It looks like the tides that swept up the Occupy Wall Street protest campaign – ongoing after three weeks – have broken international boundaries. Operation Ubuntu has been set up to launch simultaneous protests on 15 of October in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Grahamstown, as part of the global Occupy Revolution campaign.

The Cape Town branch of the campaign is planning on occupying Parliament Gardens on Saturday the 15 October at 08h00. Check out their Facebook page, which was about 200-strong at time of writing. The #occupycapetown hashtag is also lighting up pretty quickly on Twitter.

The Durban Group, meanwhile, plans on occupying City Hall, while the Johannesburg group stakes out the Exchange Square.

Says the Occupy South Africa website:

Our Mission:

On October 15th 2011 , we want to see 20,000 people to flood into Cape Town CBD, set up beds, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Cape Town Parliament Gardens.

Like our brothers and sisters at Wall Street and in Egypt, Greece, Spain, and Iceland, we plan to use the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic of mass occupation to restore democracy in South Africa. We also encourage the use of nonviolence to achieve our ends and maximize the safety of all participants.

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Occupy SA – Operation Ubuntu is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. The People come as the People.

The other thing that all these guys have in common, obviously, is Facebook and Twitter. Still, it should be something worth looking out for. The Cape Town branch has a planning day on Monday, 10 October at 15h00 at Community House, Salt River Road in Salt River.

[Source: OccupySA ]