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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 540: LEGALISED LOOTING: EXPLOITATION AND DISSENT The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Advocacy & campaigns, 3. Books & arts, 4. Highlights French edition, 5. Cartoons /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features THE WORLD OF DIRTY MONEY Charles Abugre Charles Abugre introduces ‘the web of secrecy, collusions and the players that drive and sustain the world of illicit money flows’, with reference to the ongoing case of Kenyan public officials Chris Okemo and Samuel Gichuru and multinational corporation Alcatel-CIT. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/75085 ****** FIGHTING THE MINERALS-PETROLEUM-COAL COMPLEX’S WEALTH Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife Procrastination, paralysis, pollution and profit. These are the keywords for the UN climate conference slated for Durban, South Africa, in December. But, write Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife, the spirit of those who face down the powerful minerals-energy complex will shine through. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/75042 ****** MAGNUS MALAN AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN AFRICA Horace Campbell With General Magnus Malan – the main architect of South Africa’s apartheid military – passing away on 18 July (Nelson Mandela's birthday, no less), Horace Campbell reflects on Malan’s central role in the systematised discrimination of apartheid and the system’s troubling legacy. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/75087 ****** IF THEY COME FOR YOU, WHO WILL SPEAK OUT? Jane Duncan As part of a broad climate of political intolerance, incidents of torture of both activists and criminals in South Africa appear to be on a disturbing rise, writes Jane Duncan. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/75061 ****** WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE LEFT TAHRIR SQUARE Sokari Ekine ‘Four months on, Egypt’s euphoria of 11 February has turned to anger and frustration against the military rulers who are proving to be as ruthless as the former regime,’ writes Sokari Ekine. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/75089 ****** AMERICA'S ROLE IN SOMALIA'S HUMANITARIAN CRISIS US sends in the marines and more drones Glen Ford Glen Ford for Black Agenda Radio ( http://bit.ly/nZQbVd ) explains how US militarisation has contributed to the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/75059 ****** NATO'S DEBACLE IN LIBYA Alexander Cockburn With support unravelling from within NATO itself, the organisation’s intervention in Libya is looking increasingly humiliated, writes Alexander Cockburn. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/75016 ****** FROM THE MIDDLE DISTANCE: ETHIOPIAN JOURNALIST IN EXILE Abiye Teklemariam Ron Singer interviews Abiye Teklemariam, founding editor of 'Addis Neger’ (‘New Addis’), which until 2009 was Ethiopia’s leading dissident newspaper. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/75084 ****** HOW THE RAWLINGS CAMP WERE DEFEATED IN GHANA'S ELECTIONS Kwasi Adu The July elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Ghana were billed as the event to elect a presidential candidate - and the wife of former president Jerry Rawlings was set to triumph. But the Rawlings camp ended up being trounced. Kwasi Adu explains what happened. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/75070 ****** CONFRONTING FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION The role of youth and ICTs in changing Africa Marie-Hélène Mottin-Sylla and Joëlle Palmieri 'Confronting Female Genital Mutilation: The Role of Youth and ICTs in Changing Africa' by Marie-Hélène Mottin-Sylla and Joëlle Palmieri is a new title from Pambazuka Press. For 25 years campaigners from within and outside Africa have worked on eradicating female genital mutilation. This fascinating short book reports succinctly but in depth on an innovative research and action project among girls and boys in francophone West Africa that explored whether young people’s use of information and communication technology could contribute to the abandonment of female genital mutilation. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/75090 ****** SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON THE NILE Fasil Amdetsion The coming together of six East African states to sign the Cooperative Framework Agreement regulating use of the Nile – the first basin-wide agreement to attract the support of a majority of Nile riparian states – has elicited widespread media coverage. But, warns Fasil Amdetsion, ‘significant aspects of what appears in print is wrong.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/75086 ****** THE LAST OF THE ANTI-APARTHEID HEROES Elizabeth Barad On the occasion of Nelson Mandela’s 93rd birthday, Elizabeth Barad reflects on the lives of anti-apartheid heroes, the late Walter and Albertina Sisulu and Helen Suzman. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/75094 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Advocacy & campaigns VICTORY FOR ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO - DEFEAT OF OUR DETRACTORS! Bishop Rubin Phillip ‘We celebrate the victory that the shack-dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, has won in court today where ALL of the "Kennedy 12" have finally been acquitted of ALL charges against them,’ Bishop Rubin Phillip has said in a statement issued on 18 July. ‘Abahlali's victory today is a victory for all who speak the truth; it is a victory that should give courage to the poor of eThekweni, of South Africa, and the world who organise and mobilise together, and who speak and act for themselves.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/75092 ****** SOUTH AFRICA: HALALA ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO! A victory for one is a victory for all! Unemployed People’s Movement Following the acquittal on all charges of 12 young men arrested after performing a dance at an Abahlali baseMjondolo Heritage Day, the Unemployed People’s Movement has issued a statement saluting the ‘witnesses for the prosecution that had the courage to tell the truth in the court’ and celebrating a victory for ‘the struggle of the working class and the poor in South Africa.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/75091 ****** CONGRATULATIONS TO ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO Mandela Park Backyarders Mandela Park Backyarders would like to congratulate Abahlali Basemjondolo for striking back against the government to free their comrades. Struggling for justice has proved to be packed with obstacles put before us by those we put in power through ballot paper. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/75088 ****** KENNEDY ROAD 12 ACQUITTED! Press statement Democratic Left Front The Democratic Left Front (DLF) salutes the 12 members of Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) who from Kennedy Road in eThekwini who were acquitted of all charges of murder. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/75066 ****** CELEBRATING THE ACQUITTAL OF THE 'KENNEDY 12' Bishop Michael Vorster Today we celebrate a victory as all twelve men of the Kennedy 12 were acquitted of all charges against them and released in the Durban Magistrates Court. We celebrate as these fathers, brothers and sons are able to finally reunite with their families and friends whose pain and suffering we can only imagine. This is a victory for the truth and a victory for the poor – indeed a wonderful gift on the birthday of Nelson Mandela! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/75065 ****** KENNEDY 12 ACQUITTED ON ALL CHARGES Richard Pithouse The Kennedy 12 have been acquitted on all charges. No defence was led as no case was made against any of the 12 by the prosecution. However, clear evidence of a police frame-up did emerge and the only two credible witnesses (an ANC leader and a police officer) both testified to the correctness of the Abahlali account of what happened back in September 2009. A great day. More details to come. Now we celebrate. ****** HALALA FOR THE KENNEDY 12 Desmond D’Sa We see this as a great day for the 12, their families, their movement and the struggle of the poor in South Africa. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/75067 ****** DEAR MANDELA WORLD PREMIERE: DURBAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL I'm delighted to share the news with you that 'Dear Mandela' is finally completed, and will have its world premiere at the Durban International Film Festival on the 26 July. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/75064 ****** SOUTH AFRICA: MANDELA PARK LAND AND THE HOUSING CRISIS Open letter to Madam Mayor Patricia de Lille Mandela Park Backyarders There’s little sign that the Western Cape Human Settlement MEC intends to deliver on its promises to prioritise housing for the Mandela Park Backyarders in the 2011/12 financial year, the group has said in an open letter to mayor Patrica de Lille. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/75093 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Books & arts SOMALIA: DEVELOPING ROBUST AND PRINCIPLED POLICY Review of Afyare Abdi Elmi’s ‘Understanding the Somalia Conflagration: Identity, Political Islam and Peacebuilding’ Farah Abdulsamed In a review of Afyare Abdi Elmi’s ‘Understanding the Somalia Conflagration’, Farah Abdulsamed praises ‘a book which is well-written, inventive and amazingly readable’. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/75062 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Highlights French edition PAMBAZUKA NEWS 198: MONEYTHEISM AND MONOTHEISM OR THE OBSCURANTIST INTERNATIONAL? Moneytheism and monotheism or the obscurantist international? Samir Amin The resurgence of spirituality has made religion a determining factor in history. But despite its strength, argues Samir Amin, religious belief has not destroyed what he calls the ‘immoral and savage competition’ that accompanies the coupling of moneytheism and monotheism. Amin notes that ‘contemporary monopoly capitalism is in crisis and is desperately trying to develop a new ideological offensive by a systematic recourse to ‘spiritual’ discourse. http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/74991 ****** Religion and the struggle of the oppressed Samir Amin History has a wealth of examples of the involvement of religious revivalist movements in revolts against oppression. But while liberation theology made waves in Latin America, similar movements in the Muslim world, says Samir Amin, were scotched in the bud with the complicity of all the powers. But today’s revolts seem to be unaffected by religious arguments and Amin asks whether 'this is an indicator of the limits of this model of legitimising the struggle for social justice.' http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75007 ****** When a maniac tries to diagnose Amy Niang and Aboubakr Tandia It is impossible to understand and analyse the socio-political transformations in Senegal and elsewhere in post-colonial Africa without looking at how the ‘body’, in all its manifestations, is governed, write Amy Niang and Aboubakr Tandia. http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75009 ****** Historical landmarks in the fight against violence against women Aline Murin-Hoarau The reason why violence against women seems to be so ingrained is because it is rooted in relationships of social dominance and racial discrimination, which historically have left little liberty for women. A key point Aline Murin-Horau took away from a recent meeting of Indian Ocean countries is that people must be aware of the history of this scourge if they want to succeed in transforming hearts and minds and the actions that follow. http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75005 ****** France against democracy in Africa Paul Martial France’s imperialist policy towards Africa means it has to maintain its zone of influence, otherwise known as ‘Françafrique’, in order to protect the interests of French multinational companies, among others – a situation in which the democratic demands of African peoples count for little. It is difficult not to conclude, says Paul Martial, that French policy is a major obstacle to democracy in Africa. http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75006 ****** An African of his times - Mamadou Dia would have been 100 today Tidiane Dia Mamadou Dia died on 25 February 2009 at the age of 98. He was ousted from his position as president of the council in Senegal’s first government after only two years. Accused of attempting to stage a coup d’état, he was arrested in December 1962. His imprisonment effectively ended his dream of genuine independence in Senegal. He would have turned 100 on 18 July. Tidiane Dia looks back at his life and times. http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75004 ****** Gabon: France’s new military shield Mengue M’Eyaà Gabon has been in a political crisis since the ‘coup d’état’ staged by the Bongo clan in August and September 2009. It was in this context that Paris signed several new agreements with Tripoli which, laments Mengue M’Eyaà, will only perpetuate France’s African backyard, also known as Françafrique. http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75008 ****** ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 Cartoons MUBARAK IN COURT Gado How do you plead Mr Mubarak? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/cartoons/75097 ****** UK HACKING SCANDAL Gado Everyone is trying to hide behind somebody else. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/cartoons/75098 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. © Unless otherwise indicated, all materials published are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. 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