Notes on Gentrification for the Manchester Conference
August 2009
defining ourselves
We are here as elected delegates of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the South African shackdwellers' movement. We approach each challenge and opportunity from within our own 'living politics' which the President of our movement, S'bu Zikode has described as a politics that:
starts from the places we have taken. We call it a living politics because it comes from the people and stays with the people. It is ours and it is part of our lives. ... It is the politics of our lives. It is made at home with what we have and it is made for us and by us.