On 27 April 2013 Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), the largest organisation of the militant poor in post-apartheid South Africa, established in Durban in 2005. Released a press statement entitled "Marikana: A New Land Occupation Founded on UnFreedom Day 2013." The...
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Abahlali rises up to stop corruption and forced removals in Langa TRA
Abahlali baseLanga TRA - 5 July 2012Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape Press Statement Yesterday, Abahlali baseMjondolo youth took physical action to block the Housing Development Agency from moving residents of Joe Slovo Informal Settlement into Langa...
SANEF alarmed by ANC’s call for boycott of City Press | by SANEF
Editors' Forum says party's call tantamount to intimidation and abuse of power Sanef alarmed at call by the ANC to boycott City Press Newspaper The South African National Editors' Forum notes that the South Gauteng High Court has decided to adjourn the hearing of an...
The Spear: Enough and no more! | by ANC Today
ANC Today article says cheap offensive smut peddled as art doesn't add anything to advance civic liberties ENOUGH AND NO MORE! The artist, the gallery and the City Press editor "... propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a...
ANC outraged by Brett Murray’s depiction of Zuma | by Jackson Mthembu
Jackson Mthembu says party wants picture removed from gallery and news websites The African National Congress is extremely disturbed and outraged by the distasteful and indecent manner in which Brett Murray and the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg is displaying the...
Occupied — What Now? | by David Swanson
War Is Crime Thanks in large part to the New York and national corporate media a massive campaign to shift power away from giant corporations and into the hands of the people is now afoot all across this continent. It was inspired by peoples' nonviolent uprisings in...
Greek Tragedy | by Nick Dearden
Everyday the same news – Greece lurches nearer to a default, the financial markets panic, and governments come up with a few more euros or some soothing words to calm them for a few hours. The meltdown has been put off for another day.Almost every commentator accepts...
Here’s To Truth And Reconciliation In Israel-Palestine | by Diane V. McLoughlin
In comments following news articles and op eds these days (for example, here), the denial that there even exists a Palestinian people at all grows more prevalent. Palestinians continue to be squashed under foot with similar contempt in the Occupied Territories by...


