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The Real Invasion of Africa is Not News and a License to Lie is Hollywood's Gift

Tue, 02/05/2013 - 14:09 — John Pilger

 

by John Pilger

The cold truth is: the U.S. and its allies’ armed “interventions” seek the “implantation of the West's business plan for Africa, together with the rape of multi-ethnic Syria and the conquest of independent Iran.” The corporate media fiction is: good guys versus terror.

100 Years of the ANC: From Liberation Movement to State Power in South Africa

Tue, 11/13/2012 - 15:51 — Adèle Kirsten a...

 

by Adèle Kirsten and Tshepo Madlingozi

There is no doubt that South Africa is in deep crisis – an unfinished revolution. “The land question is unresolved, economic redistribution is not addressed, racial equality is not attained.” Yet the ruling African National Congress remains deeply embedded in the nation’s political culture. “The ANC remains the central organizational pivot in South Africa’s peoples’ lives.”

South Africa’s Unfinished Revolution and the Massacre at Marikana

Wed, 08/22/2012 - 01:12 — Glen Ford

 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

The massacre of 34 miners at Marikana lays bare the central contradiction of the South African “arrangement.” Back in 1994, “the ‘revolution’ was put on indefinite hold, so that a new Black capitalist class could be created, largely from the ranks of well-connected members of the ruling party and even union leaders.” The regime now represses Black workers on behalf of capital.

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March 23: Anniversary of the Beginning of Apartheid's End: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale

Wed, 03/23/2011 - 08:06 — Bruce A. Dixon
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Bruce Dixon

Apartheid South Africa responded to Angola's 1974 independence from the Portuguese with a US-backed military invasion.  Declaring that "the blood of Africa" flowed through Cuban veins, Fidel Castro dispatched the Cuban armed forces to confront the armies of racist South Africa in Angola.  Between 1974 and 1988 more than 1100 Cubans laid down their lives in Africa to hasten the end of apartheid.  This week is the anniversary of the historic battle of Cuito Cuanavale, in which Cuban, Angolan and Namibian forces routed the supposedly invincible land and air forces of white-ruled South Africa, eventually making possible the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, and the end of apartheid in South Africa itself, and earning for Cuba the lasting enmity of the United States. If we in the U.S. were serious about racial reconciliation, we too would celebrate the March 23 anniversary of Cuito  Cuanavale. 

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