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The Provincial Government and the Police have Officially Endorsed the Attacks on Abahlali baseMjondo
southern africa / community struggles / other libertarian press Tuesday September 29, 2009 - 20:32 by Richard Pithouse
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On Saturday night members of the Kennedy Road Development Committee were subject to a surprise attack by a group of about 40 armed men chanting anti Mpondo slogans. The police failed to intervene. People were killed. Later on that night all key AbM leaders were subject to attack. Everyone's houses (and businesses in two cases where people had shops) were destroyed. This mob (now known as 'the Zulu mob' in the settlement) has direct connections to the local ANC who had promised, two weeks ago, to turn the AbM office into an ANC office. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday September 28, 2009 - 14:47 by Abahlali baseMjondolo
There are now senior ANC leaders in the Kennedy Road Community Hall. In their presence the homes of the elected Kennedy Road leadership continue to be demolished and burnt by the same small group of well armed people who have been carrying out attacks with impunity for 23 straight hours. None of the people that launched the surprise, unprovoked and heavily armed attack on the KRDC last night have been arrested and yet most of the KRDC is locked up in the Sydenham Police station (including those who were publicly performing the imfene dance in Claremont at the time of the attack). ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Sunday September 27, 2009 - 20:46 by Kennedy Road Development Committee
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Abahlali baseMjondolo leaders have been subject to well organised violent attacks since last year. Now the movement has been attacked in a surprise ambush. At least three people are dead. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Sunday September 27, 2009 - 01:10 by Mzonke Poni
Mzonke Poni, Chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape, is scheduled to stand trial on the charge of public violence on Tuesday 29 September 2009. The charge relates to a protest organised in opposition to state criminality against the Macassar Village Land Occupation. He has written this essay on 'public violence' in response to the charges levelled against him. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday September 21, 2009 - 01:06 by Simon Saunders
Mnikelo Ndabankulu and Zodwa Nsibande from Abahlali baseMjondolo interviewed by the Morning Star in London. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Wednesday September 16, 2009 - 16:13 by Richard Rooney
Swaziland’s Police Operational Support Service Unit (OSSU) has bought three armoured vehicles designed to be used against civilian populations.
The RG12 4x4 armoured vehicle is described by manufacturers BAE Systems ‘as an anti-riot vehicle.’ It can be deployed in both urban and rural settings.
The question [...], of course, is what are the armoured vehicles that can deploy a ‘variety of grenades, rifles and other weapons’ to be used for? ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday September 16, 2009 - 15:52 by Abahlali baseMjondolo
Six more families were left homeless early this morning in Mpola,
Marianhill, when a demolition crew took pangas to their homes. The
demolition crew said they had been authorized by the notorious Ward 15
councillor, Derek Dimba. Backing the
crew was 11 eThekwini Municipality security officers, all armed with guns.
... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / other libertarian press Wednesday September 09, 2009 - 21:09 by Imraan Buccus
Buccus proposes an alliance between social movements and unions in the wake of the betrayal by the SACP. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday September 07, 2009 - 19:47 by Alexandra Vukuzenzele Crisis Committee
We, the Alexandra Vukuzenzele Crisis Committee (AVCC), have been fighting for our right to move from our shacks to houses since 2002. We have engaged the Alexandra Renewal Project (ARP) and local ANC councilors, but they have failed to respond to our grievances. To push forward the struggle of the poor for our right to housing, we have been non-violently occupying empty RDP houses in extension 7. The government and the police have responded by brutally assaulting us in order to stop us from applying this method of non-violent direct action - the only method we have to force the government to heed to our demands for housing. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday August 19, 2009 - 00:49 by Abahlali baseMjondolo
Abahlali Leaders Narrowly Escape Assassination; Councillor Warlords Violently Disrupt Branch Launch in Tin Town, eShowe; Abahlali Members in Exile; Sex for Houses Corruption Allegations at Sunnydale Housing Project
Breaking News: Warlords return to Tin Town today, 17 August, with weapons, searching for two exiled Abahlali members ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 16:04 by Coalition Against Water Privatisation
The Phiri water rights case was initiated almost six years ago as a direct result of the cynical and repressive closing down of both the institutional and political democratic space which were supposed to act as the vehicles for the ‘delivery’ of basic services and the realisation of socio-economic rights. While this reality was crystal clear to the residents of Phiri and many other poor communities at the time, it has taken several more years and thousands more community struggles and protests to wake up the rest of South Africa. Indeed, this entire case has been the outcome of a consistent failure of institutional and representative (democratic) politics alongside political leadership and will. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Sunday August 16, 2009 - 15:23 by Richard Rooney
For two days this past week the ruling elite in Swaziland has been engaged in what it likes to call a ‘Smart partnership’. In theory everyone who wanted to came together to discuss openly (without fear or favour etc) what ails Swaziland and what can be done about its problems. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Saturday August 15, 2009 - 18:04 by Imraan Buccus
Imraan Buccus argues, against the state and the authoritarian left, for a non-authoritarian response to the popular protests sweeping the country. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / other libertarian press Friday August 14, 2009 - 23:25 by Richard Pithouse
In recent weeks people have been willing to risk arrest, violence and in some cases death at the hands of our habitually brutal police force to assert a whole range of demands. These demands have included an insistence on the right to the cities, the right to an income, the right to a decent education and the right to a living wage. The issuing of these demands has often, in direct contrast to the legalism of much of civil society, taken the practical form of the assertion of rights via direct and immediate appropriation, such as land occupations, rather than a request for an abstract recognition of rights in principle. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Friday August 14, 2009 - 22:54 by Dale T. McKinley
With all the crocodile tears, gnashing of teeth, post-hoc analysis and mea culpa discourse on offer over the last few weeks of community protests and worker strikes, one could be forgiven for thinking that South Africa has suddenly crossed some kind of developmental and political Rubicon. It is as if recent events have triggered a sudden and combined rush of (relative) conscience over the plight of the poor/workers, a new found, critically informed concern about the character and role of our institutional and representative democracy and an acute angst about the general state of South African society. What makes this all a bit unreal - and thus hard to accept as genuine - though, is that the very material, social and political bases for these newly found/formed concerns, consciences and critiques have been both real and visible since 1994 (and some, before). Put another way, there is an incredible amount of generalised historical amnesia and more selective ‘memory’ opportunism at work here. So, what does a more honest, realistic and historically informed scenario for South Africa look like? ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Tuesday August 11, 2009 - 18:42 by Wits Palestine Solidarity Committee
We write to you as members of the Wits community with a deep sense of distress. Over the past week, and in the lead up to the scheduled presence of accused war criminal Lieutenant Colonel David Benjamin on our campus, a series of events have gravely disappointed us as students and staff of this University. There have been persistent attempts to engage the University through letters and petitions, but the University’s ‘responses’, combined with subsequent events, have been a severe disappointment to all those who have been ethically and politically moved by the case. As a result, we write you this open letter stating our three primary concerns with regard to the events of this last week: ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / other libertarian press Saturday August 08, 2009 - 20:19 by Ibrahim Steyn
The original source of the protesting communities' anger is threefold: a disjuncture between legal thought and grassroots expectations of socioeconomic rights, a neoliberal mode of governance and liberal democracy’s limited assumption of political participation ... read full story / add a comment
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
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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 |
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