South Africa
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BLACK AGENDA TV – "Black Diamonds”: South Africa’s Black Millionaires Act as Middlemen for Corporate Power
An elite class of Black millionaires has “accumulate wealth at the expense of the vast majority” of South Africa’s people, said community organizer and researcher Molefi Ndlovu, on the latest edition of Black Agenda Television. These “Black Diamonds,” as they are called, have become “a sort of middleman, people who push the envelop for the… Continue reading
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BRICS: ‘Anti-imperialist’ or ‘sub-imperialist’? By Patrick Bond
“We reaffirm the character of the ANC as a disciplined force of the left, a multi-class mass movement and an internationalist movement with an anti-imperialist outlook” — so said Jacob Zuma, orating to his masses at the year’s largest African National Congress celebration, in Durban on January 12, 2013. Eleven days later, Zuma spoke to… Continue reading
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Videos worth watching
15 February 2013 — The Real News Network Worker Owned Businesses Point to New Forms of OwnershipCan co-ops come out of the margins of the economy and be part of a larger political project to transform how things are owned?Go to story | Go to homepage Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 557 14 November 2011: LINKS AND RESOURCES
14 November 2011 — Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa CONTENTS: 1. Podcasts & Video, 2. Zimbabwe update, 3. African Union Monitor, 4. Women & gender, 5. Human rights, 6. Refugees & forced migration, 7. Africom Watch, 8. Elections & governance, 9. Corruption, Continue reading
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Jabu Khanyile & Bayete – 'Mmalo-We'
The late, great Jabu Khanyile and Bayete, one of the best groups to emerge in the 1980s-90s. Beautiful music. This track from the album of the same name, 1993. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 21 October 2011
21 October 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks cables provide limited vindication for Malema Mail & Guardian Online The Botswana government gave the United States the green light to explore the possibility of establishing an Africa Command (Africom) base in the country when the issue was raised four years ago, American diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks show. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 14, 2011
14 September 2011 — Stop NATO Africa’s Shame: NATO-Serving Uncle Toms Canadian Firms, NATO Allies Reap Fruit Of Libyan Bombardment South Africa To Host African Union Meeting On Libya U.S. Envoy Not Pleased With Brazil, India, South Africa On UNSC U.S. Missiles, Hundreds More Troops Slated For Romania Poland: U.S. Air Force In Exercise As Continue reading
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ColdType, August 2011
27 July 2011 — www.coldtype.net In this month’s 64-page COLDTYPE MAGAZINECover story this month is Jonathan Cook’s article about Israeli government actions that are stripping away freedoms of expression from its increasingly-polarised citizens. You won’t want to miss Trevor Grundy’s account of four elderly Kenyans who are causing severe embarrassment to the British government with Continue reading
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Jazz genius Zim Ngqawana dies at 52 By Matthew Burbidge
South African musician Zim Ngqawana has died in the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital after suffering a stroke on Monday. He was 52. Continue reading
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In Memorium: Zim Ngqawana Live
South African musician Zim Ngqawana has died in the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital after suffering a stroke on Monday. He was 52. Continue reading
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Andries Tatane Murdered by South African Police – 13 April 2011
1st collector for Andries Tatane Murdered by South African Police…Follow my videos on vodpod The video shows the beating and shooting of Andries Tatane who later died of his wounds inflicted by South African Police at a service delivery protest in Ficksburg. This could have been any fed up South African. Chants of “We are Continue reading
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Waiting for Aristide – New Documentary Short
In a new documentary short, released today to coincide with the seven-year anniversary of the 2004 coup d’etat in Haiti, Independent filmmaker Paul Burke asks Haitians what they would say to President Obama about the return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti. Their responses, complied in this six-minute film, can be viewed here Continue reading
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Haiti Issues New Passport to Ex-Leader Aristide
The Haitian government said it has issued a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, enabling him to end his exile in South Africa and return to Haiti, a government official said. Continue reading
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Green Light for the Return of Aristide | Feu vert au retour d'Aristide
The Haitian government said Monday it would not oppose the return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Continue reading
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Cape Town International Jazz Festival: Packed with the Best
Cape Town International Jazz Festival organisers had to wait for more than three years to be able to find space in saxophonist Wayne Shorter’s busy schedule and get him to perform at Africa’s Grandest Gathering. According to espAfrika and festival director Rashid Lombard, as organisers they have always wanted the 77-year old saxophonist to appear… Continue reading
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Busi Mhlongo – We Baba Omncane live@Nantes & Roskilde
South African diva, singer and songwriter Busi Mhlongo – Live recordings from the Fin de Siecle Festival in Nantes France, 1997 and the the Roskilde Festival in Denmark 1999. Continue reading
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Why Did South Africa Vote in Favor of Executing Gay People?
19 November, 2010 Why Did South Africa Vote in Favor of Executing Gay People? By Michael A. Jones We noted yesterday that the United Nations truly failed LGBT people this week, with a sad vote that removed sexual orientation from a resolution condemning extrajudicial killings. So while the UN c… Read more of this post, Continue reading
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BA_Report 18 November, 2010: Top 10 Reasons Black Leaders Are Silent on Social Security Attacks — BA Report
18 November, 2010 — BAR Black Agenda Report News, analysis and commentary from the black left Top Ten Reasons Why Black Leaders Are Ignoring President Obama’s Good Cop-Bad Cop Attack on Social Security After a decades-long drumbeat led by the Peterson Foundation, corporate media, Wall Street and their minions of both parties, Social Security, Medicaid Continue reading
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