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English student Sarah Cooper-Knock responds to the attack on Abahlali baseMjondolo by a state backed ethnic militia.

A short overview of the history of shacks and shack dwellers struggles in Durban with a focus on enclosure, insurgent commoning, and the politics of space.

California dreaming turns to California nightmare as decades of agribusiness, real estate…

As the new wave of state repression against Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) continues the Pemary Ridge Thirteen have been released but the Kennedy Road Thirteen remain in the notorious Westville prison. Bishop Rubin Phillip, who was Steve Biko's Deputy in the South African Student's Organisation in 1969, has called for their immediate release.

This lecture critiques devastating role of party politics in society which divides and controls people. It argues for living politics which…

Statement by Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Zizek and others in support of 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.

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.