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COVID, Race, and Democracy: Kambale Musavuli, Mikaela Nhondo Erskog

Jan 04, 2022: 7pm - 8pm

*Report on a growing struggle of unionized South African truck assembly workers who are fighting for a standardized pay rate. *General Industrial Workers Union of South Africa General Secretary John Appolis talked about the critical strike at the Clover Dairy company owned by the Israeli billionaire Werthiem family. *n Namibia last September 9, union branch leaders of the Rossing Uranium Mine were fired by the state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation. They are still fighting to get their jobs back and the Namibian government has shut off water and electricity at the home of their lawyer Hewat Beukes. *South African trade unionist and researcher David Hemson who talked about the role of Chinese investment in Africa with Pacificas Steve Zeltzer. *Western governments along with their loyal media and think tanks warn that China is colonizing, exploiting, and forcing Africa into a debt trap. Is this true? Or is it Cold War propaganda? What is Chinas actual role in Africa and how does it compare with the Wests? Rhania Khalek of Breakthrough News spoke with two leading African leftists: Kambale Musavuli, an activist, writer, and analyst with the Center for Research on the Congo, and Mikaela Nhondo Erskog, a researcher at the Tricontinental Institute, a member of the organizing committee of No Cold War, and an educator and researcher with Pan Africanism Today, which works with organizations like NUMSA in South Africa.