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KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! Pambazuka News 834: Sham elections, deadly choices ------------------------------ 17 August 2017 CONTENTS: 1. Features <http://www.pambazuka.net/en/issue.php/current/#cat_1> 2. Announcements <http://www.pambazuka.net/en/issue.php/current/#cat_3> ------------------------------ *Features* ------------------------------ Kenya elections 2017: A massive fraud by the genius of evil, with international participation <https://www.pambazuka.org/democracy-governance/kenya-elections-2017-massive-fraud-genius-evil-international-participation> Wandia Njoya <https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/4844> What is now being praised as a “peaceful” election was in fact the connivance of racist global capital against the Kenyan people. The so-called victory of Uhuru Kenyatta is a victory of private business. Kenyans should expect the collapse of public institutions in the next few years and increased militarization to keep the people in perpetual fear. Kenya’s 2017 presidential power-grab <https://www.pambazuka.org/democracy-governance/kenya%E2%80%99s-2017-presidential-power-grab> Akoko Akech <https://www.pambazuka.org/author/akoko-akech> Kenya’s election this year amounts to nothing less than a coup by the incumbent, Uhuru Kenyatta. Every effort was made to infiltrate and control the electoral body. The heavy security preparations and the deluge of peace messages suggest that the outcome was already predetermined and the people’s resistance anticipated. Deadly choice: The dangerous implications of Kagame’s life presidency and its Anglo-American connections <https://www.pambazuka.org/democracy-governance/deadly-choice-dangerous-implications-kagame%E2%80%99s-life-presidency-and-its-anglo> Theogene Rudasingwa <https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/8267> Rwanda’s sole hero Paul Kagame “won” the 4 August election by 99%. Emboldened by his Western benefactors and cheerleaders, Kagame rules with reckless intransigence and impunity. He has conveniently forgotten that the civil wars of 1959 and 1990s were about the exclusion of whole ethnic groups from state power. The dream of freedom and peace remains distant for Rwandans. Congo Genocide: An interview with Sylvestre Mido <https://www.pambazuka.org/human-security/congo-genocide-interview-sylvestre-mido> Ann Garrison <https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/5282> “August 2 is the anniversary of the beginning of the Second Congo War, so we commemorate it to remind Congolese communities at home and abroad that since that date, millions of Congolese have been killed, raped, kidnapped, and enslaved for our natural resources. We need to remember them and work to bring an end to the killing." An off-the-record genocide <https://www.pambazuka.org/human-security/record-genocide> Deborah S. Rogers <https://www.pambazuka.org/author/deborah-s-rogers> *Global resource extraction economy provides incentives to destroy DR Congo's Indigenous groups* Global resource extraction interests in collaboration with corrupt local elites are providing incentives for a genocide against Indigenous people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and a virtual media blackout allows this travesty to continue unchecked. Falling BRICS endanger their citizens’ health, starting with South Africa’s Jacob Zuma <https://www.pambazuka.org/emerging-powers/falling-brics-endanger-their-citizens%E2%80%99-health-starting-south-africa%E2%80%99s-jacob-zuma> Patrick Bond <https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3429> As he launched <http://www.4-traders.com/news/President-Jacob-Zuma-New-Development-Bank-Africa-Regional-Centre-launch--24962228/> the African Regional Centre of the New Development Bank (NDB) in Johannesburg on Thursday, nearly 18 months behind schedule <http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=321153>, South African President Jacob Zuma must have had mixed feelings. Strife-riven Brazil, Russia, India and China are more risky allies <http://www.fedusa.org.za/wp-content/uploads/Bond-Trade-Unions-and-BRICS-April-2017-final.pdf> than Zuma reckoned when in 2010 he accepted Beijing’s invitation to join the club. Zuma survives in office once again – for now <https://www.pambazuka.org/democracy-governance/zuma-survives-office-once-again-%E2%80%93-now> Henning Melber <https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3628> Indicative was the debate preceding the vote: not a single speaker spoke in defense of President Zuma, who after all is also the party leader. The opposition was eager to explain that the motion was not about removing the ANC from government, but Zuma from presidency. In contrast, those taking the floor for the ANC, appealed to members to protect the government from regime change and not abandon the party loyalty. Southern Africa: Communities and activists expose corporate abuse at the Permanent People´s Tribunal <https://www.pambazuka.org/advocacy-campaigns/southern-africa-communities-and-activists-expose-corporate-abuse-permanent-people> Boaventura Monjane and and Marie Hagensen <https://www.pambazuka.org/author/boaventura-monjane-and-and-marie-hagensen> When Helena Terra heard that ProSavana, a giant agribusiness project proposed for northern Mozambique would be presented for “judgment” at the Permanent People´s Tribunal in South Africa, she was convinced that their struggle against the project was gaining momentum. *The sound of silence <https://www.pambazuka.org/democracy-governance/sound-silence>* *People are talking without speaking, listening without hearing in South Africa* Dhiru Soni <https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/9697> The urgent need for South Africa’s rehabilitation may only begin with a united voice of the people that speaks and acts on behalf of all who live in the country and gives the highest priority to the elimination of a political regime that has gone rogue. As former minister of finance, Pravin Gordhan, said, “We did during apartheid, we can do it again”. Norwegian report uncovers harassment and illegal wages on South African wine farms <https://www.pambazuka.org/human-security/norwegian-report-uncovers-harassment-and-illegal-wages-south-african-wine-farms> Peter Kenworthy <https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/7048> A confidential audit report from Norwegian government-owned alcoholic beverage retailer Vinmonopolet has uncovered harassment, unionization prohibitions and salaries below the minimum wage at several of its wine producers in South Africa. Farewell, Elder Bankie F. Bankie <https://www.pambazuka.org/pan-africanism/farewell-elder-bankie-f-bankie> *Mrs Rita Bankie returning from travel discovered Bankie’s body on Tuesday, 1 August* Job Shipululo Amupanda <https://www.pambazuka.org/author/job-shipululo-amupanda> Bankie was a Pan-Africanist in his own class. He would not want Pan-Africanists to fall into sentimentalism about his passing on to the Ancestral world. Rather he would want us to dedicate our work to the liberation of the African people, particularly working towards black people’s knowledge of self. Challenges of teacher education in Tanzania <https://www.pambazuka.org/education/challenges-teacher-education-tanzania> Mary A. Mosha <https://www.pambazuka.org/author/mary-mosha> Tanzania’s famous founding president Julius Nyerere was a teacher. But despite the government’s commitment to education in its development agenda, many young people shun the teaching profession. Salaries are low, classes big and teaching has little prestige among the professions. Pambazuka essays spur entreprenueral and intellectual debate at Kampala International University <https://www.pambazuka.org/economics/pambazuka-essays-spur-entreprenueral-and-intellectual-debate-kampala-international> George William Nasinyama and Medard Twinamatsiko <https://www.pambazuka.org/author/george-william-nasinyama-and-medard-twinamatsiko> Like many young people across Africa, Ugandan youth face the challenge of acquiring appropriate skills and deploying them in achieving their dreams. An essay competition at Kampala International University gave students the opportunity to reflect on this issue and to explore solutions to youth unemployment. ------------------------------ *Announcements* ------------------------------ Africa-Europe relations: Towards a different future for the two neighbours? <https://www.pambazuka.org/announcements/africa-europe-relations-towards-different-future-two-neighbours> *Call for papers for a special issue of Pambazuka News* The Editors <https://www.pambazuka.org/author/editors> As African and European leaders plan to meet in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, late November 2017 to assess the status of the Africa-Europe partnership, Pambazuka News is calling for a broad range of papers analysing, from various perspectives, relations between Africa and Europe and how they might evolve in the coming decades. 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