ANC grassroots intimidation continues

The ANC appears determined to extinguish political dissent in the impoverished Kennedy Road community. Last month, Afrodissident reported how ANC-affiliated thugs rampaged through Durban’s Kennedy Road township, demolishing homes, and attacking people with knives and sticks. The victims were members of the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) shack dwellers’ movement. Ironically, though, thirteen AbM members were arrested [...]

TAC speaks out on ANC-affiliated attacks

The Treatment Action Campaign has released a statement regarding the attacks on the Kennedy Road settlement in Durban by ANC-affiliated militia:
Attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the AIDS Law Project (ALP) are concerned by reports of violence and intimidation against members of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement (ABM) in the Kennedy Road [...]

“The ANC has invaded Kennedy Road”

Here is a piece by Sibusiso Zikode, the head of the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) shack dwellers’ movement, about the aftermath of politically-motivated violence against members of his community:
The ANC Has Invaded Kennedy Road
The ANC has invaded Kennedy Road. We have been arrested, beaten, killed, jailed and made homeless by their armed wing. This is what [...]

“ANC militia” attacks Durban township

On Saturday night, forty or so armed men went on the rampage in Durban’s Kennedy Road township, demolishing homes, and attacking people with knives and sticks. Below is a statement from the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) shack dwellers’ movement which was conducting a youth camp at the time of the attack. The AbM believes that the [...]

Why there’s not much hope for Cope

This op-ed was written on the eve of South Africa’s elections in April.
When Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa announced they were “serving divorce papers” on the African National Congress (ANC), their political home, there was a frenzy of speculation that this would result in a tectonic shift in South Africa’s political and electoral [...]

ANC will savage any opposition to its bid for perpetual rule

Leaked plans by the ANC to destabilise and distract from opposition leader Helen Zille from fulfilling her duties as premier of the Western Cape shows the contempt that our ruling party has for democracy.
After several years of the ANC’s chaotic mismanagement and paltry delivery, the Western Cape’s voters decisively elected the DA to run the [...]

“Two-thirds gevaar” was reasoned, not racist

In a recent ANC Today, President Kgalema Motlanthe rehashes an article he wrote in the run up to the 1999 elections in which he criticised the then DP’s calls to prevent a two-thirds majority as “a fear of democracy”. In that decade-old piece he said:
Lacking a coherent or realisable vision for a better South Africa, [...]

ANC madwoman calls The Times the “third force”

ANC spokeswoman Jessie Duarte unleashed her hatred of The Times on one unsuspecting journalist interviewing her on the ruling party’s use of social media. It was an astonishing (yet not terribly surprising) assault that says volumes about the party’s approach to press freedom and the inevitable criticism of power structures (and of Msholozi) that such [...]

ANC buys votes with food parcels

According to an investigation conducted by the Sunday Times, the ANC is handing out taxpayer-funded food parcels to impoverished people, telling them this largesse is from the ruling party.
The article says:

ANC ward councillors have been compiling the list of relief recipients;
The food hampers have, in some instances, grown to include bubble [...]

Debunking the Daily Mail’s doomsayer

On Sunday 29 March, a devastating article by Peter Hitchens on Jacob Zuma and South Africa’s future was published in Britain’s Daily Mail. Couched in a sickening, sensationalist discourse swirling with racist and colonialist undertones, the story employed gross misrepresentation, selective truth-telling, distortion and stereotyping to depict South Africa as about to collapse into the [...]