The Occupy Revolution Has Hit South Africa

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It looks like the tides that swept up the Occupy Wall Street protest campaign – ongoing after three weeks – have broken international boundaries. Operation Ubuntu has been set up to launch simultaneous protests on 15 of October in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Grahamstown, as part of the global Occupy Revolution campaign.

The Cape Town branch of the campaign is planning on occupying Parliament Gardens on Saturday the 15 October at 08h00. Check out their Facebook page, which was about 200-strong at time of writing. The #occupycapetown hashtag is also lighting up pretty quickly on Twitter.

The Durban Group, meanwhile, plans on occupying City Hall, while the Johannesburg group stakes out the Exchange Square.

Says the Occupy South Africa website:

Our Mission:

On October 15th 2011 , we want to see 20,000 people to flood into Cape Town CBD, set up beds, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Cape Town Parliament Gardens.

Like our brothers and sisters at Wall Street and in Egypt, Greece, Spain, and Iceland, we plan to use the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic of mass occupation to restore democracy in South Africa. We also encourage the use of nonviolence to achieve our ends and maximize the safety of all participants.

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Occupy SA – Operation Ubuntu is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. The People come as the People.

The other thing that all these guys have in common, obviously, is Facebook and Twitter. Still, it should be something worth looking out for. The Cape Town branch has a planning day on Monday, 10 October at 15h00 at Community House, Salt River Road in Salt River.

[Source: OccupySA ]

http://www.capepointderivatives.com spencer

How misplaced is the goal of this group. America is hounded by political activists who have millions of dollars funded by corporate groups who have interests not always inline with the 99%. South africa has no such lobbying groups instead they have a flaud system of tenders over viewed by those who decide the tenders and granted on demographic and self serving reasons rather than the merits of the people carrying out the tenders. Unfortunately the 99% are of average intelligence and will lynch on to moronic causes with no chance of improving their lot in life. Long live the humanist spirit long live capitalism
http://URL Hef

Lol, in SA the 1% pays 99% of the tax. Maybe a thank you march would be more appropriate.
http://URL Richard

SA has the second widest class divide in the world after Brazil, 40% of our people are jobless, the wealthiest 10% earn half of our wealth. As a result of this legal robbery poverty and despair has spread and so have social ills. Today we have a murder rate which surpasses the worst warzones in the world such as Iraq, Afghanistan or Palestine but we are fondly referred to as “The Rainbow Nation”. On Saturday we say to the government and to the corporates: Do not patronize us, you have our blood, sweat and tears on your hands and while we may have trusted you once before, South Africans refuse to be bitten from the same hole twice.
http://URL Anarchist

The world is changing slowly. Selfish, rich people will unfortunately always have the control. We will not see the social equality in our lifetime.
http://www.facebook.com/OccupySouthAfrica Occupy South Africa

People, political parties included, think this will be a white thing when in fact it is going to be a HUGE thing.

We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both…

Occupy your Life, before the bank does…
http://URL Roy

Hi its about time we start taking controle of our lives. Please Please arange something for Polowane also.
Thanks
http://URL Bennie Kock

Also we wont be ruled by governments we elected, governments are supposed to serve, not rule!!!!
http://2oceansvibe.com/author/liam-kruger liam kruger

Actually, governments are supposed to govern. But I like your spirit, Bennie Knock.

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