It’s the people in the street verse the banksters at meet-and-greets, as the World Economic Forum-Africa convenes in Durban this week. Environmentalist, writer and former anti-apartheid campaigner Patrick Bond provides this report.
NYC to South Africa: Calls Grow for Justice on 3rd Anniv. of Mineworker Massacre
“Amandla!” The call rang out across a grassy field in Marikana, South Africa, where thousands of supporters of mineworkers…
Africa News Briefs from Global Information Network
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GRANDMOTHERS TO HOLD PAN-AFRICAN SUMMIT ON AIDS May 4 (GIN) – Hundreds of African grandmothers from 12 African countries…
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BASHIR SLATE CARRIES SUDAN, ANGERING THE WEST Apr. 26 (GIN) – A decisive electoral victory by Omar Hassan al-Bashir…
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World-renowned political organizer and one of Africa’s most celebrated poets, Dennis Brutus, died Dec. 26 in Cape Town, in…
Defining an Occupation: Voices about Apartheid in the Palestinian Territories
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The Other September 11ths As the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks were commemorated in New York and Washington,…