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…
South African Telekom workers begin three-day strike Around 14,000 Telkom employees will be going on strike from today (August 1st) over an unresolved wage dispute with management.
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.
Strikes and riots at 2010 World Cup building site Workers have still not resumed work at Mpumalanga's 2010 World Cup stadium after workers downed tools in a wage protest.
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.
On the Pogroms in South Africa An essay on the May 2008 pogroms in South Africa. First published in Sanhati.
Wildcat strike in South African mines Workers at the Everest mine in South Africa have gone on wildcat strike about health and safety issues.
The Pogroms in South Africa: The Politics of Fear and the Fear of Politics A response to the recent pogroms in South Africa from Michael Neocosmos.
Abahlali baseMjondolo statement on the xenophobic attacks in Johannesburg, 2008 In recent days the shack settlements around Johannesburg have been torn apart by appalling violence…
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…
