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southern africa / the left / non-anarchist press Monday January 31, 2011 - 14:41 by Steering Committee
The declaration that came out of the Conference of the Democratic Left. It begins, but only begins to indicate the great sense of comradeship, solidarity and unity that the conference was able to develop amongst a very broad range of forces. We had unionists (from all federations,) social movement activists, youth and women, queers, Maoists, Trotskyists, independent Marxists, anarchists, pacifists and many others. We had tough debates, especially about the nature of the formation we were establishing, we had differences and disagreements - even about process, yet we rose to the occasion and have constructed a democratic framework and put in place organisational processes through which we can act together. As the declaration indicates our first task is to build solidarity amongst poor and working people in struggle. We have agreed to build campaigns against unemployment, support struggles for decent services especially housing, fight for land and agrarian reform, join with others in fighting to overcome the education crisis and will join the growing movements for environmental and climate justice: COP 17 is in our sights. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / workplace struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday December 09, 2010 - 23:26 by Daniell
In Robertson a conflict between dismissed workers and CSAAWU on one side and the Robertson Abattoir on the other evolves. The core of the conflict is the slave like conditions which the workers were forced to work under at the abattoir, before they were locked-out and eventually dismissed. The workers and their families now faces starvation. In order for the workers to be succesfull they need all the support they can get. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / workplace struggles / non-anarchist press Friday December 03, 2010 - 21:22 by Daniell
The Commercial Stevadoring Agricultural and Allied Workers Union (CSAAWU) is supporting 50 workers against an illegal lockout by Robertson Abbatoirs, that started on Tuesday 30th November 2010. CASAAWU and the workers need support from activists, social movements and progressive organisations. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / other libertarian press Sunday November 21, 2010 - 00:14 by Sherry
The Abahlali baseMjondolo describe their politics as “a homemade politics that everyone can understand and find a home in”. They believe in politics that are shaped not by an outlined external ideology, but by the current and relevant experiences of its people. Politics derived from any singular prescribed theory, they argue, creates elitism and patronage. By building their political aims and beliefs directly and internally, they are more successful in addressing the realistic needs of its participants. It is very much a politics of the here and now. They have called for “a living communism” and are adamantly anti-capitalism, particularly in their beliefs that private land should be made public for housing. ... read full story / add a comment
África austral / imperialismo / guerra / non-anarchist press Friday November 12, 2010 - 21:56 by Wilber Dávila
Angola celebra este jueves, 11 de noviembre, el 35 aniversario de la independencia nacional, cuya proclamación marcó la entrada de Angola en el concierto de las naciones como un país independiente.

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southern africa / gender / non-anarchist press Monday October 04, 2010 - 01:09 by Natasha Vally
Twelve people were arrested at a private gathering in Extension 14 Vosloorus at about 03h30 on the 3rd of October 2010 by the Vosloorus Police Services. Most of the twelve arrested had just returned from the annual Johannesburg Lesbian & Gay Pride Parade to join birthday celebrations of a friend's mother. The twelve have been charged with obstruction of justice and attack on the police, a charge that they have denied to both the SAPS and their legal representative from Section 27, Advocate A. Hassim. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday September 08, 2010 - 08:02 by South African Press Association
Johannesburg - Pro-democracy demonstrators marched on Tuesday in Swaziland against Africa's last absolute monarchy, despite the arrests of nearly 50 people on the eve of the protests. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 09:31 by Richard Rooney
The Swazi state is so worried about how the international community will view the Global Day of Action for democracy in Swaziland tomorrow (7 September 2010), it has barred foreign journalists from the kingdom. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 01:55 by Richard Lee
JOHANNESBURG – On the eve of the Global Day of Action for Swaziland, police in Swaziland this afternoon broke up a peaceful meeting of pro-democracy activists at the Tum’s George Hotel in Manzini before loading scores of them into police vans and taking them away to the Manzini Regional Police headquarters. ... read full story / add a comment
In Swaziland you can get locked up for wearing this tee-shoirt.
southern africa / indigenous struggles / non-anarchist press Friday September 03, 2010 - 11:17 by Mike Marqusee   image 1 image
Mike Marqusee has just returned from a visit with trade unionists and democracy activists in Swaziland. This article will appear in The Hindu Sunday Magazine on 29 August. Swaziland is a small country with a big problem. The 1.3 million inhabitants of the land-locked southern African kingdom live under the thumb of one of the world’s last absolute monarchies, a venal and repressive regime whose plunder of the country is systematic and comprehensive. ... read full story / add a comment
Demonstrators burned barricades and tyres during protests over soaring prices in Maputo [Reuters]
southern africa / economy / non-anarchist press Friday September 03, 2010 - 00:09 by Al Jazeera   image 1 image
At least six people have been shot dead in Mozambique's capital during clashes between police and demonstrators protesting against rising food and fuel prices. Police opened fire on protesters throwing stones and setting fire to tyres and barriers, but it was not immediately clear whether their bullets were responsible for the deaths. According to the AFP news agency, one boy was shot in the head and left dead in the street, while a police spokesman told Reuters two children were killed in the violence. Red Cross rescue teams in the impoverished southern African country said demonstrators were killed during separate protests in Maputo on Wednesday. "We have had 42 cases at the hospital. Twenty-three were wounded by gunshots. Two are being operated on at the moment. Nineteen have wounds from physical attacks. One died," Antonio Assis da Costa, director of emergency services at the Red Cross, told AFP. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Saturday August 14, 2010 - 15:30 by Kerry Chance
This report gives a detailed timeline of the events on the day and night of the attack on Abahlali baseMjondolo. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / the left / other libertarian press Sunday August 08, 2010 - 03:11 by Zodwa Nsibande, S'bu Zikode
S'bu Zikode, chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo, and Zodwa Nsibande, secretary of the organisation's Youth League, on the authoritarian left, the world cup, delivery and more. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / repression / prisoners / non-anarchist press Thursday July 15, 2010 - 05:44 by Abahlali baseMjondolo
The political interference around this case continued in the lead up to the start of the trial today. The prisoners were not brought to court and the state witnesses were not summoned to appear in court making it impossible for the trial to begin.

Neither the Investigating Officer nor the prosecutor could explain why the prisoners were not brought to the court or why the state witnesses had not been summoned to appear in court. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / economy / non-anarchist press Tuesday July 13, 2010 - 05:21 by John S. Saul
I first knew Mozambique through close contact in Dar es Salaam with FRELIMO in the early and difficult years – the 1960s and the first-half of 1970s – of its armed liberation struggle. Then Mozambique was seeking both to unite itself and to find political and military purchase against an intransigent and arrogant Portuguese colonialism. And FRELIMO – under the leadership of, first, Eduardo Mondlane (to be assassinated by the Portuguese) and, after him, of Samora Machel – did indeed manage, by 1975, to lead the country to victory. Along the way, FRELIMO succeeded in liberating zones in Mozambique adjacent to its rear bases in Tanzania and Zambia where it built a new social infrastructure of agricultural coops, schools and health services. Equally important, it forged an impressive corps of politically conscious and disciplined leadership cadres (see Cabaço, 2001 and 2009). ... read full story / add a comment
africa meridionale / economia / stampa non anarchica Monday June 21, 2010 - 19:21 by Dale T. McKinley
Corre un bel rischio chi volesse tentare un approccio critico, pubblico e non apologetico, dei Mondiali di Calcio, proprio mentre nel nostro paese siamo al culmine della frenesia collettiva per le aspettative di buoni risultati, nutrite da un buon sentimento nazionale e da una diffusa eccitazione. Ma è un rischio che bisogna proprio assumersi poichè, indipendentenente al contesto, è sempre necessario distinguere il mito dalla realtà. Nel caso del "più grande spettacolo del mondo", dando pure per scontati sia la bellezza che il divertimento insiti nel gioco del calcio, la fabbricazione del mito ha creato una situazione di ebbrezza, un sorta di forte e veloce euforia che oscura la realtà, a cui seguirà una rapida caduta depressiva nel ritorno alla realtà. [English] ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / economy / non-anarchist press Friday June 18, 2010 - 04:48 by Dale T. McKinley
Offering an unapologetic public critique of the FIFA Soccer World Cup at the height of the collective frenzy of positive expectation, feel-good nationalism and general public excitement that now exists in our country is a risky thing to do. But it is a risk that needs to be taken precisely because, no matter what the context, myths always need to be separated from realities. In the case of the ‘greatest show on earth’, leaving aside the very real beauty and enjoyment of the game of soccer, the myth-making has created a situation akin to inhaling tik – a short-lived high/euphoria that obscures all reality, followed by a rapid, depressing ‘come down’ back to that reality. ... read full story / add a comment
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africa meridionale / cultura / stampa non anarchica Thursday June 17, 2010 - 20:09 by Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign   image 1 image
All’ombra delle montagne, 36 squadre provenienti da 40 differenti quartieri si sono date appuntamento ieri per giocare al gioco che amano di più: il CALCIO. Il 13 giugno 2010, si sono giocati alla grande i primi mondiali di calcio dei poveri sul campo di Avendole, vicino alla stadio di Athlone a Città del Capo. Di primo mattino, i primi pulmini con le squadre di calcio sono giunti da tutta Città del Capo per disputare il loro primo mondiale dei poveri. Erano tutti entusiasti e l’atmosfera era quella giusta, nonostante le pessime previsioni del tempo. [English] ... read full story / add a comment
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southern africa / culture / non-anarchist press Tuesday June 15, 2010 - 23:55 by Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign   image 1 image
At the shadow side of the mountain, 36 teams from 40 different communities came together yesterday to play the one thing they like the most: SOCCER!
On the 13th of June 2010, the Poor People’s World Cup successfully kicked-off their first day of matches at the Avendale soccer fields, next to Athlone stadium in Cape Town. Early in the morning, the first minibuses with soccer teams arrived from all over Cape Town to play their first games in this Poor People’s tournament. Everybody was excited and the atmosphere was amazing, considering the bad weather forecasts. [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday June 10, 2010 - 21:22 by Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape
Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape, 21 days ago launched it’s campaign ‘the right to the city campaign’ today the world and South Africans are counting few days before the kick off of the 2010 FiFa World cup, also Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape is counting few hours before kick starting it’s campaign. ... read full story / add a comment
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