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Police prohibit a march by LPM-Protea South

Wednesday 1st April 2009 by Nic
On the 26th March, the day before we, the LPM youth, were to have our march to demand that our councilor step down, the Joburg Metro Police prohibited us. The reasons the police gave for this were that we are violent and unruly and that they “know” us.
They refered to a march organised by the Gauteng LPM that happened in 2002 when we refused to leave Mbazima Shilowa’s office. This march, we explained, was not organised by the youth. Regardless, they said they didn’t have the (...)

When democracy becomes demagoguery

Tuesday 10th February 2009 by Nic
Old skeletons are trembling in their closets as the traditional weapons of South African political play are sharpened at this time of elections. The split in the ruling party has done little to pacify the grudge match between the IFP and the ANC in Nongoma in KwaZulu-Natal. Instead, Cope’s emergence has opened another front for beatings and intimidation between the sparring partners. Cope members in East London have been left to wonder “if the ANC is declaring war on us.” And (...)

APF supports SAMWU strike

Thursday 5th February 2009 by Nic
05-02-2009
Johannesburg. The Johannesburg Region of the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) supports the strike by the South African Municipality Workers Union (SAMWU) and its call for the suspension of Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) chief, Chris Ncgobo and other senior officials within the JMPD. The APF-JHB further calls for the suspension of Mayoral Committee member for safety and security, Clr Phakathi, for his failure to track down corruption and the violation of human rights by (...)

The Anti Privatisation Forum (APF) supports the Joe Slovo Residents Constitutional Court appeal against mass eviction

Thursday 21st August 2008 by Dale
EQUAL RIGHTS & HOUSING FOR ALL!
STATEMENT - Thursday 21st August 2008
Today, members of the Anti Privatisation Forum (APF) joined hundreds of Joe Slovo and Inner-City Resource Centre residents at the Constitutional Court, where their appeal against High Court Judge Hlophe’s eviction order was heard. The imminent threat of mass eviction (and forcible removal to Delft) is a direct result of the top-down, anti-democratic manner in which the Ministry of Housing (and their principal agents, (...)

Stop the evictions in Delft

Wednesday 11th June 2008 by Ahmed
Adding to the thousands of poor people displaced by violence, the government plans to evict 2,000 families in Delft in the Western Cape
Winter can’t be bleak enough for the South African government. With electricity vaulting towards a 53% increase, petrol to R10 a litre and beyond, and while one meal a day is the growing norm, the season’s not ever been quite as bleak as this one. Violence against migrants has raised bloody welts in poor communities. And to deal with these crises, the (...)

CAWP Sesotho pamphlet

Friday 14th December 2007 by silumko
METSI KE BOPHELO -
SE WA REKISENG
Ho rekiswa le ho kenywa ha diprepaid metara tsa metsi ho bakile mahlomola le mathata maphelong a batho.
Kopano, e kenyeletsa mekgahlo yohle e kgahlanong le ho rekiswa ha metsi (Coalition) ka bokgutshwanyane e lwantshana le boshodu ba ditokelo tsa batho ho fumaneng metsi morao tjena.
COALITION e kopanya mekgahlo le baahi ka tlasa maima a ho rekiswa ha metsi le ho kenywa ha diprepaid metara tsa metsi. Mekgahlo ena le baahi, ba kopana-mmoho ho lantshwana (...)

SASF Regional Coordination Meeting

Friday 14th December 2007 by silumko
SASF Regional Coordination Meeting
Maputo, Mozambique
14-15 June 2007-06-20
The meeting took place in Maputo at the CJE’s office as it volunteered to be the hosting organisation for the ROC meeting and its main aim was to speed up the process of preparing for the SASF meeting. The meeting started without the five comrades from Swaziland because they were lost in Maputo but they will join the meeting later. There were fourteen people attending the meeting on the first day after the arrival (...)

The Coalition Against Water Privatisation supports inner city residents

Friday 14th December 2007 by silumko
The Inner City Resource Centre will be marching to the Johannesburg Water (JW) Offices in Central Johannesburg on the 08th November 2007 to further demand answers to the memorandum that was sent to JW in August this year. The residents living under threats of forceful removals as the City Of Johannesburg (COJ) is moving ahead with the plans of making Johannesburg a World Class City with the exclusion of the poor residents living in Jozi.
Many gross human violations are experienced in the (...)

The Assembly of Social Movement at the WSF: A site of international mobilisation Against War and imperialism

Friday 14th December 2007 by silumko
The Assembly of Social Movement at the WSF: A site of international mobilisation Against War and imperialism
Introduction
The Assembly of social movements is becoming of the important centres for international mobilisation against war, occupation and imperialism. This article discusses the evolution of the assembly of social movements, its major mobilisation points, its activities in the most recent WSF in Kenya as well as significance of the assembly of social movements as a site of (...)

GOLCOM pamphlet

Friday 14th December 2007 by silumko
GOLDEN TRIANGLE COMMUNITY COMMITTEE (GOLCOM)
We the above mentioned Community Organisation which was elected democratically by the community are hereby calling for everyone here in Freedom Park to come & attend a community mass meeting
Date: 02 September 2007
Time: 12h00
Venue: Freedom Park Primary School next to Green Church
Agenda
1. Evictions (ukususwa kwa Bantu ema Jaredene e mova/ hontshiwa habatho ka mahahapa 2. Housing (Matlu/Izindlu)
3. Water Pre-paid Meters & (...)

Strengthening the Capacity of Community Organisations to Mobilise in Favour of Pro-Poor Water Provision

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie

The APF fully supports the ongoing strike by Public Sector workers and their Trade Unions

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie
The Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) fully supports the public sectors workers and their trade unions in the struggle for a decent wage increase and other benefits. The workers are completely legitimate and reasonable to demand, amongst others, a 12% wage increase. Over the past years the ANC government has restructured the public service, run down many departments, left massive job vacancies and kept down the wages and conditions of public sector workers.
In 2004, the government (...)

Amanzi ngawethu! (the water is ours!):

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie
Young plants need rain, businesses need investment. Our old industries are like dry crops and privatisation brings the rain. When the harvest comes, there is plenty for everyone. [...]
Electricity to light our homes. Safe water for our families to drink. Telephones to call our loved ones far away. Ports and railways to bring us wonderful things, and to sell our goods to the world. We need these things. Our children need these things. Privatisation will provide them.
These were the lyrics (...)

SOLIDARITY WITH THE KENNEDY ROAD 5 AND CROSSMOOR COMMUNITY IN DURBAN

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie
As the APF, we affirm our support for both the Kennedy Road 5 and the community of Crossmoor in their struggle for a decent life. In the specific case of the Kennedy 5 it is a struggle that has now seen the mobilisation of the institutionalised racism and repressive force of the Sydenham Police and Durban municipality in their attempts to stamp out the voice of the poor, as represented through the Abahlali base Mjondolo, which has suffered heavily at the hands of the state. For the (...)

The Demands of the Golden Triangle Community

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie
The Golden Triangle Community Crisis Committee (GTCCC) is a community-based organisation that is organising the community of the Golden Triangle (Freedom Park, Siyaya, St. Martin, Mahala Park, Devland Extension 27, Lindela and Zimbabwe) around basic services, housing and worker rights.
On 24 February 2007, the GTCCC convened a community mass meeting which articulated the demands and needs of various sections of our community. Besides this the mass meeting, members of the GTCCC have been (...)

SMI Pamphlet 2006 National Meeting

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie

The Anti-Privatization Forum Calls Upon Communities to Support the Striking Workers at Shoprite Checkers

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie
As in the recent months the Anti-Privatization Forum (Gauteng), a Gauteng community-based organisation, has being calling upon all communities to support the striking workers at Shoprite/Checkers. APF has demonstrated support to the striking workers by picketing with them and joining their actions in solidarity with the exploited workers who happen to be members of our communities.
The majority of the workers at Shoprite/Checkers are women who are coming from our townships and taking (...)

Rand Water Letter Rejecting Debate

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie

International Sign -on Letter of Protest Against Pre-paid Water

Friday 14th September 2007 by natalie
We are writing because it has come to our attention that Johannesburg Water in partnership with Suez is in effect violating one of the most celebrated achievements of South Africa’s transition to democracy. The South African Constitution and the enshrined Bill of Rights provides that, "everyone has the right to have access to sufficient water".
February, 2004
Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, Mr Ronnie Kasrils
Minister for Provincial and Local Government, Mr Sydney Mufamadi (...)

May Day Rally

Friday 30th March 2007 by natalie
The APF will be hosting a May Day Workers Rally in the community of Residensia (Sebokeng - Vaal Triangle) at Tshepo Themba School at 10h00 tomorrow in support of all the working class struggles in the country. The event is giving particular support to the residents of the area where many former workers of BHP Billiton SAMANCOR Meyerton reside. These are workers who were retrenched by the multi-national corporation after it discovered that the workers were poisoned by the spew of manganese (...)

REPORT ON SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS VISIT TO ZIMBABWE

Monday 9th October 2006 by Dale
REPORT ON SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS VISIT TO ZIMBABWE
Background
A delegation of four ; Philani Zungu, Nopasika Mboto, Ellen Chauke and Siphiwe Segodi from different social movements in South Africa visited Zimbabwe between the 3rd and 12th of July 2006. They comprised of one comrade from the Anti-Eviction Campaign which was formed as a response against eviction and other related social injustices. Two comrades were from the Anti-Privatisation Forum which brings a number of (...)

Support striking Shoprite-Checkers workers

Monday 18th September 2006 by Dale
The Anti-Privatization Forum Calls Upon Communities to Support the Striking Workers at Shoprite Checkers
The Anti-Privatisation Forum (Gauteng) is calling upon all communities to support the striking workers at Shoprite/Checkers.
The majority of the workers at Shoprite/Checkers are women who are coming from our townships and taking care of working class families and children. These women work under dreadful working conditions and are paid starvation wages by the Shoprite/Checkers bosses. (...)

APF condemns police brutality against striking security guards

Sunday 25th June 2006 by Dale
APF CONDEMNS POLICE BRUTALITY AIMED AT LEGAL STRIKE BY SECURITY GUARDS
WE STAND WITH THE SECURITY WORKERS IN THEIR LEGITIMATE ATTEMPTS TO IMPROVE THEIR WORKING LIVES AND PROTECT THEIR HUMAN DIGNITY
The Anti Privatisation Forum extend our solidarity to all security guards and their respective unions involved in the current strike action against the Security company bosses. We unconditionally condemn the action of police who shot your fellow members marching for their rights in Johannesburg (...)

APF in full support of ongoing municipal workers strike

Thursday 4th August 2005 by Dale
APF IN FULL SUPPORT OF MUNICIPAL WORKERS ONGOING STRIKE FOR A LIVING WAGE AND FOR QUALITY, FREE AND PUBLIC PROVISION OF BASIC SERVICES TO THE POOR
WHILE WORKERS AND THEIR EXTENDED FAMILIES STRUGGLE EVERYDAY JUST TO SURVIVE , AND POOR COMMUNITIES PROTEST OVER LACK OF SERVICE DELIVERY, FAT CAT POLITICIANS, BUREAUCRATS AND CORPORATE CEOs AWARD THEMSELVES EVER-HIGHER SALARIES/PERKS AND THEN CLAIM THERE IS NO MONEY TO PAY A LIVING WAGE TO WORKERS OR TO DELIVER FREE SERVICES TO THE POOR
On (...)

Report by Social Movement observer delegation to Zimbabwe

Sunday 15th May 2005 by Dale
This Report was compiled by a five-member team of observers from the APF and Jubilee (South Africa) who visited Zimbabwe in March 2005 - at the invitation of the Crisis in Zimbabee Coalition - before the parliamentary elections. The Report relfects the opinions and observations of the delegation

Worker Action at Chri Hani-Baragwanath Hospital

Tuesday 15th February 2005 by Dale
PRESS STATEMENT
WORKER ACTION AT CHRIS HANI BARAGWANATH HOSPITAL
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 at 12h00 at the main ambulance and mobile visitors’ gate on Old Potchefstroom Road, the workers of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital will gather outside the gate and then march to the administration building inside the hospital. They will be marching to deliver a petition signed by more than 300 workers to the hospital management. To publicise their struggle and raise public awareness of the (...)

Statement in Support of Landless People’s Movement Campaign

Tuesday 2nd November 2004
PRESS STATEMENT
(WEDNESDAY 2ND NOVEMBER, 2004)
APF FULLY SUPPORTS THE DEMANDS OF THE LANDLESS PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT ‘LAND! FOOD! JOBS!’ CAMPAIGN
APF TO PARTICIPATE IN LPM (GAUTENG)PRESS CONFERENCE TOMORROWAND IN MARCH OF THE LANDLESS IN PRETORIA ON SATURDAY 6TH NOVEMBER
The Anti-Privatisation Forum welcomes the intensification of the LPM’s ‘Land! Food! Jobs!’ Campaign, a campaign that we have supported since its inception in 2002. The APF fully supports the long-standing (...)

Statement on Zimbabwe

Monday 11th October 2004 by Dale
PRESS STATEMENT, MONDAY 11TH OCTOBER 2004
MUGABE REGIME’S LATEST REPRESSIVE LEGISLATION IN ZIMBABWE SET TO CLOSE DOWN WHAT LITTLE SPACE IS LEFT FOR PUBLIC DEBATE AND DEMOCRATIC ACTION!
SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY TO THE STRUGGLING PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE
Our brothers and sisters in Zimbabwe continue to suffer at the hands of a dictatorial regime intent on destroying any vestige of popular democracy and socio-economic well being for the vast majority of the citizens of that country. The latest attack (...)

Statement on Support of SAMWU-IMATU marches

Tuesday 7th September 2004
PRESS RELEASE
(TUESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 2004)
APF TO JOIN MARCHES ON COUNCIL OFFICES BY SAMWU & IMATU ACROSS GAUTENG PROVINCE ON THURSDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER
ORGANISED WORKERS AND POOR COMMUNITIES MUST UNITE AGAINST PRIVATISATION, CASUALISATION AND DETERIORATING SERVICE DELIVERY (INCLUDING PRE-PAID WATER METERS)!
On Thursday (9th September) the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) will be mobilising its community affiliates across the Gauteng Province to join the marches being organised by the South (...)

Statement on attempts to evict the Workers Library & Khanya College

Wednesday 30th June 2004
PUBLIC STATEMENT
Wednesday 30th June 2004
THE JOHANNESBURG CITY COUNCIL AND ITS AGENCIES CONTINUE UNABATED WITH THEIR WAR ON THE CITY’S POOR AND WORKING CLASS
THE APF WILL COME OUT IN FULL SUPPORT TOMORROW TO DEFEND THE WORKERS LIBRARY & KHANYA COLLEGE FROM EVICTION
The 22 community organisations affiliated to the Anti-Privatisation Forum will be out in full support tomorrow (Thursday 1st July) to peacefully defend the Workers Library and Khanya College from eviction by the Johannesburg (...)

Release and drop all charges against the 62 Landless People’s Movement members arrested on Election Day!

Thursday 15th April 2004
APF OUTRAGED AT REPORTS OF PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE OF IMPRISONED LPM MEMBERS BY POLICE’S CRIME INTELLIGENCE UNIT. The Anti-Privatisation Forum calls for the immediate release and the dropping of all charges against the 62 members of the Landless People’s Movement (LPM) who were arrested yesterday on election day (Wednesday) on trumped-up and politically motivated charges of violating the Electoral Act. As has now become crystal clear, the LPM members were simply engaged in a (...)

APF condemns the mass arrest of Landless People’s Movement Members

Wednesday 14th April 2004 by APF
The repression and criminalisation of social movements in South Africa continues as the country’s 10-year old
democracy is celebrated with the arrest on its Election Day of members of the Landless People’s Movement (LPM). 62 people attending a LPM meeting in Thembelihle outside Lenasia were rounded up by the police this morning. Their alleged crime was their participation in a political meeting that breached the minimum cordon of a polling station required by the Electoral Act (section (...)

Criminalising the Anti-Eviction Campaign

April 2003 by APF
At the time of writing of this article, Max Ntanyana, a leading member of the Mandela Park Anti-Eviction Campaign, is in Pollsmoor Prison, Cape Town. He is being held for breaking his bail conditions - bail conditions which themselves are related to a case of ’intimidation’ thrown against him by the South African government. These bail conditions included a ban on speaking in meetings, a ban on meeting with evicted people, and a restriction to stay within the Mitchell’s Plain magisterial (...)