Hands off campaign
As soon as we received the news of our Chairman, headquarters and other facilities of our movement being attacked by federal agents, all comrades in the region began to mobilize. On more than one occasion, the comrades in South Africa, Namibia and Sierra Leone went to confront US embassies and consulates to deliver memorandums demanding the FBI to withdraw the charges meted against the Uhuru 3.
We believe that these actions played a role in the pushback that led to these comrades winning victory on the more serious charge of working as agents of a foreign government. The message we intended to send when we confronted the enemy was that African people are on our own program and that we are our own liberators.
We were adamant that our movement and leadership will not be isolated. Thus we always made it a point to engage with other organizations on the African continent to garner support for the Uhuru 3. Director Tafarie was given a platform to speak, where he raised the matter of the African Liberation Movement being under attack through the indictment of the Chairman, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel.
The Hands Off Uhuru Campaign was buzzing everywhere, including on cyberspace such as Facebook and X. Although our Party does not yet exist in every corner of Africa, people from all over were interacting with the development of this global anti-imperalist and anti-colonial campaign.
The Hands Off Uhuru campaign opened the way for comrades in South Africa to engage in more confrontational struggles right in the communities that they live in. For example, the comrades in Kokosi have been seen on the forefront at community protests for water and for electricity.
Whenever our forces in Azania make interventions in community demonstrations, they always make sure to deepen the contradictions. This is reflected on their pamphlet addressing the water cuts that left the Kokosi community in destitute for three months.This bold statement can be read from the pamphlet “Colonialism is the reason we don’t have water, and it is the reason we have sellouts betraying us all the time.”
Cadre development
The Africa region of our Party refuses to be left out of any campaign initiated by the leadership of the Party. In November 2025 the South Africa and West Africa regions both had their respective Cadre Development Intensives.
In West Africa comrade Fenty Tholley who has been with the Party for a long time organized comrades on the ground and others virtually for a two days program. Similarly comrades in South Africa met in Kokosi for a two day program with the involvement of comrades in Namibia and Mpumalanga via Zoom.
The recording of the Southern Africa Cadre Development Program can be found on our Facebook page, African People’s Socialist Party – Africa Region.
Membership and building of committees
The comrades in Africa have been fighting for building membership in both the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), which is the main mass organization of the Party. The relationship between the Party and InPDUM is one of symbiosis. InPDUM is provided direction by the Party through its leadership that is required to have membership with the Party. Much as InPDUM is focused on increasing membership quantitatively, those members that are of quality are advanced to join the ranks of the cadre organization, the APSP.
The attack on our leadership and Party in the US did not disorganize us, but rather served as encouragement for all committees and organizations to consolidate.
Through the office of the Director of Organization for Africa, all leaders were required to professionalize every department and structure of the Party and movement. All the way from the Party unit and InPDUM local branch, comrades were required to have regular meetings and outreaches.
The clarity with the building of Party structures has been instrumental in the protection of our Party through the application of our democratic centralism principle of organization.
Economic development
Although we have not seen much initiative in West Africa, there have been some significant developments in South Africa. Through Zakhele’s efforts, the Party has initiated an agricultural project in the fertile region of Mpumalanga province resting near the Eswatini and Mozambique border.
It is worth noting that Africans in Eswatini and Mozambique speak languages that are spoken in South Africa. Meaning, there is no justification for the existence of the colonial borders that divide us, and thus subjecting us to a false nation consciousness.
Since the initiation of the Project Thuthukani Community Garden in Mpumalanga, we have harvested carbages, onions and other crops that have generated income for the branch while feeding the community.
In Fochville, located on the western edge of Johannesburg the comrades there have established an economic development initiative in the form of a carwash. The carwash has opened up prospects for more cultural and economic development.
Right where we have the carwash the comrades are already constructing a food outlet and a small park. What we are looking at in Kokosi is the construction of an economic hub, a mandate that has been repeated from various political reports written by Chairman Omali Yeshitela.
The Party continues to extend its reach throughout the African continent. As this report is being written, we are looking at prospects for organization in South Sudan. Additionally, there is an urgent need to address the disparity between the development of the Party in Anglophone and Francophone Africa (a contradiction imposed by colonialism).
Our comrades in Benin have played their role in maintaining continuity on the Francophone front, however, we need more than that. Our brothers and sisters who speak French must be fully involved in the Party and movement building process. Thus, the Office of the Director of Organization is going to establish those links to discover revolutionaries and potential revolutionaries who can be brought into our Party.
