Comrade, the week after DeBeers has run away with nearly $20 billion in apartheid loot, you just can't be serious. All stats coming in are showing the mass of South Africans LESS powerful in socio-economic respects than before 1994.
Another slogan for your collection, comrade Charles: "A Luta Continua"-- loosely translated by the victors as "May the Looting Continue."
Meanwhile, off to battle the World Economic Forum and its lackeys in the ANC, as they meet in Durban (protests today in CT were great, and more as well, in Jo'burg tomorrow). Here's some of the agit-prop:
To: "cansa"<cansa at wn.apc.org> Date sent: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 17:10:48 +0200 Subject: March Against the WEF, Fri June 8
March Against the WEF
This week, the World Economic Forum comes to Durban. Big business will meet with Southern African political leaders from Wednesday, 6 June to Friday, 8 June, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in attendance. The meeting will be co-chaired by Saki Macozoma, exposed last week in the South African Airways saga in which Coleman Andrews walked off with close to R200 million for little more than two years of work. The main rapporteur is Maria Ramos, in charge of the department that is ruthlessly implementing the harshest elements of Gear.
They will discuss topics such as "What does the Corporate World Hope to See in the Millennium Africa Recovery Plan", "What are Southern African Governments Doing to Create an Enabling Business Environment", "Benchmarking Africa's Competitiveness" and "Making Liberalisation and Deregulation Work".
The World Economic Forum is the main international forum in which the leaders of the big transnational corporations tell the politicians how they should run world affairs. Leaders have been meeting at the WEF headquarters in Davos, Switzerland, every year. In recent years, people have come out in large numbers to protest this gathering of the elite. In January this year, the protests were met with the biggest police and military operation seen in Switzerland in more than 50 years. People also met in Porto Allegre, Brazil, in a counter to Davos called the World Social Forum in which they rallied around the slogan "Another world is possible."
The WEF now holds regional summits in addition to the elite gathering in January. It was met by up to 20 000 protestors, braving driving rain and sleet, in Melbourne, Australia, in September last year. Now it is time to protest their meeting in South Africa!
March to Standard Bank, Friday, 8 June
There will be meetings and demonstrations against the World Economic Forum in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
In Johannesburg, the Anti-privatisation Forum, Jubilee South Africa, the Campaign Against Neo-liberalism in South Africa, Keep Left, the South African Communist Party - Johannesburg Central and other organisations and individuals agreed to organise a march on Friday, 8 June. People will gather at the Library Gardens, cnr Market and Simmonds Streets, Johannesburg, at 12 noon. Protestors will then march to the Standard Bank, a South African symbol for all that is wrong with the World Economic Forum. The deputy chair of Standard Bank is none other than co-chair Saki Macozoma, the bank forces harsh conditions on low income borrowers, refuses to lend in inner cities, townships and rural areas and funnels the hard-earned wealth of our country to London, Russia and the Channel Islands.
Debate, Tuesday, 5 June
There will also be videos on protests against the WEF, followed by a discussion on how to link the building of grassroots organisations with protests against the powers that run the global economy. This will be held from 6.00 p.m. on Tuesday night at the Supper Club, 61 High Street, Berea, Johannesburg. This also serves as a fundraiser for the march on Friday, so make a donation and enjoy the food!
Away with the WEF! No to George Soros, Saki Macozoma and moneybags Coleman Andrews!
Issued by the Campaign Against Neo-liberalism in South Africa on behalf of the anti-WEF committee For further information, contact { HYPERLINK mailto:cansa at wn.apc.org }cansa at wn.apc.org or tel 011 339 4121