Ancestors

Written by spideralex on 2025-01-24 at 16:21

My great friend @stoopt did her PhD about the Vula operation during apartheid in South Africa. She interviewed many participants from the African National Congress (ANC) Technical Comittee that set up an encrypted communication system between South Africa, Zambia, UK and other countries as shown in the graphic designed by @foockinho You can read an article from Stoop here showing how many women took active part in creating this system and contributing to its success https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/coloniality-infrastructure/410019/from-dream-to-reality-the-african-national-congress-internet/

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Written by spideralex on 2025-01-24 at 16:25

@stoopt @foockinho As usual, if you read the Wikipedia page on the Vula operation, which is only in one language so far, it looks like only men took part in the operation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Vula No mention or picture of Janet Love, Susan Tshabalala or Zarina Maharaj among others who took part in the Vula operation https://www.zarinamaharaj.co.za/content/index.cfm?CFID=8253177b-456f-4b04-afce-7ece8b017d06&CFTOKEN=0&navID=1&itemID=3#299

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Toot

Written by spideralex on 2025-01-24 at 16:29

@stoopt @foockinho

The systemic erasure of women and gender dissidents from the documentation of how technologies are made is crazy, more so in this case with such an important liberatory tecnology. I look forward to more work from @stoopt that will give back to women their role in making this amazing system work, either at the forefront of implementing this technology, either by holding the space in the 'parallel struggle of the family waged by women and children' (Professor Fatima Meer).

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Descendants

Written by spideralex on 2025-01-24 at 16:37

If you are curious about this Vula operation, you should be, because it is an amazing chapter in the history of social movements creating the technologies they need to advance their struggle and achieve social and racial justice. You can have a look at this TV documentary, not visually great but pretty accurate, which also tells about Tim Jenkins' escape from Pretoria prison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29vrvKsKXPI

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Written by Khrys on 2025-01-24 at 17:04

@spideralex And it's also on PeerTube :-)

https://videos.globenet.org/videos/watch/77ca6001-d0b4-41e6-b35b-61fbf93dafb5

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