(en) France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups (CGA) IAL #95 - Faced with the bourgeoisie AND ANC the worker ? re ? s agricultural fight (fr)

On March 6, the chief torturer of Vlakplaas1, Dirk Coetzee is dead and no regret, as the 
vile apartheid regime that has largely forbidden. We take the death of the executioner to 
go on strike that took the farm workers last November. If the racist dictatorship fell 
thanks to the valiant struggle of the South African people, the workers are still widely 
exploited and oppressed. ---- Agricultural wage work involves misery ---- South Africa 
enters the ranks of developed with agricultural proletariat largely precarious and 
impoverished capitalist economies. Workers paid 70 pounds (6 euros) per working day, wages 
among the lowest in the country, workers experience of working conditions and housing so 
rotten that Human Rights Watch, an association yet little vindictive reported them in one 
of his reports.

Last November the workers of Cape Town area, exceeded, began a strike whose main claim was 
doubling the daily wage.

The ANC still penalizes honest workers

After 34 deaths Marikana, the peak of the crackdown on minors in 2012, police in the ANC 
still arises once as the best guarantor of the interests of the bourgeoisie. The cops have 
arrested at least a hundred people in dozens of wounded and killed another two comrades.

The brutality of the state police in South Africa is not only exercisable against the 
manifestations of strikers but permanently on the workers living in the townships. As 
Coetzee honor of revelers in uniform have assassinated the day of death of the 
executioner, a taxi driver in Mozambique dragging behind a car for several hundred meters.

Mixed record of an offensive struggle

After three months of conflict sawtooth, the workers exhausted by countless battles with 
the bosses and the police have obtained an increase of 52% ie a daily wage to 105 rounds, 
about 9 euros. To limit this partial victory, half the strikers claim the power has 
created a large number of development opportunities for agricultural entrepreneurs.

If the company is "_danger_" economic, it is not possible to meet this modest but 
effective for employees progress. Just passed the employers was engulfed in this 
reactionary niche with 300 requests for exemptions for compliance with the new minimum 
wage alone in the Cape and employers in other regions is not rest ... 2

Unlike the minimum wage, the agreements do not guarantee an improvement in housing, 
working conditions and above all there is nothing to oppose the racism of employers 
overwhelmingly Afrikaner and reminds the sad hours of apartheid.

End of reign for ANC_?

After twenty years of ANC rule only slightly spread the wealth plundered by the Afrikaner 
middle class with average income for whites 6 times higher than those of Black ? M?tis and 
its. For cons, the bourgeois ANC policy has promoted a no less predatory than white black 
economic elite. The best illustration is the Zuma family where dad, current innkeeper of 
the ANC, is building a palace for 23 million euros and which son is the head of JIC Mining 
Services on a temporary box for the work of the mine3 .

Cosatu, the arch-majority union, is stuck in the co-management after the common victory 
with the ANC and the PC on apartheid. Some of its leaders sit on the National Executive 
Committee of the ANC4. Despite this collusion, clashes between capital and labor will 
continue to multiply and become radicalized. In addition to increasing the ratio of 
strength of honest workers, the people are increasingly disillusioned ANC as evidenced by
the resumption of singing against apartheid Umshini Wam5 during demonstrations against the 
polici?res6 brutality.

Hopefully, as miners and honest workers agricultural, all oppressed South Africa organize, 
fight and end up dropping the black and white employers, and enforce policy, the ANC.

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