Government Betrays The People - Again and Again
Our Constitution starts by declaring that:
South Africa belongs to all those who live in it.
It belongs to the people. The Freedom Charter says that "The People
Shall Govern". Why is it that the government has laid claim to all our
land and allowed multinational corporations to take control of all our
mineral resources? Because it is not a legitimate government of the
people. It is a government of a CORPORATION called THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH
AFRICA, registered as such on the US Securities & Exchange
Commission in Washington DC. The government is supposed to be our
servant and should be serving us. Below is a press statement by the
homeless people around South Africa, who continue to be abused and
traumatised by the police on behalf of an unlawful, inhumane government.
They need to be stopped. Only we, the people can do this. But we need
to stand united against a brand new threat - the CORPORATE GOVERNMENT
and their unlawful administration.
TO THE MEDIA:
The UBUNTU Party implores the media, the editors and journalists, to
start standing with their human brothers and sisters - stop sitting on
the fence and hiding behind some sick journalistic code of impartiality,
allowing crimes to be committed against fellow human beings daily,
while selling newspapers and advertising, from the misery of the people.
Stop being journalists and become human beings first! You have an
important role to play in restoring the country to its people. Do not
waste it at the expense of human dignity and human lives.
Love and Unity to all of Humanity
Michael of the family Tellinger.
Abahlali baseMarikana Press Statement
As the homeless residents of Marikana, we are here because we do not
have anywhere else to go. We are also now jobless which means we cannot
afford to pay rent to live in someone's backyard. We always vote for
this government but they always treat us like dogs in our own country.
The government sends the Anti-Land Invasions Unit, Law Enforcement and
SAPS to demolish our houses. They did this on Sunday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and again on Friday the 3rd of May.
They've now arrested four us us for public violence even though the police were the ones that hurt us, shot us and beat us.
On
the 1st of May, a public holiday which celebrates the resistance of the
workers and the poor against the oppression of the rich, the City even
again took the side of the rich and stole our building material. This is
thousands of Rands worth of our property which we don't think we will
ever see again because they don't tell us where they have taken i t.
Without this material, we have nowhere else to go because even if we had
a little money, we can't now rent somewhere build a shack there.
So
we have nowhere else to go. Since Wednesday, we have been sleeping out
in the open, in the rain. While we sleep in the bush, at least the
snakes have forgiven us for moving onto their land. They don't chase us
away and now treat us with respect. They have become like our brothers
and sisters.
But the same cannot be said for our government
which is chasing us away as if we are not their brothers and sisters. As
if we are not even human. But next year, they will need us to go vote
for them. But how can we vote for anyone that takes away our dignity.
Yesterday,
on Friday the 3rd, Law Enforcement came again and took away our
waterproof tarps and plastic material the we were using to keep us dry
from the rain. Why did they do this? We can't build a shack with that
material - we were just trying to kee p dry and warm because we are
stuck there with nowhere else to go. But the City of Cape Town is
heartless. They want us to get sick. They want to punish us for trying
to do whats best for our families, for our children. All 50 of us!
But
we are not going anywhere. They can take the material. They can shoot
us. They can even kill us. But we will not move from this place. This
piece of land is not being use and has never been used (except by
criminals who go there to kill people, abuse children and rape women) so
we will remain there unless we are given a piece of land that we can
call our own.
We have tried to engage with the City of Cape Town,
but they ignore us. We are trying to attend a meeting between the City,
Law Enforcement and SAPS at the Philippi East police station on Monday
the 6th of May. This meeting is about us but we have not even been
invited! When we spoke to Station Commissioner Colonel Mdimbaza, he told
us: "I am sick and tired of yo u. I don't want to see you in that
meeting. If I see your faces in the meeting, I will shoot you".
So
what can we do? The police shoot us, the Law Enforcement evicts us, and
the rest of the City ignores us. So we will just continue to stay in
Marikana until they give up or we die. This is the same story as the
Marikana Massacre of the rich and government oppressing the poor and it
is being repeated all over the country included here in Philippi East.
Sphatise
Rhadebe
Nosibusiso
Cindy (AbM Langa)
Join the UBUNTU Party and UBUNTU Liberation Movement - United we can
move mountains and reclaim our country from the unlawful corrupt
government posing as the legitimate governmnet of the people. Talk to
the police, remind them that they are human beings and that they are
opressing their brothers and sisters for an unlawful regime.
VIVA UBUNTU
VIVA FREEDOM FROM CORRUPT GOVERNMENT
