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Was ist me dem versprochenen land passiert? Post-apartheid Sud Afrika aus der Perspektive Frantz Fanons
Was ist me dem versprochenen land passiert? Post-apartheid Sud Afrika aus der Perspektive Frantz Fanons
Nigel Gibson
Murder in KwaNdengezi
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
30 March 2013
Murder in KwaNdengezi
On Good Friday those of us who are Christians remember the murder of Jesus Christ who spurned the rich and walked with the poor. We never forget that Jesus Christ was murdered by the state for the crime of taking the side of the poor.
This year Good Friday in KwaNdengezi was marked with the blood, terror and grief of the poor.
At around 22:00pm on Thursday night Dumisane Mdletshe, a 31 year old man whose family live in KwaNdengezi although he no longer lives there, went to the home of a well known, well respected and brave AbM leader in KwaNdengezi. He kicked open the door and entered the home. He had a bush knife. He attacked her grandmother and her uncle and killed them both. They were both AbM members. He then asked for the AbM leader who had escaped in the dark. We are not giving her name until we have secured a safe house for her.
We Need to Move beyond Mngxitama’s Gutter Politics
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Unemployed People’s Movement Press Statement
We Need to Move beyond Mngxitama’s Gutter Politics
Andile Mngxitama has become notorious for trying to privatize the memory of Steve Biko. He is not the only person trying to privatize that legacy, which is a legacy that must be there for all of us. But he is the only one that uses gutter politics to defend his privatization of Biko’s legacy.
They way that Mngxitama insults people is just incredible. If you are not a loyal follower of the Big Man then you are a CIA agent, an askari or a house nigger. He even called one comrade in the Landless People’s Movement a CIA agent while she was being tortured by the police! He has insulted so many young black activists and writers. He has used highly gendered language in these insults too. This is gutter politics. This is not the politics of BC. Aubrey Mokoape always makes the point about the humility of Biko. We learnt to reject the politics of sectarianism in BC during the feud, during hard times. Even when BC was under siege they still put forward ideas. The seminars that were organised across the country in those days were organised to debate ideas, not to attack individuals. Continue reading