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southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Friday January 15, 2010 - 15:32 by Anti-Privatisation Forum
On Monday (11th January) over 1000 families in two sections of the Itireleng shack settlement, situated between Atteridgeville and Laudium in the Tshwane region, were brutally evicted by a combined force of Red Ants and the Tshwane Metro Police. During the eviction, the residents were attacked with batons, rubber bullets and some residents reported that live ammunition was also used. As a result, 49 people were injured, several seriously. All the evicted residents were left without any shelter and the majority have been camping by the side of the road for the last two days. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / other libertarian press Thursday January 14, 2010 - 23:48 by Richard Pithouse
Richard Pithouse, the much arrested philosopher from Abahlali baseMjondolo, takes apart the ongoing naivety around the achievement of 'democracy' in South Africa. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / economy / non-anarchist press Thursday January 14, 2010 - 16:41 by Richard Rooney
The Swazi Government has ordered 14 percent cuts in all department budgets in order to stop Swaziland going into bankruptcy. A total of E1.5 billion must be cut straight away, says Swaziland’s Finance Minister Majozi Sithole. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Wednesday January 13, 2010 - 16:19 by Dale T. McKinley
Even if the meanings we give to measurements of time are most often overblown, there is something about the mark of a new decade. In the case of South Africa, 1990 marked the beginning of the end of the apartheid system, ushering in a period pregnant with new hopes, possibilities and dreams. When 2000 rolled around it heralded not only a once in a lifetime turn of a century but carried with it the delayed weight of majoritarian expectation of an age of progress and plenty. So what are our 'inheritances' as we begin the new decade? Where do things stand? What is the mark of 2010?

No doubt, the most obvious and widespread association with 2010 in South Africa is the upcoming soccer World Cup. The amount of work, money, media coverage and public propaganda expended in the last few years on this month-long event is unparalleled in our short post-apartheid history. Indeed, the sporting showpiece, is being presented as South Africa's defining moment, the crowning glory of the political, social and economic standing of a nation, confirmation that South Africa is on the right path and has 'arrived' as a 'world class' country. Anything to the contrary is to be seen and treated as unpatriotic, negative and inherently treasonous ('counter-revolutionary' can't be far away ...).
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southern africa / gender / non-anarchist press Thursday January 07, 2010 - 15:27 by Richard Rooney
The following is an extract from the sexgenderbody website about the murder of Swazi woman Pitseng Vilakati who was vilified by the Swaziland press after she announced that she and her lesbian partner Thuli Rudd were to marry each other. Thui Rudd was arrested late December 2009 and charged with the murder of Vilakati. ... read full story / add a comment
africa meridionale / lotte sul territorio / stampa non anarchica Tuesday December 29, 2009 - 21:59 by .
IL SUDAFRICA DEL DOPO APARTHEID È DIVISO IN DUE. DA UNA PARTE C’È LA VERITÀ UFFICIALE DELL’ANC, IL PARTITO-STATO, AUTORITARIO E NEOLIBERISTA. DALL’ALTRA, IL NUOVO MOVIMENTO DELLE TOWNSHIP, ABAHLALI, CHE ORGANIZZA LA POLITICA DAL BASSO. ... read full story / add a comment
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southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Monday December 28, 2009 - 02:48 by Anti-Privatisation Forum   image 1 image
The Anti-Privatisation Forum and all of its 30+ community affiliates, are saddened by the passing away of comrade Dennis Vincent Brutus earlier today in Cape Town. Comrade Dennis passed away in his sleep, aged 85. At the same time, we celebrate his incredible life of literary, intellectual and activist principle and commitment to justice and equality for all. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / indigenous struggles / non-anarchist press Sunday December 27, 2009 - 01:33 by Sarah Cooper-Knock
Abahlali baseMjondolo, the largest poor people's movement to emerge in post-apartheid South Africa, is under serious attack. Sarah Cooper-Knock reflections on the repression and her personal experience with the movement. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / workplace struggles / non-anarchist press Tuesday December 22, 2009 - 20:50 by Richard Rooney   text 1 comment (last - saturday december 26, 2009 - 09:58)
Swaziland police fired over the heads of textile workers protesting that they had not been paid by their employer. In what is becoming a standard practice with Swazi police, the cops threatened the workers with violence, even though they were engaged in a legitimate protest. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Friday December 18, 2009 - 20:15 by Raj Patel
Looking back on the September attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo members in Kennedy Road, Durban, Raj Patel profiles the views of key Abahlali activists including S’bu Zikode, Zodwa Nsibande and Mazwi Nzimande. Though strongly disrupted by the African National Congress-led (ANC) attack in September, Abahlali has continued to meet, while the absence of its leaders from the Kennedy Road settlement has illustrated the deficiencies of the ANC. ... read full story / add a comment
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southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Sunday December 13, 2009 - 00:30 by Abahlali baseMjondolo   image 1 image
Today the five members of the Kennedy Thirteen who are still in detention returned to court for their 7th attempt at requesting bail. On each of the 6 previous occasions the state failed to provide any evidence against the accused and the Magistrate postponed the bail application to give the state more time to produce some evidence of their guilt. On each case the state has failed to produce this evidence at the next hearing. This has led Bishop Rubin Phillip to call this case a 'travesty of justice '. ... read full story / add a comment
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southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Friday December 11, 2009 - 22:31 by Michael Neocosmos   image 1 image
A new essay by Michael Neocosmos on the political significance of the attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo and the state of democracy in South Africa. He also develops an interesting (and non-economistic) periodisation of the failures of post-apartheid democracy. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / gender / non-anarchist press Friday December 11, 2009 - 17:33 by Dale T. McKinley*
It has been ten years since the South African government held its first annual ’16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women’ (and children) campaign. While the campaign has, no doubt, achieved a degree of success in relation to raising awareness, this has clearly not translated into much positive, practical impact. ... read full story / add a comment
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région sud de l'afrique / répression / prisonniers et prisonnières / presse non anarchiste Tuesday December 08, 2009 - 18:31 by Abahlali baseMjondolo   image 1 image
Les 13 de Kennedy (Kennedy Road, terres occupées par des mal logés) étaient de retour devant la court vendredi pour leur sixième tentative de demande de bail.

Après 2 mois en détention toutes les charges contre 1 des 13 étaient tombées, 6 ont eut un bail et les 5 restants ont été renvoyés en prison pour permettre à la police de trouver une quelconque preuve contre eux. Le prochain jugement aura lieu le 11 décembre. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / workplace struggles / non-anarchist press Friday December 04, 2009 - 15:26 by Richard Rooney
It hasn’t taken long for Swaziland’s police force to show their true colours when it comes to defending people in power. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / gender / non-anarchist press Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 15:43 by Prespone Matawira
The lives of Zimbabwean women have deteriorated dramatically over the past decade, writes activist Prespone Matawira, but now is the time to be creative and confront, unpick, challenge patriarchal and capitalist power in order to make lasting change real for women. Feminist consciousness, says Matawira, challenges many of our deep-held assumptions which are not often noticed because they are so pervasive. And its complexity helps us understand other related oppressions based on race, class, age, sexual orientation, and disability. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / economy / non-anarchist press Tuesday December 01, 2009 - 22:40 by Richard Rooney
I’ve been warning for some time that the kingdom ruled by King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch is living beyond its means. With 70 percent of the one million population earning less than one US dollar a day and receipts from the Southern African Customs Union about to be cut to ribbons, there is next to no money coming into the government in Swaziland. ... read full story / add a comment
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southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Tuesday December 01, 2009 - 20:50 by Abahlali baseMjondolo   image 1 image
The Kennedy Thirteen were back at court on Friday for their 6th attempt at requesting bail. After two months in detention all charges were dropped against one of the thirteen, six were given bail and the other five were remanded in custody to give the police one more chance to bring some evidence against them to the court. The next court date has been set for 11 December 2009. This will be the 7th opportunity given to the police to provide some evidence of guilt. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday November 26, 2009 - 19:49 by Abahlali baseMpola
The eThekwini Municipality is currently illegally evicting families at gunpoint in Mpola. Thirty people already have been left homeless. The community requests all press to rush to the scene and to witness the rampant criminality of the eThekwini Municipality for themselves. ... read full story / add a comment
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southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday November 23, 2009 - 21:35 by Abahlali baseMjondolo   image 1 image
The same mob that attacked Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Kennedy Road Development Committee on 26th September; that trashed the Abahlali office and systematically destroyed the homes of Abahlali leaders while police and politicians looked on on 27 September; and that followed the violent purge of Abahlali from the settlement by installing an ANC committee is, right now, demolishing Mondli Mbiko's home in the Kennedy Road settlement. A short while ago they demolished Mzwake Mdlalose's home. ... read full story / add a comment
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