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		<title>Letter from Zambia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What started as a new political revolution in Zambia has proved to be a mere political hullabaloo. There can be nothing new under capitalism – except half meal political and economic reforms that in all respects only help to undermine working-class political and class solidarity. In every part of the world the workers have the class franchise to elect a political party into power. It is the inability by the workers to use their class franchise to utilise their political consciousness as a weapon for socialism. The election of Michael Sata of the Peoples Front (PF) as President is what is dubbed a new dawn in Zambian politics. Reading through the newspaper headlines one may easily notice the absence of political criticism today. The PF has been a pro-poor people’s budget – in the sense that the government has reduced pay as you earn income tax below those earning K2 million. The reduction of income tax comes at a time when the government is contemplating enacting a minimum wage for those earning below K2 million. The political strength of the PF government will be judged by the workers and unemployed youth, who massively voted for it during the 2011 general [...]


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		<title>Kenyan Nurses Strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenya&#8217;s public hospitals face a potentially devastating health worker shortage after the government fired 25,000 striking nurses. Luke K&#8217;Odambo, chairman of the National Nurses Association of Kenya, said that the sacking did &#8221;not make sense in any way&#8221;, and that it was not possible to dismiss such a large part of the workforce. &#8220;We are ignoring the sacking threat.&#8221; Alex Orina, spokesman of the 40,000-strong Kenya Health Professionals Society, said. &#8221;These are cat-and-mouse games, you cannot sack an entire workforce. It is a ploy to get us to rush back to work, but our strike continues until our demands are met,&#8221; . The nurses went on strike on March 1 to protest the government&#8217;s failure to implement a salary increase agreed last year, when they also stopped work to press for improved services in Kenya&#8217;s mostly ill-equipped public hospitals. On average, a health worker earns about 25,000 shillings ($300) a month in salary and allowances, and this amount was likely to double if their demand for higher allowances were met. Private hospitals and clinics, where richer families send their sick, have opened as usual because their nurses are not members of the strikers&#8217; union. In public hospitals patients pay as little as one [...]


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		<title>Zambia: the riots in Barotseland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The events that took place in Western Province on 14 January strongly and correctly underpin that Zambia’s politics are tribalist – that tribalism in Zambia exists and is partly instigated by self-seeking politicians through inciting disgruntled ethnic groups in order to advance their political objectives. What is called nationalism comes to emphasise political allegiance to the state. Political states in Africa were mapped out by European imperialist nations under the guise of economic interests and military influence. Thus African kingdoms and empires were brutally decimated and different ethnic groups were forcibly integrated into colonial states and protectorates. British imperialism (colonialism) was politically, religiously and poetically lampooned as bringing civilisation. What is known today as Zambia consists of 72 ethnic groups and the Lunda-Luba speaking tribes comprise 90 percent of Zambia’s population. Politically and linguistically the Bemba remains one of the dominant tribes. The Lozi and Tonga remain linguistically and culturally differentiated from the Lunda-Luba complex tribe. It is undeniable that rigid ethnic and tribal patterns exist in Zambia today as a major factor determining the strength of political parties. The Barotseland Agreement was enacted on 7 May 1974 in London between the then Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia Kenneth Kaunda, [...]


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		<title>Tunisia – people power, but…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lightning rapidity and relative ease with which Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was chased out of Tunisia in January, is a clear testimony not only of the power of the masses but also (though unknown to many) how vulnerable and cowardly many a dictator is. Hours before his ignominious flight, Ben Ali appeared on television visibly shaken and pleading with the people to give him time to address their problems. Too late; the masses were already up in arms. It is said that the capitalist system digs its own grave. But it does not do so willingly. It is an inevitable fate that it must fulfil; it developed the internet to enhance its insatiable crave for profits but, ironically, it is the same internet that the masses will use as a collective organiser to mobilise the exploited to bury the system. The present upheavals in the Arab countries are one such example. Elsewhere in the Arab lands, this defiant action of the Tunisians sent frosty shivers down the spines of the other dictators and, apprehensive of a possible domino effect, some of these rulers started making jittery reforms to avert a similar (and deserved) fall. In Tunisia, discontent with [...]


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		<title>Egypt: The hard road to political democracy</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2011/02/egypt-the-hard-road-to-political-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the time of going to press, the “revolution of anger” in Egypt seems to be entering a new phase. Tahrir Square has been reopened to traffic and commerce. Massive political demonstrations are over, at least for the time being, but strikes and protests by various groups of workers continue. The employees of the National Bank of Egypt have forced the resignation of its chairman, a Mubarak ally. Ambulance drivers, public transport workers, and even the police are demonstrating for better wages and conditions. Many Egyptians are dissatisfied with what has been achieved so far, and with good reason. Mubarak has gone. But what sort of democrat is the man who took over from him on 31 January – Omar Suleiman, assassin and torturer-in-chief of the dreaded Mukhabarat (General Intelligence Service)? The demand to suspend the emergency law that permits detention without charge has not been met, nor have political prisoners been released. The ruling military council has set no firm timetable for elections and transition to civilian rule. They have made plenty of promises, but who is naïve enough to trust them? To understand what is happening in Egypt, we must first understand the nature of the ruling regime. [...]


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		<title>Genocide of the &#8220;Bushmen&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 06:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socialist Banner has sympathetically and repeatedly reported on the manner that the San Bushmen are being treated by the Botswana government. In the early 1980s, diamonds were discovered in the reserve. Soon after, government ministers went into the reserve to tell the Bushmen living there that they would have to leave because of the diamond finds. In three big clearances, in 1997, 2002 and 2005, virtually all the Bushmen were forced out. Their homes were dismantled, their school and health post were closed, their water supply was destroyedand the people were threatened and trucked away. They now live in resettlement camps outside the reserve. Rarely able to hunt, and arrested and beaten when they do, they are dependent on government handouts. They are now gripped by alcoholism, boredom, depression, and illnesses such as TB and HIV/AIDS. The forced relocation of indigenous tribespeople by the Botswanan government was condemned by US diplomats as a &#8220;special tragedy&#8221;,leaked US state department cables reveal. After visiting New Xade in 2005, ambassador Huggins condemned the manner of the relocation, saying it was &#8220;clear that people have been dumped in economically absolutely unviable situations without forethought, and without follow-up support. The lack of imagination displayed on the part of the [Botswanan [...]


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		<title>The San</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2010/11/the-san/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socialist Banner has posted on a number of occasions about the plight of the San, the Kalahari Bushmen. These weary Bushmen — four men, three women and an infant — were nearing the end of a two-day journey, walking their way toward water. Taoxaga was thirsty, and it angered and baffled him that he had to walk so far. Closer by was a borehole, the wellspring to underground water. But the government had sealed it up, and he supposed this was just another way to drive the Bushmen from the sandy home they had occupied for millenniums. “The government says we are bad for the animals, but I was born here and the animals were born here, and we have lived together very well,” he said. But most of the Bushmen have moved to dreary resettlement areas on the outskirts, where they wait in line for water, wait on benches at the clinic, wait around for something to do, wait for the taverns to open so they can douse their troubles with sorghum beer. Once among the most self-sufficient people on earth, many of them now live on the dole, waiting for handouts. “If there was only some magic to [...]


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		<title>The Meat Trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Netcare in KwaZulu-Natal performed illegal kidney transplants in its St Augustine&#8217;s Hospital in Durban from 2001 to 2003. By illegal, we are talking about performing unnecessary surgery on &#8220;patients&#8221; for the sole purpose of selling their organs to others. A doctor who cuts up a human body for the purpose of selling the organs is no different to a butcher who cuts up animals for retail. The hospital removed kidneys from more than 100 people during that period and paid them a measly 42,000 Rand each, while it is said to have made R42-million from the operations. The Commercial Crimes Court fined it R3.8-million. There are those who will say, &#8220;So what?&#8221; And in a world where money can buy anything, and everything is fair game for profit-makers, what&#8217;s to stop people from turning human parts into another commodity? In a world that is governed by the principle of supply and demand, where those with money can buy anything, the inevitable result is a world in which rich recipients look for markets where they can buy body parts. The sad reality is that some poor person somewhere in the world will be forced to sell. Today&#8217;s rich prey on the [...]


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		<title>Politics in Africa</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2010/11/politics-in-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Africa is a vast continent comprised of nations which because of their colonial past have different histories, just as they have variegated geographical landmarks that distinguish them. Thus African nations do not share many things in common except the forcible grouping together of tribes regardless of the interaction that existed before colonialisation. In the attempt to create nations, different ethnic groups have been split between boundaries and the expression of nationalism has therefore not been through the medium of cultural or ethnic identity, but defined within the context of the country in which the language of the colonial master became the lingua franca. It is imperative to note, therefore, that such a situation in which countries find themselves has made nation building and African unity a difficult task. The political developments taking place in Zambia today are African in nature and therefore similar and comparable to political events taking place elsewhere. In Africa, parliamentary democracy defined through multi-party politics still remains a test case today. Political leaders in Africa are finding it hard to relinquish power through the medium of the ballot box. The current political scenario in Zambia may easily degenerate into political violence if left unabated. The Catholic [...]


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		<title>Land Grab: win-win or win-lose?</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2010/09/land-grab-win-win-or-win-lose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the recent growing interest in land acquisition and investment in land around the world for which there are no binding regulations and also, apparently, no agreement by private industry as to whether or how to adopt voluntary self-regulation, the World Bank with the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the Institute for Food and Development, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) convened a meeting to discuss this issue. Titled ‘Principles for responsible agricultural investment that respects rights, livelihoods and resources’ the discussion notes from the September/October 2009 meeting were published in January. A set of seven principles was drawn up highlighting the main risks, which were perceived to be displacement of populations and undermining or negating existing rights. The ﬁrst two principles were concerned mainly with not jeopardising existing land rights and ensuring that food security would not be threatened in the targeted areas. Two more principles were focussed on transparency at all stages of the process when accessing land or other resources, to ensure that all stakeholders would be kept within the information loop. Consultation and participation were to be such that all those materially affected should be consulted and agreements from consultations would be recorded [...]


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