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Film Screening: Lesbians Free Everyone
25 years ago, Lesbians from all over the world arrived at the UN 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing China, and embarked on the biggest lesbian visibility campaign in history. South African queer rights activist Bev Ditsie made history when she became the first openly gay African woman to…
Migration and Borders – a video education series
Episode 2: Migration and Labour – what early trade unions in Southern Africa teach us about solidarity and internationalism With various sections of South African society loudly beating the drums of xenophobia and painting migrant workers as competition for jobs, services and livelihoods, we…
Away with exclusionary cities
A solidarity expo and launch of occupation diaries created by housing and land activists across Cape Town As the City of Cape Town ramps up its campaign against land occupations, activists are coming together to stand against exclusionary cities and to imagine a city that caters to the needs of its…
Will Expropriation give life to a failing Land Reform programme?
Since the introduction of the phrase “expropriation without compensation”, the debate on the land question has never been the same. Pressure on government to deliver land has intensified, while urban masses have resorted to land occupations in response to growing landlessness, poverty and une…
Sell-Out’ or Necessary Compromise: an activist school on the 30th anniversary of the transition to democracy
The view that the settlement that ushered in democracy in 1994 was a ‘sell-out’, ‘betrayal’, an ‘elite pact’ or ‘terrible compromise’ has widespread appeal among activists today….
Revolution in Sudan: Activists share their experiences
A popular uprising in Sudan, which started in December 2018, ended 30 years of military rule and led to the recent signing of a deal between the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) and the Transitional Military Council (TMC). Sudan will now have a transitional period of 39 months, during which…
US power in the Middle East: Anti-imperialist politics in times of global crises & uncertainty
How should South African activists understand continued US meddling in the Middle East? What will be the short- and long-term implications of this for the peoples of the Middle East, for us in South Africa, and for the rest of the world? Given contested meanings of the mass rejection of US hegemony…