By Abahlali Solidarity UK
National elections are being held in South Africa this year. In the UK, a new High Commissioner, Obed Mlaba, has just been installed in South Africa House. Mlaba has a failed record on urban housing and symbolises the betrayal of the post-1994 South African State. South Africa is still a place where [...]
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By Abahlali baseMjondolo / @Abahlali_ABM
Just after three this morning the River View Flats in Cato Manor were occupied. Some of the occupiers had previously been evicted from this block of flats and others were from the Marikana Land Occupation, also in Cato Manor.
The security guards stationed at the block of flats tried to prevent the [...]
By Abahlali baseMjondolo / @Abahlali_ABM
Christmas is often the time of evictions in Durban. The Municipality knows that many people are away at their rural homes and that it is difficult to get legal, media and political support at this time.
Today the municipality is demolishing homes at the Marikana land occupation in Cato Crest. About 40 houses have already [...]
By Abahlali baseMjondolo Solidarity UK
Mandela has been mourned across the world, his heroic words and deeds did far more than help end the racist apartheid system, his calm influence perhaps prevented a bloody civil war. So as Madiba has been laid to rest, it is time to much of his legacy is shown in the [...]
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By Abanali baseMjondolo / @Abahlali_ABM
“If the ANC does to you what the Apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the Apartheid government.”
- Nelson Mandela, Cosatu Conference, 1993
Today Abahlali will hold a protest in Cato Crest in honour of the late Tata Nelson Mandela. On Saturday Abahlali baseMjondolo [...]
By Bandile Mdlalose
On June 3, 2010 when I became the General Secretary of Abahlali BaseMjondolo Movement S.A. I vowed to die where Abahlali members die. I vowed to protect my country. I vowed to be loyal to the poorest of the poor. I vowed to uplift the Constitution of South Africa in respect for all [...]
Dear Mandela – An Award Winning Film about the first post-apartheid generation of South Africa
With Question and Answer session with a South African Speaker
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When their shantytowns were threatened with mass eviction, the young people of South Africa’s sprawling shack settlements rose from their shacks to protect their homes, their constitutional rights and their dignity.
6:30 [...]
“[Mzonke Poni is the] face of an ANC nightmare – an angry activist mobilising the township masses to protest at what he calls the government’s failure to create a better life for the poor.”
- Sunday Times (South Africa)
By Kwadwo Kari-Kari
“All day, all week, we sleep on London’s freezing streets.” – Occupy LSX placard
Let me start with a confession: I have not spent a single night sleeping at any of the occupations. If that appalls you, I can only apologise. However, I was one of two protesters that successfully “occupied” Paternoster Square from [...]
From Abahlali baseMjondolo – The South African Shackdwellers Movement based in Durban.
The truth remains. The truth frees. The truth cannot be hidden with lies for ever.
For lies to continue to hide the truth they must be constantly sustained and maintained. For truth to be able to emerge from under the lies we have to constantly remember what has [...]
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