No, it's really nothing like this...
The manager is livid.
'AM I SHOUTING?' she
says in a raised, pointed voice.
'ISTHISABUSIVEBEHAVIOUR?'
She's directing her comments, not towards me, but to the girl next to
me. The girl, from Sri Lanka and probably one of the most precarious
workers in the whole place, looks to me and then to the boss. She
pauses. 'No ma'am you are not shouting', she says as if this is the
most obvious thing in the world.
I'm seething. Trying to
pit her against me, intimidating her to intimidate me, deny that this
whole abusive power relationship is playing out before our eyes.
Leva the supervisor
turns to me and says bluntly, 'You need to change your attitude' and
turns away.
'No, YOU need to change
your attitude' I snap back.
I stand there with my
elbows on the sign-in counter glowering at her back.
She turns around in
disbelief. The manager starts shouting again.
Leva softens slightly
and cutting through the noise, says, 'Look, I had to do your rooms, I
had to follow the girls around all of the day asking who could do
extra rooms, and it was hard for us'.
'So there's no rooms
for me today?' I say, swallowing nervously.
'No, there's no rooms
for you', says Leva in a gentler tone.
'So..... I should just
go now?'
'Yes',
'And come back
tomorrow?'
'Yes, if you want
to...... Do you want to come back?'
Fucking hate this place
and I dread coming here.
'I do yes, I want to
work'.
'So we'll see you
tomorrow'.
I nod, semi-earnestly,
and walk back to the locker room. It's in bad shape. The lavs are
always missing toilet paper, and the doors don't shut properly.
Notices on the walls above the sinks say 'PLEASE RESPECT YOUR
COLLEAGUES AND DO NOT WASH YOUR FEET IN THE SINK'.
I still don't have a
locker or a pass, so my stuff just sits in a pile. I get changed and
put on my rucksack and decide to come back to the office to
apologise.
The Manager is sitting
primly above paperwork.
'Look, I'm sorry', I
say.
'This didn't happen',
she snaps without looking at me. 'Forget it'.
I'm seven hours free
but seven hours down on my pay. I won't get paid for coming in today
– or will I?
I see Wanda outside
having a smoke at the staff exit. I've taken up smoking since I
started here, to get time with people. Smoking areas are ideal for
talking to people because you've got the time it takes to roll or
spark a cigarette and smoke it to strike up a conversation. You've
got a reason to be there. It's natural to chat. Every other space is
either full of people getting dressed or people in the lift, people
struggling to eat before they have to be back out on the floor, or
just getting out of the hotel fast. Here, at the exit, there are
smokey pauses.
I retell Wanda the
story and how I lost my cool with the bosses.
“I used to work at
the (X) in Euston”, she tells me. “There, they treated me badly.
There was a supervisor there who would order me around, and bark at
me as if I were a dog. But, as I was raised to stand up for myself
but to never shout and to keep dignified, I told her, calmly and
clearly: 'Listen, you do not speak to me like that. You do not
disrespect me in this way and I will not allow it.' And you know, I
complained about her and they did listen to me and I ended up getting
transferred here. I won't take any crap of anyone. I know my rights”.
I take a short drag on
my rollie and smile straight at her. Have I met a potential activist
here?
Hi!
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DeleteBritain First campaigns primarily against British Muslims and multiculturalism, and advocates the preservation of traditional British culture. It attracted attention by taking direct action such as "Christian patrols" and "invasions" of British mosques.[10][14
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To be conservative […] is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.[24]
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DeleteSmith is engaged to Claire Ellis, a native of Slough who was an organiser for Patriotic Alternative's southwest branch while she was in Devon.[22] In May 2022, Ellis said she would move to Scotland so she could "start a new life" with Smith.[22] They were engaged at a Patriotic Alternative conference in Scotland later that year.[22] According to The Herald, Ellis and far-right streamer Jody Swingler are founders of a Skye-based soap company, Clean & Pure, with White nationalist links.[22][14]
DeleteIn 2007, the University of Chicago Press estimated that more than 350,000 copies of The Road to Serfdom have been sold.[12] It appears on Martin Seymour-Smith's list of the 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written, and it made number 1 on Human Events: Top Ten Books Every Republican Congressman Should Read in 2006.[41] It was influential enough to warrant mention during the 1945 British general election, when according to Harold Macmillan, Winston Churchill was "fortified in his apprehensions [of a Labour government] by reading Professor Hayek's The Road to Serfdom"[42] when he warned in an election broadcast in 1945 that a socialist system would "have to fall back on some form of Gestapo". The Labour leader Clement Attlee responded in his election broadcast by claiming that what Churchill had said was the "second-hand version of the academic views of an Austrian professor, Friedrich August von Hayek".[43] The Conservative Central Office sacrificed 1.5 tons of their precious paper ration allocated for the 1945 election so that more copies of The Road to Serfdom could be printed, although to no avail, as Labour won a landslide victory.[44]
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DeleteDavis is a supporter of the Labour Party. In 2013, he told Saga magazine: "Social injustice is important to me. Life isn't about every man for himself. Life should be about co-operation and collaboration."[34] Despite initially voting for Jeremy Corbyn to be party leader, when being interviewed by Radio Times alongside fellow comedian Jo Brand regarding the broadcast of his Channel 4 sitcom Damned (which coincided with the 2016 Labour leadership election), Davies supported Owen Smith's leadership bid, saying Corbyn was an ineffective Leader of the Opposition.[35]
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DeleteBut something does. In 1985 Young, a London-based businessman, was the public affairs director of the British mining company, Consolidated Goldfields, and it was his job to formulate long-term strategy that would shore up Goldfields' interests. South Africa was in a volatile state and if it imploded the company would lose its primary assets.
Delete“As a licenced liberal in this fairly rightwing company, it was my job to think the unthinkable thoughts,” Young says. “I believed that apartheid was unsustainable and morally indefensible. It seemed to me that the real issue was how do you get ordered change from the status quo to universal suffrage? But it's not enough to have a clear ideological view, you had to ask the more difficult question: what can I do?”
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DeleteWhen apartheid was official policy in South Africa, many sports people, particularly in rugby union, adopted the conscientious approach that they should not appear in competitive sports there. Some feel this was an effective contribution to the eventual end of apartheid, others feel it may have prolonged and reinforced its worst effects.[96]
DeleteIt was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap (lit. 'boss-ship' or 'boss-hood'), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population.[4] Under this minoritarian system, white citizens held the highest status, followed by Indians, Coloureds and black Africans, in that order.[4] The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day, particularly inequality.[5][6][7][8]
Apartheid developed from the racism of colonial factions and due to South Africa's "unique industrialisation".[50] The policies of industrialisation led to the segregation and classing of people, which was "specifically developed to nurture early industry such as mining".[50] Cheap labour was the basis of the economy and this was taken from what the state classed as peasant groups and the migrants.[51] To a large extent, the political ideology of apartheid had emerged from the colonisation of Africa by European powers which institutionalised racial discrimination and exercised a paternal philosophy of "civilising inferior natives".[52]
DeleteThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949 prohibited marriage between persons of different races, and the Immorality Act of 1950 made sexual relations between whites and other races a criminal offence.
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In 1950, D. F. Malan announced the NP's intention to create a Coloured Affairs Department.[77] J.G. Strijdom, Malan's successor as prime minister, moved to strip voting rights from black and Coloured residents of the Cape Province. The previous government had introduced the Separate Representation of Voters Bill into Parliament in 1951, turning it into an Act on 18 June 1951; however, four voters, G Harris, W D Franklin, W D Collins and Edgar Deane, challenged its validity in court with support from the United Party.[78]
Before South Africa became a republic in 1961, politics among white South Africans was typified by the division between the mainly Afrikaner pro-republic conservative and the largely English anti-republican liberal sentiments,[88] with the legacy of the Boer War still a factor for some people. Once South Africa became a republic, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd called for improved relations and greater accord between people of British descent and the Afrikaners.[89] He claimed that the only difference was between those in favour of apartheid and those against it. The ethnic division would no longer be between Afrikaans and English speakers, but between blacks and whites.[citation needed]
DeleteVorster's willingness to talk to African leaders stood in contrast to Verwoerd's refusal to engage with them. In 1966, he met the heads of the neighbouring states of Lesotho, Swaziland and Botswana. In 1967, he offered technological and financial aid to any African state prepared to receive it, asserting that no political strings were attached, aware that many African states needed financial aid despite their opposition to South Africa's racial policies. Many were also tied to South Africa economically because of their migrant labour population working down the South African mines. Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland remained outspoken critics of apartheid, but were dependent on South African economic assistance.
While international opposition to apartheid grew, the Nordic countries – and Sweden in particular – provided both moral and financial support for the ANC.[171] On 21 February 1986 – a week before he was assassinated – Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme made the keynote address to the Swedish People's Parliament Against Apartheid held in Stockholm.[172] In addressing the hundreds of anti-apartheid sympathisers as well as leaders and officials from the ANC and the Anti-Apartheid Movement such as Oliver Tambo, Palme declared: "Apartheid cannot be reformed; it has to be eliminated."[173]
Soviet support for militant anti-apartheid movements worked in the government's favour, as its claim to be reacting in opposition to aggressive communist expansion gained greater plausibility, and helped it justify its own domestic militarisation methods, known as "Total Strategy".[186] Total Strategy involved building up a formidable conventional military and counter-intelligence capability.[186] It was formulated on counter-revolutionary tactics as espoused by noted French tactician André Beaufre.[187] Considerable effort was devoted towards circumventing international arms sanctions, and the government even went so far as to develop nuclear weapons,[188] allegedly with covert assistance from Israel.[189]
DeleteThe term apartheid has been adopted by Palestinian rights advocates and by leading Israeli and other human rights organizations, referring to the Israeli occupation in the West Bank, legal treatment of illegal settlements and the West Bank barrier.[259][260][261][262] Within the pre-1967 Israeli borders, Palestinian rights advocates have raised concern over discriminatory housing planning against Palestinian citizens of Israel, likening it to racial segregation.[263] Others argue that the Israeli treatment of Palestinians does not fit the definition of apartheid as it is motivated by security considerations and has nothing to do with race.[264]
Post-apartheid South Africa has struggled to correct the social inequalities created by decades of apartheid.[245] White nepotism remains a considerable obstacle to economic gain and political influence for Black South Africans.[246][247] Despite a growing gross domestic product, indices for poverty, unemployment, income inequality, life expectancy and land ownership, have declined.[248][249] No industry in the economy has over 50% ownership by Black individuals in terms of their share even though 81.4% of the South African population is Black.[246][249] The end of the apartheid system in South Africa has largely not changed the socioeconomic stratification by race.[247] While a small subset of the Black population have been able to create a Black middle class that did not exist during apartheid, the large majority of Black people in South Africa have yet to experience a difference in economic class since apartheid was abolished.[248][246] According to the World Bank, South Africa is the most economically unequal country in the world.[250]
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In the Cape Colony, which previously had a liberal and multi-racial constitution and a system of Cape Qualified Franchise open to men of all races, the Franchise and Ballot Act of 1892 raised the property franchise qualification and added an educational element, disenfranchising a disproportionate number of the Cape's non-White voters,[36] and the Glen Grey Act of 1894 instigated by the government of Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes limited the amount of land Africans could hold.
DeleteThe son of a vicar, Rhodes was born in Netteswell House, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. Due to his ill-health, at age sixteen he was sent to South Africa by his family in the hopes the climate might improve his health. At eighteen, he entered the diamond trade at Kimberley in 1871 and with funding from Rothschild & Co, began to systematically buy out and consolidate diamond mines. Over the next two decades, he gained a near-complete monopoly of the world diamond market. In 1888, he founded the diamond company De Beers, which retains its prominence into the 21st century.
On 13 March 1888, Rhodes and Rudd launched De Beers Consolidated Mines after the amalgamation of several individual claims and with the funding of N.M. Rothschild & Sons.[a] With £200,000 of capital, or $28.5 million today, the company owned the largest interest in the mine.[35] Rhodes was named secretary and chairman of De Beers at the company's founding in 1888. Financed by N M Rothschild & Sons, Rhodes and his brother spent the next seventeen years buying up all the smaller diamond mining operations in the Kimberley area, and in 1890, their monopoly over the world's diamond supply would be sealed through a strategic partnership with the London-based Diamond Syndicate; all parties agreed to maintain high prices.[36][page needed][37]
Rhodes also introduced educational reform to the area. His policies were instrumental in the development of British imperial policies in South Africa, such as the Hut tax.
Rhodes used his wealth and that of his business partner Alfred Beit and other investors to pursue his dream of creating a British Empire in new territories to the north by obtaining mineral concessions from the most powerful indigenous chiefs. Rhodes's competitive advantage over other mineral prospecting companies was his combination of wealth and astute political instincts, also called the "imperial factor," as he often collaborated with the British Government. He befriended its local representatives, the British Commissioners, and through them organized British protectorates over the mineral concession areas via separate but related treaties. In this way he obtained both legality and security for mining operations. He could then attract more investors. Imperial expansion and capital investment went hand in hand.[49][50]
The imperial factor was a double-edged sword: Rhodes did not want the bureaucrats of the Colonial Office in London to interfere in the Empire in Africa. He wanted British settlers and local politicians and governors to run it. This put him on a collision course with many in Britain, as well as with British missionaries, who favoured what they saw as the more ethical direct rule from London.
Households in which people had primarily worked as rural ranchers or as farmers proceeded to send members to work in cities or on colonial government-sponsored construction projects to earn money to pay the tax. The new colonial economies in Africa were primarily reliant upon the construction of towns and infrastructure (such as railways), and in South Africa upon the rapidly expanding mining operations.[1][need quotation to verify]
DeleteIn the last years of his life, Rhodes was stalked by Polish princess Catherine Radziwiłł, born Rzewuska, who had married into the noble Polish family Radziwiłł. The princess falsely claimed that she was engaged to Rhodes, and that they were having an affair. She asked him to marry her, but Rhodes refused. Subsequently, she accused him of loan fraud and he had to go to trial and testify against her accusations, which were proven false.[81] She later wrote a biography of Rhodes called Cecil Rhodes: Man and Empire Maker.[82]
Furthermore Rhodes saw imperialism as a way to alleviate domestic social problems - "In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists".[85]
It is said that he wanted to develop an American elite of philosopher-kings who would have the United States rejoin the British Empire. As Rhodes also respected and admired the Germans and their Kaiser, he allowed German students to be included in the Rhodes scholarships. He believed that eventually the United Kingdom (including Ireland), the US, and Germany together would dominate the world and ensure perpetual peace.[89][page needed]
One of Rhodes's dreams was for a "red line" on the map from the Cape to Cairo (on geo-political maps, British dominions were always denoted in red or pink). Rhodes had been instrumental in securing southern African states for the Empire. He and others felt the best way to "unify the possessions, facilitate governance, enable the military to move quickly to hot spots or conduct war, help settlement, and foster trade" would be to build the "Cape to Cairo Railway".[63]
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