Abahlali baseMjondolo

An introduction to the new pamphlet by Abahlali baseMjondolo launched in Pinetown (near Durban) at an event attended by hundreds of people, two days before the ANC militia attacked Kennedy…

S'bu Zikode's first hurried notes on the ANC atrocities in the Kennedy Road settlement.

On Saturday 26 September, Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers movement, was attacked in the Kennedy Road settlement, Durban, by an armed mob chanting ethnic slogans and backed, fully, by the ANC. This article is based on a report from an Abahlali member in Durban.

The Anglican Bishop of South Africa has issued a statement on the attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo

Activists in the South African shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo have been attacked in Durban, leaving several dead.

Mzonke Poni, Chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape, is scheduled to stand trial on the charge of public violence on Tuesday 29 September 2009.

Interview with a South African housing activist about recent struggles in Durban.

Matt Birkinshaw, a researcher from London, spent three months living in Abahlali baseMjondolo communities in Durban and Cape Town in 2008. This paper, prepared for a conference in Manchester, gives a brief but useful overview of the movement.

This article by Nigel Gibson gives an overview of the emergence of Abahlali baseMjondolo in 2005. Much has changed since then - the movement has grown enormously and the early ambivalence about the ANC on the part of some militants was decisively broken in 2006 - but this is a classic account of the early days of the movement.

The Macassar Village Land Occupation, organised by Abahlali baseMjondolo, has rocked Cape Town. In a…

S'bu Zikode's article in response to the attempts of the South African government to attack the shack dwellers' movement.

S’bu Zikode is the elected president of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a radical and radically democratic…