ANTI PRIVATISATION FORUM

22 November 2008

SHUT DOWN LINDELA! SOUTH AFRICA'S SYMBOL OF SHAME!
Privatised 'nationalism' and xenophobia continues in South Africa today

The Anti Privatisation Forum joined with the Coalition Against Xenophobia at the 'Lindela Repatriation Centre' in Krugerdorp yesterday/today for a 24 hour picket calling for Lindela to be shut down. Our struggle knows no borders and we extend our solidarity to our African brothers and sisters who are being grabbed on the street, chased out of their homes and abducted to the deportation camp. The existence of the camp is a long-standing shame of democratic South Africa. Whether the 'Congress of the People' rightfully belongs to anyone in South Africa is a question void of any meaning when there is a complete unwillingness to confront the glaring racism, Afrophobia and violence that is Lindela. If South Africa 'belongs to all those who live in it', the principals on the throne of the Freedom Charter would be joining the Coalition to demand its closure.

ANTI PRIVATISATION FORUM

18 July 2008

Xenophobic attitudes mar an APF march for housing in Alex

A documentary produced by Filmmakers Against Racism on Alexandra and the lead-up to the recent xenophobic attacks there, had its first of more screenings last week in Johannesburg and is scheduled for broadcast on SABC. The Anti Privatisation Forum was given a preview copy of Affectionately known as Alex by the filmmakers so that the APF would be made aware that the documentary follows the march for housing by Alexandra Vukuzenzele Crisis Committee (AVCC) on April 19 this year. This part of the documentary features some APF members making statements against the Mozambiquan and Zimbabwean occupants of houses in Extension 7. Little more than a month later, the pogrom against immigrants burst xenophobia into the open, which may create the impression that the two events are linked.

ANTI PRIVATISATION FORUM and KLIPTOWN CONCERNED RESIDENTS
25 June 2008

The African National Congress (ANC) retraces its roots to the signing of the Freedom Charter in Kliptown on the 26th June 1955 while betraying the people who live there

Empty Promises of the Kliptown People's Convention

The Freedom Charter (adopted on 26th June, 1955 in Kliptown) says:

"WE, THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA, DECLARE FOR ALL OUR COUNTRY AND THE WORLD TO KNOW:

that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people; - that our people have been robbed of their birthright to land, liberty and peace by a form of government founded on injustice and inequality; - that our country will never be prosperous or free until all our people live in brotherhood, enjoying equal rights and opportunities; - that only a democratic state, based on the will of all the people, can secure to all their birthrights without distinction of colour, race, sex or belief; And therefore, we the people of South Africa, black and white together - equals, countrymen and brothers - adopt this Freedom Charter. And we pledge ourselves to strive together, sparing neither strength nor courage, until the democratic changes set out here have been won."