Start the weekend right with a smile on your face with this video by the family of one of our 2026 marathon runners!
Caesarea is running the London Marathon in support of ACTSA - she's halfway to her target - can you help?
DONATE HERE: www.justgiving.com/page/ms-alfo...
On Friday, I went to Gugulethu an informal settlement in Ekurhuleni. A mechanical digger was at work filling holes, bringing an end to a brief but intense gold rush.
It brought to mind the gold rush that created Joburg and also the desperation of so many South Africans, when unemployment is 42%
11 of the 17 South African men who were allegedly tricked into fighting for Russia in Ukraine are due to be reunited with their families in South Africa today. One relative told me she is on the way to Durban airport.
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Earlier this month ACTSA and partners launched the Anglo American Accountability Deficit report, exposing the company's unresolved impacts in Southern Africa & globally: shorturl.at/9mcp3
Director of Environment Africa Zambia Namo Chuma introduces the report & explains the pollution left in Kabwe ⬇️
Earlier this month ACTSA and partners launched the Anglo American Accountability Deficit report, exposing the company's unresolved impacts in Southern Africa & globally: shorturl.at/9mcp3
Director of Environment Africa Zambia Namo Chuma introduces the report & explains the pollution left in Kabwe ⬇️
Today is #WorldJusticeDay - recognising the need to promote social justice. Activists and campaigners in Southern Africa need our international solidarity today.
Been thinking about joining ACTSA? Make today the day and stand in solidarity for as little as £20 a year: actsa.org/become-a-mem...
#DebtJusticeNow!
In 2025, global south countries paid on average 19.2% of government revenue on debt repayments - the highest level since 1990
This has made them unable to spend on health & education
With the UK hosting the G20 in 2027, the Government must use it make real progress on debt relief
New report from @actsa-uk.bsky.social explores Anglo American's devastating 100-year legacy of extraction in South Africa and demands for accountability from communities affected by its mining operations around the world:
actsa.org/new-report-a...
A deep dive into Anglo American's 100-year history and legacy, as well as its reach and structure, ahead of a proposed merger to become 'Anglo Teck'. Visit: shorturl.at/9mcp3
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ACTSA STATEMENT
36 years after Mandela spent his first night as a free man there, ACTSA was at the Archbishop of Cape Town's residence on 11th February presenting its new report with partners about Anglo American's 'accountability deficit' - including the continuing impact of apartheid-era harms
Many small-scale farmers in the Mopani district in Limpopo say they are battling to feed their families after their crops washed away in the Limpopo floods last month.
Read groundup.org.za/article/smal... by Thembi Siaga
So we have a billionaire, tax-avoiding owner of a football club literally *full* of migrants, wheeling out racist tropes straight out of the far-right playbook.
Jim & people like him are the problem, not the migrants working every day to keep our economy afloat.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Blue box containing the words "Submitting a response to the Government's earned settlement public consultation" with the logo "Praxis, for migrants and refugees"
🚨 Just THREE days left to tell the Government what you think of making refugees wait 20 years for safety 🚨
We cannot let these appalling plans go unchallenged.
Follow this guide from Praxis to make sure your voice is heard.
www.praxis.org.uk/consultation
When in public, women often face the risk of being sexually harassed.
Our latest @thecontinent.org piece details how common citizens across 38 countries think public sexual harassment of women is. The figures might not surprise you, but they're still shocking.
#VoicesAfrica #SexualHarassment
LAUNCHING NOW in Cape Town: report on Anglo American's 'Accountability Deficit'
The devastating 100 year legacy of extraction by South Africa’s largest mining company: A call for corporate accountability in Southern Africa, Latin America & Global South.
➡️ shorturl.at/9mcp3
I’ve been reading @thecontinent.org, it’s sharp, independent African journalism that treats readers with respect. Thought you’d enjoy it.
If I could, I would give them all my monies.
You can subscribe here. www.thecontinent.org/subscribe
[Panel discussion]: Making the case for a Universal Basic Income Grant to President Ramaphosa and National Treasury ahead of the 2026 SONA and Budget Speech
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Why is the UK taxpayer funding an Anglo American programme?
@peterhain.bsky.social challenges the Government on giving money to a mining giant accused of harm like:
◾️mass lead poisoning of children in Kabwe, Zambia
◾blocking compensation to miners who got TB & silicosis in its South African mines
The UK government has been challenged in the House of Lords by @peterhain.bsky.social about its grant to @angloamerican.bsky.social
Anglo is accused of helping block compensation to thousands and thousands of sick miners across the region who contracted TB and silicosis in their South African mines
Solidarity with the 600,000+ people affected by terrible floods in Mozambique. Southern Africa is facing increasingly disruptive weather events (though #climatecrisis is due to Global North countries & businesses) - but the colonialism-rooted debt crisis makes it harder for governments to deal with.
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Imagine being separated from your child for 3 years...
A year ago we launched our report with Women of Zimbabwe
about the migrant mums working in health & care denied visas for children, despite havng the right to bring them
This is discrimination against single mothers
Read & join the campaign
A Universal Basic Income (#UBI) would cut poverty and transform lives - but it would also act as a huge economic stimulus to boost GDP and jobs
ACTSA supports the exciting campaign for a UBI in South Africa
Hear more on Wednesday 7:30 GMT / 9:30 SAST
Watch live here➡️ www.facebook.com/amandla.mobi
Imagine being separated from your child for 3 years...
A year ago we launched our report with Women of Zimbabwe
about the migrant mums working in health & care denied visas for children, despite havng the right to bring them
This is discrimination against single mothers
Read & join the campaign
Solidarity with the 600,000+ people affected by terrible floods in Mozambique. Southern Africa is facing increasingly disruptive weather events (though #climatecrisis is due to Global North countries & businesses) - but the colonialism-rooted debt crisis makes it harder for governments to deal with.
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The UK government has been challenged in the House of Lords by @peterhain.bsky.social about its grant to @angloamerican.bsky.social
Anglo is accused of helping block compensation to thousands and thousands of sick miners across the region who contracted TB and silicosis in their South African mines
ESWATINI/SWAZILAND 🇸🇿 Today marks 3 years since the assassination of human rights lawyer #ThulaniMaseko at home
Maseko was also a civil society leader, challenging the King's unbridled power and wealth
Solidarity with Swaziland. The international community must join the call for #JusticeforThulani
#Zambia debt crisis
Blackrock CEO Larry Fink will chair Davos this year.
Blackrock are hollowing out public services in countries like Zambia who are trapped in a debt crisis. They refused to suspend Zambia's debt repauments during covid.
Private creditors need to be reigned in. #DebtJustice now!
After the UK House of Lords debate on Kabwe (see our feed), we’re sharing a report we collaborated on with @actsa-uk.bsky.social (Oct 2025). The report examines impacts of lead contamination on women and children, with testimonies and new scientific research, and the class action in South Africa.
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Yesterday, Lord Oates raised the lead pollution from colonial-era mining in Kabwe, Zambia, in the UK House of Lords with peers calling it a "horror" and a "shame"
Oates shared mothers' stories and said the UK as legal authority at the time has a moral responsiblity as well as miner Anglo American
Tens of thousands of people in Kabwe, including thousands of children, are suffering as a result of contamination left behind by lead mining, most of which occurred during British colonial rule. The mining company responsible and the UK must ensure justice and restitution for the people of Kabwe.
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