Africa

This COVID-19 crisis has done more than any other previous crisis to expose the uselessness of African neocolonial governments.

Editor's Note: The Burning Spear newspaper online is publishing this economic development plan from the comrades of the African People’s Socialist Party in Azania (South Africa) led by Azania (South Africa) Party Chair Tafarie Mugeri. The Azania-based comrades are building Thuthukani, a project of the Party’s mass organization, the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) in the townships where colonized and impoverished African workers are forced to live on our own stolen land.

“As millions of civilians in conflict-scarred nations teeter on the brink of starvation, famine is a very real and dangerous possibility,” World Food Project (WFP) chief David Beasley told the United Nations Security Council, according to the UN News on April 21.

The South African government has murdered around ten African people during this COVID-19 pandemic and continues to inflict brutal colonial violence on our suffering community.

There is a passionate and heated debate raging throughout the African Nation ignited by the treacherous COVID-19 and the race among the oppressor nations to find a vaccine against it.

Editors Note: This article was submitted to The Burning Spear by the Visit Palestine email newsletter.

The lockdown imposed by the South African government on the people as a response to the global Coronavirus pandemic has proven to be worsening our colonial misery as the African working class, more specifically for us as women.

The rot of the neocolonial government and its traitors in Congo is so deep that nothing short of the complete liberation and unification of Africa under the leadership of the African working class can change the situation for our people there.

While many are coming to terms with the fact that as Africans we are not immune to the colonialvirus called COVID-19, the South African neocolonial government is forced to explain the reason why majority of black people are failing to adhere to the precautions and regulations it has set out for the public in response to what they have declared a global pandemic.