Another Comrade Has Fallen in the Struggle for Land
12 January 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Another Comrade Has Fallen in the Struggle for Land Our movement has been facing a lot of brutality in the last three months. On 19 November our...
View ArticlePolice Officer Sentenced to Ten Years Imprisonment for the Murder of Our...
Monday, 15 January 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Police Officer Sentenced to Ten Years Imprisonment for the Murder of Our Comrade, Nqobile Nzuza Today Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA...
View ArticleGroundUp: Ten years in prison not enough for cop who killed my daughter, says...
GroundUp “Justice is not rightly served when police are involved” Cabangile Ngidi says 10 years in prison is not sufficient punishment for the “unremorseful” police officer who killed her daughter...
View ArticleAbahlali Return to the High Court Tomorrow as Repression & Intimidation Continue
Tuesday, 23 January 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Abahlali Return to the High Court Tomorrow as Repression & Intimidation Continue On 27 July last year our movement obtained a court...
View ArticleDeath Threats at the eNkanini Land Occupation in Cato Manor
Wednesday, 31 January 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Death Threats at the eNkanini Land Occupation in Cato Manor We continue to face serious intimidation and repression in our land...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Shack Dwellers See Politics Very Differently Than the Average...
Vijay Prashad, AlterNet Walking into the settlement at Kennedy Road in Durban, what one is confronted with is the familiarity of the place. I’ve been here before. Not to this settlement, but to others...
View ArticleAbahlali to Launch a New Branch in Gauteng Province
9 February 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Abahlali to Launch a New Branch in Gauteng Province The movement of Abahlali baseMjondoli will launch another new branch in Gauteng tomorrow. The...
View ArticleGood Hope Settlement in Germiston is Ready to Occupy if We Continue to be...
28 February 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Good Hope Settlement in Germiston is Ready to Occupy if We Continue to be Ignored Our movement now has five branches on the East Rand in Gauteng....
View ArticleAbahlali baseMjondolo to hold Solidarity Meeting in Durban
2 March 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Abahlali baseMjondolo to hold Solidarity Meeting in Durban Our movement will be hosting a solidarity meeting in Durban with comrades from other...
View ArticleAbahlali baseMjondolo are under attack in eKukhayeni
Thursday, 8 March 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Abahlali baseMjondolo are under attack in eKukhayeni Abahlali baseMjondolo are once again under attack in eKukhanyeni in Marianridge. Our...
View ArticleUrban land question is also urgent
by Richard Pithouse, The opening pages of Frantz Fanon’s The Damned of the Earth offer a searing account of the city under settler colonialism. It is “a world divided into compartments”, “a world cut...
View ArticleLand Occupations are Urban Land Reform from Below but Sale of Land is Criminal
Tuesday, 13 March 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement Land Occupations are Urban Land Reform from Below but Sale of Land is Criminal Abahlali are pleased to announce that there has been...
View ArticleANC Continues to Encourage Tribalism
20 March 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA. Press Statement ANC Continues to Encourage Tribalism Our movement is built from the unity of families, neighbours and communities in struggle. If you...
View ArticleBrutal and Illegal Evictions Continue to Undermine our Human Rights in New...
Wednesday, 21 March 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Brutal and Illegal Evictions Continue to Undermine our Human Rights in New City, Marianridge Abahlali in New City in Marianridge are under...
View ArticleThe Politics of the ‘Expropriation of Land without Compensation’ in South Africa
23 March 2018 The Politics of the ‘Expropriation of Land without Compensation’ in South Africa S’bu Zikode, Urbanization: Impact of land availability – focus on land occupation Indaba organised by MEC...
View ArticleIn 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...
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