A war of words has erupted between Elon Musk and Julius Malema. The X-owning big mouth has called for sanctions against the South African opposition leader, branding him an international criminal.
To back up his remarks, the tech billionaire tweeted a 2018 clip in which the pan-African figure talks about ‘cutting the throat of Whiteness.’ This might easily come across as gen*cidal - to those who don’t know the full context.
To back up his remarks, the tech billionaire tweeted a 2018 clip in which the pan-African figure talks about ‘cutting the throat of Whiteness.’ This might easily come across as gen*cidal - to those who don’t know the full context.
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Continued……. When Malema made the comments, his Economic Freedom Fighters party was pushing for a vote of no confidence against Athol Trollip, the-then mayor of the city of Nelson Mandela Bay. The EFF accused Trollip - a member of the White-led Democratic Alliance - of neglecting the city’s Black citizens. They wanted his head to roll - for him to be axed - not for any White people’s throats to be slit.
Malema says he will continue fighting for the rights of Black people despite threats from Musk. In a reply on X, he accuses the Space X founder of being a spoilt and racist beneficiary of apartheid.
Malema says he will continue fighting for the rights of Black people despite threats from Musk. In a reply on X, he accuses the Space X founder of being a spoilt and racist beneficiary of apartheid.
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WHY JOHN LEGEND’S CONCERT IN RWANDA MATTERS
In this clip from Episode 18 of our ‘Pan-African Attitude’ podcast on the three-decade-long, Western-backed proxy war over natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), African Stream Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Kaballo (@ahmedkaballo on X) elaborated on how ruling elites use entertainment to exert soft power in politics. Kaballo’s explanation came in response to some audience members, who have questioned why Congo activists have asked @JohnLegend (X) to cancel his concert on 21 February in Kigali, Rwanda, in collaboration with NGO Global Citizen (@glblctzn on IG and X).
In this clip from Episode 18 of our ‘Pan-African Attitude’ podcast on the three-decade-long, Western-backed proxy war over natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), African Stream Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Kaballo (@ahmedkaballo on X) elaborated on how ruling elites use entertainment to exert soft power in politics. Kaballo’s explanation came in response to some audience members, who have questioned why Congo activists have asked @JohnLegend (X) to cancel his concert on 21 February in Kigali, Rwanda, in collaboration with NGO Global Citizen (@glblctzn on IG and X).
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Continued……Rwanda- and Uganda-backed M23 rebels’ offensive on 27 January in the eastern DRC’s Goma city—home to over 2 million people—has k*lled around 3,000 Congolese and left at least 700,000 internally displaced. This figure includes more than 100,000 people who fled the 200,000-person Kanyaruchinya refugee camp on the outskirts of the city.
In Rwanda’s case, a concert can sanitise the country’s image, given its well-documented role in fueling the resource war in the Congo. For example, Rwandan President Paul Kagame appeared on stage during @KendrickLamar’s December 2023 concert in Kigali.
What do you make of Kaballo’s analysis?
Sources:
https://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-republic-congo/dire-health-and-humanitarian-crisis-eastern-democratic-republic-congo-prompts-escalation-efforts-who-partners
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/2/3/dr-congo-near-goma-displaced-people-begin-long-journey-home
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/2/blood-minerals-what-are-the-hidden-costs-of-the-eu-rwanda-supply-deal
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/06/africa/dr-congo-goma-violence-deaths-intl-hnk
https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2025-02-07/dr-congo-conflict/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr62/9016/2025/en/u
In Rwanda’s case, a concert can sanitise the country’s image, given its well-documented role in fueling the resource war in the Congo. For example, Rwandan President Paul Kagame appeared on stage during @KendrickLamar’s December 2023 concert in Kigali.
What do you make of Kaballo’s analysis?
Sources:
https://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-republic-congo/dire-health-and-humanitarian-crisis-eastern-democratic-republic-congo-prompts-escalation-efforts-who-partners
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/2/3/dr-congo-near-goma-displaced-people-begin-long-journey-home
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/2/blood-minerals-what-are-the-hidden-costs-of-the-eu-rwanda-supply-deal
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/06/africa/dr-congo-goma-violence-deaths-intl-hnk
https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2025-02-07/dr-congo-conflict/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr62/9016/2025/en/u
ReliefWeb
Dire health and humanitarian crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo prompts escalation of efforts by WHO, partners…
News and Press Release in Arabic on Democratic Republic of the Congo about Health and Protection and Human Rights; published on 7 Feb 2025 by WHO
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USAID SHUTDOWN PAVES WAY FOR REVOLUTIONARY SHIFT
The Trump administration recently shut down the US Agency for International Development (USAID), arousing scrutiny of the agency’s mandate, which many argue extends beyond humanitarian aid to clandestine operations financing US imperial interests. The USAID’s stated goal was to ‘advance US foreign policy interests.’
About 40,000 direct and indirect employees in Kenya have lost their jobs, and two-thirds of international staff are being recalled to the United States, effectively ending USAID’s operations in Kenya.
USAID invested approximately $436 million in aid for ‘democracy, human rights and governance’ in Somalia, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kenya during the 2022-23 fiscal year. According to the UN, the US government was Kenya’s largest foreign donor, contributing $207 million, or 58.8 per cent of total donations, followed by the United Kingdom and Germany.
The Trump administration recently shut down the US Agency for International Development (USAID), arousing scrutiny of the agency’s mandate, which many argue extends beyond humanitarian aid to clandestine operations financing US imperial interests. The USAID’s stated goal was to ‘advance US foreign policy interests.’
About 40,000 direct and indirect employees in Kenya have lost their jobs, and two-thirds of international staff are being recalled to the United States, effectively ending USAID’s operations in Kenya.
USAID invested approximately $436 million in aid for ‘democracy, human rights and governance’ in Somalia, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kenya during the 2022-23 fiscal year. According to the UN, the US government was Kenya’s largest foreign donor, contributing $207 million, or 58.8 per cent of total donations, followed by the United Kingdom and Germany.
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Continued……As @drmumbiseraki (X), host of @drmumbishow (X), expounds in this video, Kenyans could do without the colonial whiff of foreign interference, both economically and socially. The deep infiltration of Kenya’s institutions has stifled the country’s independence and forced Kenyans to rely on foreign aid. That meant that the US had the last say on many issues affecting the country. According to Seraki, a revolutionary shift is about to take place. Listen in and share your thoughts.
Video credit: @drmumbishow (X)
Sources:
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2025-02-06-usaid-exit-spells-doom-for-kenyan-jobs-and-funding
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436590120084575
https://fts.unocha.org/countries/116/donors/2024?order=total_funding&sort=desc
https://www.developmentaid.org/news-stream/post/190784/impact-of-us-90-day-aid-suspension-on-kenya
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/R46368.pdf
Video credit: @drmumbishow (X)
Sources:
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2025-02-06-usaid-exit-spells-doom-for-kenyan-jobs-and-funding
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436590120084575
https://fts.unocha.org/countries/116/donors/2024?order=total_funding&sort=desc
https://www.developmentaid.org/news-stream/post/190784/impact-of-us-90-day-aid-suspension-on-kenya
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/R46368.pdf
The Star
USAID exit spells doom for Kenyan jobs and funding
For many, the agency’s projects were lifelines, offering essential support in healthcare and education
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HOW THE IMF KEEPS AFRICANS POOR
Financial-rights activist Alex Gladstein dissects the IMF’s African operations in this video. Drawing on the case of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), he reveals a pattern of the institution appointing its own officials to oversee African treasuries, fostering export-led economies, devaluing local currencies and striking deals with dictators.
In Kenya, protests erupted in June 2024 against an IMF-backed finance bill, with demonstrators accusing the government of jeopardising the nation’s future by succumbing to the organisation’s neocolonialist tactics. Currently, Kenya is in talks with the IMF to establish a new lending programme, following a $606 million loan granted in October 2024, further diminishing public confidence.
Financial-rights activist Alex Gladstein dissects the IMF’s African operations in this video. Drawing on the case of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), he reveals a pattern of the institution appointing its own officials to oversee African treasuries, fostering export-led economies, devaluing local currencies and striking deals with dictators.
In Kenya, protests erupted in June 2024 against an IMF-backed finance bill, with demonstrators accusing the government of jeopardising the nation’s future by succumbing to the organisation’s neocolonialist tactics. Currently, Kenya is in talks with the IMF to establish a new lending programme, following a $606 million loan granted in October 2024, further diminishing public confidence.
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Continued……Instead of pursuing comprehensive solutions to Africa’s escalating debt crisis or considering viable alternatives, such as progressive tax reforms, the IMF continues to implement policies that weaken the economies of African nations.
One way it does this is by granting them loans - but only on condition they privatise their economies and allow Western corporations almost free access to their raw materials and markets, the perfect way to lock African nations into poverty.
Video Credit: @Robert Breedlove
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One way it does this is by granting them loans - but only on condition they privatise their economies and allow Western corporations almost free access to their raw materials and markets, the perfect way to lock African nations into poverty.
Video Credit: @Robert Breedlove
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ANOTHER RACIST BBC HEADLINE
Let’s be clear - this was no mistake. The BBC’s decision to use the image of 16-year-old Ismail Moradi, a witness to the mass shooting in Sweden, under a headline about a police manhunt wasn’t just irresponsible. It was calculated.
As content creator @ani.says2 (TikTok) explains in this clip, this isn’t just sloppy journalism, it’s part of a systemic pattern in Western media where people of Colour are criminalised by association, while White perpetrators are shielded.
Let’s be clear - this was no mistake. The BBC’s decision to use the image of 16-year-old Ismail Moradi, a witness to the mass shooting in Sweden, under a headline about a police manhunt wasn’t just irresponsible. It was calculated.
As content creator @ani.says2 (TikTok) explains in this clip, this isn’t just sloppy journalism, it’s part of a systemic pattern in Western media where people of Colour are criminalised by association, while White perpetrators are shielded.
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Continued….. The BBC, with all its editorial checks, didn’t just accidentally mislead its audience into thinking Moradi was a suspect. They made a choice to perpetuate the same racist framing that has justified everything from police brutality to state violence against Black and Brown people. Whether through biased language, selective images or outright disinformation, these narratives serve a purpose.
What do you think, was this innocent oversight or yet another example of mainstream media propaganda at work?
Video credit: @ani.says2
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What do you think, was this innocent oversight or yet another example of mainstream media propaganda at work?
Video credit: @ani.says2
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AFRIKANERS UNINTERESTED IN TRUMP REFUGEE OFFER
The Orania Movement, primarily composed of South Africa’s Afrikaners (Dutch settlers), has turned down US President Donald Trump’s offer of humanitarian aid to re-settle Afrikaners in the United States. Instead, Orania leader Joost Strydom emphasised the group’s commitment to remaining in South Africa to establish a self-governing territory. The offer came after Trump cut US HIV/AIDS aid to South Africa over a new land expropriation law aimed at addressing long-standing racial inequalities.
Orania is a white-only town in the Northern Cape province that tries to uphold Afrikaner culture. The Orania Movement is made up of residents of this town.
The Orania Movement, primarily composed of South Africa’s Afrikaners (Dutch settlers), has turned down US President Donald Trump’s offer of humanitarian aid to re-settle Afrikaners in the United States. Instead, Orania leader Joost Strydom emphasised the group’s commitment to remaining in South Africa to establish a self-governing territory. The offer came after Trump cut US HIV/AIDS aid to South Africa over a new land expropriation law aimed at addressing long-standing racial inequalities.
Orania is a white-only town in the Northern Cape province that tries to uphold Afrikaner culture. The Orania Movement is made up of residents of this town.
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Continued……The movement claims it is a cultural project, not race-based. However, many people say the town and its policy of not allowing non-white residents is nothing but a racist endeavour to maintain vestiges of the apartheid system.
Critics argue the Orania Movement’s pearl-clutching conveniently ignores significant economic advantages enjoyed by Afrikaners in the world’s most unequal country, where white settlers, who make up 8 per cent of the population, own more than 70 per cent of privately owned land.
Sources
News
https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/we-belong-in-africa-orania-rejects-donald-trumps-offer-insists-on-staying-in-south-africa-667b7433-ee86-423e-a603-f9a03c281978
South Africa inequality
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/10/south-africa-most-unequal-country-in-the-world-report
Land inequality
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-stark-divide-that-south-africa-s-land-act-seeks-to-bridge/ar-AA1yI3QG
Critics argue the Orania Movement’s pearl-clutching conveniently ignores significant economic advantages enjoyed by Afrikaners in the world’s most unequal country, where white settlers, who make up 8 per cent of the population, own more than 70 per cent of privately owned land.
Sources
News
https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/we-belong-in-africa-orania-rejects-donald-trumps-offer-insists-on-staying-in-south-africa-667b7433-ee86-423e-a603-f9a03c281978
South Africa inequality
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/10/south-africa-most-unequal-country-in-the-world-report
Land inequality
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-stark-divide-that-south-africa-s-land-act-seeks-to-bridge/ar-AA1yI3QG
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MANDELA: YOUR ENEMIES ARE NOT OUR ENEMIES!
On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released - after spending nearly three decades in prison for opposing the apartheid regime’s oppression of Black South Africans. He would go on to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa - but was kept on US terrorism watch lists until 2008. So he was acutely aware of the hypocrisy surrounding human rights in Western nations.
In this 1990 clip, shortly after his release, an audience member in the US wanted Mandela to renounce leaders who were despised by Western countries, such as Yasser Arafat of Palestine, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Fidel Castro of Cuba, all of whom were labelled as terrorists for their support of anti-imperialist struggles. Mandela firmly replied, “Your enemies are not our enemies!” He maintained his allegiance to Arafat, Gaddafi and Castro due to their steadfast backing of South Africa’s fight for freedom, a detail often ignored or buried by mainstream media.
On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released - after spending nearly three decades in prison for opposing the apartheid regime’s oppression of Black South Africans. He would go on to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa - but was kept on US terrorism watch lists until 2008. So he was acutely aware of the hypocrisy surrounding human rights in Western nations.
In this 1990 clip, shortly after his release, an audience member in the US wanted Mandela to renounce leaders who were despised by Western countries, such as Yasser Arafat of Palestine, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Fidel Castro of Cuba, all of whom were labelled as terrorists for their support of anti-imperialist struggles. Mandela firmly replied, “Your enemies are not our enemies!” He maintained his allegiance to Arafat, Gaddafi and Castro due to their steadfast backing of South Africa’s fight for freedom, a detail often ignored or buried by mainstream media.
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Continued……The issue of Western double standards on human rights came to the fore again in 2024 when the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, and when South Africa brought its (ongoing) genocide case against Tel Aviv to the International Court of Justice. Western nations simply continued to support Israel, as exemplified by the US supplying it with GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bombs and Poland’s resolution in January to protect Netanyahu from arrest during the 80th commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz.
As African Stream, we have felt the sharp end of this hypocrisy. We have faced consequences for maintaining an independent editorial stance that diverges from the foreign policies of Western nations. Our refusal to adopt their enemies as our own has led to bans from social-media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240207-in-history-nelson-mandela-walks-out-of-prison-a-free-man
https://opiniojuris.org/2024/08/09/symposium-on-unbroken-bond-tracing-the-ties-between-african-and-palestinian-anti-colonial-struggles-when-nelson-mandela-was-considered-a-terrorist-and-the-natural-alliance-between-south-afric/
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/sretab
https://apnews.com/article/poland-israel-netanyahu-warrant-duda-auschwitz-anniversary-3b672818016198f4247917e3587e2913
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-rejects-state-israels-challenges
As African Stream, we have felt the sharp end of this hypocrisy. We have faced consequences for maintaining an independent editorial stance that diverges from the foreign policies of Western nations. Our refusal to adopt their enemies as our own has led to bans from social-media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240207-in-history-nelson-mandela-walks-out-of-prison-a-free-man
https://opiniojuris.org/2024/08/09/symposium-on-unbroken-bond-tracing-the-ties-between-african-and-palestinian-anti-colonial-struggles-when-nelson-mandela-was-considered-a-terrorist-and-the-natural-alliance-between-south-afric/
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/sretab
https://apnews.com/article/poland-israel-netanyahu-warrant-duda-auschwitz-anniversary-3b672818016198f4247917e3587e2913
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-rejects-state-israels-challenges
Bbc
In History: Nelson Mandela walks out of prison a free man
In an exclusive clip from the BBC Archive, watch Nelson Mandela speak about his historic release from prison, a watershed moment for South Africa in its transition to democracy.
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Catch a cab in Dakar, Senegal, and you might think you’ve taken a wrong turn and ended up in Paris, thanks to the street names like Avenue Georges-Pompidou, Rue Félix-Faure and Rue Jules-Ferry, among others.
Things are changing, however, under President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, who rode an anti-colonial wave into power in March 2024. The duo appear to be on a mission to bolster Senegalese identity and cut ties with France despite worries that they had backed away from their anti-colonial campaign promises.
Seven months into his presidency, Faye called for French troops to pack their bags and leave Senegal, marking a significant pivot in the West African state’s foreign policy. This move is another blow at Françafrique, or the lingering sphere of French influence in West Africa. Senegal is now in league with other states in Africa’s Sahel region, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Chad, all of whom are busy dialling down their French connections, both cultural and military.
Things are changing, however, under President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, who rode an anti-colonial wave into power in March 2024. The duo appear to be on a mission to bolster Senegalese identity and cut ties with France despite worries that they had backed away from their anti-colonial campaign promises.
Seven months into his presidency, Faye called for French troops to pack their bags and leave Senegal, marking a significant pivot in the West African state’s foreign policy. This move is another blow at Françafrique, or the lingering sphere of French influence in West Africa. Senegal is now in league with other states in Africa’s Sahel region, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Chad, all of whom are busy dialling down their French connections, both cultural and military.
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Continued……Faye tapped Sonko to head the National Council for Memory and Management of Historical Heritage, a new government agency tasked with renaming streets. The Dakar-based Front for Anti-imperialist, Popular and Pan-African Revolution (FRAPP) is leading the charge for a more Senegalese flavour in the capital’s nomenclature. FRAPP members argue that so many French colonial street names keep painful colonial memories alive.
One particularly bitter memory is the massacre of 'tirailleurs senegalais' (Senegalese troops serving the French colonial army) on 1 December 1944. When they protested for better pay, French colonial soldiers opened fire, k*lling as many as 400, according to scholars. Then, in 2012, then-French President François Hollande admitted France’s role in the massacre. He promised to hand over French archives on the incident on its 70th anniversary, but that never happened.
However, on the 80th anniversary, Faye rewrote Senegal's story with physical markers to ensure the Senegalese never forget their heroes.
Sources:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250109-decolonising-senegal-s-streets-roads-in-dakar-are-being-renamed-for-local-heroes
https://archive.ph/tgfsq
https://theconversation.com/the-time-has-come-for-france-to-own-up-to-the-massacre-of-its-own-troops-in-senegal-35131
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/2/6/from-street-names-to-textbooks-senegal-is-rewriting-french-colonial-memory
https://iafrica.com/senegal-rewrites-colonial-legacy-by-renaming-streets-and-revising-textbooks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=senegal-rewrites-colonial-legacy-by-renaming-streets-and-revising-textbooks
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2025/01/17/in-senegal-the-authorities-want-to-do-away-with-french-street-names_6737122_124.html
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/senegal-set-to-rename-streets-buildings-in-move-to-erase-french-colonial-legacy/hbc5tl4
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/the-past-that-the-west-wants-all-to-forget-the-african-slave-trade/2753330
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250109-decolonising-senegal-s-streets-roads-in-dakar-are-being-renamed-for-local-heroes
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250109-decolonising-senegal-s-streets-roads-in-dakar-are-being-renamed-for-local-heroes
One particularly bitter memory is the massacre of 'tirailleurs senegalais' (Senegalese troops serving the French colonial army) on 1 December 1944. When they protested for better pay, French colonial soldiers opened fire, k*lling as many as 400, according to scholars. Then, in 2012, then-French President François Hollande admitted France’s role in the massacre. He promised to hand over French archives on the incident on its 70th anniversary, but that never happened.
However, on the 80th anniversary, Faye rewrote Senegal's story with physical markers to ensure the Senegalese never forget their heroes.
Sources:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250109-decolonising-senegal-s-streets-roads-in-dakar-are-being-renamed-for-local-heroes
https://archive.ph/tgfsq
https://theconversation.com/the-time-has-come-for-france-to-own-up-to-the-massacre-of-its-own-troops-in-senegal-35131
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/2/6/from-street-names-to-textbooks-senegal-is-rewriting-french-colonial-memory
https://iafrica.com/senegal-rewrites-colonial-legacy-by-renaming-streets-and-revising-textbooks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=senegal-rewrites-colonial-legacy-by-renaming-streets-and-revising-textbooks
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2025/01/17/in-senegal-the-authorities-want-to-do-away-with-french-street-names_6737122_124.html
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/senegal-set-to-rename-streets-buildings-in-move-to-erase-french-colonial-legacy/hbc5tl4
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/the-past-that-the-west-wants-all-to-forget-the-african-slave-trade/2753330
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250109-decolonising-senegal-s-streets-roads-in-dakar-are-being-renamed-for-local-heroes
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250109-decolonising-senegal-s-streets-roads-in-dakar-are-being-renamed-for-local-heroes
France 24
Decolonising Senegal's streets: Dakar's roads are being renamed for local heroes
Senegal's moving ahead with plans to put more of its own identity and culture into key streets and has begun changing the name of landmarks named after french colonial figures. It is part of president Basirrou Diamaye Faye push to better celebrate the country's…
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Allegations of treason in South Africa - after Donald Trump pulled the plug on aid to the country. The US president cited a new South African law allowing (in certain cases) land expropriations without compensation.
Now ex-South African president Jacob Zumba’s MK party is claiming Trump was influenced by a propaganda campaign waged by the so-called AfriForum, a group that looks out for White Afrikaner interests. The group was actively lobbying against the expropriation law in the US media ahead of the aid cancellation.
MK supporters dressed in military garb (pictured) sang anti-apartheid songs as they went to Cape Town police station to file their treason case against AfriForum. MK leader John Hlophe said, “Treason has been committed, we contend, by them [AfriForum], because they are plotting against our government.”
Now ex-South African president Jacob Zumba’s MK party is claiming Trump was influenced by a propaganda campaign waged by the so-called AfriForum, a group that looks out for White Afrikaner interests. The group was actively lobbying against the expropriation law in the US media ahead of the aid cancellation.
MK supporters dressed in military garb (pictured) sang anti-apartheid songs as they went to Cape Town police station to file their treason case against AfriForum. MK leader John Hlophe said, “Treason has been committed, we contend, by them [AfriForum], because they are plotting against our government.”
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Continued…. South Africa’s land reform is intended to correct a historical injustice. Most of the good land in the country ended up in the hands of the White Afrikaner minority. Under the new law, in certain circumstances - if deemed ‘just and equitable’ and ‘in the public interest’ - land can be seized back by the state without recompense.
In 2017, a government report revealed White settlers still held 72% of privately-owned farmland, yet they make up only 7.3% of the population, according to a 2022 census.
Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-party-accuses-white-group-treason-over-trump-attack-2025-02-10/?taid=67aa0fc6374ab800011a73f5&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-executive-order-aimed-south-africa-white-house-official-says-2025-02-07/
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https://x.com/AyeeNdeM/status/1888203063015416243
In 2017, a government report revealed White settlers still held 72% of privately-owned farmland, yet they make up only 7.3% of the population, according to a 2022 census.
Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-party-accuses-white-group-treason-over-trump-attack-2025-02-10/?taid=67aa0fc6374ab800011a73f5&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-executive-order-aimed-south-africa-white-house-official-says-2025-02-07/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn01z1yy0jno?at_ptr_name=twitter&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_link_type=web_link&at_link_id=480F2C6A-E220-11EF-B589-BA7A2E75F565&at_campaign_type=owned&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_medium=social&at_link_origin=BBCAfrica&at_format=image
https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/we-belong-in-africa-orania-rejects-donald-trumps-offer-insists-on-staying-in-south-africa-667b7433-ee86-423e-a603-f9a03c281978
https://x.com/AyeeNdeM/status/1888203063015416243
Reuters
South African party accuses white group of treason over Trump attack
The party of South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma on Monday filed a treason complaint against AfriForum, a group championing the white Afrikaner minority, after Donald Trump attacked the country's new law aimed at redistributing white-owned land.
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