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southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Friday December 09, 2011 - 14:25 byDemocratic Left Front
On Saturday December 3rd, the international day for a climate action
march, the 500 strong Democratic Left Front contingent made up of
activists from different parts of the country, arrived at the Botha
Park Assembly point with its banners demanding: '1 Million Climate
Jobs Now!' 'Africa is Burning, Transform the System!' and
'Listen to the People!'. Our red t-shirts said the same thing. Our
activists also prepared their own posters the night before. We had our
own marshals and sound system. We were unarmed and intent on acting
peacefully. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / environment / non-anarchist press Wednesday December 07, 2011 - 05:01 byNiren Tolsi
ANC supporters dressed in the COP17 volunteers' tracksuits tossed stones and water bottles at members of civil society organisations that were marching in protest against climate change, the corporate-funded lack of progress at COP17 and other green issues in Durban on Saturday. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / environment / non-anarchist press Monday December 05, 2011 - 22:44 byBen Fogel
The civil society march on the COP 17 was attacked by ANC Youth League thugs. This report is from a largely Trotskyist organisation but the eyewitness account of the 'green bombers' of the ANC Youth League attacking the march is important. Other more libertarian orientated organizations have long suffered the same fate in Durban. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Tuesday November 22, 2011 - 13:23 byAyanda Kota
Ayanda Kota, chairperson of the Unemployed People's Movement, on the 'secrecy bill' that comes before the South African parliament today. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / gender / non-anarchist press Monday November 14, 2011 - 20:35 byRichard Rooney
Chief Mgwagwa Gamedze, the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, says Swaziland will not give human rights to gay people, because they don’t exist in the kingdom. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Friday November 11, 2011 - 20:37 byLandless People's Movement - Protea South
Press Statement: Landless People’s Movement - Protea South, November 2011 ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Tuesday September 13, 2011 - 17:31 bySteve Faulkner
Today, Friday 9th September marked the last day in the second Global Week of Action on Swaziland, culminating in a large protest march in Mbabane that has resulted in pitched battles between a heavily armed and aggressive security detachment, and mostly poor workers, students and the unemployed, who gathered legally and peacefully as they have done all week. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Sunday July 24, 2011 - 23:00 byDemocratic Left Front
Press statement by the Democratic Left Front on the total collapse of the state's case against the 'Kennedy 12' following the armed attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo in September 2009. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Tuesday July 19, 2011 - 16:57 byAbahlali baseMjondolo
The Kennedy 12 have been acquitted of all the charges bought against them after the attack on our movement in September 2009. It is a great day for the 12, their families, our movement and the struggle of the poor in South Africa. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / environment / non-anarchist press Tuesday July 05, 2011 - 20:01 byBandile Mdlalose
Climate change is one of the main issues facing the world at this moment. We
all know that when things go wrong, like when there is an earthquake or a
flood, or a drought, poor people are most vulnerable. And usually the response
to these disasters is a second disaster for poor people. For instance in Sri
Lanka the so-called ‘development’ after the Tsunami forcibly removed
fisherfolk from their coastal land to give it to developers to build hotels.
Sometimes the attempts to prevent disaster are also a disaster for the poor. In
South Africa when it is acknowledged that we as a country are using too much
electricity it is not the big companies or the rich that have the police and
the security guards kick down their doors to disconnect them. In some other
countries in Africa poor rural people are being forced off their land so that
it can be used for bio-fuels. Maybe this will slow down climate change but why
must it be the poor people in Africa that must pay the price for this? They are
not the ones that caused the problem. The ones that caused this problem are the
rich, especially in America and in Europe. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / culture / other libertarian press Tuesday June 21, 2011 - 20:45 bySoundz of the South
The reason why millions and millions of people, especially young people, are unemployed and live in poverty in South Africa is because of the capitalist and state systems. Capitalism and the state lead to all sorts of problems including unemployment, inequality and the oppression of workers, women and people of colour. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Monday June 06, 2011 - 19:42 byPeter Kenworthy
The President of the Swaziland National Union of Students, Maxwell Dlamini, has been detained, tortured, and forced by Swaziland’s regime to sign a confession that says he was in possession of explosives during the April 12 Swazi Uprising - a movement inspired by similar uprisings in North Africa and The Middle East. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Monday May 02, 2011 - 17:15 byAbahlali baseMjondolo
Abahlali baseMjondolo will return to the Durban magistrate’s court on Tuesday
3 May 2011 to support the twelve men who have become victims of the political
conspiracy to disguise the reality of the armed attack on our movement that
took place in the Kennedy Road settlement on the 26th and 27th of September
2009. That attack displaced hundreds of women, men and children and the
resulting conflicts left some people with serious injuries and two people dead. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday May 02, 2011 - 17:04 byAyanda Kota
On the 27th of April 1994 the people of this country stood in long queues for many hours, waiting to cast their vote for the first time. In some parts of the country the weather was indeed hostile, freezing cold, while in other parts of the country it was scorching hot. Our people were voting for the first time, voting for an end to racism and for democracy and a better life - for jobs, free education and decent housing. Over and above their vote for their material needs to be met they were voting for their freedom. Or so they were made to believe! ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Tuesday April 12, 2011 - 17:30 bySwaziland Democracy Campaign
What follows below is an on the spot report from the Coordinators of the Swaziland Democracy Campaign and the Swaziland United Democratic Front in Swaziland. What we are witnessing is an unprecedented mobilization of the security cluster of the Swazi regime. Despite the statements of the Foreign Minister on SAFM this morning, and other spokespersons of the regime, the Swazi regime is flaunting all the universally accepted civil rights of its people to organize, gather and peacefully express their desire for a democratic Swaziland. The Minister said this morning that the government are ‘in dialogue’ with civil society and they are hoping to reach an understanding. Clearly as the statement below shows, ‘dialogue’ in Swaziland actually means illegal detention! It is now reliably reported that more than 50 leading activists have been detained including journalists from South Africa. ... read full story / add a comment
région sud de l'afrique / répression / prisonniers et prisonnières / presse non anarchiste Friday April 08, 2011 - 08:56 bySwaziland Solidarity Network
Comme l’avait promis au sénat il y a quelques semaines, le toujours controversé Premier Ministre du Swaziland, Sibusiso Dlamini, l’État a déjà commencé à « dialoguer » avec les organisateurs et organisatrices du très craint, Soulèvement Swazi du 12 avril. [English]
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southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Thursday April 07, 2011 - 21:15 bySwaziland Solidarity Network
As the ever controversial Prime Minister of Swaziland, Sibusiso Dlamini, promised senate a few weeks ago, the state has already begun “talking” to the organisers of the much feared April 12 Swazi uprising. The National Organizing Secretary of SWAYOCO, Mcolisi Ngcamphalala, was detained and later tortured by the police from Tuesday evening in Siphofaneni on suspicion that he was one of the organizers of the April 12 Swazi Uprising. [Français] ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Wednesday March 30, 2011 - 02:05 byRichard Rooney
The Times Sunday reported yesterday (27 March 2011) that members of the Operational Support Service Unit (OSSU), the paramilitary police wing, are training to counter riots.
‘In other countries, when the army goes astray or plots to overthrow the government, the riot police squad is the one expected to contain the soldiers.’ ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Tuesday March 08, 2011 - 21:29 byAshley Fataar
The campaign around the Zimbabwe activists has borne some results. The good news is that yesterday 39 of the 45 activists had their charges dropped by the Magistrate court. The Magistrate judge (Mutevedzi) said the arrest of the 45 people was “a dragnet arrest by the police who didn’t verify or attach criminal conduct to each of the accused persons”. The judge also stated that there “glaring weaknesses” in the State case and that it wasn’t “clear what the rest of the accused persons did to deserve to be arrested and charged with treason”. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Tuesday February 22, 2011 - 02:27 byDemocratic Left Front
On the 19Th February , a leading member of the International Socialist Organisation of Zimbabwe, Munyaradzi Gwisai and 51 others, including students and workers were arrested in Harare during a unpublicised meeting held to discuss revolution in the Middle East. They are still being held and will have to be charged today if they are to be held in detention any further. It is believed they will be charged for conspiring against the state and number of them have been beaten physically by their police interrogators. ... read full story / add a comment |
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