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southern africa / miscellaneous / non anarchist press Thursday March 18, 2010 - 13:10 by Jane Duncan
Oukasie, Sharpville, Orange Farm, Siyathemba: images of violent protest action against poor service delivery have dominated the news in the past few weeks, signalling growing frustration with the Jacob Zuma administration’s failure to address the implosion of services in parts of South Africa. Residents are marching with increasing frequency, protesting against poor service delivery and crime. But, state non-responsiveness is radicalising protest action, prompting a shift in tactics from legal to illegal forms of protest, as protestors conclude that lawful protest will get them nowhere. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non anarchist press Thursday March 18, 2010 - 10:19 by Azad Essa
The press conference celebrating 100 days before the World Cup kick-off left the big question unanswered, argues Azad Essa: How will South Africans benefit from the World Cup? For Essa ‘only the dim-witted, government or FIFA communication officers walked away feeling that the World Cup was really about anything more than ending Afro-pessimism and stroking a couple of shiny suits'. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non anarchist press Thursday March 18, 2010 - 09:48 by Ayanda Kota
The lives of the unemployed youth in Grahamstown may seem to be a world apart from those of the students. For us the only choices are to accept defeat and to sink into depression or to organise and fight for a place in this society. For you it seems that there is a clear path to a good life. But capitalism is not a stable system. You may find yourself unemployed after you graduate. You may also find yourself sitting at home waiting for your life to begin. In fact some of you may find yourselves excluded from the university before you graduate if you cannot pay your fees ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non anarchist press Wednesday March 17, 2010 - 19:34 by Ayanda Kota
The courage and determination of the struggle during the apartheid must serve as an example to the oppressive regime of the Zuma administration that the more you suppress the people the more they resist. It is trough those struggle that we have the Zuma administration today and it is through the street protest and mass mobilization that we will topple this capitalist government and the tenderpreneurs that defend it in the language of the left. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / education / other libertarian press Tuesday March 16, 2010 - 03:28 by Richard Pithouse
Une réflexion sur les luttes universitaires en Afrique et dans le Nord Le jeudi de la semaine dernière, le South African Students’ Congress (SASCO) a tenté de fermer 9 campus universitaires pour ajouter du punch à leur revendication pour la gratuité scolaire. Ils ont le plus failli réussir à l’Université de Johannesburg avant que la police les chassent d’une barricade en feu avec des cannons à eau. Ce genre d’actions contre la marchandisation de l’éducation universitaire ont émergé et fleuri depuis les premiers jours dans notre démocratie. Et ils ont été une partie régulière de notre vie universitaire à travers l’Afrique depuis que la Banque Mondiale a décidé, dans le milieu des années 1980, que les universités été un luxe inaccessible pour l’Afrique. [English] ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non anarchist press Sunday March 14, 2010 - 23:03 by Abahlali baseMjondolo
AbM, still recovering from attacks by a state backed militia last year have now been unlawfully and summarily banned from exercising the right to public protest. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / education / other libertarian press Sunday March 14, 2010 - 20:26 by Richard Pithouse
A reflection on university struggles in Africa and in the North [Français] ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / gender / non anarchist press Friday March 12, 2010 - 13:34 by Dale T. McKinley
As much as those of us who identify ourselves as social progressives would like to believe otherwise, the reality is that South Africa is a bastion of social conservatism. Indeed, one of the most glaring contradictions of South Africa’s post-apartheid ‘transition’ is that the widely acknowledged (and regularly celebrated) social progressiveness of the Constitution is, in large part, at fundamental odds with the beliefs and views of the majority of South Africans themselves. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non anarchist press Friday March 05, 2010 - 17:11 by International Union of Food Workers
Gertrude Hambira, general secretary of Zimbabwe's General Agricultural and Plantation Workers Union, has been forced into hiding following harrassment by the police. The International Union of Food workers is urging people to call on the Zimbabwean government to provide Hambira ‘with effective protection and to carry out a prompt, full and impartial investigation into the circumstances of her attack in her family home.’ ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non anarchist press Thursday March 04, 2010 - 09:11 by Abahlali baseMjondolo
AbM reports on the growth and development of the movement since the attacks by a state backed militia in September last year. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / indigenous struggles / non anarchist press Monday March 01, 2010 - 13:58 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 - 09:14 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 - 09:19 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 Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 20:17 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
southern africa / community struggles / non anarchist press Monday February 15, 2010 - 12:30 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 - 11:24 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 - 08:44 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 Wednesday February 10, 2010 - 22:10 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 - 13:25 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 - 08:43 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 |
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