Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: Shaheed Mahomed <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:54:37 To: Zubeida Samsodien - Radio 786 Newsroom<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; news<[email protected]>; Ben Maclennan<[email protected]>; KFM<[email protected]>; News Bush Radio<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; Gadija Davids<[email protected]>; Mzk<[email protected]> Cc: Leninist Trotskyist Fraction<[email protected]> Subject: First statement on the killing by Andries Tatane by the police on 13.4.2011
Free State is home to some of the richest gold mines in the world, controlled by Anglo American. The Thabo Mofutsanyane district, where Ficksburg is, is home to the Sterkfontein dam, the 3rd largest in South Africa; across the border is the Lesotho Highlands project funded by the imperialist IMF. There is no shortage of water in the region but while according to the 2007 census, only 63% of the local population in the Setsoto district have piped water, and much of this is either broken or blocked; at least 66% of the population do not have flush toilets. The abundance of water is not used for the working class but for cherry and asparagus farming for the US controlled Woolworths and other capitalist retailers; water is directed past the working class to the mines to ensure the 24 hours per day, 7 days a week exploitation of the working class by Anglo American. More than 31% of the population lives in shacks alongside the most abundant riches. The SACP, ANC, DA, Cosatu leaders are all united in calling for the ICD to investigate the brutal murder of Andries Tatane, whose only crime was to shield a pensioner and who participated in the fight against the brutal capitalist inequality in the Free State. The real role of the police is to sustain this capitalist inequality and protect big capital. This is the real reason why Andries Tatane was beaten up and shot down. That such killings, such as the murder of Petros Msiza, Samwu shopsteward, by the police, is on the increase, is directly linked to the use of live ammunition to shoot down protestors in Bahrain, Yemen, and is the reason for the imperialist invasion of Libya. Imperialism is losing its control and has decided to go over to increasing fascist methods. We call for a Special Congress of Cosatu to discuss all the attacks on the working class and to prepare the way for a general strike, in the whole Southern African region against the brutal attack by imperialism on the working class, whether they be in Swaziland, SA, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, DRC, Ivory Coast, Libya, UK, USA, etc. Expropriate all imperalist assets , without compensation, place them under workers control! The time has come for factory committees and workers self-defence committees to be set up. workers of the world unite, we have nothing to lose but our chains! -- Shaheed Mahomed WorkersInternational Vanguard League SA section of International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction. 1st Floor, Community House 41 Salt River rd Salt River South Africa 7925 ph 0822020617 ph [27] 21 4476777 fax 0865486048 [email protected] web www.workersinternational.org.za affiliated to the International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction integrated by Liga Trotskista Internacionalista , (LTI) de Bolivia Organizing Committee Sao Paulo, Brasil Partido Obrero Internactionaista- CI (POI-CI) , de Chile Liga Obrera Internacionalista- CI (LOI-CI) Argentina Liga Trotskista Internacionalista- (LTI)Peru Workers International Vanguard League (WIVL) South Africa (conditional member) Workers International League-FI Zimbabwe -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
