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southern africa / community struggles / other libertarian press Saturday August 08, 2009 - 20:14 by Shawn Hattingh
The actions of the elite, defined by their attack on the poor, have created the environment in which the current wave of protests has occurred. Indeed, it has been the attack by the corporate and state elite on the poor that has led to peoples’ anger. In fact, the elite have literally driven people deeper and deeper into poverty, and then condescendingly blamed the people for their poverty. It is also the elites’ failure to even acknowledge peoples’ demands, and to continuously treat people with utter disdain, that has driven the current protests. Nonetheless, despite the elites’ violent repression, these protests will continue. Hopefully, these protests will strengthen existing community organisations and perhaps even lead to newer ones being formed. Certainly, anarchists and libertarian socialists involved or linked to the current protests could play an important role in this. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Friday July 31, 2009 - 22:08 by Palestine Solidarity Committee
The Palestine Solidarity Committee supports the position taken by Zackie
Achmat and Jonathan Shapiro in their call to Jewish organisation Limmud to
withdraw its invitation for war criminal David Benjamin to speak at its
events next week. We also support Achmat’s call on people who support
justice to withdraw their participation if Benjamin remains on the
programme. In particular, we call on those who stand for human rights and
social justice – especially within the legal fraternity – to be consistent
in their positions. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Thursday July 30, 2009 - 16:02 by International Alliance of Inhabitants   text 2 comments (last - thursday april 20, 2023 - 13:22)
Thousands of people in Harare face mass eviction from their market stalls and homes. Most of the targeted people were victims of the 2005 mass forced evictions that left about 700,000 people without homes or livelihood or both. Four years on, the authorities now want to forcibly re-evict some of these people. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday July 30, 2009 - 15:52 by Abahlali baseSiyanda B
Sakhephi Emmanuel Zenda, 16, was discovered dead at 7:00 a.m. on Monday 27 July 2009 in B Section, Siyanda http://abahlali.org/taxonomy/term/904>. It seems that he had been electrocuted from a badly made connection during the night. He was a grade 8 pupil at Zeph Dlomo High School in KwaMashu. If the eThekwini Municipality had provided electricity to Siyanda B Sakhephi would be alive today. He is not the only person to have died like this. There have been a number of similar deaths in Mayville. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / workplace struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday July 29, 2009 - 15:39 by Anti-Privatisation Forum
The Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) and its 30+ community affiliates fully supports the ongoing strike by municipal workers across the country, led by the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (IMATU). The workers demands for a 15% wage increase, the filling of the almost 100 000 vacant positions at municipal level and the rooting out of corruption and mismanagement are all completely legitimate and reasonable. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / indigenous struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday July 23, 2009 - 23:59 by Richard Pithouse
South Africa has been swept by an unprecedented wave of popular protests. Much reportage misses the politics of the rebellion - this piece engages with this directly. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Friday July 17, 2009 - 16:31 by Residents of Tin Town Settlement
Serious Crisis in Tin Town as Residents Confront Mass Illegal Evictions, Death Threats, A Ban on Political Meetings, Rampant Corruption and Denial of Basic Services Including Water ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Thursday July 16, 2009 - 21:27 by Richard Rooney
Swazi businessman and anti-democrat Walter Bennett says workers should be beaten up for organising their own meeting to discuss the needs of the people of Swaziland. Bennett, a former Swazi Senator and full time apologist for King Mswati III, the last absolute monarch in sub-Saharan Africa, says it is a pity that beating up a person is against the law.. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday July 16, 2009 - 15:32 by Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape
The ABM-WC is calling an end to state criminality of criminalizing it's members by applying old apartheid tactics of arresting, assaulting, and shooting people with rubber bullets when they exercise their right to freedom of expression and the right to protest.

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southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday July 16, 2009 - 15:24 by Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape
Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape will be Marching to the offices of the City of Cape Town on the 20th July 2009 in support of Macassar Village Land Occupation.

While the Movement is busy organizing the March 5 communities from khayelitsha (i.e. QQ section, RR Section, BM Section, PJS Section and NN Section) who will participate at the march have joined forces together and are currently engaging on a protest, as we speak the Lansdown Road from Bonga Drive to Steve Biko drive is burricated by burning tyres, rubish and stones.
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southern africa / indigenous struggles / other libertarian press Monday July 06, 2009 - 03:27 by Matt Birkinshaw
Matt Birkinshaw, an anarchist from London, spent three months living in Abahlali baseMjondolo communes in Durban and Cape Town in 2008. This paper, prepared for a conference in Manchester, gives a brief but useful overview of the movement.

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southern africa / miscellaneous / other libertarian press Friday June 19, 2009 - 22:58 by Richard Pithouse
Vast amounts of cash and political energies that could have been directed towards meeting the basic needs of people living in intolerable conditions have been wasted on stadiums for 2010. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / indigenous struggles / non-anarchist press Monday June 15, 2009 - 18:20 by eMacambini Anti-Removal Committee
We are concerned about recent statements made by Inkosi Kayelihle Wiseman Mathaba in the media. He was quoted as saying that he is now supporting the project by Ruwaad Holdings in Dubai to build the ‘AmaZulu World’ Themepark that will result in the forced removal of 10 000 families from their ancestral land. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / migration / racism / non-anarchist press Wednesday June 03, 2009 - 15:59 by Guguelthu AEC
There cannot be another bloodbath!

The Anti-Eviction Campaign is organising a second meeting of local Guguelthu businesspeople in order to prevent the renewed xenophobia that has been sweeping Cape Town. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 16:51 by Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Update on the arrest of well-known activist, Mzonke Poni, who was also assaulted in the Macassar Village Police Station. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / education / non-anarchist press Monday June 01, 2009 - 18:46 by Percy Ngonyama
The recent establishment of the Ministry of Higher Education; and the subsequent appointment of Communist Party General-Secretary, Blade Nzimande, as its head, in some circles, is viewed as proof that the Jacob Zuma administration is serious about delivering on its election promises relating to higher education. ANC aligned student and youth formations, under the banner of the 'Progressive Youth Alliance' (PYA) who, in recent times, have been at the forefront of strikes at many tertiary institutions, believe that Nzimande is almost a 'panacea' to the serious problems facing the sector, ranging from exclusions, shortages of accommodation, shortages of human and material resources conducive to learning and teaching. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Tuesday May 19, 2009 - 22:47 by Abahlali baseMjondolo
Four Shot in Siyanda with Rubber Bullets, Illegal Demolitions in Mpola, Professor Martin Legassick Arrested in Macassar Village, Mzonke Poni on the Run, Others Arrested and Shot at with Rubber Bullets ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday May 11, 2009 - 22:46 by Landless People's Movement
The LPM is organising a march from Maurice Issacs High School to the Hector Peterson Museum in Soweto on the 16th June 2009 to repoliticise the meaning of the 1976 Soweto Uprisings. This march is a response to the ANC’s hijacking of the 16th June as they have turned it into a bourgeois event. We as the LPM believe we should not celebrate this day, as our government does, but commemorate it by reflecting on the struggle for the liberation of the youth that is still being fought for by poor communities 15 years into our so-called democracy.. We would like to invite all the civic organisations and social movements, regardless of their political affiliation, to be part of this march. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 20:51 by Abahlali baseMjondolo
Abahlali baseMjondolo will once again climb another high mountain for the first time when our struggle for the safety, dignity and equality of the poor ascends to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa. In 2005 when we formed our movement we committed ourselves to do whatever it takes to protect the rights, lives and future of the shack dwellers and the poor in South Africa. We are determined to defend our children, without compromising our future generation. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Tuesday April 28, 2009 - 15:44 by Abahlali baseMjondolo   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 28, 2009 - 20:31)
Today Abahlali baseMjondolo plans to mourn unFreedom Day. We have done this for the last four years. See: http://abahlali.org/node/5040 However the police have descended on to Kennedy Road settlement in large numbers and are attempting to ban our meeting. They are claiming that we did not apply for a permit to stage a gathering. ... read full story / add a comment
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