S'bu Zikode

S'bu Zikode interviewed by Vijay Prashad.

Abahlali baseMjondolo continues to be subject to assassination in Durban. This article, from the…

This is the full text of a talk given by S'bu Zikode to a group of students from the University of Chicago at the University of Cape Town today. Zikode is the leader of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a militant but very thoughtful, creative and democratic squatters' movement which is the largest social movement to have emerged in post-apartheid South Africa.

Zodwa Nsibande and S'bu Zikode, both founding members of Abahlali baseMjondolo on poverty as a life sentence - policed with paranoid vigilance by both the state and the authoritarian (white) left.

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

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

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…

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…

S'bu Zikode wrote this article in early 2007 when he was finally forced out of his job at a petrol station as punishment for his political activities with Abahlali baseMjondolo. As of March 2008 he remains unemployed.

S'bu Zikode's article after Abahlali baseMjondolo's successful anti-electoral campaign in 2006.