PAC on U.S. Tour: The Struggle in South Africa Continues!

Mfanelo Skwatsha, National Executive Secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) based in South Africa will tour the U.S. this fall. Secretary Skwatsha make presentations at workshops, seminars and events on campuses and in communities from October 22 through November 2.

While much of the world believes that freedom has been won in South Africa, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) is exposing to the world that conditions for Africans today are worse than under the apartheid system!

According to the Human Sciences Research Council, South African households have sunk deeper into poverty since the ruling African National Congress (ANC) came to power in 1994, and the gap between the white settler population and impoverished Africans has widened. The ANC is the party of Nelson Mandela and current president Thabo Mbeki.

South Africa today:

* Current average life expectancy in South Africa is 48 years.
* 96 percent of South African farmland is still owned by white people who make up only 13 percent of the population.
* South Africa is considered a “developed” country, yet 61 percent of Africans live in poverty, as opposed to only one percent of whites.
* 34 percent of Africans in South Africa live on less than $2 a day.
* Under this severe poverty many African adults and children are forced to search through garbage for daily subsistence.
* A two-tiered economic system persists with the poorest 20 percent of the population receiving only 1.6 percent of the income.
* Rural unemployment is 70 percent for African people.
* South Africa now has nearly 200,000 people in prison, by far the largest prison population in Africa.
* 80 percent of South African prisoners are there largely because of “poverty and joblessness and the frustrations that they cause,” according to the South African Business Day newspaper.
* 85 percent of people in South Africa have no health insurance.

Founded in 1959, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania is the party that led the struggle against colonial apartheid regime. In the 1970s and 80s PAC had solidarity committees in cities and on campuses throughout the U.S. Today the PAC is showing the world that liberation for African working people in South Africa is an unfinished goal. PAC believes that Africa and its resources belong to African working people, not the neocolonialists who uphold the interests of the colonial and corporate powers.

PAC has a program for genuine self-determination for African workers based on one united Africa whose vast wealth must benefit African people themselves.

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