Category Archives: Congolese Solidarity Campaign

Un-Independence Day 2017: Congo still struggles for real Independence

26 June 2017

CONGOLESE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN PRESS STATEMENT

Un-Independence Day 2017: Congo still struggles for real Independence

On the 29th June 2017, the Congolese Solidarity Campaign “CSC”, a grassroots human rights based social movement will once again hold its Un-Independence Day event in a form of panel discussion. It will take place at the Diakonia Centre – 20 Diakonia venue, Durban – South Africa.

While the rest of the country celebrates 57 years of “Independence”. We the impoverished, the marginalized and the oppressed will be mourning the absence of this that our mothers and fathers fought for so hard. We say that as long as the history of our country still characterized by civil wars, political instability, insecurity, conflict, gross human rights violation, corruption, democracy deficit and economic mismanagement.   Continue reading →

Stop massacre, exploitation and oppression in DR Congo

03 Mai 2017

CONGOLESE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN MOVEMENT PRESS STATEMENT

Stop massacre, exploitation and oppression in DR Congo

On the 04th May 2017 the Congolese Solidarity Campaign will organize a protesting picketing. It will take place outside the Durban International Convention Center hall. The event will start at 09:00 am and continue till 12:00 pm.

Since 1997, The Democratic Republic of Congo endured bloodshed and brutal, political and economical repression from its government. Congolese people’s lives remain in a permanent insecurity. Governments in these African countries were involved in causing instability in our country: Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and Sudan.

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Understanding and Overcoming Xenophobia: A One Day Colloquium

UHURU PRESENTS:

UNDERSTANDING AND OVERCOMING XENOPHOBIA
A ONE DAY COLLOQUIUM

At the present moment, xenophobic practices in South Africa are taking a number of nefarious forms from the exclusion of foreign students and staff from universities through the denial of visas, to the systematic unleashing of mob and state violence against the weakest sections of our population. This violence in particular has gone so far as to invade the sanctuary of churches and has included the deployment of the military and not just the police against poor communities thus treating the latter as potential enemies. It has recently become clearer in fact that xenophobia is not a problem of poverty but primarily a problem of identity politics endemic to South Africa, a kind of politics which state institutions and their agents have been pursuing since the early 1990s. Most analyses reduce the question of xenophobia to one of criminality and poverty and deplore xenophobic practices without offering much in terms of ideas for a solution.

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