Mass Solidarity Movement
by a.k.a Mzamani, 24 September 2022
Like many disadvantaged communities, NCC participated in the #shutdown strike organized by major trade unions against austerity, unemployment, and high costs of living, in Cape Town. The strike took place across the nine provinces on Wednesday, August 24, 2022.
Ntirhisano Community Centre (NCC) is a grassroots community center located in Salt River, Cape Town. The aim of Ntirhisano is to reactivate, enhance and advance the struggles of the poor and working-class communities. The center uses various tools, approaches, and methods exclusively to consolidate the solidarity spirit within and between grassroots communities. We intend to facilitate and participate in miscellaneous projects – already taking or can take place in poor communities:
Planting and growing food – community gardens
Facilitating, and participating in learning, recreational, and political activities
Bottom-top grassroots community journalism
Supporting and advancing grassroots informal sector
Grassroots community organizing
The vegetable garden was started by the NCC members together with the refugee community at one of the two temporal facilities the government organized to accommodate refugee families in Kensington (Wingfield Airbase), Cape Town. Wednesday, August 10, 2022
By participating in day-to-day sociopolitical, environmental, and grassroots community solidarities and struggles. Working together in sharing and refining experiences rooted within these communities. Without reliance on top-bottom, neo-imperial ideas or influence.
As a grassroots anti-capitalist, revolutionary movement, and political community center – based on mutual aid and direct action principles. Ntirhisano aims to organize, network, interact and collaborate with various progressive civil societies, social movements, and political organizations. It is committed to relearning and reeducating ourselves against the ongoing lies of the state and capitalism. Sometimes camouflaged under the auspice of black nationalism.
Protesters from nearby informal settlements during the protest organized by NCC. The protest started from 4 am until in the afternoon. They shut down one of the busy roads for 3 hours from 4 am to 7 am demanding basic human services on Monday, Cape Town, Voortrekker Road, Cape Town.
As long as the present capitalist system remains intact racism, apartheid and patriarchy will prevail. Capitalism is built upon, protects, and advances patriarchy, land dispossession, imperialism, racism, slavery, and apartheid. The capitalist system is habitually designed so that the poor and marginalized bear the brunt. While the rich and affluent are freely enjoying all the wealth. The poor workers and their communities produce the wealth of the world – not the bosses.
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