Zwelivelile Mandela’s Message to the Palestinian Resistance
Middle East Eye October 16, 2023 “Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Zwelivelile Mandela, voiced...
WATCH: The Do Gooders
"NGOs are increasingly motivated by self interest, they need money, they need to pay themselves in their jobs and in order to get those contracts they have to keep quiet about what’s going on and that’s really shitty to see."
FLASHBACK: The Missionary Position – NGOs and Development in Africa
2002: "NGOs face a stark choice. If they stand in favour of the emancipation of humankind (whether at home or abroad), then the focus of their work has inevitably to be in the political domain, supporting those social movements that seek to challenge a social system that benefits a few and impoverishes the many. The closing years of apartheid in Africa were illustrative of the choice that NGOs face today: either they supported the emerging popular movements (in South Africa and internationally) that supported the overthrow of a brutal system of exploitation, or they stayed silent and continued their philanthropic work, and became thereby complicit in the crimes of the system of apartheid."