Pretoria: We met the leaders with the Landless Peoples’ Movement alongside their highly articulate, highly political researchers with the Land Reform Association, an NGO that was partnered with them. Our timing had been fortunate, the LPM were having a multi-day leadership retreat to make their plan for the next quarter at the same time we happened …
Month: October 2004
COSATU and the House of Labor
Johannesburg: We marched the short distance from our hotel up the hill and then down several blocks until we saw the tall building with COSATU House in large letters at the very top. Once on the 10th floor of this building, one could see all of downtown Jo-burg across the train tracks and the Mandela Bridge …
A Church in Orange Farm
Johannesburg: The Organizers’ Forum Dialogue on South Africa began right after breakfast as our delegation (crew would seem a better word!) trooped onto a bus to head for Orange Farm, a huge developing township of 800,000 on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Along the highway as we came into the area we could see the innumerable one-room …