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Thursday, November 3, 2016
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CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2Advocacy & Campaigns,  


Features


South Africa’s deprivations and depravations revealed in Jacob Zuma’s meltdown

Patrick Bond

President Zuma has suffered two major legal defeats: a fumbled state attack on Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan which was humiliatingly withdrawn by an incompetent prosecutor following a national outcry, and the release of the Public Protector’s report on the Zuma family’s corrupt relationships. Will enough pressures from below be mobilised to generate non-violent regime change in South Africa?
 

South Africa: Call for justice and reconciliation commission

Drucilla Cornell,Mabogo More and Sampie Terreblanche

Many universities have been shut down due to student protests demanding free higher education. This is the latest expression of the deep inequalities that affect the majority Black population in South Africa. The promise of a better future that underpinned the anti-Apartheid struggle remains unfulfilled. The nation’s unjust economy must be discussed.
 

Kids on their own in Calais: The tip of an iceberg-cold world

Samuel Albert

The people in Calais are not just some unfortunate exception to the rule that the world is OK. Their desperate presence tells the truth about an unacceptable world dominated by a handful of countries that have prospered at the expense of the vast majority of the planet's people, through plunder and war. That there are 63.5 million refugees and displaced people in the world is an irrefutable proof – only one of too many – that the capitalist-imperialist system does not work for humanity and the planet. 

 

Some thoughts on the deteriorating situation in Ethiopia

Yohannes Woldemariam

Ethiopia is descending into possible civil war. With the recent declaration of a state of emergency, the country is in turmoil due to exploitation of the long-suffering people of Oromia, Ogaden, Gambella and other ethnic groups by the ruling TPLF elite in partnership with international enablers such as China and the United States. TPLF exploitation and widespread repression have created highly rebellious resentment among the people.
 

Anti-terrorism in Africa: Experiences and lessons

Bankie Forster Bankie

Sudan is the birthplace of the contemporary global wave of terrorism, supported by countries in the Middle East and the West. Those destabilizing Africa are aided and abetted by empire building interests in the developed world, which see Africa as a soft target ripe for re-colonization. 

 

Ndi Igbo, leadership, nationhood, the Nigerian dilemma and ‘Why we are all Biafrans’

Chido Onumah

If there was one thing Nigeria needed so much at independence, it was a selfless, visionary, and nationalistic leadership that would have helped forge a nation out of the unworkable contraption left behind the British. The crisis of nationhood now lasting more than half a century can only be resolved through genuine devolution of power, so that Nigerians wherever they are will take their destiny in their own hands.

Egyptian women: Depression or oppression?

Sophie Anmuth

Women continuing to push for change in Egypt are bearing the psychological toll of a rigid post-revolution politics and society.

 

 

The Asian contribution to Kenya’s politics and economy

Sharad Rao

The first person to openly demand independence in Kenya was the Asian trade unionist Makhan Sigh. For that he was detained for 11 years. The firebrand Leftist political strategist Pio Gama Pinto and many other members of the Asian community made tremendous contributions to Kenya. And how many people might know that the University of Nairobi, Kenya’s premier institution of higher learning, was intended to be a memorial for Mahatma Gandhi and that the initial funding for it came from the Asian community?

Sophisticated graft rises to new levels in Kenya

Hezron Karanja

It now seems that with every passing quarter, there is a new financial scam being unearthed in Kenya. Despite this government being the most well-equipped to fight graft, it has turned out to be the most affected by corruption of all previous governments combined. Kenya is gradually becoming a graft cesspool. And the President admits on camera that there is nothing more he can do.


Advocacy and Campaigns


Pardoning Marcus Garvey: Sign Petition

M.C

Marcus Garvey should be posthumously pardoned for his wrongful conviction for use of the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud. During a time when Blacks were seen as second class citizens, Garvey led a mass movement to elevate the Black community through economic empowerment and independence. He was convicted after being targeted by J. Edgar Hoover and deprived of a fair trial. Go to:https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/grant-marcus-mosiah-garvey-po...
 


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Henry Makori and Tidiane Kasse - Editors, Pambazuka News

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