ACTSA Scotland (Action for Southern Africa)

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 ⬇️

Nelson Mandela Memorial - A Stunning Work in Progress! - Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation Since the appointment of Alan B Herriot to create our statue of Mandela, progress has been excellent. All of the arduous planning and fund-raising with the support of many is...

The latest update on progress with the Mandela statue in Glasgow is now on the NMSMF website at mandelascottishmemorial.org/nelson-mande... Alan Herriot has been working fast on the clay model, and this will move on to Powderhall foundry within days for casting. Oct. 9th is the unveiling target.

Donate - Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation “Make it happen! – Scotland’s Mandela Statue”   You can donate to the campaign online, by cheque or internet banking or by a regular standing order or direct debit through the...

The contract is now signed for Alan Herriot to produce that statue of Mandela.He is already hard at work on the clay, and casting in bronze at Powderhall Foundry will be complete for unveiling in October. The foundations are being installed this month. Donations still very welcome at bit.ly/NMSMFdon

On 11th Feb 1990 Nelson Mandela was freed to a joyous welcome. In Glasgow a huge crowd celebrated in Mandela Place, where our new statue will soon honour Mandela and his lessons for social justice. Our schools resource pack "When Mandela danced in the Square" is at bit.ly/Mandelaschools

UK urged to halt Anglo American funding over miner compensation delays | The Citizen Rights groups say a UK-backed project contradicts unresolved claims by sick former mineworkers and their families.

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.

NEW REPORT - All families matter: Uncovering Injustice and Discrimination in the UK Visa and Immigration system Single mothers who arrived in the UK to work as health and care workers have been denied their child’s visa despite having the right to bring dependants when they arrived, reveals a report published o...

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

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

“Never Again”: Lords Fury Over Zambia Poisoning Scandal Britain’s peers have sounded the alarm over a shocking public health disaster in Kabwe, Zambia, a town scarred by decades of lead mining and now known as one of the most polluted places on Earth.

“Never Again”: Lords Fury Over Zambia Poisoning Scandal

British peers yesterday sounded the alarm over the public health disaster in Kabwe, a town scarred by colonial-era mining & now one of the world's most polluted places

Development Minister Champion said there are “clear lessons” to be learnt

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

Our sister organisation ACTSA UK campaigns on this issue, about migrant Zimbabwean and other care workers being refused visas to the UK for their children despite having legal entitlement. See bit.ly/Allfamsmatter & actsa.org/campaigns/al... ACTSA Scotland has raised this with some Scottish MPs.

Nelson Mandela Memorial - Sculptor announced - Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation Following a successful Design Competition and Public Consultation, we are delighted to announce that Alan B Herriot has been selected from a shortlist of 5 amazing designs, to complete the...

Sculptor Alan B Herriot selected to create the statue of Nelson Mandela in Nelson Mandela Place, Glasgow. A public consultation on 5 shortlisted designs led to much interest and over 500 detailed responses. Target date 9 Oct.2026. See mandelascottishmemorial.org/nelson-mande... Donations welcome too

A short video of a walk round the Mandela maquettes in Glasgow at mandelascottishmemorial.org/whats-new-se... gives a good view and brief account of each of the five works.
The full online display and comment form is at bit.ly/NMstatuesurvey Display live in City Chambers till Fri. 14th Nov. 4pm

Whether online or in person, please complete the survey and so have your views considered in the final choice of sculptor and design for what will be an iconic monument to celebrate Nelson Mandela and his links with Scotland - a statue in Glasgow's Nelson Mandela Place. We are spoilt for choice.

Mandela Statue consultation begins! The display online of photos/videos of the 5 maquettes will go live at 11am on Fri.7th Nov. at bit.ly/NMstatuesurvey The actual stunning scale models will be on display in Glasgow City Chambers every day Mon 10-Fri 14 Nov. for anyone to look and leave comments.

Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation | Scheduling and Booking Website Public viewing in Glasgow City Chambers and a chance to comment on five maquettes (miniature statues) from five prominent sculptors competing to create a statue of Nelson Mandela in Glasgow to celebra...

Mandela statue public consultation.Maquettes of designs from 5 sculptors competing to create the Nelson Mandela statue planned for Mandela Place,Glasgow, will be on public view in Glasgow City Chambers (George Square) between 7th & 14th Nov. Book your visit at bit.ly/Mandelaconsult & give your views

Poet and ANC activist Benjamin Moloise was hanged 40 years ago today 18th Oct. for a murder he did not commit. A picket of the S.African consulate in Glasgow called for his reprieve as did the UN, USA and USSR. Glasgow Council had just agreed to rename the consulate address Nelson Mandela Place.

Later in the same year an ACTSA Scotland delegation to South Africa of trade unionists and others visited the asbestos-affected communities. Bill Speirs was part of the delegation, expressing solidarity from the STUC. @stuc75.bsky.social

The legacy of the apartheid era still lives on in the suffering of asbestos victims.We were privileged in Scotland to host four S. African asbestos campaigners in 2000, introducing them to campaigners here for those poisoned from installing the asbestos that had damaged the S. Africans who mined it.

This meeting in London of our sister organisation ACTSA UK may not be handy for our own Scottish mailing list, but the background explanation at the link shown is informative in itself, and the report being launched is important as we approach a vital court hearing early next month.

Mandela dancing with Marah Louw on the stage in George Square from which he addressed a crowd of thousands, and where Marah sang before they spontaneously began to dance, to the roars of the crowd.

Poster for the public rally in George Square. A2 reproductions available at bit.ly/mandelaebay

On 9th Oct.1993 Nelson Mandela came to Glasgow to accept the Freedom of Glasgow and 8 other councils. We hope the same date in 2026 will see the unveiling of his statue in Mandela Place. Maquettes by the 5 shortlisted sculptors will be on show next month. Bookings link soon here & at bit.ly/NMSMF

We were pleased to commission this resource, and are glad it's being used in schools in Scotland and is available across the world. The response from teachers and students has been very positive.

23-09-1990 saw the opening day and launch concert of the Sechaba International Conference and Festival of Cultural Resistance to Apartheid in Glasgow by the Scottish Anti-Apartheid Movement,STUC and ANC with Govan Mbeki as keynote speaker and a two-week programme of cultural events of all kinds.

🔈Anglo American recently announced a merger with Canadian company Teck Resources

ACTSA director Tricia Sibbons was on SAFM earlier this week highlighting its mining legacies across Southern Africa, from the lead pollution in Kabwe to the half million ex goldminers who contracted TB and silicosis...

Anglo American questioned by affected mother at its AGM Mother and community advocate from Zambia, Lydia, asked Anglo American about historic lead pollution that continues to affect children especially and hamper crop growing.

When will #AngloAmerican keep its promise that where it has “contributed to adverse human rights impacts we will contribute to their remediation”?

Lead poisoning from the mining waste it left behind in #Kabwe, Zambia, continues to affect children with lifechanging health issues.

#JusticeForKabwe

Steve Biko's murder was 48 years ago today.

ACTSA UK worked hard on building support and awareness around the lengthy court case that led to this compensation scheme, and ACTSA Scotland assisted in that process. It's desperately disappointing that justice for suffering and dying ex-miners is still being thwarted.

Mandela salutes a large crowd in George Square, Glasgow, 9 Oct. 1993, after a ceremony conferring the Freedom of Glasgow and 8 other local authorities on him, all originally given in absentia while he was still imprisoned. Glasgow was first in the world, in 1981.

Five great sculptors are shortlisted for creating a tribute to Nelson Mandela in Mandela Place, Glasgow. Paul Ferriter, Hector Guest, Alan Herriot, Kenny Hunter and David Mitchell will create maquettes for a public consultation in November. See bit.ly/NMSMF for more info. Donations welcome there too

🕊️ #OTD 20 Aug we honour Dulcie September (1935–1988) -teacher, activist, ANC rep in Europe. Jailed, tortured, exiled, she exposed apartheid’s crimes. Assassinated in Paris, her killers were never tried.

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#art #EGAschool student Sophia
#antiapartheid