Abahlali: We were promised homes for all, not just for ANC party members
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 10 2013 10:54
South African shack dwellers' direct action movement Abahlali baseMjondolo on the death and legacy of Nelson Mandela.
“If the ANC does to you what the Apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the Apartheid government.”
- Nelson Mandela, Cosatu1 Conference, 1993
- 1. Main South African trade union federation
Another Abahlali baseMjondolo activist murdered in Durban, this time by the police
Submitted by red jack on Oct 1 2013 08:39
Nqobile Nzuza, 17 years, old was shot dead by the police yesterday morning on a road blockade. She was shot in the back, twice. This is the statement from Abahlali baseMjondolo.
Nqobile Nzuza a 17 year old girl, a grade 9 learner at Bonella High School and an Abahlali baseMjondolo supporter was gunned down at around 5:00 a.m. on 30 September. Nqobile was shot twice from behind with live ammunition. Luleka Makhwenkwana was also shot in her arm with live ammunition and she is in King Edward Hospital. Thulisile Zide fainted and went unconscious, she is also in hospital.
Abahlali baseMjondolo organise march of thousands in Durban in protest at repression
Submitted by red jack on Sep 17 2013 09:05
This article is from the mainstream press in South Africa. But it gives a good enough account of the large protest (thousands of people) that Abahlali baseMjondolo were able to organise in Durban yesterday despite two assassinations, death threats and relentless (illegal) evictions of their members at the Marikana Land Occupation in Cato Crest, Durban.
Shack dwellers take the fight to eThekwini – and the ANC takes note
Nkululeko Gwala
Submitted by red jack on Jul 1 2013 17:06
Photograph of Nkululeko Gwala - Abahlali baseMjondolo activist assassinated in Durban on 26 June 2013.
Abahlali baseMjondolo activist Nkululeko Gwala assassinated in Durban, South Africa
Submitted by red jack on Jun 29 2013 07:31
Nkululeko Gwala was assassinated on 26 June 2013. He is the third Abahlali baseMjondolo activist to be murdered this year and the fourth housing activist to be murdered in Durban this year.
Lindela 'Mashumi' Figlan
A biography of Abahlali baseMjondolo militant, Lindela Figlan, from late September 2012.
Lindela Figlan was born on the 27th of December 1970 in J.B. Location in Flagstaff in Pondoland in what was then the Transkei bantustan.
The Marikana mine workers massacre – a massive escalation in the war on the poor
Submitted by Mark. on Aug 20 2012 20:13
Ayanda Kota from South African shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo reports on the background to the massacre of striking mine workers at Marikana Platinum.
18 August 2012
It’s now two days after the brutal, heartless and merciless cold blood bath of 45 Marikana mine workers by the South African Police Services. This was a massacre!
Solidarity with mine workers at Marikana Platinum
Submitted by red jack on Aug 17 2012 13:49
This statement from South African shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo on the massacre at Marikana Platinum has just come out on their newswire. The death toll is now over 40.
17 August 2012
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press statement
Solidarity with Mine Workers at Marikana Platinum
The Land belongs to the People: The Government of Cape Town Violates the Rights of the Poor
Carmen Ludwig on the struggle from Cape Town - appropriation from below and repression from above.
Even 17 years after the end of the apartheid regime the majority of South Africans are living in the world’s most unequal country and are still fighting a daily struggle for the realisation of their constitutional rights.
No Easy Path Through the Embers
A reflection on the repression of Abahlali baseMjondolo at the hands of the ANC in the wake of the case against the Kennedy 12 being thrown out of court.
In Texaco, his novel about the history of a shack settlement in Martinique, Patrick Chamoiseau writes of a “proletariat without factories, workshops, and work, and without bosses, in the muddle of odd jobs, drowning in survival and leading an existence like a path through embers.” But Texaco is also a novel of struggle, of struggle with the “persistence of Sisyphus”- struggle to hold a soul togeth
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