Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BOND Patrick, MANZI Thandukuhle
The low-income black township here in Durban which suffered more than any other during apartheid, Cato Manor, was the scene of a fanciful test performed on a Mozambican last Wednesday morning. At 6:45am, in the warmth of a rising subtropical winter sun, two unemployed men strolling on Belair (…)
, by Pambazuka News
On 2nd April 2008, Bunge La Mwananchi through its network and Starehe Social Movement notified the officers in charge of Central Police Station, Pangani Police Station and Huruma Police Station of their intention to hold a peaceful procession on 31st May, 2008 starting from Jeevanjee Gardens (…)
, by WILLIAMS Vincent
In May 2001, President Thabo Mbeki writing in the on-line journal ANC Today said the following:
... we must continue to be vigilant against any evidence of xenophobia against the African immigrants. It is fundamentally wrong and unacceptable that we should treat people who come (…)
, by HLATSHWAYO Mondli
Executive Summary
The recent rise in the tide of xenophobia required a rapid response from social movements and all those that are for human rights and against racism and discrimination. The recent violence on immigrants and their displacements have been unprecedented. In order to respond to (…)
The growth in immigrants from the rest of Africa to South Africa, and attacks on such immigrants, dates to the mid-1990s.
What has changed today is that South Africa is home or temporary host to exponentially more immigrants. What is different today is that immigrants are infinitely more (…)
, by ANDREWS Mercia, ASHLEY Brian, JANSEN Helga
I sit here on a Monday evening after my fourth day of assisting the displaced African nationals who have come to Muizenberg from across the peninsula. They have come from Westlake, Vrygrond, Maitland, Phillipi, Nyanga, Khayalitsha Gugulethu. I am exhausted, and my only joy tonight has been that (…)
, by MARAIS Hein
Let’s first clear our heads a little. The distinction drawn so often between xenophobic attacks and acts of criminality is spurious. Murder, assault and looting — indisputably criminal acts — historically have been intrinsic features of pogroms. Opportunism invariably thrives in these frenzies. (…)
, by BELL Terry
But our week of tears had been particularly bitter in that the poor, dispossessed and exploited, who suffered, did so at the hands of their fellows. And the government cannot escape its share of responsibility, despite the frankly silly protestations of the Pahad brothers, deputy foreign (…)
, by Correspondent(s)
19 May 2008
Friends, this is simply an account of what I saw and experienced in a twenty four period. It might be incomplete. It is not an analytical piece as such, but I hope a small step towards trying to understand what had taken place in this city, in this country that I have come to love. (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
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SANCO, Thokoza Branch: March in Thokoza
The Thokoza branch of SANCO [South African National Civics Organisation], with allied community organisations, is inviting you to a press conference to announce its planned (…)
, by Cosatu
As everybody in our country knows, the Congress of South African Trade Unions has been at the forefront of the campaign to create jobs and eradicate poverty.
For years we have fought to ensure that this struggle is taken seriously and remains at the centre of the national agenda.
COSATU has (…)
, by SMIndaba
May 21, 2008 — The Social Movements Indaba (SMI) is mobilising social movements, immigrant communities, NGOs, unions, concerned residents from poor areas around the province for a march this Saturday, 24th of May. The march will gather at Pieter Roos Park (Empire and Hospital Road) from 9 am, (…)
, by Abahlali
Our struggle and every real struggle is to put the human being at the centre of society, starting with the worst off.
An action can be illegal. A person cannot be illegal. A person is a person where ever they may find themselves.
If you live in a settlement you are from that settlement and (…)
, by MUROPA Tafadzwa
These “reflections” were sent as a contribution to the debate opened in the International Council (IC) of the World Social Forum (WSF) on its future.
Dear colleagues,
Having been actively involved in the Social Forum process at national and regional levels for the past 5 years (as a (…)
, by MUNNIK Victor
Grabbing the opportunity of the climate change crisis, the nuclear industry has presented itself as a carbon-free energy source. There are a number of arguments against this: first, there is not enough uranium on the planet to fuel a big enough nuclear industry to make a difference to climate (…)
, by Amandla!
In spite of substantial levels of expenditure compared with many semi-industrialised countries, crises dog critical sectors of South African life. Unemployment and crime need no elaboration. The continuing nature of service delivery protests, a number of which turned riotous and violent, point (…)
, by TALBOT Ann
President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya and opposition leader Raila Odinga signed a power-sharing agreement brokered by former United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan on February 28. Both parties to the agreement expressed the hope that it would bring an end to two months of intertribal violence and (…)
, by VASUDEVAN Parvathi
Kenya is in turmoil following the contested results of the recently held general elections. International mediation between the parties in conflict will help but serious political and economic reform is a must to end disparities and inequality, which are the root causes of the problem.
Long (…)
, by BOND Patrick
It is tragic but understandable that South African society ranks — with the United States and China — at the bottom of a recent worldwide climate-consciousness survey by polling firm Global Scan: only 45% of us believe global warming is a “serious problem”.
Latin Americans polled above 80%, (…)
, par Collective / Multiple signers
Articles concerning Chad are often posted in other sections than this one — for exemple in the section on French African policy. Most of these are in French.
To get an updated list on the articles concerning Chad in English, refer to « Chad » in the key-word dictionnary (geographical names) (…)
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