• It (the ANC) calls for a market-based approach to land reform, thereby putting its faith in market forces to resolve a historical injustice that has lasted for 360 years And if we look at the repressive apparatus of the state, we see that it has fallen into line with this economic strategy. In the second half of 2012, the leadership of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party demonstrated that it had clearly and unequivocally taken sides with international capital against us. Firstly, on August 16, 2012, in Marikana in the North West province of South Africa, the armed forces of the state mowed down 34 workers who were demanding a living wage from an international mining company, Lonmin. It has emerged clearly, from evidence to a Commission of Enquiry, that this was a pre-meditated, calculated assault by the police. One startling fact is proof enough. Early in the morning, long before the assault took place, the police ordered mortuary vans to be present in Marikana. Then, a few months later, during a farmworkers strike in the Western Cape province, more workers were killed by police. Now, in the last few weeks, working class and poor people have been killed by the police for protesting about conditions in their communities. Our people are protesting because they have no water. There is nothing more basic to life than water. And yet the State…. that very same state which failed to supply them with water….kills them for their protest. - Irvin Jim
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 08:54:05 +0000
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