South Africa's 2025 High Court case sees apartheid victims challenge the government over unresolved TRC prosecutions and constitutional rights violations.

Betrayed Apartheid Victims Demand Justice 2025 TRC Action

SA faces inquiry into alleged gov't obstruction on apartheid crimes justice, revisiting TRC promises & reckoning with unhealed history.

Did ANC Block Apartheid Justice? Inquiry Exposes Pain

AfricaNow! May 7, 2025 Mineworkers in South Africa--Update of The Stilfontein Story

Topic and Guest: In the spirit of WPFW's mission of being a site of resistance in defense of Truth, Justice and Culture, and as we commemorate International Workers' Day (May 1--May Day or Labor Day) AfricaNow! features Mineworkers in South Africa--Update of The Stilfontein Story with Christopher Rutledge of the Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) and he is also a member of the Stilfontein Solidarity Committee.  Christopher Rutledge provides an update on the situation of the mineworkers who were in a standoff with the police for months while they were underground operating in an abandoned/closed mine Stilfontein (in North West Province in South Africa).  Earlier this year most of the miners were rescued but unfortunately there were also a number of the miners found dead in the mine.  The discussion also highlights South Africa’s mining history and its adverse effect on communities from colonial rule to apartheid to the current period; the role of corporations; trade unions in the mining industry and more.  Here is my conversation yesterday with activist Christopher Rutledge.

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“CONTUSION” BY STEVIE WONDER commemorating his birthday May 13 (May 13, 1950–); closing--“STIMELA (THE COAL TRAIN) (LIVE)” BY HUGH MASEKELA.

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Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune into AfricaNow! live on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:00PM (U.S. Eastern).

Photos: Courtesy of the Stilfontein Solidarity Committee.

AfricaNow! May 7, 2025 Mineworkers in South Africa--Update of The Stilfontein Story

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Nelson Mandela, le chemin vers la liberté

New York City's mayoral race has become embroiled in the national and global dilemmas, with progressive candidate Brad Lander getting arrested by ICE and progressive frontrunner Zohran Mamdani being aggressively baited as an anti-Semite by the campaign of the overall frontrunner, disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo. Joining Cuomo in this propaganda offensive, not surprisingly, is the pro-Israel doxxing operation Canary Mission. In the current fraught atmosphere, this is a serious matter; Mamdani has received death threats and his campaign is boosting security measures. In Episode 283 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg examines the accusations against Mamdani that have been hyped by the New York Post and even the supposedly more objective Politico, and weighs them against Mamdani's own responses.

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Zohran Mamdani and the weaponization of anti-Semitism

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As a young white activist in South Africa, Nicholas Haysom risked detention to oppose the apartheid regime, later working alongside Nelson Mandela. Now Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head of the United Nations Mission there, he is still striving tirelessly in pursuit of peace and human rights.

“The lesson of [Nelson] Mandela is not just being a nice person, it's perseverance in your ideals. It'll change the world.”

After a long and varied career, Nicholas (Fink) Haysom is supporting recovery and resilience in South Sudan, the UN’s newest member state. In this episode, he reflects on helping the world’s youngest nation build a better future, on why thorny negotiations are always necessary to move on from any civil war, and on why lasting peace should never be taken for granted.

S11-E2: Do not take Democracy for granted - Nicholas Haysom - UNMISS Head

Gilbert Achcar joins us to discuss his recent book, "Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective" (University of California Press). "This Day in Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.

Check out Gilbert's book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-gaza-catastrophe/paper

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The Gaza Genocide in World-Historical Perspective / Gilbert Achcar

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“What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy.”

TEXT of Bertrand Russell’s Last letter used here is at http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/russells-last-letter.pdf

RUSSELL’S LAST LETTER, a remarkably clear 1970 plea for peace in the Middle East

Note: This episode was originally released September 27th, 2024 and is being aired today as we mark two years since the escalation of genocide in Palestine; we are sharing it again in particular for the guided facilitation portion that begins at 45:00. Additionally, this week's public episode on Thursday will be our discussion with organizers of Workshops for Gaza, which we are currently transcribing to accompany its release. That episode can be found here https://www.patreon.com/posts/140536777

Original description: Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about how it is vital to remain steadfast in our demands for Palestinian liberation. We discuss turning away from despair towards patience and boldness in our actions, why our demands must push for and beyond “ceasefire,” and draw connections between settler colonialism here and in Palestine; inviting us all to become more skillful in keeping each other alive.

Links:

Sign and share the petition to free Tarek Bazrouk - https://www.change.org/p/free-tarek-bazrouk-now-no-more-jail-time-sign-his-mitigation-letter

Gaza Funds - https://gazafunds.com/

Sameer Project - https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject

Medical Campaign x Sameer Project - https://chuffed.org/project/136892-medical-campaign-x-sameer-project

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water (Sameer Project) - https://chuffed.org/project/113222-tent-campaign-the-sameer-project

The Refaat Alareer Camp (Sameer Project) - https://chuffed.org/project/113327-refaat-alareer-camp-the-sameer-project

North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions (Sameer Project) - https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need

Gaza Municipality's Artificial Limbs and Polio Center - https://mogaza.org/campaign/2

Workshops for Gaza - https://www.workshops4gaza.com/workshops

Workshops for Gaza Bookstore - https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/workshops-4-gaza-bookstore

Crips for eSIMs for Gaza - http://cripsforesimsforgaza.org/

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This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in September 2024. Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2024 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at hanolliver.com

Health Communism is now out in paperback! Find it here or order at this link to add a donation to Sameer Project: https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-adler-bolton-beatrice-artie-vierkant-health-communism

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Refusing Genocide, from Palestine to Pandemic w/ Rasha Abdulhadi

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Nelson Mandela speaks up for the palestinian struggle in New York City Hall 1990. Hosted by Ted Koppel. Here, Nelson Mandela speaks truth to power and highlights the nature of true socialist internationalism and solidarity. 

Nelson Mandela speaks on Palestine

If Metallica were a punk band and covering a Jerry Lee Lewis song. Peace and love to everyone. Happy Birthday.

Rockin' My Life Away (Metallica Green Days Revisited)

Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the lawyer Sara Segneri, an expert in sanctions law, war crimes and international financial crime. Israel with the support of the US, the UK and other Western governments acts with impunity as it prosecutes a genocide but as Segneri succinctly argues ignoring national and international law puts foreign investors in illegal settlements and in the broader Israeli economy at risk of bottom line losses to accompany the reputational damage they will inevitably incur.

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Why do liberation movements that fight for freedom so often succumb to corruption once in power? In this episode, Liz David-Barrett speaks with Lord Peter Hain about his new book Liberation and Corruption: Why Freedom Movements Fail. Drawing on his personal connection to South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and examining cases from Nicaragua to India, Peter explores how movements that come to power with inspiring values end up replicating the corruption of their predecessors. The conversation examines the role of global finance, professional enablers, and neoliberal pressures in facilitating grand corruption, while also highlighting South Africa's remarkable ability to confront state capture through mechanisms like the Zondo Commission. Peter also reflects on what individuals can do to resist systemic corruption and the personal costs of standing up against it.
Peter Hain- Liberation and Corruption: Why Freedom Movements Fail
https://www.peterhain.uk/p/liberation-and-corruption-why-freedom


144. Peter Hain on liberation and corruption

This tech monopoly uses AI algorithms to assist imperialist crimes, from selecting Palestinians for assassination to advising on US immigrants for deportation.

Workers must mobilise in campaign groups and trade unions to keep Palantir (and any similar data collection and manipulation monopoly) out of our health service. There is nothing useful to patients about the digitisation and harvesting of their confidential data under our present conditions of late-stage and increasingly authoritarian capitalism. 

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AfricaNow! March 4, 2026 Sylvia Hill: The Role of An Educator/Activist

Topic and Guests: As we celebrate March as Women’s History Month and March 8 as International Women's Day, today from AfricaNow!’s archives, the show features a conversation between Dr. Sylvia Hill and E. Ethelbert Miller highlighting Dr. Hill’s lifelong journey as an educator/activist..  Dr. Sylvia Hill is an educator/activist who for a number of years served as Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of the District of Columbia and part-time faculty member of The Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Dr. Hill is a Co-Founder and Co-Chairperson of the activist organization Southern Africa Support Project (SAP), a TransAfrica Forum Board member and a leader of both the Free South Africa Movement (FSAM) and the Sixth Pan-African Congress which took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1974.    E. Ethelbert Miller, is a poet, author, activist, and the host of WPFW's show On the Margin.  The conversation was originally featured as part of  Institute for Policy Studies’ (IPS) Defining the Issues Series: Evolution of A Revolutionary, June 4, 2008.  

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro to show--“AFRICA” BY ALICE COLTRANE; break--“MUSOLOU (WOMEN)” BY SONA JOBARTEH; sign-off--“KURIMA” BY CHIWONISO MARAIRE; closing--“ALUTA CONTINUA” BY MIRIAM MAKEBA remembering her birthday (March 4, 1932–November 9, 2008). 

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Photo of Dr. Sylvia Hill & Nelson Mandela (1991) from https://blackpowerchronicles.org/cool_timeline/nelson-mandelas-visit-to-the-united-states-and-washington-d-c-1990/#:~:text=Sylvia%20Hill%2C%20Harry%20Belafonte%2C%20Roger%20Wilkins%2C%20and,first%20vist%20to%20the%20USA%20June%2C%201990.

Photos of Southern Africa Support Project (SASP) button and FSAM Protest at South Africa Embassy (1984-85) from https://blackpowerchronicles.org/cool_timeline/from-the-southern-africa-support-project-to-the-free-south-africa-movement-a-brief-historical-recollection-1978-1990/#:~:text=Black%20Power%20Chronicles-,From%20the%20Southern%20Africa%20Support%20Project%20to%20the%20Free%20South,of%20Mozambique%2C%201975%E2%80%931986.

AfricaNow! Mar. 4, 2026 Sylvia Hill--The Role of An Educator-Activist

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Content presented here is intended to be humorous and satirical, imitating or exaggerating original works for parody and comedic effect.

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