GroundUp: Massive land occupation in Khayelitsha
GroundUp, 19 May 2017 By Ashleigh Furlong A massive land occupation is underway in Town Two, Khayelitsha, near the Magistrates’ Court with hundreds of sites demarcated on the land. If the occupiers are...
View ArticleANC Intimidation in Newcastle
21 May 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement ANC Intimidation in Newcastle Abahlali baseMjondolo continues to grow and to expand throughout Kwazulu-Natal, and the country as a whole. People in...
View ArticleA Baby has Been Killed During a Brutal Police Attack in the Foreman Road...
Monday, 29 May 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement A Baby has Been Killed During a Brutal Police Attack on the Foreman Road Settlement A two week old baby, Jayden Khoza, is dead after a brutal...
View ArticleJustice for Baby Jayden
31 May 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA Press Statement Justice for Baby Jayden On Monday the Foreman Road community in Clare Estate, Durban, came under serious police assault after a road...
View ArticleThe Mercury: Baby killed in protest
30 May 2017 Bernadette Wolhuter, The Mercury Baby killed in protest The mother of a 2-week-old baby boy who died, allegedly after inhaling tear gas fired by police during a service delivery protest in...
View ArticleGroundUp: Community leader shot dead after massive Khayelitsha land occupation
GroundUp Community leader shot dead after massive Khayelitsha land occupation Backyarders vow to continue battle for land By Thembela Ntongana 1 June 2017 A group of Khayelitsha backyarders, who...
View ArticleM&G: Beware the slide into a police state
Eusebius McKaiser 02 Jun 2017, Mail & Guardian Police states do not announce themselves like melodramatic thunder and lightning after a hot summer’s day on the Highveld. Police states creep up on...
View ArticleEast Coast Radio: ‘Death of baby Jayden won’t be in vain’: Abahlali
East Coast Radio Newborn dies in Durban protest A second post mortem will be conducted today on the body of little Jayden Khoza – who died during a police raid at Durban’s Foreman Road Informal...
View ArticleBaby Jayden will be laid to rest tomorrow
Friday 02 June 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Baby Jayden will be laid to rest tomorrow Baby Jayden, killed by police on Monday this week, will be laid to rest at eMolweni cemetery in...
View ArticleThe Times: Funeral for baby killed in Durban housing protest
03 June, 2017 10:33, The Times Teargas killed two-week-old baby Jayden. Jayden Khoza‚ the two-week-old boy who died after allegedly inhaling teargas during a housing protest in an informal settlement...
View ArticleDaily Vox: #BabyJayden Funeral: “We Are Under A Dark Cloud Today”
The Daily Vox Residents of Foreman Road informal settlement in Durban gathered on Saturday for the funeral of Jayden Khoza, the two-week-old baby who died during housing protests in the settlement on...
View ArticleComrade Nompilo has Just Been Arrested
3 June 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Comrade Nompilo has Just Been Arrested This morning Baby Jayden Khoza, killed during a police attack on the Foreman Road settlement, was buried in...
View ArticleEast Coast Radio: Man killed as Durban informal settlement demolished
Man killed as Durban informal settlement demolished Updated June 14, 2017, 2:08 p.m. | By Anelisa Kubheka, East Coast Radio Durban Police say they are investigating a murder case after a 29-year-old...
View ArticleIsolezwe: Basola onogada bakamasipala ngobulewe ngesihluku
NONTUTHUKO NGUBANE, Isolezwe UMPHAKATHI wasemaNsenseni, eDassenhoek, ngaphandle kwaseThekwini ukhala ngesihluku sonogada bakamasipala okuthiwa badubule babulala owesilisa ngesikhathi bezodiliza...
View ArticleThe Times: Man dies in Durban ‘war zone’ land invasion clash
Jeff Wicks, The Times A man has died in clashes between the eThekwini Municipality’s security services and shack dwellers in eMansenseni‚ near Mariannhill‚ west of Durban. Several people were also...
View ArticleWe March on the Durban City Hall on 26 June 2017
14 June 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement We March on the Durban City Hall on 26 June 2017 When the new mayor, Zandile Gumede, took office last year we were promised a new era in the City’s...
View ArticleAbahlali baseMjondolo Youth League to Commemorate Fallen Comrades on Youth Da
Thursday 15 June 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League Press statement Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League to Commemorate Fallen Comrades on Youth Day The movement of Abahlali baseMjondolo will hold...
View ArticleThe Memorial Service for Samuel Hloele Will be Held in eMansenseni on 22 June
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement The Memorial Service for Samuel Hloele Will be Held in eMansenseni on 22 June On 13 June 2017 the Land Invasions Unit murdered Samuel...
View ArticleVOCFM: Selective responses to disaster by the middle classes
By Imraan Buccus, VOCFM The fires in Knysna and elsewhere in the Eastern Cape are a terrible disaster. People have lost their homes and all their worldly goods and been traumatised. The outpouring of...
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