The March and March’s impact in the ghettos
EVATON WEST, SOUTH AFRICA–We continue to shed more light on South Africa’s current war against the black community. Also important in this month’s report is the solutions African Internationalism is calling us to implement through emulation of our great African revolutionaries.
In July, there was an intensification of the anti-black patriotism of South Africa through what is called the ‘March and March’ campaign which locked down the black community and engaged in enforcing the Pass Laws (which were believed to have been abolished with the apartheid State but which will continue covertly due to the colonial mode of production that this settler colony functions from).
The white settler population has been silent on social media with regards to this campaign which has seen African mothers and our children terrorized—from selling fruits on the sidewalks to getting medical assistance. The settlers have instead chosen silence—save for their social media posts of pro-British anti-immigration videos showing whites waving their union jacks, saying “South Africa, you are not alone.”
In the same vein, there have been reactionary agents sent out by the settlers of this country to terrorize the African community through guns and violence as a way of stoking the flames against those of us that the white man has chosen as undesirable. These attacks are extrajudicial; there’s no instance of asking whether a black person has a passport, which is an alias for “dompass” (an identification and surveillance system used in apartheid South Africa to restrict the movement of African people). This has seen the violent impact of the March and March campaign on the black working class.
The history of such tactics by the South African government dates back to the apartheid era where hired marauders, in the form of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), would kill up to a thousand Africans (and not one settler) at the behest of the colonizers who ran the government back then, and still do today.
It is not a mistake that today in KwaZulu Natal we are seeing anti-black fervor from the reactionary petty bourgeois leaders there who capitalize on the history of the IFP attacks on the people.
But this is not limited to one province—the same thing has happened in Mpumalanga in order to keep the community terrorized.
South Africa’s definition of politics is to sell out Africa!
In this country it is politically in vogue to sell out the African community in order to progress one’s individual ambitions. When reflecting upon the history of politicians in this country, especially since the neocolonial move of 1994, there’s a trend of constantly using black workers against each other—be it language differences or regional conflicts. This is constantly a factor whenever election time nears; something that the colony uses to safeguard itself from the impending opposition of the masses.
Thus in 2008, South Africa waged an onslaught of attacks against our people in the same vein—a violent event that saw 62 black folk being burned, mutilated or killed in the street for being ‘too dark’; however, it was used as a cover for the African National Congress’ internal conflicts which saw the ousting of then president Thabo Mbeki and his replacement with Jacob Zuma.
Still present is the same situation which makes the African middle class pander to its white handlers using this tactic. The devious part of it is that it pretends to meet the tactical needs of the people in order to meet the strategic needs of the bourgeoisie—with its continuous need for African resources both human and material.
Build InPDUM in your area!
Tafarie Mugeri, the Director of the Africa Region as well as the local president of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) in Kokosi, Fochville, has been doing the necessary work along with other leaders from our Movement to push back against the March and March campaign—raising up the historical and objective needs of the African working class as separate from those of the African middle class and white bourgeoisie (something constantly muddled up by South Africa’s politics).
Recently filmed by various documentary and news reporters, Director Tafarie recently educated the masses on the needs of the people to recognize our own class interests, speaking even to the tactical needs for employment as a necessity which we have to sort out ourselves instead of being used by our oppressors regarding it.
Director Tafarie also leads a project that creates self-employment opportunities through Project Thuthukani, as well as running a local car wash–which adds to the political education in the community through its style of work and the way services are rendered.
The InPDUM Evaton West branch has started an initiative of collecting electronic waste, as well as recording tutorials on waste management and sharing them in community groups. Additionally, we are selling cookies to educate our folk through imbedding short messages carrying political education to better equip the African community when coming to advancing our own daily lives.
Down with neocolonialism!
Down with South Africa!
Uhuru!
