Tshintsha Amakhaya

29/07/2020

An invite to Tshibtsha Amakhaya partners; in particular the host organisation Surplus Peoples Project

✊🏾 *1st AUGUST: WORKING CLASS DAY OF ACTION* ✊🏾

We are calling on workers and communities to mobilise for the Working Class Day of Action planned for the 1st of August. All actions must implement the greatest possible social distancing and health measures.

*Why are we demonstrating?*
The ANC government has failed to defend the working class from the Covid-19 crisis. It is now blaming the spread of the disease on the poor and turning to xenophobia to cover its failures. The DA in Western Cape is just as bad.

Ramaphosa and his “Command Council” never tried to fight the coronavirus. From the beginning it said we must accept that the virus will run through the population – even though other countries had shown that it is possible to stop its spread.

The government knew that it would mostly be black working class and poor people who will die. In the middle of a deadly pandemic, it sent workers into factories and children and teachers into schools to save the ruling class’s capitalist economy.

The government failed to support workers and communities during the lockdown. The UIF TERS and other social grants have been a failure. Food distribution never happened. Their schemes and promises have only opened up avenues for corruption by the ANC and its supporters, including big business. Ramaphosa is now even trying to bring back Zuma’s secrecy bill to make it easier for big business and corrupt politicians to exploit and steal from the masses.

As a result of the government’s approach we have seen more and more gender-based violence, xenophobia and police repression, while evictions are leaving people homeless and vulnerable to the virus. In the factories the bosses are cutting wages and carrying out mass retrenchments.

*Organise for 1st August and beyond*
We call for organisations and communities in every town, village and city to stage demonstrations, marches, pickets, occupations or any other chosen action on the 1st of August to build their immediate struggles. By acting together we will be able to identify the common cause of all our problems – the ANC government and the capitalist system. We hope that the 1st of August will only be the start of further joint mass actions.

*Organisations supporting the call*
The call to action on 1 August has been widely supported by working class organisations and communities across the country. Call the contacts below to find out more about organisations involved.

*Demands*
- A universal basic income grant now
- A universal health care system and mass testing to stop Covid-19
- Permanent jobs and decent housing for all
- Rapid release of land now for housing and communal farming
- Moratorium on retrenchments and evictions
- Stop police repression and GBV
- Close all schools and scrap the academic year

*Contact*
📞 Nandi (Western Cape and other provinces) 065 848 3196
📞 Siyabulela (Eastern Cape) 065 970 7079
📞 Thami (Gauteng) 062 309 0468

17/03/2020

11-12 March 2020

17/03/2020

From the 11th -12th of March rural communities supported by Alliance partner NGOs from the Eastern Cape, under the banner of Tshintsha Amakhaya (Alliance partners NGOs - Border Rural Committee, Support Centre for Land Change and Transkei Land Service Organisation) met in Graaff Reinet to have politically informed discussions towards the formulation of a Rural Equality Charter. This is a bottom up approach because WE believe that those who feel it must lead. We the social justice activists say "Every community is organised. The challenge is for the community to re-organise itself for emancipation, freedom and social justice." The stories of struggles of rural communities from Eastern Cape were overwhelming - they gave us a vivid deposition of a story of the betrayal of rural communities by the former liberation movement, the ruling party, African National Congress with its Neo-Liberal fists. BETRAYAL OF OUR LIFETIME

11/02/2020

TA INDABA

10-14 February 2020


Towards a united National TA Alliance of NGO's and community formations/ movements each with an equal seat in their own right, uniting to advance land and agrarian transformation struggles at local and national levels.

15/10/2019

"...women constitute less than a quarter of land beneficiaries nationally," writes Sobantu Mzwakali of Tshinthsha Amakhaya.

Men have been the major beneficiaries of the government’s land reform programme. Women, especially the rural poor – most of whom depend on land for their livelihood – continue to be short-changed by a system in dire need of repair.

04/10/2019

'The debate on expropriation of land without compensation has hardened attitudes over access to ancestral graves,'writes Molatelo Mohale of Nkuzi Development

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The debate on expropriation of land without compensation has hardened attitudes over access to ancestral graves writes Molatelo Mohale

13/09/2019

Community activists supported by TCOE, WFP & SPP are in discussion. It is all about community issues, nothing else.

13/09/2019

Western Cape planning meeting is in progress, community activists are paving the way for their next activity in Suurbraak

11/09/2019

Analyzing the erosion of working class women's freedom from a feminist perspective with Tshintsha Amakhaya partners NKUZI and FSG at Gender Links. A change in Programme will be necessary as there were issues about the movement of people that surfaced during our discussion yesterday, the Feminization of migration in the wake of the unfolding violence against fellow Africans

30/08/2019

After an intense 3 days of Feminism and Land Reform political education workshop, today rural women concluded a programme on a higher note!

30/08/2019

"Thina as women we make great changes in our homes" Amakhaya feminist education workshop Afrikaans sprekende vroue sing this revolutionary songs with understanding; its meaning hence they embraced it so much. Language will never be a barrier in the Feminist space I facilitate Never will it BE. AMANDLA

28/08/2019

Socio-economic ills erode women's freedom. Women from Women On Farms Projek, SPP and TCOE and engaging with the question on "How are women's freedom are being eroded?"

28/08/2019

Participants are now watching Once Were Warriors - a film telling a story of a Māori family in New Zealand, and their problems with poverty, alcoholism, and domestic violence, mostly brought on by the patriarch Jake.

28/08/2019

From today to Friday (28 - 30 Aug), Tshintsha Amakhaya (TA) is hosting a Feminism and Land Reform political education workshop, Schoendtatt in Constantia with TA's Western Cape Cluster and their local formations.

24/08/2019

The Patriarchal Tribal Nature of the ruling ANC, little did black rural communities know that their vote for constitutional democracy in 1994 will deliver them back under the draconian rule of tribal boys so called leaders. These traditional patriarchal monsters are law unto themselves, while the ANC pushes FOR these traditional Bills to be passed into law - the rot in rural areas is intensifying. Rural communities are stripped of their citizenry and human rights by these patriarchal traditional MONSTERS in CONTRALESA and other demonic male led structures. This is the sad reality faced by communities in Elliotdale, e Hobeni Village where Tshintsha Amakhaya partner, TRALSO works. Women sharing their painful experiences under the rule of tribal headman Patrick Phathekile

24/08/2019

Eastern Cape partners met at Graaff Reinet, be hlalutya the ailing position of working class women, in rural areas of SA.

22/08/2019

Tshintsha Amakhaya together with marginalised women from SCLC, TRALSO & BRC. "The Feminist analysis of women's freedom. Women are not free under an ailing local state, under the Tribal chiefs and they are not free when they are Landless. Looking at the Feminist analysis SA's political economy, at Graaff Reinert.

22/08/2019

Guest: Dr Mtero Senior researcher at Plaas