they organise to appropriate electricity on a non-commodified, safe and carefully disciplined basis. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / workplace struggles / other libertarian press Thursday February 04, 2010 - 14:43 by Shawn Hattingh
The artcile looks at two recent mine occupations in South Africa and the challenges that the workers involved faced. Indeed, during the occupations the workers were not only confronted by the bosses, but also by bureaucrats within their own unions. The article, therefore, argues that the struggle for workers' self-emancipation will not only need to confront the economic and political elite, but also a brueaucratic class within unions. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Wednesday January 27, 2010 - 16:29 by Ayanda Kota
A paper delivered by the Convenor of the Unemployed People’s Movement at the meeting held at Rhodes University, Politics Department, Grahamstown on the 22 January 2010. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / workplace struggles / non-anarchist press Monday January 25, 2010 - 17:39 by Abahlali baseMjondolo
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150 contract workers at National Print, in Westmead, Pinetown, have walked
off the job. The night shift workers will also refuse to work tonight.
The contract workers have decided to go on strike in protest at the attempt
by the CEO to suddenly reduce their working hours and, therefore, their
income. January is the month when poor families struggle to pay school fees
and to buy school uniforms, books and stationery. This is a very bad time
for people to suddenly lose most of their income.
... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Friday January 22, 2010 - 22:46 by Jon
The November 2009 issue of "Struggle Continues", the newsletter of the Anti-Privatisation Forum, is available online. ... read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Friday January 22, 2010 - 21:32 by Anti-Privatisation Forum
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This morning, the NERSA public hearing into ESKOM’s application for tariff increases got underway at Gallagher Estate in Midrand. Both Earthlife and the APF were present, having made written submissions and requests for presentations in opposition to ESKOM’s application. Not long after proceedings began, a small group of Earthlife activists silently placed several posters on the walls inside the venue. Almost immediately, Gallagher Estate’s private security personnel arrived and tore down all the posters, whilst forcibly escorting those activists identified as the ‘perpetrators’, outside the venue. They then locked the doors and when a larger group of APF activists arrived, refused them (alongside the Earthlife activists already outside) entry. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday January 21, 2010 - 15:14 by Blikkiesdorp AEC
At 4pm today, 48 law enforcement officers from the City of Cape Town invaded the city's Temporary Relocation Area, Blikkiesdorp, and removed about 60 people from the one roomed dwellings. This was done completely unlawfully without any high court eviction order, without any explanation, and even more inexplicably by the same city officials who installed the people in the first place. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Tuesday January 19, 2010 - 18:08 by Research and Advocacy Unit [RAU]
This report - produced for the General Agricultural & Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe [GAPWUZ] by the Research and Advocacy Unit [RAU] and the Justice For Agriculture [JAG] Trust - presents the findings of preliminary quantitative and qualitative surveys of workers on commercial farms in the wake of the catastrophic "Land Reform" policy in Zimbabwe. Whilst the companion reports produced from this series of projects have received some attention, this report is the first to deal solely with data gathered from the farm workers themselves. It represents the views of only a small section of the 1.8 million people that lived and worked on Zimbabwe's commercial farms. However, the continued gathering of data means that in time we will be able to paint a detailed picture of the lives of farm workers across the country, as they struggled over the last nine years with State-sponsored invasions, torture, violent assaults, murders, rapes, evictions and other violations of the law and their rights. For the moment, though, the data presented here makes no claim to be statistically representative. ... read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / gender / non-anarchist press Tuesday January 19, 2010 - 17:56 by AIDS-Free World
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In the weeks immediately following the June 2008 presidential elections in Zimbabwe, AIDS-Free World received an urgent call from a Harare-based organization working on behalf of women and girls. They believed that hundreds and possibly thousands of women had been raped by members of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party as a strategy to influence the election, and sought help from AIDS-Free World in documenting these crimes. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday January 18, 2010 - 15:42 by CoZop
This is a good analysis of the growing political crisis in South Africa. There are some important corrections though: 1. In the initial confusion it was thought that four had been killed in the attacks on AbM on 26 September 2009 but two badly wounded comrades were later found alive in hospitals. 2. The attack started at 11:00 p.m. on 26 September. The mob attacked Phondo people and AbM members and set about systemically destroying and looting the homes of AbM members. They were also looking for AbM leaders S'bu Zikode & Mashumi Figlan and promising to kill them. The police refused all calls for help. At about 3 a.m. resistance to the attack was organised from within the community by a group of Phondo men. There were causalities on both sides. 3. The police arrived, stopped the resistance, and arrested AbM members. Then, in their presence and that of local ANC leaders, around 30 homes of AbM leaders were destroyed. These corrections and additions are taken from information on the AbM site, the Pambazuka site and emails from local activists who are concerned that some of the solidarity work has ignored the fact that there was (entirely appropriate) resistance to the fascist ANC mob. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / education / non-anarchist press Friday January 15, 2010 - 20:30 by Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise
Over 800 members of Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise took to the streets of Bulawayo on 13 January to peacefully protest about the state of education in Zimbabwe. Five groups started separately and converged on Mhlahlandlela Government complex to hand over the WOZA report on the education system in Zimbabwe entitled 'Looking Back to look Forward'. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / economy / non-anarchist press Friday January 15, 2010 - 18:12 by Richard Rooney
Swazis may face widespread hunger following an admission from the Swazi Government that it does not have the money to subsidise farming this year.
In particular Swaziland staple food - maize - will be badly affected.
Minister of Agriculture Clement Dlamini said there ‘was no money in place’ to subsidise the cost to farmers of seeds, fertiliser and other necessities..
He said without the subsidies it was impossible to ensure food security. ... read full story / add a comment |
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