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Content by or about South African shack-dwellers' organisation Abahlali baseMjondolo.

Abahlali baseMjondolo meeting in Durban

Abahlali baseMjondolo meeting in Durban

Abahlali baseMjondolo

Abahlali baseMjondolo activists kidnapped then tortured at house of local ward councillor

On Monday two members of Abahlali were attacked by unknown people in their Silver…

Abahlali baseMjondolo in Caoe Town

Politics at stake: a note on stakeholder analysis

In what Partha Chatterjee calls 'most of the world' the state and capital have two defences against grassroots political society - the police and…

A return to repression in Durban: activist shot in the back

After the conviction and sentencing of two ANC councillors for the murder of an Abahlali…

Abahlali baseMjondolo meeting in Durban

A Short Course in Politics at the University of Abahlali baseMjondolo

Raj Patel on participatory democracy in Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durban, South Africa.

Shack Fire in the Kennedy Road settlement, Durban

“... we are being left to burn because we do not count”: Biopolitics, Abandonment, and Resistance

Anna Selmeczi on popular resistance to the lethal segmentation of the urban order…

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Dis/placing political illiteracy: the politics of intellectual equality in a South African shack-dwellers’ movement

The production and abandonment of surplus people also depends on rendering them as…

Abahlali baseMjondolo protest in Durban

Educating Resistance

by Anna Selmeczi, 2010 While deeply sympathetic to David Harvey’s commitment to a politics that can move to a new and more just order this paper,…

South Africa: class struggle, 'xenophobia' and the local elite

This article offers a brief case study of how grassroots self organisation enables communities to…

Abahlali baseMjondolo funeral in Durban

Escalating Political Violence in South Africa

An article from the mainstream media in South Africa on escalating political violence including assassinations, police murders and violence from…

Another Abahlali baseMjondolo comrade has just been assassinated in Durban

South African shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo have just announced that Thuli Ndlovu,…

Martha Chofe & her son with the remains of her home, Cato Crest

Land occupations continue in Durban

South African shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo report on the illegal eviction of shacks in an occupied settlement by municipal…

To vote or not to vote: should it be a question?

This article looks at the upcoming elections in South Africa on the 7th of May. As part of this, it looks at the dangers of activists promoting…