By Dave Zirin - March 10, 2010

There are the dispossessions as thousands have been forced from their homes into makeshift shantytowns, to both make way for stadiums and make sure that tourists don't have to see any depressing scenes of poverty. The United Nations even issued a complaint on behalf of the 20,000 people removed from the Joe Slovo settlement in Cape Town, called an "eyesore" by World Cup organizers.

By COSATU - December 21, 2009

This new year's eve, 31 December 2009, thousands of people and activists from all over the world will gather in Gaza for a historic march against the naked brutality being carried out by Israel in enforcing the illegal occupation there. A COSATU delegation, together with other South Africans...will be part of the march to the Erez border crossing between Gaza and Israel. Its aim is to focus international attention on the ongoing and inhumane siege of Gaza and its population of 1.5 million people.

By JONATHAN COOK - November 23, 2009

South Africa deported an Israeli airline official last week following allegations that Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, had infiltrated Johannesburg international airport in an effort to gather information on South African citizens, particularly black and Muslim travelers...[H]uman rights groups in Israel...report that Israeli security staff are carrying out racial profiling at many airports around the world, apparently out of sight of local authorities.

Sept. 01, 2009 - The Times Newspaper

[Includes great cartoon from South Africa!]

NEWS that Canada has granted a white South African refugee status because his life is in danger at the hands of his black countrymen is shocking and saddening...It says more about Canadian perceptions than South African reality...The truth is that the overwhelming majority of crime victims in this country are black and many of the perpetrators are white.

2009/09/02 - BBC NEWS

The governing party in South Africa, the [African National Congress], has condemned as "racist" a decision by Canada to grant a white South African man refugee status..."Canada's reasoning for granting [Brandon] Huntley a refugee-status can only serve to perpetuate racism..."

By Alain Gresh - August 21, 2009

During the Gaza war, South Africa expressed strong solidarity with the Palestinians. No one here has forgotten the collaboration between Pretoria and Israel under apartheid, and many see parallels between the Palestinian situation today and that of black and coloured South Africans back in the days of white rule..."At the grassroots level...there is an implicit sympathy for the Palestinians because everyone understands the parallel between Palestine and South Africa, Gaza and Transkei or Ciskei."

By Shawn Hattingh - August 05, 2009

Over the last few weeks in South Africa, community protests and land occupations have once again erupted. People are simply infuriated at continuously being ignored and treated as subhuman by the state and the elite, and for this reason they have been taking to the streets...[P]oliticians of every sway...have been condemning these protests. Along with thinly veiled threats, politicians have also branded the people involved as criminals.

Behind the crocodile tears the news of Bongo's death saw police and troop reinforcements hitting the streets of Gabon - France's private Eden in Africa - as the old crocodile's teethy security apparatus clicked into lockdown. Who are the white secret service agents behind Bongo? And then there's Haliburton, nuclear weapons, secret societies...Who was Omar Bongo really?

June 19, 2009 - Canwest News Service

After weeks of pressure by his supporters, the federal government said Thursday it would comply with a court order to bring Abousfian Abdelrazik back to Canada...Newly declassified documents revealed that the Montreal man, stranded at the Canadian Embassy in Sudan for more than a year, was placed on a United Nations no-fly list at the request of the U.S. government.

The ICC has merely alleged President Bashir's wrongdoing; Bush, Cheney et al's war crimess are well documented as are those of the Zionst rulers of Occupied Palestine.

By Julio Godoy - Znet

Sub-Saharan African countries have of late become the target of a new form of investment that is strongly reminiscent of colonialism: investors from both industrialised and emerging economies buy or lease large tracts of farm land across the continent, either to guarantee their own food provisions or simply as yet another business.