Posts Tagged Equality
The Women’s Charter, Women’s Day and Yom Kippur
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Equality and LGBTI politics, South African politics on 11/08/2010
Adopted more than a year before the Freedom Charter, the Women’s Charter (copied below) was never popularised in our movement for freedom and equality in the same way as the Freedom Charter. Apart from some of its language, the Women’s Charter remains as relevant as a document of struggle today as the day of its [...]
Breaking news: Thousands fast for libraries across the country
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Equal Education, Equality and LGBTI politics, South African politics on 30/07/2010
Over 5000 people are Fasting with EE for school libraries in South Africa Doron Isaacs It is 10am, Friday 30 July 2010. School children, teachers, parents, activists and ordinary people have been fasting for 16 hours. Their aim: “1 School 1 Library 1 Librarian”. If you haven’t started fasting, start now for the remaining 8 [...]
Join Fast for School Libraries — Why Cosatu supports Equal Education
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Equal Education, South African politics on 25/07/2010
On Thursday 29th July 2010 at 18:00 thousands of learners, students, teachers, parents, activists and community members will join a fast called by Equal Education in its campaign for school libraries. We are fasting because class and race apartheid still exists in our education system. We are fasting because our children are doomed to a [...]
Was apartheid only white rule: Bantustans, collaborators and traditional leaders
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Political parties, South African politics on 24/07/2010
The National House of Traditional Leaders is demanding that that the Constitution be amended in rural areas to do away with elected local government and give the amakhosi the power to govern. Under the guise of “tradition and culture”, they wish to re-establish old bantustans. (See Mail & Guardian report below) Apartheid was a complex [...]
SA homophobia at UN body & Role in detention Zimbabwean researcher
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Africa, Politics, Economics and History, crime and safety on 28/06/2010
Homophobia must be condemned wherever it occurs and it cannot be divorced from broader struggles for democracy. Two posts are carried below. Both involve South African public representatives doing international work relating to human rights. The first is a response by a range of organisations to the homophobia by Jerry Matjila South Africa’s representative to [...]
Western Cape textbooks reply unsatisfactory and evasive
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 24/06/2010
Today, Western Cape Education Department (WCED) replied to Equal Education’s legal representatives letter of Demand, mainly stating that the department will conduct a further survey to find out about textbook shortages. The MEC’s reply states that Chris Hani and Kwamfundo Senior Secondary Schools needs will be considered and actions will be informed by the outcome [...]
Equal Education May Sue Western Cape Government — No textbooks
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 21/06/2010
Learners in Khayelitsha still remain without textbooks after more than half the school-year is over. Yoliswa Dwane’s press release below explains why Equal Education is considering taking the Western cape education department to Court. How efficient is the Western Cape DA government? Your views. Zackie Achmat Western Cape Scandal: No Textbooks for grade 12s after [...]
The orange dress at the World Cup: a weapon of mass destruction?
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 21/06/2010
Ironically, the Soccer World Cup has highlighted the fact that access to justice is the scarcest commodity in our country. Every person in our country lives with a deep physical and psychological insecurity because of violent crime. The Mail and Guardian article below is an indictment of government and FIFA because it treats some “criminals” [...]
Cry, Laugh and Analyse — Some Archive on the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 20/06/2010
Sometimes we have to laugh, cry and analyse at the same time. This post is about all three. It includes a video of a press conference by a homophobic Ugandan bishop. This should make us all cry. Uganda — Anti-Gay Pastor’s Press Conference. Then, something to make us laugh. A remix of the same press [...]
Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga Pardoned by President Bingu Wa Mutharika
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 29/05/2010
The pardoning of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga by President Bingu Wa Mutharika must be welcomed. First, it is important to assure their personal safety. The South African embassy in Malawi must help them find safe accommodation until they decide whether they wish to seek asylum in South Africa or another country. They also need [...]
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