KZN Eyethu: Ziyanda izigameko zokubulawa kwabantu kwaNdengezi

http://eyethunews.co.za/14087/ziyakhula-izigameko-zokubulawa-kwabantu-besemizini-yabo-kwandengezi/

Nkululeko Khati

KUDUTSHULWE kwabulawa umakhelwane wekhansela lakwawadi 12 uMnuz Mobeni Khwela (46) KwaNdengezi ngoLwesithathu ebusuku.

Kuthiwa uKhwela obengagqamile kwezepolitiki uhlaselwe abantu abangaziwa ekwakhe ebusuku ngo-7.30.

Bamdubule amahlandla angu-7 washonela endleleni eya esibhedlela ngemumva kokubizelwa i-ambulensi.

Kuvele nokuthi udubuleke ethangeni nasemlenzeni uKhwela.

Leliphephandaba like labika phambilini ngokudutshulwa kwabulawa uNks Thuli Ndlovu (38) ngenyanga edlule ebusuku ekwakhe kuyo lendawo. Continue reading →

Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Durban Congolese Refugee Commiunity to March on Saturday

Thursday, 06 November 2014

Abahlali baseMjondolo joint press statement with the Durban Congolese refugee community

 

Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Durban Congolese Refugee Community to March on Saturday

We do not count to this society and this world. We can be driven from our homes, beaten, tortured and murdered with impunity. We are placed outside of citizenship and even humanity. When we insist on our dignity, when we take our place in the cities and in the discussions and when we resist the violence that constantly rains down on us like an endless storm we are shown to the world as criminals. We are expected to suffer and die in silence. We are expected to leave a world for our children in which their only future is suffering. We are not alone in having to live under this cruelty. In Palestine, in Haiti, in the Congo and in the favelas of Brazil and the gecekondus of Turkey it is the same.

It is our responsibility to build a new politic, a politic that respects the dignity of all people, a politic that restores the land and wealth of the world to the people, a politic in which there are no people that can be freely driven from their homes and freely killed, a politic in which everyone counts. Continue reading →

C.L.R. James: A History of Pan-African Revolt

C.L.R. James’s A History of Pan-African Revolt is a concise survey of Black freedom struggles in the United States, the Caribbean, and on the African continent from 1739–1969. A product of two periods in his life and work, his first British years (1932–38) where he emerged as the author of The Black Jacobins, the classic history of the Haitian Revolution; and his second American sojourn (1969–79) where he was a mentor to Black Power activists who had been members of SNCC, the Black Panther Party, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers; this book documents famous and obscure race and class struggles in two parts written from the vantage of 1939 and 1969 respectively.

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A History of Pan-African Revolt

C.L.R. James: Every Cook Can Govern

C.L.R. James, 1956
Direct Democracy

The Greek form of government was the city-state. Every Greek city was an independent state. At its best, in the city state of Athens, the public assembly of all the citizens made all important decisions on such questions as peace or war. They listened to the envoys of foreign powers and decided what their attitude should be to what these foreign powers had sent to say. They dealt with all serious questions of taxation, they appointed the generals who should lead them in time of war. They organized the administration of the state, appointed officials and kept check on them. The public assembly of all the citizens was the government. Continue reading →

SACSIS: Lindiwe Sisulu and the New Denialism

http://www.sacsis.org.za/site/article/2178

Lindiwe Sisulu and the New Denialism

by Richard Pithouse

In 2005, early in her in her first term as Minister of Housing, Lindiwe Sisulu announced that the state had resolved to ‘eradicate slums’ by 2014. This was a time when the technocratic ideal had more credibility than it does now and officials and politicians often spoke, with genuine conviction, as if it were an established fact that this aspiration would translate into reality. It was not unusual for people trying to engage the state around questions of urban land and housing to be rebuffed as troublemakers, either ignorant or malicious, on the grounds that it was an established fact that there would be no more shacks by 2014. Continue reading →

City Press: A curious case of … Deflection and prejudice

http://www.citypress.co.za/columnists/curious-case-deflection-prejudice/

A curious case of … Deflection and prejudice

T.O. Molefe, City Press

Who would have thought the day would come when a minister in an ANC-led government would read from the opposition DA hymn book of the pathologies of black culture – and an old, seemingly discarded edition at that?

Well, that’s exactly what happened when Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu this week promised that no person younger than 40 would receive a free house during her time in charge of human settlements.

This isn’t the first time she has said this. Continue reading →