Rio on Watch: The People Will Govern: South African Anti-Eviction Activists...
http://rioonwatch.org/?p=12402 Can you talk a little about Abahali’s organizational structure? S’Bu Zikode: It’s based on organization and education at the grassroots level–and crucial to all this is...
View ArticleDaily Maverick: Tongaat tragedy – when political connections and dodgy...
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-11-20-tongaat-tragedy-when-political-connections-and-dodgy-tenders-cost-lives The Ethekwini Municipality just never learns. For ten years, the ANC-dominated...
View ArticleDemocracy in Africa: The right to the city – a theory, a slogan, a politics...
http://democracyinafrica.org/right-city-theory-slogan-politics-everyday-life/ Last week, Professor Marie Huchzermeyer gave her inaugural lecture at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she is a...
View ArticleThe Times (London): ‘Black Boers’ clear townships by force
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/africa/article3928464.ece The Times (London) November 22, 2013 Friday 'Black Boers' clear townships by force; South Africa Ruth Maclean Nelson Mandela's...
View ArticleOn predictability. The everyday struggles of shack dwellers in South Africa
http://democracyinafrica.org/predictability-everyday-struggles-shack-dwellers-south-africa/ Last week, the award-winning film, Dear Mandela, by Dara Kell and Christopher Nizza, was screened at the...
View ArticleMahala: Poor Man’s Burden
http://www.mahala.co.za/reality/poor-mans-burden/ by Samora Chapman and Caelin Roodt, Mahala According to Abahlali baseMjondolo, the uprising in Cato Crest is being quelled by all means necessary:...
View ArticleSERI: Informal trader beaten by JMPD officers
http://www.seri-sa.org/index.php/38-latest-news/208-seri-press-statement-informal-trader-beaten-by-jmpd-officers-25-november-2013 PRESS STATEMENT 25 November 2013 Informal trader beaten by JMPD...
View ArticleThe Star: Ambulance left ‘dirty’ woman to die
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/ambulance-left-dirty-woman-to-die-1.1615729 By THERESA TAYLOR Johannesburg – Sarah Bezuidenhout’s living conditions were harsh. A small shack of...
View ArticleMokoape, Vavi, Naidoo & Kasrils to Speak at the Assembly of the Unemployed
03 December 2013 Unemployed People’s Movement Press Statement Mokoape, Vavi, Naidoo & Kasrils to Speak at the Assembly of the Unemployed From the 7th to the 9th of December our movement, other...
View ArticleCLP: What CLP Believes
http://www.churchland.org.za/?page_id=3019 PADKOS NO 45 In civil society organisations, the overwhelming tendency is to speak – and the unerring consequence is to reinforce the silencing of the...
View ArticleLandesweite Versammlung der Arbeitslosen
http://akkrise.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/landesweite-versammlung-der-arbeitslosen/ Es ist Zeit, der Krise der Massenarbeitslosigkeit etwas entgegen zu setzen. Unsere Würde ist nicht verhandelbar. Die...
View ArticleAbM: Marsch in Clare Estate am 18. November 2013
http://akkrise.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/abm-marsch-in-clare-estate-am-18-november-2013/ Wir werden zu Stadtrat Bhekisane Ngcobo gehen. Der Marsch beginnt um 9:00 Uhr in Foreman Road und wird um 13:00...
View ArticleNelson Mandela: The Crossing
http://www.sacsis.org.za/site/article/1865 by Richard Pithouse [D]eath is always close by, and what's important is not to know if you can avoid it, but to know that you have done the most possible to...
View ArticleJMPD officials disregard Con Court order, assault and arrest lawyer acting...
PRESS STATEMENT Issued by: Socio-Economic Rights Institute of SA (SERI) 5 December 2013 JMPD officials disregard Con Court order, assault and arrest lawyer acting for informal traders Nomzamo...
View ArticleNelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom has come to an End
Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom has come to an End Bandile Mdlalose Our hero, the light of the nation, the father off all who feared nothing when it came to his children has now left us in pain....
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