land, food, agriculture, and all things political in South Africa... and anywhere else
Cape Town, South Africa
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Memorias de una contra reforma agraria. Una lógica de concentración, acaparamiento y despojo que bloqueó el desarrollo de la producción agraria y el abastecimiento de alimentos.
Comparto la publicación "Memorias del despojo: Hallazgos y apuestas de la restitución de tierras en Colombia". Gracias a todxs lxs colaboradorxs de la Unidad de Restitución de Tierras que lo hicieron posible.
¡Invitadísimos a leer y compartir!
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Read my opinion on @dailymaverick
Conservation without inclusion: Why iSimangaliso protests reflect a governance crisis dailymaverick.co.za/opinioni…
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#Tafelberg #ConCourt #SpatialJustice
@ConCourtSA:
Unanimous judgment:
@CityofCT & @WesternCapeGov
City of Cape Town remains divided. The matter is about full access to the City about “Right to the City”.
Location is not a peripheral to housing access.
State bears a burden to align with Constitutional transformation.
City had failed to provide any housing in well located areas.
No justification for City’s policies lacking geographical location considerations.
No justification for failing to provide housing in Sea Point.
City cannot use land value as a basis for denying access to housing.
(Helen Zille told me “using high value land for affordable housing was over subsidizing the poor”)
City and Province has failed in their constitutional duties to provide well located affordable housing and to address spatial apartheid.
VICTORY!
Disposal of Tafelberg School site by WC Government was unlawful.
@ReclaimCT @NdifunaUkwazi 👏👏👏
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"First they will come for the migrants from Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi. Next they will come for Xitsonga, Tshivenda, siSwati and isiNdebele speaking South Africans. Ethnic violence always starts with the outsider and ends with the minority at home."
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March and March has delivered nothing but suffering ‐ via @groundup_news groundup.org.za/article/marc…
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It's not about crime or legal status. It's a chauvinist, fascist movement.
“Document or no document they must go back [to their countries]”
Protest leader in Soweto says foreigners will not be allowed to own tuck-shops in their neighbourhood and landlords are forbidden from renting out their properties to foreigners - legal or illegal
📹 @Newzroom405
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JUNE 30 PROTESTS | Some residents in Ekurhuleni on Gauteng's East Rand are counting the cost after their houses were vandalised, they were accused of being foreign nationals and items were also stolen during protests against undocumented immigration. SABC News reporter Neria Hlakotsa has more.
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@IECSouthAfrica political parties are campaigning for the local government elections on the basis of xenophobia as their campaign hook. Is this okay with you? Are you okay with hate as a campaign strategy? #NoToHate #30June #immigrants
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Unite, from Soweto to the Sahara - The real culprits that South Africans and Africans must unite against are billionaires, corporations and ruling elites — the 1% who hoard wealth while the 99% suffer. mg.co.za/thought-leader/2026…
#wontbemarching #30june – at Bonn, Germany
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Wow, I did not see THIS connection before: South Africa’s anti-migrant campaigns, Princy Mthombeni and the Putin connection:
youtube.com/watch?v=rxzQ4Uk-… #Xenophobia #RussiaIsNotOurFriend
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Social media hate & incitement have real world consequences, translating into violence & brutality.
Those doing so often hide behind secretive accounts. By reporting threats of violence & incitement, there’s a greater chance those hiding will be unmasked. Report to @Real411orgza
[SEE SOMETHING ? DO SOMETHING !!] ✊
Social media has seen a significant increase in misinformation and disinformation in the lead-up to 30 June; a date promoted by anti-immigrant groups as a deadline for foreign nationals to leave South Africa.
False information spreads more easily when it confirms existing frustrations, and platforms are reluctant to take these down as they generate traffic and engagement for them.
REPORT ANY DIGITAL ILLS HERE : real411.org.za
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Not me, getting on the phone to my nephew @elonmusk to ask him why he's allowing bot networks and trolls on X? #wontbemarching #30june
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Jacinta must start by opening up March and March’s books and telling us who funds them before she makes noise about other NGOs - many of whom declare their funding by the way.
There is a reason March and March is targeting civil society institutions. Bafuna ukuliqeda lelizwe.
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⚠️ Attention South African banks: You have a legal obligation under Section 29 of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act to report suspicious transactions, including donations funding organisations implicated in public violence. @ABSA @StandardBankZA @Nedbank @FNBSA @CapitecBankSA
March and March | Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma
[WATCH] March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma says she is willing to provide bank statements to show how her organisation is funded. #Newzroom405
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Misdirected Anger Movement is wasting R600 million in taxpayer money for their vigilante imposed deadline of #30june. Myself and @ElonsTipsyAunty #wontbemarching Here's what we will be doing: continuing with activism to fix access to water and services.
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South Africa faces a corruption crisis that impacts service delivery everywhere.
Neither Afrophobic rhetoric nor scapegoating vulnerable populations will solve it.
To move our country #BeyondStateCapture, we MUST #StopCorruption
#30June #June30Deadline #WontBeMarching
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Anti-migrant violence will not solve unemployment, poverty, hunger, or failing public services.
It distracts from the real causes of South Africa’s economic crisis: inequality, austerity, state failure, and an economy that excludes the majority.
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