Uhuru
Tours is proud to announce the historic Fall 2007 U.S. tour
of Mfanelo Skwatsha, National Executive Secretary of the
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) based in South Africa.
In the 1970s and ‘80s the Pan Africanist
Congress had solidarity committees and tremendous support
throughout the U.S. Uhuru Tours is honored to organize
the first U.S. speaking events for a member of the Pan
Africanist Congress in more than 20 years!
Secretary Skwatsha is available to make
presentations at workshops, seminars and events on campuses
and in communities from October 22 through November 2.
Formed in Soweto, South Africa in 1959,
the Pan Africanist Congress was the popular party that
led the campaign to end the notorious pass laws that required
African people to present official ID to police upon demand
under the apartheid system. PAC led the struggle for genuine
liberation of South Africa.
PAC continues to be a key force based
in the African community throughout South Africa today.
PAC is working for the realization of the unachieved vision
of self-determination for African working people. PAC
has exposed that today, 13 years after the end of the
apartheid system, conditions for the majority of African
people in South Africa are worse than ever.
Contact
Uhuru Tours for more information on how to bring Secretary
Skwatsha to your campus or community. Details on travel
fees, honorariums and other details of Comrade Skwatsha’s
tour can be provided. Please call 727.894.6997 or email
info@uhurutours.org.
Worse
than apartheid:
Neocolonialism in South Africa today
While
much of the world believes that freedom has been won in
South Africa, the Pan Africanist Congress exposes that
in fact conditions for Africans today are worse than under
the apartheid system.
According
to the Human Sciences Research Council, South African
households have sunk deeper into poverty since the ruling
African National Congress (ANC) came to power, and the
gap between the white settler population and impoverished
Africans has widened. The ANC is the party of Nelson Mandela
and current president Thabo Mbeki. Today:
- Current
average life expectancy in South Africa is 48 years.\
- 96
percent of South African farmland is still owned by
white people who make up only 13 percent of the population.
- South
Africa is considered a “developed” country, yet 61 percent
of Africans live in poverty, as opposed to only one
percent of whites.
- 34
percent of Africans in South Africa live on less than
$2 a day.
- Under
this severe poverty many African adults and children
are forced to search through garbage for daily subsistence.
- A
two-tiered economic system persists with the poorest
20 percent of the population receiving only 1.6 percent
of the income.
- Rural
unemployment is 70 percent for African people.
- South
Africa now has nearly 200,000 people in prison, by far
the largest prison population in Africa.
- 80
percent of South African prisoners are there largely
because of “poverty and joblessness and the frustrations
that they cause,” according to the South African Business
Day newspaper.
- 85
percent of people in South Africa have no health insurance.
Vision
of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
The
mission of PAC is to unite and rally African people into
one national front for self-determination on the basis
of Pan Africanism and socialism committed to the absolute
destruction of white supremacy and all forms of domination.
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