Thousands to march against eviction for a massive themepark in South Africa Fifty thousand people are threatened by an eviction to build a Zulu themepark with Dubai money.
'Be a visitor, not a spy' - QQ Section, Site B, Khayelitsha Matt Birkinshaw, a London anarchist, gives an account of his visit to the QQ shack settlement in Cape Town in diary form. QQ has recently joined the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement that began in Durban but now has a national presence.
Shack Fire Summit, Kennedy Road settlement, 22 September 2008 A statement by the Poor People's Alliance following the shack fire summit called by Abahlali baseMjondolo
The London Coalition Against Poverty This article originally appeared in Direct Action No. 42, Spring 2008, the magazine of the Solidarity Federation, the British section of the…
Two-thirds of Glasgow Housing Association will remain in a "rump GHA" It now appears some two-thirds of Glasgow tenants - in 46,272 of its current 69,395 houses - will remain in a "rump GHA".
Land and housing - S'bu Zikode Text of a speech by S'bu Zikode at the Diakonia Council of Churches Economic Justice Forum in Durban on 28 August 2008 addressing the housing…
Resistance from the other South Africa Neha Nimmagudda, a student from NYC, spent a few months working as a full time volunteer with the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement in South Africa. In this essay she reflects one of the movement's quarterly all night meetings in which critical issues are discussed.
Cape Town: two anti-eviction campaigners jailed for a year On Wednesday, July 2nd at the Bellville Magistrates Court courtroom E, two members of the Delft Anti-Eviction Campaign, Jerome Daniels and Ridwaan Isaacs, were each sentenced twelve months in prison - simply for being community leaders at Delft-Symphony Way settlement.
We are not all like that: the monster bares its fangs Black consciousness militant and activist in the Landless Peoples' Movement Andile Mngxitama responds to the May 2008 pogroms in South Africa.
South Africa: Gangster landlord continues campaign of intimidation with police support The poor of Motala Heights, affiliated to Abahlali baseMjondolo since 2006, are fighting a bitter battle against eviction against a local gangster business man and the local state. There have recently been death threats and threats of arson and the local cops are acting as the gangsters' enforcers.
Abahlali baseMjondolo to host National UnFreedom Day Freedom Day, 27 April, is the major national holiday in the civic religion of post-apartheid South Africa. The poor are usually herded into…
