(en) Southern Africa, Tokologo #1 - TOKOLOGOA AFRICAN ANARCHIST COLLECTIVE STATEMENT OF INTENT

Adopted at TAAC general meeting, 16 March 2013 ---- What is the TAAC? ---- The Tokologo 
African Anarchist Collective is a loose collective of anarchists and 
anarchist-sympathisers who are community and worker activists. Its members function 
primarily as educators. It seeks to meet regularly to learn about and work towards 
spreading the ideas of anarchism within the working class residing in South Africa. These 
ideas are aimed at contributing to building: a revolutionary counter-culture, and 
revolutionary organisations of counter-power to fight and defeat domination and 
exploitation. This can be done by promoting direct working class organisational democracy 
and accountability ---- B. What does the TAAC seek to do? ---- The members meet regularly 
at general meetings once a month to discuss, debate and learn about the ideas of anarchism.

The members meet to learn community
and worker organising skills. The members meet to
co-ordinate the activities of the TAAC.

These are: 1) Organising and carrying out working
class community-based workshops; 2) Creating and
distributing propaganda relevant to the work of the
TAAC and anarchism (this propaganda includes, but
is not limited to TAAC newsletters, statements and
t-shirts).

C. Why do we do this?

The TAAC seeks to develop an understanding of
anarchism ? its ideas, strategies and tactics ? amongst
those living and organising in working class and poor
communities in South Africa. The TAAC seeks to do
this through the activities mentioned in B. The TAAC
seeks to organise these activists and communities
around the ideas, strategies and tactics of anarchism.

The TAAC seeks to build itself by attracting more
people to join the TAAC. The TAAC seeks to revive a
spirit of counter-culture and optimism about struggle
and organisation against domination and exploitation
in these communities. Another way of doing this is
by seeking to regularly meet with active community-
based organisations.

D. Who can join the TAAC?

Membership to the TAAC is not open to everyone
on request. Members must be educators of the ideas
of anarchism. As such those who seek to join the
TAAC must have been educated about these ideas
beforehand, as well as being taught how to educate
others about the ideas. The TAAC seeks to develop an
individual?s understanding of anarchism. In so doing,
the individual must become fully aware of the ideas
of the TAAC and the processes and commitments
required to join the TAAC.

Membership is granted to an individual by collective
member decision. It will be based on: 1) An individual
having participated in a community-based workshop.
At the workshop, individuals either approach TAAC
members with a desire to continue their anarchist
education, or are identified by a TAAC member
present; 2) These individuals are then invited to
participate in the already existing process of education
(the Anarchist Political School, APS); and then 3)
the individual?s own desire to join once they have
graduated from the APS. Membership is open to APS
graduates who identify as anarchists or to those who
do not identify as anarchists. However, membership
is granted to those who share the vision of the TAAC.
Members then commit to spreading the ideas of
anarchism in working class and poor communities as
determined by collective TAAC decision.
E. How are TAAC decisions made and by whom?

All TAAC decisions are agreed to at the monthly
general meetings of the members. It is at these meetings
that mandates are decided on and volunteered to.
These decisions and mandates are decided by general
agreement at these monthly general meetings. The
TAAC may choose to form smaller collectives to carry
out specific tasks, e.g. an Editorial Collective. These
collectives are decided on and formed at their monthly
general meetings. These collectives may decide on
their own tasks. However, these collectives must be
accountable to the general body of members. These
decisions and tasks must fall within the mandate for
these smaller collectives as decided by the members at
the monthly general meeting. These collectives must
report back to general monthly meeting, as determined
by their mandate and collective decision.