Grassroots Resilient Stories

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

22/07/2025

🟥 MARIKANA - a one-man show by Thabo Valashiya that brings the 2012 massacre to life, is taking place this week at NCC 🎭

Thabo Valashiya is a trained theatre artist from the North West mining belt. Through his performance, Thabo portrays the 2012 Marikana massacre where miners demanding a living wage were met with deadly force. He speaks from lived experience.

Before and after the show there will be a Open Discussion & collective poem reading - bring your own poems, songs, stories, or instruments. Let’s reflect, resist, and create together 🎶

📆 Wed July 23
⏰ 6–8 PM
🏢 Ntirhisano Community Centre, 515 Albert Road, Salt River,
🎟️ Pay what you can to keep grassroots storytelling alive (R20–R100)

15/07/2025

As South Africa struggled with several significant conflicts surrounding African nationals living in the country, it is important to remember the spirit that informed the Constitution in it's development. protections for all human life was not accidental; it is a deliberate move to ensure that we remember our humanity and foreground our Being before anything else. It's Ubuntu manifested in policy.

We cannot ignore the broken political and governance systems that lead to these divisions in our society. We must not place blame on humans nor must we hold people seeking protection accountable for divisive and colonial policy ⚫

Foreign nationals in South Africa enrich the country’s cultural, social and economic landscape. However, challenges like xenophobia, afrophobia, aporophobia, discrimination, and limited access to services can create obstacles. Ensuring your safety and that of your loved ones is essential.

Being vigilant and engaging with the local community and law enforcement can foster a safer environment for all. Focus on unity and resist divisive sentiments like Abahambe. The South African Constitution and Bill of Rights protect your rights, affirming that you are not just guests.

Let’s promote understanding and solidarity.

15/07/2025

This is a step-by-step guide on how any stakeholder in Makhanda's solid waste management can meaningfully include us in their plans to improve the city's waste management systems.

13/07/2025

✨ STORYTELLING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE 🪄 A collective poem - open to all! Bring your poems, songs, or instruments for a open session before the main act: 🌟 Then, join us for Khanya Athule Baba’s 30-minute performance: ' I’m a Black Radical Township Feminist using ART to RESIST OPPRESSION' and 'I’ve worked with Soundz of the South to uplift the marginalised.' 🖤

🎟️ R50 Entrance
📆 Wednesday July 16,
⏰ 6 PM
🏢 Ntirhisano Community Centre, 515 Albert Road, Salt River.

12/07/2025

🗯️ LIEUTENANT GENERAL MKHWANAZI ⚠️ Imagine the danger if Lieutenant General Mkhwanazi became police commissioner, minister, or even president.

Exposing corruption is essential—but turning a blind eye to state violence against immigrants is a direct threat to justice. His militarised approach endangers not only immigrants but also the very activists fighting for justice in South Africa.

In the U.S. and many parts of the world, people risk their lives resisting militarised immigration forces. Yet here at home, Black local communities attack African foreign nationals while claiming to uphold human rights, in the name of it's Constitution.

Why do we tolerate vigilantes blocking hospitals and assaulting vulnerable, exploited immigrant workers—while Mkhwanazi, praised in Afrophobic circles like Sizok’thola, leads raids on the oppressed instead of holding exploitative bosses accountable?

South African social discourse needs to start engaging with voices of immigrants and engage less with the empty rhetoric of politicians with obvious agendas.

11/07/2025

IMPORTANT REQUEST FOR OUR FOLLOWERS IN MAKHANDA💚

If you're based in Grahamstown/Makhanda, please give this Page a follow - they're in the loop about everything recycling and solid waste management in Makhanda.


https://www.facebook.com/wastepickersmovement

We want inclusive, grassroots level, sustainable solid waste solutions in Makhanda♻️

30/06/2025

◾ GATE 7 INFORMAL SETTLEMENT comprised of SA citizens declare Solidarity with WINGFIELD REFUGEE CAMP RESIDENTS ◾We are from Gate 7 and 18 Avenue informal settlement and many progressive civil societies, activists and organisations in Cape Town and across the country. We stand in unwavering solidarity with the refugees currently residing at Wingfield Refugee Camp in Kensington, Cape Town. We unequivocally oppose the planned evictions and condemn the actions of government officials, including the ward councillor, the mayor, and relevant ministers, who are complicit in this injustice.‼️

The planned evictions are not only unjust and unconstitutional, violating the refugees' fundamental human rights, but also deeply rooted in Afrophobia. These actions reflect a disturbing trend of scapegoating vulnerable communities for systemic failures. We reject this narrative and denounce any attempt to dehumanize refugees and asylum seekers.

Addressing the Ward 56 Councillor who has been particularly vocal about the situation, a member of the crowd shouted: "As the councillor, you should have been thinking better because you also came out of the same situation that we are. But today, we voted you there, but you're not there to help and to reach out to 18th, to Gate 7."

The meeting sought to encourage solidarity among oppressed communities living in South Africa. She said "We are not different. We are all the same. Doesn't matter they are from another country. We need to treat our neighbours the same because the same way that we belong here, they have a right to be here."

30/06/2025

NOT IN OUR NAME 🚫STOP EVICTIONS ⛔

Yesterday, a Public Meeting was held between invested stakeholders in Kensington to build solidarity in light of evictions of refugees staying on the Wingfield and Paint City informal settlement.

30/06/2025

Philip Mzamani Nyalungu talks to Julie Ali on Salaa Media about the Wingfield and Paint City settlement which has existed since 2020.

The refugees want to be relocated out of South Africa to Europe and Canada. Mzamani shares insight into the build up of this situation and what the refugees want moving forward. Mzamani has engaged with the refugee community, neighbouring informal settlements of South African citizens and Home Affairs to find solutions to the situation.

Ali talks about how we accept these people as refugees, and make promises but then provide no basic services once they are here.

Frustrated and Forgotten: Cape Town Refugees Demand Immediate Relocation Community activist Phillip Nyalungu discusses.

25/06/2025

Stop the Exploitation of Bakone ba Phetla section54 land rights by Northam Booysendal Mine⛔‼️

"Bakone ba Phetla is a Pedi community who are beneficiaries of the Bakone ba Phetla CPA community, and We write this with deep pain and urgency.

The land that Northam Booysendal Mine operates on—specifically at De Kafferskraal Farm, Lydenburg Mashishing —is our ancestral land. This land carries not only our heritage but also the untapped hope for our economic future. Yet, while the mine has made billions of rands from platinum and chrome extracted from our soil, our community continues to suffer in incredible poverty.

We still live without basic services in our village —no running water, no decent housing, no real local jobs, and no beneficiation of the chrome from our own land. The wealth has left with the trucks, while we remain dispossessed.

Northam Booysendal has deliberately ignored our rights under Section 54 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, which legally protects mining-affected communities. Instead of working with our legitimate Royal Council and Community Property Association (CPA), the mine has chosen to use divide-and-conquer tactics by using their procurement office to give tenders to the very same individuals who are causing havoc and divide in our community"

Stop the Exploitation of Bakone ba Phetla section54 land rights by Northam Booysendal Mine