South Africa

South Africa: The Fault-Lines of the World’s Most Unequal Society

July 18, 2021 Judith Bello Protest, Socio-Economic Struggles, South Africa, South Africa

by John Allen, published on All Africa, July 18, 2021 South Africa was born in the clutches of the IMF and the World Bank. It is no surprise that even a government run by a revolutionary party became, after less than 30 years, riddled with corruption, while implementing divestment and impoverishment of the very people from whom they emerged as[…]

Anti-Apartheid Guerilla: We Made the System Ungovernable

June 26, 2021 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Political Prisoners, Racism, South Africa

by Ted Kelly, published on Workers World, June 25, 2021 Mpho Masemola is Secretary General of the Ex-Political Prisoners Veterans Association of South Africa (EPPA) and was an underground guerrilla fighter as a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a political prisoner, incarcerated along with Nelson Mandela at Pollsmoor[…]

Protecting Food From the Hungry

August 22, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Brazil, South Africa

by Vijay Prashad, published on Consortium News, August 21, 2020 Young children marvel at an obvious contradiction in capitalist societies: why do we have shops filled with food, and yet see hungry people on the streets? It is a question of enormous significance; but in time the question dissipates into the fog of moral ambivalence, as various explanations are used[…]

Latin American Leaders Support Call for Sanctions on Israel

July 5, 2020 UNAC Editor Israel, Latin America, Palestine, South Africa

Statement by the Palestinian BDS National Committee Ex-Presidents Dilma Rousseff, Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, José Mujica, Rafael Correa among 320 public figures supporting Palestinian call for sanctions to stop Israel’s annexation and apartheid. July 3, 2020 – Former Latin American Presidents Dilma Rousseff (Brazil), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Ernesto Samper (Colombia), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), José Mujica[…]

My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela, Helped End Apartheid. Let’s Do the Same for Palestine

April 5, 2020 UNAC Editor Racism, South Africa

In light of the fact that many US states have criminalized support for the Palestinian BDS campaign, we need to see the oppression of Palestinians in its true context. At the end of Apartheid, South African divisions were not reinforced, but rather the entire country was restored to the native people of South Africa. [Ed] by Nkosi Zwelivelile, published on[…]

Millions Say: Change the System, Not the Climate!

October 24, 2019 UNAC Editor Africa, Climate Change, Environment, South Africa

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, October 9, 2019 The week of unprecedented massive and worldwide climate mobilizations that began on Friday, Sept. 20, represented an historic breakthrough in the consciousness of the world’s people. An estimated 7.6 million people in 185 countries from every continent on earth except Antarctica mobilized in unprecedented numbers to condemn the governments and[…]

The Land Question: Unpacking Expropriation Without Compensation in South Africa

July 27, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Reparations, Socio-Economic Struggles, South Africa

by Nombuso Mathibela, originally published on Pambazuka News “Pay no one for land acquired illegally.” The radical thesis of seizing property from white landholders without compensation was adopted in the ANC’s 54th National Conference in December 2017 and subsequently most vehemently motioned in the National Assembly by the opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). The motion was passed with[…]