State violence against the poor is not the solution
Thapelo Mohapi, The Daily Maverick It is vital that the government immediately begins to include the organisations of the poor and the working class in all Covid-19 planning and implementation. If they...
View ArticleA Set Back in Court: The struggle continues under difficult circumstances
Tuesday, 7 April 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement A Set Back in Court: The struggle continues under difficult circumstances As we have detailed in a number of statements, and has been widely...
View ArticleFIGHTING STATE VIOLENCE: SOLIDARITY WITH ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO & ALL PEOPLE’S...
9 April 2020 SRWP STATEMENT FIGHTING STATE VIOLENCE: SOLIDARITY WITH ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO & ALL PEOPLE’S STRUGGLES FOR HOUSING Despite the declaration that no evictions would take place during the...
View ArticleTwenty-Nine Brave Women Arrested, Two Settlements Attacked
Friday, 10 April 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Twenty-Nine Brave Women Arrested, Two Settlements Attacked Yesterday the KwaMathambo settlement in Redhill and the Burnwood settlement in...
View ArticleSOLIDARITY WITH ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO: SRWP CONDEMNS THE ARREST OF 29 WOMEN...
10 APRIL 2020 SRWP STATEMENT: SOLIDARITY WITH ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO: SRWP CONDEMNS THE ARREST OF 29 WOMEN AND DEMANDS THE IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION OF ALL EVICTIONS BY THE ETHEKWINI MUNICIPALITY On 9 April...
View ArticleThe eThekwini Municipality continues to attack the poor; victory for shack...
Saturday, 18 April 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement The eThekwini Municipality continues to attack the poor; victory for shack dwellers in Cape Town The ANC led municipality in Durban, under...
View ArticleImpi Yokulwa Nabampofu! War on the Poor!
Wednesday, 22 April 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Impi yokulwa nabampofu iyaqhubeka eThekwini The war against the poor continues in Durban At around 6:30 last night armed members of the...
View ArticleWhy this Suffering?
Thursday 23 April 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League Statement Why this Suffering? Blood is running like a river through our homes. We are under constant attack from Calvin & Family...
View ArticleVictory in Court, Blood in the Occupation
Friday, 24 April 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Victory in Court, Blood in the Occupation Today we went back to the High Court in Durban to ask the court to enforce the interdict granted...
View ArticleImpunity for Attempted Murder
25 April 2020 Abahlali baseMojondolo Press Statement Impunity for Attempted Murder Yesterday we secured an interdict against the illegal and violent evictions that the eThekwini Municipality has been...
View ArticleAbahlali baseMjondolo is in Solidarity with the Workers of the World
Friday, 1 May 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement Abahlali baseMjondolo is in Solidarity with the Workers of the World Our movement was started in 2005 as a movement of the poor. From the...
View ArticleSeriousConcern at Escalating State Xenophobia
Friday, 8 May 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement Serious Concern at Escalating State Xenophobia The crisis caused by the coronavirus is being exploited by the government as an excuse to repress...
View ArticleState Attacks Continue in Durban
Tuesday, 12 May 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo State Attacks Continue in Durban Today the eThekwini Municipality’s notoriously violent Anti-Land Invasion Unit and the equally notorious Calvin & Family...
View ArticleCelebrating Being African Means Opposing Xenophobia
Monday, 25 May 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Celebrating Being African Means Opposing Xenophobia Today is Africa Day. The same politicians that repress popular organisation and make deals...
View ArticleOrganise or Starve
Tuesday, 26 May 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement Organise or starve Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic social movements have been in the forefront of building networks of mutual aid...
View ArticleThe Politic of Blood Must be Stopped
Wednesday, 3 June 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement The Politic of Blood Must be Stopped If you are poor and black your life does not count to this society. It is often the state that will...
View ArticleWe offer our full support to the American rebellion
Friday, 5 June 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement We offer our full support to the American rebellion People dying from the coronavirus can’t breathe in their last hours. They die suffocating....
View ArticleSTOP Illegal Evictions! A research report into the eviction of shack-dwellers...
9 June 2020 Violent evictions and demolitions of poor black shack-dwellers homes in South Africa are ongoing and must be stopped immediately! As the world rises against the disproportionate...
View ArticleBuilding Food Sovereignty from Below
15 June 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo Building Food Sovereignty from Below There was a serious problem of hunger in South Africa before the Covid-19 lockdown as a result of the long history of colonial...
View ArticleToday We Mourn
16 June 2020 Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement Youth League Press statement Today We Mourn Today the Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth are mourning all the comrades who lost their lives in the struggle against...
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