Sweet Home: A Preliminary Investigation into the Socio-Political Character of...
Jared Sacks For much of the winter of 2012, communities in shack settlements across Cape Town took to the streets in some of the most active civil disobedience protests since 1994. Knowing that the...
View ArticleThe poor are punished for demanding our constitutional rights
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2014-03-06-the-poor-are-punished-for-demanding-our-constitutional-rights/ S'bu Zikode, The Daily Maverick The word 'democracy' has often been misunderstood....
View ArticleRoad Blockade now on in iSiphingo
7 March 2014 Abahlali baseMjondolo Statement Road Blockade now on in iSiphingo Residents of the iSiphingo transit camps are currently engaged in a road blockade. Transit camps are never acceptable....
View Articlebell hooks on the Home as a Site of Politics
Historically, African-American people believed that the construction of a home-place, however fragile and tenuous (the slave hut, the wooden shack), had a radical dimension, one’s homeplace was the...
View ArticleCape Argus: Council’s demolition of shacks unlawful – court
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/council-s-demolition-of-shacks-unlawful-court-1.1660881#.UyK37T-Sx1W March 13 2014 By Daneel Knoetze CAPE ARGUS Cape Town – There were scenes of jubilation...
View ArticleDaily Maverick: Analysis: Landmark judgment – what constitutes a home?
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-03-13-analysis-landmark-judgment-what-constitutes-a-home On Thursday, the Cape High Court ruled in favour of the Marikana occupiers and instructed the City...
View ArticleMarikana Land Occupation Wins Important Victory in Cape Town High Court
13 March 2014 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Marikana Land Occupation Wins Important Victory in Cape Town High Court Today, there was a landmark ruling for our comrades in the Marikana Land...
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View ArticleMakana Municipality Bans another March
Tuesday, 18 March 2014 Unemployed Peoples’ Movement Press Statement Makana Municipality Bans another March Municipalities around the country are banning marches and supressing the right to protest....
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The state- and corporate- media in South Africa won't let us forget that 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of representative democracy. But the thinking of people's organisations, and the...
View ArticlePadkos: Twenty Years of Democracy: “the call of a world that does not yet exist”
The state and corporate media in South Africa won't let us forget that 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of representative democracy. But the thinking of people's organisations, and the conditions...
View ArticleNkandla report’s story: Taking from the poor to give to the rich
Socio-Economic Rights Institute PRESS STATEMENT 20 March 2014 Nkandla report’s story: Taking from the poor to give to the rich Funds meant for informal settlement upgrading and urban regeneration...
View ArticleRemembering Sharpeville Day in Grahamstown
Thursday, 20 March 2014 Press Statement for Immediate Release from the Masifunde Education and Development Project Trust Together with the Rural People’s Movement & the Unemployed People’s...
View ArticleWe are the Women of Marikana and we will occupy Wonderkop Stadium Tomorrow on...
Sikhala Sonke eMarikana Press Statement 20 March 2014 We are the Women of Marikana and we will occupy Wonderkop Stadium Tomorrow on Human Rights Day, 21 March 2014. The women of Marikana have been...
View ArticleWorld Aids Day
02 December 2016 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement World Aids Day Yesterday was World Aids Day. The movement of Abahlali baseMjondolo held a youth workshop to discuss this disease. There are a lot...
View ArticlePicket Against Kabila at the DRC Embassy in Pretoria
Press Statement from The Congolese Solidarity Campaign & Abahlali baseMjondolo, Monday 12 December 2016 Picket Against Kabila at the DRC Embassy in Pretoria The Congolese Solidarity Campaign, based...
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Two Lives Lost in a Shack Fire in Bhambayi, Inanda
14 December 2016 Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA Press Statement Two Lives Lost in a Shack Fire in Bhambayi, Inanda The festive season is the time for most people to gather with families and...
View ArticleDaily Maverick: Between frying pan and fire: Cape Town’s shack dwellers
It’s the festive season for all, but for some, who live in close proximity and without electricity, it’s also fire season. In the last week, hundreds of Cape Town people have lost their homes in shack...
View Article2016: A year of progress for our movement
20 December 2016 Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA Press statement 2016: A year of progress for our movement The year 2016 has come and gone. As we move from one year to another we need to reflect on...
View ArticleAbahlali baseMjondolo Choir to Record
3 February 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA Press Statement Abahlali baseMjondolo Choir to Record People who are living in shack settlements are often considered as people who are aimless, people...
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