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southern africa / miscellaneous Thursday April 23, 2009 - 16:09 by Lucien van der Walt
The renewed Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) support for the ruling nationalist African National Congress (ANC) has seen the unions dedicate organisers over the last few weeks to ensuring an “overwhelming” ANC victory in the national elections on the 22 April 2009.

How valid is such an approach, and what are the tasks of the working class in the current period? ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / economy Monday April 20, 2009 - 20:48 by Lucien Van Der Walt
One of the great weaknesses of SA unions - or at least their leaders - is the notion that unions should actively aim at restructuring the economy through policy engagement. This idea is often labelled 'strategic unionism' or 'radical reform', and centres on a politics of cooperating with capital and the state to effectively restructure "South African" industry for global competition. This is summed up in the phrase that "business is too important to leave to management". ... read full story / add a comment
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southern africa / culture Tuesday April 07, 2009 - 15:28 by Steffi   text 1 comment (last - monday june 01, 2009 - 09:36)   image 1 image
Mutual Aid is an important and relevant anarchist concept. It shows how aspects of a better world already exist everywhere, including in Southern Africa, and how we can achieve this world, building on and extending existing cultural practices. First published in issue number 10 of Zabalaza: A Journal of Southern African Revolutionary Anarchism, April 2009. ... read full story / add a comment
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southern africa / miscellaneous Monday April 06, 2009 - 16:26 by Jonathan   image 1 image
The tragedy which has beset the people of Zimbabwe, itself an indictment against the praxis of armed struggle controlled by a central political elite, is well-known. Zimbabweans waged a courageous guerilla war against colonialism only for the leader of that liberation movement, who has jealously guarded his presidency since Zimbabwe’s 1980 independence, to have turned out to be a despot equal to or rivaling the hated colonial ruler Ian Smith, who the people of Zimbabwe (then southern Rhodesia) fought so hard to rid themselves of. The Matabeleland massacres of the 1980s to root-out predominantly Ndebele opposition to Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zimbabwe African National Union (now Zanu-Patriotic Front) - the feared reprisals of which induce him, and high-ranking military officials close to him to this day to clench so strongly to power, for fear of being charged with crimes against humanity; the systematic abduction, torture and murder of political dissidents; the rigged elections and consequent campaigns of harassment and intimidation of opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters in the wake of Mugabe’s first electoral defeat in 28 years; the shattered economy, with the world’s highest inflation-rate and the recent outbreak of cholera - which Mugabe blames on biological warfare being waged against Zimbabwe by the Western imperialist powers - are no secret, and need not be discussed in any detail here. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / gender Saturday February 21, 2009 - 18:25 by Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front
On Thursday 12 February 2009 members of the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front participated in a protest-march held in Johannesburg as part of the Coalition Against Water Privatisation's Women and Water Campaign. The protest went from Library Gardens in central Johannesburg, a historic meeting point for protests in the city, to Mayor Amos Masondo's office in Braamfontein, near Constitution Hill. The march was to demand that Masondo withdraw his appeal of the pro-poor Johannesburg High Court ruling of Judge Tsoka, which ruled that the forced installation of pre-paid water meters and the prepayment water system is unlawful and unconstitutional, and that City of Johannesburg and Johannesburg Water provide residents of poor townships with 50 litres of free water per person per day. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left Monday December 01, 2008 - 15:52 by Jonathan P & James Pendlebury
This article argues that active abstention is the only strategic and tactical approach to the 2009 South African elections which is consistent with revolutionary anti-capitalist politics. It was written for a forthcoming issue of Khanya: A Journal for Activists, which will present a range of different approaches that social movements may take in response to the 2009 elections. ... read full story / add a comment
africa meridionale / migrazione / razzismo Thursday October 02, 2008 - 17:57 by Steffi, Jonathan Payn e James Pendlebury
A solo 14 anni dalla fine dell'apartheid qualcuno sostiene che siamo in presenza di una nuova apartheid. A solo 14 anni dal genocidio in Rwanda c'è chi dice che in Sud Africa si stia verificando un genocidio particolare. Niente a che vedere con il gap economico tuttora esistente tra sudafricani con diverso colore della pelle e nemmeno con una guerra tra diversi gruppi etnici come in Rwanda. [English] ... read full story / add a comment
Νότια Αφρική (Περιφέρεια) / Αναρχικό κίνημα Thursday September 25, 2008 - 20:52 by James Pendlebury (ZACF)
Αν δεν υπάρχει εναλλακτική λύση, τότε ας μας συγκροτήσουμε εμείς μια τέτοια. Ας οικοδομήσουμε τα κινήματά μας σε τέτοιο σημείο που οι μετανάστες - οι γυναίκες που βιάζονται ή οι ομοφυλόφιλοι που αντιμετωπίζουν τη σοβινιστική βία – να μη χρειαστεί ν’ αναζητήσουν την αμφίβολη βοήθεια της αστυνομίας. Ας συγκροτήσουμε δυνατές κοινότητες της εργατικής τάξης που να είναι ικανές να αυτοαμυνθούν και να υπερασπίσουν τα μέλη τους ενάντια στην καταστολή και το σοβινισμό. ... read full story / add a comment
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southern africa / history Friday September 19, 2008 - 15:39 by James Pendlebury   image 1 image
For decades, nationalism – African or Afrikaner – has been the dominant ideology in South Africa. It has drawn the working class into unity with the bosses, and divided workers from their fellow workers. It has promised freedom and delivered oppression; it has promised bread and delivered starvation. Nationalism can play a progressive role when in opposition to an oppressive regime, but in power, it invariably becomes a weapon against the working class. The pogroms of May 2008 are the latest disaster to arise from nationalism. [Ελληνικά] ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / migration / racism Wednesday September 10, 2008 - 15:58 by Steffi
Some of the people attacked in recent xenophobic pogroms in South Africa were born in South Africa or have a South African passport. Aren’t they South Africans? What makes a South African? How many generations must one have lived here to be accepted? What skin colour does one have to have? When thinking about this it quickly becomes clear that who is a South African and who is not is not a scientific decision. It is about what people think and want and this changes over time. ... read full story / add a comment
africa meridionale / economia Sunday August 10, 2008 - 16:20 by Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front
Lo Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) esprime la sua solidarietà con i lavoratori iscritti al Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), la cui campagna nazionale per lo sviluppo di un'azione di massa contro la crisi energetica è culminata in uno sciopero generale nazionale che fermerà tutto im paese nella giornata di mercoledì 6 agosto. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / economy Wednesday August 06, 2008 - 04:39 by Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front
The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) expresses its solidarity with the rank and file workers of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), as their national campaign of rolling mass action against the electricity crisis culminates in a national strike and stayaway throughout the country on Wednesday, 6th August. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous Tuesday June 24, 2008 - 19:14 by Uhuru Network
A libertarian perspective on the elections in Zimbabwe, first published on April 14, 2008. It is thus a little bit dated and does not take into account the run-offs, the MDC's recent pull-out and where this leaves the Zimbabwean people. ... read full story / add a comment
région sud de l'afrique / Éducation Thursday March 06, 2008 - 15:04 by Lucien van der Walt
L'augmentation des frais d'inscription et la privatisation planifiée du logement étudiant ont suscité des protestations importantes à l'université du Witwatersrand à Johannesburg, début octobre. ... read full story / add a comment
Νότια Αφρική (Περιφέρεια) / Αναρχικό κίνημα Wednesday February 27, 2008 - 18:53 by Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front
Προγραμματικές θέσεις του Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (από τη Ν. Αφρική), όπως δημοσιεύονται στο ομώνυμο έντυπο της οργάνωσης. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left Saturday January 26, 2008 - 23:15 by Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front
ZACF on the recent Young Communist League (YCL) Statement on the Unjustifiable Increase of Bread. [ Ελληνικά ] ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left Monday December 10, 2007 - 20:31 by Martin Spence
The flag of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, the MPLA, is red-and-black, apparently adopted from the Cuban July 26 Movement, which itself adopted the colours from the anarchists. João Freire, author of Freedom Fighters: Anarchist Intellectuals, Workers and Soldiers in Portugal's History (Black Rose Books), said: “The only Angolan anarchist I knew was named Câmara Pereira, who joined the nationalist liberation movement of the MPLA in the 1950s, precisely because he was Angolan (black) and he didn’t see any other perspectives [on organising against colonialism] in the African context at that time.” But was there any liberatory content to the MPLA's politics and did Pereira stand a chance boring-from-within a nationalist organisation? ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / indigenous struggles Tuesday September 04, 2007 - 04:30 by Philani Zungu
Philani Zungu, from the militant South African shack dwellers' organisation, Abahlali baseMjondolo, reflects on the nature of democracy after his most recent arrest. ... read full story / add a comment
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África austral / workplace struggles Wednesday June 13, 2007 - 19:51 by Lucien van der Walt   text 1 comment (last - wednesday june 13, 2007 - 20:11)   image 1 image
La transición de Sudáfrica, como comentábamos en “Workers Solidarity” en 1998, se torció hace mucho tiempo. Acabar con el apartheid fue una tremenda victoria, pero no fue suficiente. Quedó pronto ensombrecida por las políticas neoliberales del ANC(1), que continuaban las iniciadas por el régimen en los últimos años del apartheid. ... read full story / add a comment
région sud de l'afrique / impérialisme / guerre Wednesday March 28, 2007 - 18:42 by Lucien van der Walt et Michael Schmidt
Alors que la Chine devient, avec la France, la Grande-Bretagne et les États-Unis, une des principales puissances impérialistes en Afrique, les communistes libertaires d’Afrique du Sud s’interrogent. Comment stopper la xénophobie antichinoise dans le prolétariat ? Pretoria peut-il devenir un agent de la politique de Pékin sur le continent ? Pourquoi le Parti communiste sud-africain, à la suite de l’ANC, révèle-t-il depuis quelques années une ligne prochinoise ? ... read full story / add a comment
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