Secularism is a Women’s IssueThe Oliver Tambo Resolution — named after the prominent anti-apartheid figure who served as president of the ANC between 1967 and 1991 — states that the aim of downgrading South Africa’s embassy to Israel was to “send a strong message about Israel’s continued illegal occupation of Palestine and the continued human rights abuses against the peoples of Palestine.”
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S. Africa Ruling Party Will Downgrade Ties with Israel over Illegal Occupation
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South Africa: Sabotaging Apartheid
5 November 2017, by siawi3Kasrils’s path to politics, his experience as intelligence officer for the ANC, and his views on South Africa’s descent into neoliberalism.“The existence of a proletariat in South Africa and that legacy of struggle made us believe that unlike a lot of African or Asian countries, the result of a national liberation struggle would be strongly oriented to socialism.” “When JW de Klerk implemented democratic reforms, there was a pressure on the ANC to capitulate to big business influence.” “The collapse of the Soviet Union occurring around the same time also left the ANC a lot more vulnerable.” “When Nelson Mandela was meeting captains of industry, leaders of Western countries — and even the Chinese — he was being encouraged only to develop private enterprise and to be wary of nationalization. If the Soviet Union had been in existence, there would have been stronger options in terms of economic development.”
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South Africa: Hugh Masekela: No Room for Compromise
28 January 2018, by siawi3Masekela felt strongly about the looting spree that had been undertaken by sections of the leadership of the African National Congress under the banner of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). In many ways, his salvation had come from his immersion in the anti racist struggles in North America, and his internship with the greats of African American jazz leaders. Hence, there had been no compromise by Masekela when the political leaders embraced neo-liberalism to justify their own primitive accumulation of capital. He could rub shoulders with dignitaries but he never forgot where he came from.
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South Africa: The Co-Optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s Original ‘State Capture’
28 January 2018, by siawi3The ideological shifts that took place in the ANC’s economic views from 1990 can only be described as breathtaking: from an explicitly redistributive approach, towards embracing the American ideologies of neoliberal globalism and market fundamentalism.
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D’Afrique du Sud : hommage unanime à Fidel Castro
27 novembre 2016, par siawi3Socialiste internationaliste qui se battait contre le pouvoir capitaliste et impérialiste, le rôle de Fidel Castro dans la lutte contre le régime de l’apartheid est unanimement célébré en Afrique du Sud. Actuellement près de 3 000 jeunes sud-africains étudient la médecine à Cuba.
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South Africa’s disappearing rape crisis services
25 July 2019, by siawi3More than half of the country’s Thuthuzela Care Centres (TCCs) are without counselling services or have been forced to rely on one or two social workers to comfort victims of abuse months after they lost international donor support. TCCs are one-stop facilities designed to provide sexual and gender-based violence survivors with access to medical, psychological and legal support services all in one place.
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South Africa: Numsa strike against sexual harassment is a ‘powerful moment in labour history’
25 July 2019, by siawi3What does it require to get management to take a sexual harassment complaint seriously? If the recent National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (Numsa) strike is anything to go by, it takes about 290 striking workers remaining underground without food and clean water for nine days. This is a most extraordinary show of strength, and a moment of exceptional unity, by workers in support of a comrade who experienced sexual harassment.
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South Africa: Inspiration - Shamima Shaikh 1960-1998
11 July 2019, by siawi3In a radio interview in 1995, Shamima criticised the proposed Muslim Personal Law Bill which was being proposed, expressing concerns about men’s ability to unilaterally divorce their wives. For this, she received a stern caution from the United Ulama Council of South Africa, informing her that she was ‘in gross violation of Islamic principles’.
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South Africa: Public schools can’t promote one religion
8 July 2017, by siawi3The court found that it was unlawful for a public school to promote that it adheres to only one religion, to the exclusion of others, or to hold that it promotes the interests of any one religion to the exclusion of others. However, the ruling does not bar worship in public schools or necessarily impact the right to opt out of collective worship.
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South Africa: Herstory: Soweto uprising and the erasure of Black women
23 June 2017, by siawi3There are many distortions in the dominant narratives around the 1976 students’ uprising. One of the most critical of these is the persistent, subtle projection of that uprising as the exclusive initiative of young men, to the complete exclusion and erasure of the invaluable contributions and sacrifices of young women. This constitutes epistemic violence against Black women.
