Local anarchists, including from BMC (Gauteng), attended the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), which was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, under UN auspices, from 26 August-4 September 2002. BMC was part of the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), and would have marched with the big APF contingent. The march saw probably the largest ever single procession by the “new social movements” that emerged post-apartheid: these were centred on wretched township conditions and neo-liberal municipal reforms; many of the movements were linked through bodies like the APF coalition; the “new social movement” procession was perhaps 10,000-strong. Note: the images show, again, how poor ordinary digital photos were those days.


