Mass rebellion in South Africa In South Africa the state is being confronted by an eruption of self-organised popular protest on a scale not seen since the 1980s.
Nationwide strike at South African World Cup building sites Some 70,000 construction workers in South Africa have gone on strike, halting work on stadiums being…
Abahlali baseMjondolo: ‘a homemade politics’ 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.
Zabalaza, Unfinished Struggles against Apartheid: The Shackdwellers’ Movement in Durban 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.
Martin Legassick on the Macassar Village Land Occupation in Cape Town The Macassar Village Land Occupation, organised by Abahlali baseMjondolo, has rocked Cape Town. In a…
We are the Third Force - S'bu Zikode S'bu Zikode's article in response to the attempts of the South African government to attack the shack dwellers' movement.
Resisting degradations and divisions: an interview with S'bu Zikode S’bu Zikode is the elected president of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a radical and radically democratic…
unFreedom Day 2009 Every year the militant South African shack dweller's movement Abahlali baseMjondolo holds 'unFreedom Day' on the national public holiday 'Freedom Day'. This year it went ahead with a police helicopter circling just above the assembly after an initial police attempt to ban the event was seen off.
Open Letter to US Activists Battling Evictions from the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in South Africa The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, the oldest and perhaps the most militant…
106 workers fired over wildcat in South Africa The world's largest ferrochrome producer, Xstrata said on Wednesday it had dismissed 106 workers at its Rustenburg smelter in South Africa for…
Sekwanele! Social movement struggles for land and housing in post-apartheid South Africa This article, published in the current issue of Left Turn magazine in the USA, gives a useful overview of the militant grassroots movements in South Africa.
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.
