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Pixley Ka Izaka Seme, the founder of the African National Congress, explained the purpose of the first conference of what was to become the ANC, in these words: “ Chiefs of royal blood and gentlemen of our race, we have gathered here to consider and discuss a scheme which my colleagues and I have decided to place before you. We have discovered that in the land of their birth, Africans are treated as hewers of wood and drawers of water. The white people of this country have formed what is known as the Union of South Africa - a union in which we have no voice in the making of laws and no part in their administration. We have called you, therefore, to this conference, so that we can together devise ways and means of forming our national union for the purpose of creating national unity and defending our rights and privileges. ” It is an irony then, that Wednesday 11 th September 2013, marked the beginning of the Parliamentary hearings in which the continuation of this exclusion ...

“Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused”. This quote by Woodrow Wilson, that liberal president of the United States who sought to found the League of Nations, in a lecture he delivered at Columbia University in 1907, clearly outlined the complete dedication of the West to the domination of world trade.  By the 1980`s the naked aggression of the West was reconfigured into what today is known as neoliberalism. David Harvey in his work A Brief History of Neoliberalism concludes that “ the process of neoliberalization has, however, en...