Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA)

Working in solidarity with southern Africa civil society to shift power and undo the legacies of colonialism and apartheid. Formerly the Anti-Apartheid Movement

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

🇿🇼Statement with @WomenofZimbabwe about #CAB3, the Zimbabwe regime's latest attempt to roll back rights and entrench its power. Among other things, the constitutional amendment would move the 2028 elections to 2030 & abolish the gender commission

🚨International attention needed

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

People in Zimbabwe’s former asbestos mining towns risk developing diseases from millions of tonnes of abandoned asbestos waste.

The region was a huge asbestos producer in 20th century. Good investigation that exposes the legacies of colonial extractivism.
https://t.co/qBTaJETWG8

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

Thank you to the @UAL students who produced this video.

Support our crowdfunder: https://t.co/lmSF5rRjE9

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

NEW VIDEO: Learn about Zambia's 'toxic town' Kabwe through the eyes of people who grew up there and are raising their children there as well as medical experts and lawyers working on the class action.

#JusticeForKabwe
https://t.co/vt79xLJN8l

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

Can you imagine if your child was struggling at school and you realised it was due to...lead poisoning?
Mining giant Anglo American left Zambia over 50 years ago but the tons of toxic waste it left in Kabwe continue to cause daily harm, as Lydia explains. We need #JusticeForKabwe

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

Can you imagine if your child was struggling at school and you realised it was due to...lead poisoning?
Mining giant Anglo American left Zambia over 50 years ago but the tons of toxic waste it left in Kabwe continue to cause daily harm, as Lydia explains. We need #JusticeForKabwe

[FRANCE 24 English @France24_en]

Reporters - Kabwe, the African city where children carry the burden of lead poisoning
➡️ https://t.co/RF3rnq3QvH

[Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network @SAPSN99]

🚨 The road to the SADC People’s Summit begins now.

Join our first X Spaces conversation on democracy, civic space & human rights in Southern Africa. ✊🏾

🗓 28 May 2026
⏰ 19:00 CAT

Set your reminder 👇🏾

https://t.co/lkXktlmskO

#SADCPeoplesSummit #Democracy

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

ACTSA backs this @TradeJusticeMov report

The sacrifice zone in #Kabwe, Zambia, shows how lack of regulation in mining leads to long-term environmental and public health disasters in Global South

@JennyChapman promised the UK would take lessons from Kabwe
https://t.co/QtrFAuVsJV

[Melusi Simelane @MelusiSiboniso]

I live under Africa’s last monarchy. Here’s what 40 years of absolute power looks like https://t.co/ckK89MS707 via @MinorityAfrica

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

Free Nelson Mandela✊🏾🇿🇦

One week till this brilliant documentary comes to Oxford followed by a stellar panel of speakers such as South African writer and whistleblower @athol_williams & ACTSA chair and former anti-apartheid campaigner Chitra Karve

Come to learn and be inspired!

[Eimer McAuley @eimer_mcauley]

A big turnout today for the protest over the death of Congolese man Yves Sakila outside the Dail - which heard calls for thorough investigations without delay.

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

@OxfordEvents @WhatsOnOxon

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

Free Nelson Mandela - coming to Oxford 28 May!

Screening of a new documentary by @RoganProduction followed by a Q&A with South African professor and poet @athol_williams, ACTSA chair Chitra Karve and creative director James Rogan.

Tickets are free: https://t.co/aC4CvVsK6g

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

Free Nelson Mandela✊🏾🇿🇦

One week till this brilliant documentary comes to Oxford followed by a stellar panel of speakers such as South African writer and whistleblower @athol_williams & ACTSA chair and former anti-apartheid campaigner Chitra Karve

Come to learn and be inspired!

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

Free Nelson Mandela - coming to Oxford 28 May!

Screening of a new documentary by @RoganProduction followed by a Q&A with South African professor and poet @athol_williams, ACTSA chair Chitra Karve and creative director James Rogan.

Tickets are free: https://t.co/aC4CvVsK6g

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

📢 Invitation for African Elders (60+) to attend World Café discussion on Ageing and Technology with @YorkStJohn Uni.

All experiences with tech welcome. Gift voucher & lunch provided. Transport reimbursed.

London, 26 May
York, 27 May

Contact 07974403011 or [email protected]

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

The rising xenophobia against African and Asian nationals in South Africa, scapegoated for the country's social and economic challenges, is deeply concerning.

In a letter ACTSA and other former anti-apartheid groups urge the ANC leadership to take action:
https://t.co/WlBNck4GHG

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

🇿🇼Statement with @WomenofZimbabwe about #CAB3, the Zimbabwe regime's latest attempt to roll back rights and entrench its power. Among other things, the constitutional amendment would move the 2028 elections to 2030 & abolish the gender commission

🚨International attention needed

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

The rising xenophobia against African and Asian nationals in South Africa, scapegoated for the country's social and economic challenges, is deeply concerning.

In a letter ACTSA and other former anti-apartheid groups urge the ANC leadership to take action:
https://t.co/WlBNck4GHG

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

A Congolese man died in Dublin on Friday after he was restrained by several security guards in an alleged shoplifting incident – prompting widespread anger and calls for justice.

Video of the incident showed several guards on top of Yves Sakila, 35, in Dublin city centre as he cried out in distress. At one point, a guard appears to kneel on his head or neck. He later appears to become unresponsive. Police are investigating.

The footage has prompted comparisons with the 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Local community members held a vigil on Tuesday, chanting “justice for Yves”.
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is demanding that the death be “swiftly, thoroughly and transparently investigated”.

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

The #Fishrot scandal involving Icelandic company Samherji cost 18,000 Namibians their livevihood.

@fanndal exposes the Icelandic delusion that this was Namibia corrupting 'our boys'. The reality is that Western companies often engineer these situations.
https://t.co/YG8SxBLjyq

[Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @ACTSA_UK]

Important doc with @jonsnowC4 about mining justice in Zambia - coming to @BerthaDocHouse 13 June.

With his wife Precious by his side Snow pursues the story "a year-long pursuit to expose how a Chinese-owned mine has decimated a community’s land and water.
https://t.co/McEpAgsg6s