Fwd: Pambazuka News 834: Sham elections, deadly choices
Elisabeth Janaina
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Date: Aug 17, 2017 21:25
Subject: Pambazuka News 834: Sham elections, deadly choices
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Pambazuka News 834: Sham elections, deadly choices17 August 2017 Features What is now being praised as a “peaceful” election was in fact the
connivance of racist global capital against the Kenyan people. The
so-called victory of Uhuru Kenyatta is a victory of private business.
Kenyans should expect the collapse of public institutions in the next
few years and increased militarization to keep the people in perpetual
fear. 
Kenya’s election this year amounts to nothing less than a coup by the
incumbent, Uhuru Kenyatta. Every effort was made to infiltrate and
control the electoral body. The heavy security preparations and the
deluge of peace messages suggest that the outcome was already
predetermined and the people’s resistance anticipated. 
Rwanda’s sole hero Paul Kagame “won” the 4 August election by 99%.
Emboldened by his Western benefactors and cheerleaders, Kagame rules
with reckless intransigence and impunity. He has conveniently forgotten
that the civil wars of 1959 and 1990s were about the exclusion of whole
ethnic groups from state power. The dream of freedom and peace remains
distant for Rwandans. 
“August 2 is the anniversary of the beginning of the Second Congo War, so we commemorate it to remind Congolese communities at home and abroad that since that date, millions of Congolese have been killed, raped, kidnapped, and enslaved for our natural resources. We need to remember them and work to bring an end to the killing."
Global resource extraction economy provides incentives to destroy DR Congo's Indigenous groups
Global resource extraction interests in collaboration with corrupt
local elites are providing incentives for a genocide against Indigenous
people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and a virtual media
blackout allows this travesty to continue unchecked. 
As he launched the African Regional Centre of the New Development Bank (NDB) in Johannesburg on Thursday, nearly 18 months behind schedule, South African President Jacob Zuma must have had mixed feelings. Strife-riven Brazil, Russia, India and China are more risky allies than Zuma reckoned when in 2010 he accepted Beijing’s invitation to join the club.
Indicative was the debate preceding the vote: not a single speaker spoke in defense of President Zuma, who after all is also the party leader. The opposition was eager to explain that the motion was not about removing the ANC from government, but Zuma from presidency. In contrast, those taking the floor for the ANC, appealed to members to protect the government from regime change and not abandon the party loyalty.
When Helena Terra heard that ProSavana, a giant agribusiness project proposed for northern Mozambique would be presented for “judgment” at the Permanent People´s Tribunal in South Africa, she was convinced that their struggle against the project was gaining momentum.
People are talking without speaking, listening without hearing in South Africa
Dhiru Soni
The urgent need for South Africa’s rehabilitation may only begin with a united voice of the people that speaks and acts on behalf of all who live in the country and gives the highest priority to the elimination of a political regime that has gone rogue. As former minister of finance, Pravin Gordhan, said, “We did during apartheid, we can do it again”.
A confidential audit report from Norwegian government-owned alcoholic
beverage retailer Vinmonopolet has uncovered harassment, unionization
prohibitions and salaries below the minimum wage at several of its wine
producers in South Africa.
Mrs Rita Bankie returning from travel discovered Bankie’s body on Tuesday, 1 August
Job Shipululo Amupanda Bankie
was a Pan-Africanist in his own class. He would not want
Pan-Africanists to fall into sentimentalism about his passing on to the
Ancestral world. Rather he would want us to dedicate our work to the
liberation of the African people, particularly working towards black
people’s knowledge of self.
 Tanzania’s
famous founding president Julius Nyerere was a teacher. But despite the
government’s commitment to education in its development agenda, many
young people shun the teaching profession. Salaries are low, classes big
and teaching has little prestige among the professions.
 Like many young people across Africa, Ugandan youth face the
challenge of acquiring appropriate skills and deploying them in
achieving their dreams. An essay competition at Kampala International
University gave students the opportunity to reflect on this issue and to
explore solutions to youth unemployment.
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