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Activists decry talk of ‘third force’ at Marikana | radical africa

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Activists decry talk of ‘third force’ at Marikana. On August 25, 2012. By Niren Tolsi,. The suggestion, presented with a sprinkling of muti, is that the 34 miners would not have been shot dead if some unseen hand had not been at work. The Marikana dust appeared to have just settled on the bodies of the 34 dead miners last week when the spin machines started whirring out the spectre of a “third force”, whispering of “agents provocateur” and “criminal elements” at work. According to grassroots activists th...

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Liberation betrayed by bloodshed | radical africa

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Liberation betrayed by bloodshed. On August 26, 2012. By Njabulu S. Ndebele,. The tragedy at Marikana reflects the loss of the vision of liberation and the onset of repression by default, argues Njabulo S Ndebele. On the evening of Thursday, August 16, in Johannesburg, I returned to my hotel for a well-deserved rest. I would turn on the TV, watch the news and then settle back to enjoy yet another episode of Isidingo. Police officers opened fire, and dust rose as people in the line of fire collapsed.

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Road Blockade in Grahamstown this Morning | The Struggle for the City

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The Struggle for the City. Linking struggles for the right to the city worldwide. Road Blockade in Grahamstown this Morning. May 17, 2011 – 4:07 pm. Tuesday, Tuesday, 17 May 2011. Five Hundred People Blockade Road in Grahamstown this Morning. The statement below was drawn up in a meeting last night but could not be issued until today due to a lack of access to email. Monday, 16 May 2011. National Road to be Blockaded Tomorrow in Grahamstown. Xola Mali 072 299 5253 xola.mali@yahoo.com. Fast Against Demoli...

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Rio World Cup demolitions leave favela families trapped in ghost town | The Struggle for the City

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The Struggle for the City. Linking struggles for the right to the city worldwide. Rio World Cup demolitions leave favela families trapped in ghost town. April 27, 2011 – 8:12 am. Tagged 2014 Fifa World Cup. And in between, one of the world’s top sporting venues, the blue and grey Maracanã stadium, which will host the final of the 2014 football World Cup. 8220;We worked hard to build this place,” said Freitas, 35 and unemployed, whose family moved to Rio from Brazil. Redbrick shacks have been cracked open...

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Apartheid petty and grand, old and new is evil | The Struggle for the City

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The Struggle for the City. Linking struggles for the right to the city worldwide. Apartheid petty and grand, old and new is evil. May 2, 2012 – 10:52 am. By Ayanda Kota,. We live in a society where the unemployment rate is said to be 23% while the truth is different. Our government is committed to propaganda. The real unemployment rate is closer to 40%. What is the difference between the apartheid homeland leaders and chiefs and the current traditional courts bill? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Abahlali ba...

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Fast Against Demolitions in Golibar, Bombay | The Struggle for the City

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The Struggle for the City. Linking struggles for the right to the city worldwide. Fast Against Demolitions in Golibar, Bombay. May 23, 2011 – 9:59 pm. Social activist Medha Patkar of the National Alliance of People’s Movements. NAPM) is on an indefinite fast calling for an immediate halt to slum. Demolitions at Mumbai’s Golibar colony. The slum colony in suburban Khar. Has been waging a long battle against the developer Shivalik Ventures. Slum dwellers have been agitating against the builder for. Of slum...

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Ubuntuponics | Home Survival in the New South Africa | Page 2

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Home Survival in the New South Africa. Sun Hive natural beekeeping. December 7, 2014. Http:/ www.milkwood.net/2013/03/05/the-sun-hive-experiments-in-natural-beekeeping/. November 24, 2014. Http:/ curbed.com/archives/2014/11/14/indawo-life-pod-south-africa-prefab-home.php. Http:/ www.pod-indawo.com/a. Bongalong, locally made bong. July 5, 2014. July 5, 2014. The Solar Lantern revolution. July 4, 2014. Solar Lantern with wifi. June 15, 2014. April 29, 2014. April 10, 2014. May 6, 2014. Newer posts →.

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South Africa’s goldmines beset by simmering resentment | radical africa

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South Africa’s goldmines beset by simmering resentment. On October 1, 2012. Mokwane works at Blyvooruitzicht near Carletonville in western Gauteng (“place of gold” in Sesotho) province, a place where workers go underground every day fearing it could be their last; where they complain of low pay, bad food and overcrowded single sex hostels; where they say they are still treated like animals by their white bosses. Their simmering resentment could seemingly blow at any moment. Eighteen years after the end o...