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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 665: POPULAR RESISTANCE CAN DELIVER: HAITI, MOZAMBIQUE AND SOUTH AFRICA 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 #PambazukaNews Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Books & arts /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features WE HAVE AN ANTI-IMPERIALIST OBLIGATION TO THE PEOPLE OF HAITI Ajamu Nangwaya Every free Black person owes a debt of gratitude to the Haitian Revolution. Now Haiti needs you. It is ten years since imperialist forces overthrew Haiti's democratically elected leader and foisted on them a Western stooge. The people are resisting. Take action http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90522 ****** MOZAMBIQUE'S 2013 ELECTIONS: THE END OF LIBERATION MOVEMENT POLITICS? Fredson Guilengue A third force has emerged in Mozambican politics, the MDM party that is causing powerful ripples, especially in urban areas and the regions until now marginalised by the ruling FRELIMO party. RENAMO, the main opposition party, is dying. MDM is likely to put a strong showing in October's presidential election because of growing disaffection for the ruling party. But MDM is unlikely to trounce the still well-entrenched FRELIMO http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90526 ****** BOOM TOWN: KIGALI'S CHINESE INVESTMENT Daniel Nzohabonimana Chinese investment in Africa has increased at an unprecedented level during the past two decades. Known as the 'weapon of mass construction', China's footprint in Rwanda is no exception. Still recovering from the devastating 1994 genocide, the country urgently requires infrastructural investment to rebuild what was destroyed, and develop the future. The myth, however, looms larger than the reality http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90523 ****** ABORTION IN SOUTH AFRICA: A LEGAL YET UNCERTAIN REALITY Jessica Lomelin South Africa has been praised for progressive laws relating to women's reproductive health. Free state-performed abortions have increased to 500,000 since 2004. But still, controversy and resistance have led to inadequate implementation of the law http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90524 ****** ANC, MANDELA AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLE How national and class oppression shaped the evolution of movements in South Africa and the US Abayomi Azikiwe As the African National Congress celebrates 20 years in power this year, many people may not know that the anti-apartheid liberation organization had close links with the African American civil rights movement. ANC should continue to support liberation struggles around the world http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90525 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Announcements LGBTI IN AFRICA: A CALL FOR ARTICLES In February, Pambazuka News plans to carry a special issue dedicated to the LGBTI situation in Africa. Send in your contribution http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Announce/90255 ****** RWANDA: 20 YEARS AFTER THE GENOCIDE: A CALL FOR ARTICLES How has Rwanda fared in the past two decades since the 1994 genocide? And what does the future hold for this nation of 11 million people? Pambazuka News invites articles for a special issue to be published in April http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Announce/90534 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Comment & analysis FROM NEGRO HISTORY WEEK TO AFRICAN LIBERATION MONTH Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali It was in 1926 that "Negro History Week" began and has evolved into "Black History Month" and for some "African Liberation Month." For many Africans and Diaspora Africans African history must liberate us mentally, economically, and politically from imperialism and neo-colonialism http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90531 ****** JANTJIE DEVELOPMENT AND SHIFTING (CITIZEN) PERCEPTIONS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN STATE Tshweu Moleme The seemingly bizarre performance by the deaf signer at Nelson Mandela's memorial is a manifestation of disorder in South African society. Service delivery protests and the shadow of Marikina haunts the nation, among many other socio-economic and political ills http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90536 ****** LET THEM EAT SYMBOLS: OBAMA'S PLAN FOR THE LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED Ajamu Baraka Obama has no genuine plan to solve long-term unemployment in America despite meeting with the corporate and financial elite to discuss the matter. Radical organisations must organise to provide a counter-narrative and minimum program of opposition to neoliberalism that continues to exploit low waged workers http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90532 ****** MODERN DAY LYNCHING Margaret Kimberley It often seems that the American national pastime is murderous assault on Black people. The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement's tally of one racist homicide every 28 hours is surely understated. The more Blacks die, the harder some whites push for broader latitude to kill them. There is no reciprocity in Stand Your Ground. 'Self-defense means nothing when a black person asserts that right.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90535 ****** SPAIN: POPULAR RESISTANCE DELIVERS RESULTS Esther Vivas Global struggles against capitalist economic austerity should take inspirational note of the gains of Spanish workers who have halted the government's plans to privitise six hospitals. Demonstrations, strikes and occupations deliver results http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90537 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Advocacy & campaigns NIGERIA: CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT ON SENATE COMMITTEE PROBE ON NON-REMITTANCE OF OIL REVENUE At least $10 billion is believed to have not been remitted to the national coffers by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. A Senate committee is investigating the scam and civil society want the probe completed and stern action taken on perpetrators http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/90533 ****** WORLD BANK HANDS INGA 3 DAM OVER TO PRIVATE SECTOR International Rivers In a strange twist, the World Bank's biggest ever hydropower project is now set to serve the interests of mining corporations rather than the people of DR Congo http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/90527 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 Books & arts FROM PIDGIN ENGLISH TO CAMFRANGLAIS Review of 'Camfranglais, A Glossary of Common Words, Phrases and Usages' (2013) by Jean-Paul Kouega Peter Wuteh Vakunta Kouega's seminal work, 'Camfranglais, A Glossary of Common Words, Phrases and Usages', is a succinct study of the emergence and structure of a new linguistic code in Cameroon--Camfranglais http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/90528 ****** TRAGEDY OF A MUSIC ICON AND THE SHAME OF A NATION Bashir Goth The great Somali musician Maxamad Saleeban Tubeec is ailing in Germany and is in dire need of money to undergo surgery. The Somali people and government should help - for this man's contribution to the nation is immense http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/90530 ****** ZANZIBAR REVOLUTION REVISITED: A SHORT REVIEW ESSAY Amrit Wilson (2013), The Threat of Liberation: Imperialism and Revolution in Zanzibar. Pluto Press, London. XII + 175 pp. Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi With its eight chapters and more than a dozen rare photographs of Zanzibar, this book is a well-researched study by a respected author of long-standing. It outlines the dramatic history of Zanzibar and its anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/90529 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. (c) 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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