Grassroots Resilient Stories

12/09/2025

🎬 Join us for a film on Steve Biko—his life, black people's struggles, his friendship that defied apartheid. Ntirhisano Community Centre, 515 Albert rd, Salt River, Cape Town • Sat, Sep 13 • 6–8 PM • Steve Biko’s legacy lives ✊🏿• Entry pay what you can (R20–R100).

08/09/2025

📢 Cowhide Poetry Open Mic. Feat. Khanya Arhuala Baba— Radical community artist & activist 📅 Wed, Sep 10 ⏰ 6–8 PM📍 Ntirhisano Community Centre, 515 Albert Rd, Salt River. Discussion on Direct Action Journalism. Opportunities to join . volunteer · participate .

06/09/2025

🎬 Radical Film Screening. The Seven Sisters Oil Cartel. Discussion · Get Involved · Volunteer 📅 Sat, Sept 06, 2025 ⏰ 6–9:30 PM📍 Ntirhisano Community Centre, Albert Rd, Salt River, Cape Town.

02/09/2025

🎤 Cowhide Poetry Open Mic. Feat. Athula Khanya Baba (Khayelitsha) — activist artist voicing the struggles of wmxn & marginalized communities.📖 Suggested reading: Direct-Action Journalism: Resilience in Grassroots Autonomous Media (2016), Sandra Jeppesen 💬 Discussion: Building grassroots journalism to resist state, security & Afrophobic violence. Opportunities to join & get involved! 📅 Wed, Sep 03 | 🕕 6–8 PM📍 NCC, 515 Albert Rd, Salt River 💸 Free / Pay what you can (R20–R100)

28/08/2025

🎥 Documentary Screening & Discussion: Blood in the Mobile (2010) — exposing how global electronics giants fuel conflict in the DRC through blood minerals, child labour, massacres, and mass violence. 📅 Sat, Aug 30, 2025 | 6–8 PM📍 NCC, 515 Albert Rd, Salt River, Cape Town 💸 Pay what you can (R20–R100)

25/08/2025

🎭 Marikana One-Man Show By Thabo Valashiya, retelling the 2012 massacre. Political discussion on justice & working-class struggles. Suggested reading: Sarah Bruchhausen’s ‘Understanding Marikana through the Mpondo Revolt’ and other works that sharpen revolutionary ideas. 📅 Wed, Aug 27, 2025 | 6–8 PM📍 NCC, 515 Albert Rd, Salt River 💸 Pay what you can (R20–R100)

22/08/2025

📣 Film & Discussion — Sat, Aug 23, 6–8 PM📍 NCC, 515 Albert Rd, Salt River 💸 Pay what you can (R20–R100). In 1994, the Zapatistas rose in Chiapas against NAFTA and decades of betrayal—seizing land and demanding dignity, land, housing, health, and education.
Today, similar neoliberal policies are plundering our own economy. What can we learn from their struggle?

15/08/2025

Marikana Massacre — a searing documentary by activist-filmmaker Rehad Desai on the 2012 mineworkers’ uprising and the state’s deadly response. Workers rose against exploitation and poverty; the state answered with bullets. 📅 16 Aug 2025 | 🕕 18:00–20:00 | 📍 NCC, 515 Albert Rd, Salt River, Cape Town | 💵 Entry: Pay what you can (R20–R100)

08/08/2025

https://awethu.amandla.mobi/petitions/demand-president-ramaphosa-shut-down-embassy-of-genocidal-israel-now?source=whatsapp-share-button&utm_source=whatsapp&share=41823caf-3206-4a41-a1c7-a6ba1a835bc2

We call on you, President Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa, Minister of International Relations and Cooperations, Ronald Lamola, and the Government of South Africa, to cut all diplomatic ties with Israel and shut down the Israeli embassy in South Africa. You have rightly brought a case of genocide against I...

06/08/2025

*Help Us Fund Vital Treatment for Eli Kodisang * African Reclaimers Organisatiom (ARO) Coordinator, Eli Kodisang, was recently diagnosed with multiple myeloma (a form of blood cancer) and is in critical need of medical support. Individual reclaimers have collectively contributed R15,450 towards his medical costs. ARO is appealing to you for any contributions, big or small, to help Eli get the care that he needs. Please click the link below to donate and spread the word. Together, we can make a difference with love and hope -

Since he was a 12-year-old boy in the East Rand township of Tsakane, Eli Kodisang has dedicated himself to building collective struggles for liberati...

28/07/2025

🎞️ STORYTELLING FOR CHANGE ✨◾We’re screening 'The Take', a powerful documentary by Naomi Klein that follows Argentine workers who occupy abandoned factories and build worker-run cooperatives in a move to resist exploitation and reclaim dignity.

The screening will be followed by a discussion, 'Amid Genocide, Joblessness, Corruption, Marikana, Stilfontein, and rising Afrophobia - What can we learn? What can we build?' ◾

📆 Wednesday on 30 July
⏰ 6 until 8 PM
🏢 Ntirhisano Community Centre, 515 Albert Roadd, Salt River, Cape Town
🎟️ Pay what you can, preferably R20 to R100