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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 609: POLITICAL PIED PIPERS, WORKER UNREST & TOILET APARTHEID The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! BECOME A FRIEND OF PAMBAZUKA NOW! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/friends.php Follow Pambazuka @pambazuka Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features POLITICAL PIED PIPERS ON THE ROAD TO MANGAUNG A different kind of tale Dale T. McKinley As the ANC holds its national leadership conference at Mangaung this month, Dale T. McKinley takes a satirical look at the party elite who have become increasingly tone-deaf to the demands of the masses http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85686 ****** TUNISIA IS UNEASY AS LEADERS AWARDED Mounira Chaieb Although their top leaders were recently feted internationally, Tunisians are restive due to high unemployment and insecurity. Many feel life was better under President Ben Ali prior to the 2011 Arab Spring http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85690 ****** THE STRIKE'S OVER, NOTHING'S SOLVED Benjamin Fogel The weakness of the second round of strikes by farmworkers in the Western Cape, South Africa, is likely to set back the farmworkers' struggle for years http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85685 ****** DIMINISHING RELEVANCE OF NIGERIAN UNIONISTS Adewale Stephen Millions of workers in Nigeria look up to their union leaders to organise them to protect their rights. But recent events show that unionists are fast losing the confidence of the masses http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85687 ****** SOUTH AFRICA'S SANITATION CESSPOOLS Patrick Bond Neoliberal sanitation experts attending the Toilet Summit may well argue that the world cannot afford flush toilets for everyone. But the alternatives they propose are failing. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85694 ****** EXIT STRATEGIES OUT OF GOMA A five-point agenda Theogene Rudasingwa With the on-going conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the emergence of Rwanda's proxy, M23, Theogene Rudasingwa puts forward five exit strategies to facilitate a long-term solution to problems in the region http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85678 ****** WAR ON TERROR NOT ENDLESS? A PAN-AFRICA VIEW Horace G. Campbell The planned winding down of the global war on terror has major implications for the peace movement internationally and cannot be carried out without vigorous engagement from all. ( https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?q=US+anti+terror+protests&uname=110842048834086824084&psc=G&filter=1#5660314246134830690 ) http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85698 ****** US AFRICA POLICY WILL REMAIN IMPERIALISTIC Abayomi Azikiwe Africa will continue to be exploited, pillaged, plundered and militarized by the US administration led by Barack Obama as he continues to serve neoliberal imperialist interests http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85680 ****** DOHA CLIMATE TALKS AND THE CLASH OF INTERESTS Farooque Chowdhury As the COP18 Doha climate crisis talks come to a close, the planet's climate health is turning worse while conflicting capitals are busy fighting. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85682 ****** HOW STATE RIGHTS BODY HAS FAILED UGANDANS The case of Moses Mukisa Vincent Nuwagaba Vincent Nuwagaba challenges the Uganda Human Rights Commission on its abysmal failure to promote and protect human rights, let alone award compensation to victims. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85679 ****** FEMINISM AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Will women judges make a difference? Munyonzwe Hamalengwa With an increasing number of women occupying positions of power globally, hopes are rising that these women will use their intellectual property to advocate for full and equal recognition and status for fellow women http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85689 ****** CUBA AND SOUTHERN AFRICAN LIBERATION The unknown story Isaac Saney One of the greatest military victories in African history, conducted jointly by Angolan and Cuban troops in 1987-1988 in the Angolan town of Cuito Cuanavale, is little known in global history http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85677 ****** VIOLENCE, RACE AND THE STATE IN BRITAIN Adam Elliott-Cooper Following the August 2011 unrest in cities and towns across England, the British government's response was emphatic criminalisation and pathologising of those involved, as well as a punitive state response http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/85691 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Announcements FAHAMU REFUGEE LEGAL AID NEWSLETTER: DECEMBER 2012 ISSUE AVAILABLE The Fahamu Refugee Programme is pleased to announce the December 2012 issue of the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter. The issue can be found here ( http://frlan.tumblr.com/post/36949712629/december-2012 ) . Please feel free to share it widely. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Announce/85692 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Comment & analysis CHILDREN SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN POST-CONFLICT RECOVERY Joseline Amony Many kids on the streets in northern Uganda are driven there by failing post-conflict recovery and reconstruction programmes and an indifferent central and often under capacitated local governments http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/85684 ****** KENYA: ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS THE DIASPORA VOTE Nathan Wangusi Democratic election is a game of numbers and, as things stand, Kenyans in the diaspora who would have been the proverbial swing voters in the March 4 election have effectively been disenfranchised for political reasons http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/85695 ****** SUDAN: MASS ARRESTS OF CIVILIANS IN NUBA MOUNTAINS Osman Naway The Sudanese government continues its atrocities against civilians in the Nuba Mountains region. A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding, yet the international community watches in silence http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/85697 ****** WAS CHIEF AWOLOWO AN AWOIST? Uchenna Osigwe There is no question that Chief Obafemi Awolowo is one of the greatest Nigerian political figures ever. But nobody, no matter their ethnic affiliation, would in all honesty support the callousness Awolowo exhibited during and after the Biafra war http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/85683 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Advocacy & campaigns AFRICANS IN THE DIASPORA LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN Africans in the Diaspora (AiD) launches its "New Year, New AiD" holiday fundraising campaign to raise resources for three African social change organizations. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/85675 ****** BURKINA FASO: HARSH PRISON TERMS UNDERMINE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION CIVICUS and RESOCIDE Civil society groups urge the government of Burkina Faso to take necessary steps to guarantee freedom of expression http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/85688 ****** EUROPEAN FOOTBALLERS DECLARE SUPPORT FOR PALESTINE Sixty-two English Premier League and 1st division European footballers have issued an open letter in solidarity with Palestinians and condemning UEFA's upcoming hosting of its 2013 Under 21 tournament in Israel. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/85676 ****** SOUTH AFRICAN CHURCH DELEGATION ON SOLIDARITY VISIT TO PALESTINE A group of South African Christians and Christian leaders are in the occupied territories of Palestine on a one week solidarity visit till the 9 December http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/85696 ****** TAKE ACTION: SOTU CAMPAIGN State of the Union (SOTU) The State of the Union, SOTU, is carrying out a campaign in which Africans are called upon to urge their governments to ratify the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance and the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. 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