Audio recording of a talk by Lindela Figlan at the Pogo Cafe
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Video Interview with Lindela Figlan in Glasgow
South Africa Slum Dwellers, in U.S., Condemn Marikana Massacre
South Africa Slum Dwellers, in U.S., Condemn Marikana Massacre
“We need to take a stand, because what the miners were fighting for is just,” said Mnikelo Ndabankulu, spokesperson for the South African grassroots organization Abahlali baseMjondolo, which means “People Who Live in Shacks” in the Zulu language. At least 34 workers were shot dead by police at the Marikana platinum mine, in August. Ndabankulu’s group has also been harshly suppressed by authorities. “South Africa is a protesting state,” he said. If police were allowed to shoot everyone who protests, “the country would be left with only police and rich people.” Abahlali baseMjondolo members are on a tour of U.S. cities.
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S’bu Zikode Interview on Radio New Zealand
Apartheid has ended but we’re still landless (audio)
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Dakar2011/70905
The following audio piece [mp3] is an interview with Africa Mthombeni from South Africa’s Landless People’s Movement which is a member of la Via Campesina, an international movement that brings together millions of peasants, indigenous people, women farmers, migrants and agricultural workers. The group was formed in 1999 by landless people in South Africa frustrated by the slow pace of land reform. Mthombeni highlights South Africa’s specific land situation starting with the land act of 1913, which enclosed the majority of black people on 13 per cent of the land within Bantu reserves. 87 per cent was left to mostly white commercial farmers. Despite the end of apartheid over 20 years ago, the pace of land reform has remained very slow.
Interviews conducted by Zahra Moloo, an independent journalist from Kenya, currently based in London, UK.