The end of Apartheid and the election of the ANC to power was supposed to see the grinding poverty of the townships ended, but the ANC have turned out to be powerless to run capitalism in a way that would end exploitation and poverty. Despite 15 years of power the ANC are just another...
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Africa
South Africa, from bad to worse?
The Real African Pirates
South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics this week announced it had negotiated a 99-year lease on some 3.2 million acres of farmland on Madagascar ,about half the size of Belgium , That’s nearly half of Madagascar’s arable land, according to the U.N.’s Food and Agricultural Organization, and Daewoo plans to put about three quarters of it...
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Let Them Eat Soap?
Refugees who haven’t eaten for days cheered when the first humanitarian convoy in a week arrived at their camp November 3rd, but the jubilation turned into anger when U.N. workers dumped soap instead of food. U.N. officials admit hunger at the Kibati camp, where tens of thousands of refugees have sought safety, is dire...
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The war in the Congo
The World Socialist Party has always explained war as having its root cause within the capitalist system . It is our contention that war has always been fundamentally economic . The blood-bath that has been taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo is no exception . Our case is supported by this article...
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Diplomatic Hypocrisy
“…Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe has plenty of competitors for the title of “least democratic in Africa.” But while he has been singled out for condemnation by the West, leaders of other autocratic states in Africa have largely been able to avoid sanctions and isolation. Many have friends in...
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Xenophobic violence erupts in South Africa
About 12 people were killed and more than 50 were taken to hospitals with gunshot and stab wounds last night in Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest city. Local police used tear gas and rubber bullets in attempt to try to stop the attackers – gangs of armed youths. (BBC) This was not, however, the racial...
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Bushmen – the attempted genocide continues
We have posted before here about the harrassment and oppression of the indigenous peoples of southern Africa , the Bushmen . We sadly report that this is continuing . The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have been forced from their ancestral lands in a wave of evictions by the Botswana government. In...
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Zambia
Zambians from different walks of life went to vote in another presidential and general election on 28 September. But to go and vote after every five years is a nasty thing to every person who lives in a society where this political freedom is an appendage to unexplained political and social forces beyond their...
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Direct Action in Nigeria
The average Nigerian still survives on less than $2 a day, despite the country’s $20 billion rise in oil exports to the United States over the past five years. This report reveals how the ordinary Nigerian endeavours to resist The oil-pipeline fire burned strong for 45 days and 45 nights . It wasn’t that...
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Cocoa wars
First came “blood diamonds” from Sierra Leone. Then came “blood timber” from Liberia. Now another West African conflict is being funded by yet another commodity beloved in the West: ” blood chocolate.” from Ivory Coast Government and rebel leaders of the world’s leading cocoa exporter, Ivory Coast, both siphoned off millions of dollars from...
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