Category Archives: Silvia Federici
M&G: Open letter to James Nxumalo, Senzo Mchunu & Jacob Zuma
2 October 2013
To:
James Nxumalo, Mayor, eThekwini Municipality, Durban, South Africa
Senzo Mchunu, Premier, KwaZulu-Natal
Jacob Zuma, President, Republic of South Africa
We are writing to you to express our grave concern at events unfolding in the Cato Crest shack settlement in Durban.
After an illegal eviction in Cato Crest by the eThekwini Municipality in March this year, shackdwellers occupied an adjacent piece of land. They named the settlement “Marikana”. Since then, two activists have been assassinated -Thembinkosi Qumbelo and Nkululeko Gwala. A third, Nkosinathi Mngomezulu, is in critical condition after being shot by the Land Invasions Unit. A number of activists have been seriously beaten by the police. Other activists, including Bandile Mdlalose and S’bu Zikode of the shack dweller movement Abahlali baseMjondolo who have been supporting the residents, have been threatened with death.
Padkos: Silvia Federici in PMB!
PADKOS NO 41
There’s growing excitement anticipating the visit of Silvia Federici in September. Please remember to book off Thursday the 12th when Padkos-list members can join Sylvia for a conversation during the morning – and there’ll also be a seminar during the afternoon open to the public.
Federici is a feminist activist, writer, and academic/teacher, and has recently been described as “one of the most important political theorists alive today”. She has participated in numerous international movements and social struggles, including feminist, education, anti-death penalty, anti-nuclear and anti-globalization movements, and most recently, in the Occupy movement. Her decades of research and political organizing accompanies a long list of publications on philosophy and feminist theory, women’s history, education, Africa, culture, international politics, and the worldwide struggle against capitalist globalization.