On the morning of 9 July 1987, two men posing as municipal workers arrived at 8 Albermarle Road in Hazendal, Athlone, in Cape Town, asking to inspect a blocked drain.
Inside the house, twenty-year-old "James" was lying low after secretly returning to South Africa from Umkhonto we Sizwe military training in Angola. The property belonged to schoolteacher Salma Ismail, who had already left for work, while her younger brother, Imtiaz, had gone out to repair a vacuum cleaner, leaving James alone.
Within moments, the deception gave way to a Security Branch operation.
Police surrounded the house and moved in. Then Jeffrey Benzien fired the single shot that shattered the silence.
Minutes later, officers carried Ashley Kriel's body outside and laid it on the ground.
White supremacy had killed a freedom fighter from Bonteheuwel on the Cape Flats.
Apartheid murdered Ashley Kriel. Sadly, Capetonians rewarded the beneficiaries of Apartheid with governing the @CityofCT and the @WesternCapeGov
Drones are being massively deployed in China's Guangxi to rescue people affected by severe flooding caused by Typhoon Maysak.
🙏Praying for the safety of all on the frontline.
“Not only are there African accomplices inside the imperialist system, but every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work for its overthrow.”
Walter Rodney.
Good morning, comrades; just a quick reminder of how fash propaganda works:
"Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people, but they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad." 👇
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In today’s edition of The Radical Voice, the EFF’s @Mandlashikwamb1 exposes the injustice of forcing unemployed graduates to pay annual professional registration fees simply to remain eligible for employment. He argues that thousands of qualified young South Africans, despite overcoming immense obstacles to obtain their qualifications, are being locked out of their professions because they cannot afford these recurring costs while unemployed.
The article calls for the scrapping or subsidisation of professional registration fees for unemployed graduates, stressing that the state must remove barriers to employment instead of punishing young professionals for a jobs crisis they did not create.