In the Ruins of the Present
by Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Experiences of South Africa’s Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM or the Shack Dwellers) and Brazil’s Movement dos Trabalhadores See Terra (MST or the Landless Workers...
View ArticleANC Government Forcefully Removes People in Tembisa
Sunday, 8 April 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement ANC Government Forcefully Removes People in Tembisa The community of Vusimuzi in Tembisa, Johannesburg, is facing a forced development by the...
View ArticleForced Development, Demolitions, Flooding & Threats in Vusimuzi, Tembisa
Wednesday, 11 April 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Forced Development, Demolitions, Flooding & Threats in Vusimuzi, Tembisa Councillor Seloane in Ward 90 has forcibly imposed a...
View ArticleUnFreedom Day 2018
20 April 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Unfreedom Day 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA will hold its annual Unfreedom Day Rally on 22 April 2018 at the Springfield Park Sports Ground...
View ArticleInkulumo ka Mongameli wa Bahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA, ye-Unfreedom Day...
Asikakhululeki Isonto, Epreli 2018 Inkulumo ka Mongameli wa Bahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA, ye-Unfreedom Day Rally ayethule ezinkundleni zemidlalo I Springfield TVET College, eThekwini uS’bu Zikode...
View ArticleAbahlali Continues to Grow and to Occupy and Hold Land
24 April 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA Press Statement Abahlali Continues to Grow and to Occupy and Hold Land Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA held a successful UnFreedom Day Rally in Durban...
View ArticleUnfreedom Day Rally: Freedom a figment of elite imagination, say 50,000 shack...
Dennis Webster, Daily Maverick Abahlali used its UnFreedom Day rally to repeat a call for progressive political movements in South Africa to transcend the limits of the factory floor or the shack...
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A New Land Occupation in Germiston
12 May 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement A New Land Occupation in Germiston Last night more than two hundred people occupied unused land in Germiston, on the East Rand in Gauteng. We laid out...
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Abahlali continue to resist on the Zikode Extension Land Occupation on the...
13 May 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Abahlali continue to resist on the Zikode Extension Land Occupation on the East Rand in Gauteng Abahlali baseMjondolo in Gauteng who are currently in...
View ArticleLand occupation defies a broken system
Xolisa Phillip, Business Day Visit any black area in the Eastern Cape and you will find a section called eNdlovini. This has a double meaning: the first literal translation is “at the elephant/place of...
View ArticleMemorial service for Comrade S’fiso Ngcobo
1 May 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Memorial service for Comrade S’fiso Ngcobo Today Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement will hold a memorial service for our fallen Comrade, and chairperson of...
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Motala Heights: Child shot in Land Invasion Unit raid
Motala Heights: Child shot by Land Invasion Unit
View ArticleNew Abahlali branch to be named in honour of S’fiso Ngcobo
Friday, 1 June 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement New Abahlali branch to be named in honour of S’fiso Ngcobo Yesterday Abahlali baseMjondolo held a powerful memorial service at eKukhanyeni in...
View ArticleAbahlali murders show that your right to speaks still depends on where you live
Steven Friedman, Business Day Will those of us who are free to speak ever hear those who are not? Last weekend, the shack dweller movement Abahlali baseMjondolo buried S’fiso Ngcobo, who was chair of...
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Paying in Blood for a Shack to Call Home
A full page article on S’bu Zikode, published in the Sunday Times, on 3 June 2018. S’bu was interviewed by the journalist at the funeral for S’fiso Ngcobo. Sunday Times profile in S’bu Zikode
View ArticleSerious Threats Made Against our Movement by Leaders in the eThekwini ANC
Thursday, 14 June 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Serious Threats Made Against our Movement by Leaders in the eThekwini ANC At the Executive Committee meeting of the eThekwini Municipality...
View ArticleANC eThekwini leaders accused of threatening shack-dwellers movement
Daniel Friedman, The Citizen The movement, which has seen three members assassinated in the last year, says it has been threatened with violence by the eThekwini ANC. Social movement Abahlali, which...
View ArticleSA’s road to freedom is stalked by death
Richard Pithouse, Mail & Guardian The political assassination is not a phenomenon that is restricted to KwaZulu-Natal. But there is no doubt that it is overwhelmingly concentrated in that province....
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