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SAPS Attempt To Illegally Ban Protest In Durban
Thursday, 6 December 2012, 4:41 pm | Abahlali baseMjondolo
The Abahlali baseMjondolo branch in the Palmiet Road shack settlement in Clare Estate, Durban, has decided to march on the Ward 23 councillor, Themba Mtshali. They have been supported in this decision by all other Abahlali baseMjondolo branches in the ... More >>
New Branches in KwaNdengezi & Isipingo
Thursday, 29 November 2012, 1:57 pm | Abahlali baseMjondolo
On Sunday the 18th of November 120 people, mainly women, participated in the launch of the new Abahlali baseMjondolo(AbM) branch in KwaNdengezi. On Sunday the 25th of November we launched another new AbM branch in the Uganda settlement in Isipingo. ... More >>
We Demand that the Manase Report be Released
Thursday, 8 November 2012, 12:00 pm | Abahlali baseMjondolo
Everybody knows that in Durban housing development does not really operate to meet the needs of the people. In reality it has three main objectives. One is to remove the poor from the city to the human dumping grounds. The second is to make poor people ... More >>
Makause Community To March Against Police Brutality
Friday, 26 October 2012, 1:58 pm | Abahlali baseMjondolo
The Makause Creative Youth Brigade (MCYB) and the Makause Community Development Forum (Macodefo) are organising a march on Friday, 19th October 2012 against police brutality at Primrose Police Station (near Germiston in Ekurhuleni). The march forms part of ... More >>
Kennedy Road Displacees Remain Homeless and in Exile
Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 11:15 am | Abahlali baseMjondolo
Three Years after the Attack on our Movement, the Kennedy Road Displacees Remain Homeless and in Exile More >>
Abahlali baseMjondolo and Dear Mandela Documentary
Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 9:31 am | Abahlali baseMjondolo
This October, two youth leaders from Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shackdwellers movement of South Africa) are visiting 8 American cities and Haiti to share their experience and analysis of the largest social movement of the poor in post apartheid South Africa ... More >>
Open Letter to Mayor Patricia de Lille
Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 9:21 am | Abahlali baseMjondolo
Open Letter to Mayor Patricia de Lille regarding her failure to receive our memoranda and treat us with dignity More >>
Shackdweller Communities To March On The Housing Development
Monday, 1 October 2012, 9:54 am | Abahlali baseMjondolo
Event: Shackdwellers to march in CBD Date: 1st October Time: 10am Location: Keizergraght to the Provincial Legislature to HDA offices on Bree St More >>
Abahlali baseSiyanda vs eThekwini Municipality
Wednesday, 19 September 2012, 4:36 pm | Abahlali baseMjondolo
The failure of the eThekwini municipality to comply with an order of the court that compels it to house the residents of Siyanda who have been left to rot in the Richmond Farm transit camp has clearly indicated that the City is law unto itself. More >>
Dear Mandela United States Screening Tour
Wednesday, 19 September 2012, 4:33 pm | Abahlali baseMjondolo
This month, the Poverty Initiative, together with Sleeping Giant Films, National Economic Social Rights Initiative and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), will host two youth leaders from the Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shackdwellers) movement ... More >>
Abahlali baseSiyanda Taking eThekwini Municipality to Court
Wednesday, 19 September 2012, 4:30 pm | Abahlali baseMjondolo
In 2009 Siyanda residents near KwaMashu were evicted by the Dept. of Transport and relocated from their shacks into Transit camps so they could build the road which is known as Dumisani Makhaye (R577). The residents contested the eviction in the ... More >>
Venue: Mass meeting at Zone 30, Joe Slovo
Tuesday, 11 September 2012, 2:09 pm | Abahlali baseMjondolo
Residents of Joe Slovo together with Abahlali baseMjonodolo kwaLanga TRA protested tonight against corrupt Housing Development Agency project managers who are working with community committees in Joe Slovo and the TRA to illegally sell houses and TRA ... More >>
Marikana Massacre Memorial Service
Friday, 24 August 2012, 9:27 am | Abahlali baseMjondolo
Abahlali baseMjondolo has held a number of serious discussions about the Marikana Massacre within our movement and with our comrades. It has also been very important for Abahlali to send a delegate straight to Marikana in the North West province to ... More >>
Marikana Shows That We Are Living In A Democratic Prison
Friday, 24 August 2012, 9:24 am | Abahlali baseMjondolo
South Africa has the most beautiful Constitution amongst all countries. Its beauty is well documented and respected. But we are living in a Democratic Prison. More >>
Celebrating the Power of Organised Women
Tuesday, 21 August 2012, 11:30 am | Abahlali baseMjondolo
The Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League will be commemorating women’s month on the 18 August 2012 at the New Center Sports Ground in Newlands West. The Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League started on the 09 August 2008, after the formation ... More >>
Solidarity with Mine Workers at Marikana Platinum
Saturday, 18 August 2012, 1:56 pm | Abahlali baseMjondolo
Abahlali baseMjondolo are deeply shocked by the murderous cruelty of the South African police, and those that give the police their orders, at the Marikana Platinum Mine in the North West. The killing of more than 40 mine workers yesterday by the SAPS ... More >>
The Struggle to Affirm the Dignity of the Poor in a Society
Wednesday, 8 August 2012, 10:42 am | Abahlali baseMjondolo
The Struggle to Affirm the Dignity of the Poor in a Society in which we don’t Count More >>
Ward 88 BEC Refuses to Go to the People
Friday, 27 July 2012, 10:37 am | Abahlali baseMjondolo
For the past months the organised poor in Ward 88 in Durban have been fighting for their rights, and the resignation of Nomzamo Mkhize who is the current ANC Ward Councillor. More >>
Update from Umlazi: Zwelethu Train Station Shut Down
Thursday, 19 July 2012, 12:22 pm | Abahlali baseMjondolo
At around 4:00 a.m. yesterday morning activists involved in the Umlazi Occupation and the ward 88 struggle closed down the Zwelethu Train Station. This action was in protest at the failure of the police to arrest the ward councillor, Nomzamo Mkhize, ... More >>
Assualt And Intimidation Of Action By Umlazi Councillor
Tuesday, 17 July 2012, 2:14 pm | Abahlali baseMjondolo
Yesterday at around 14:00 pm there was a mass gathering of the continuous occupation that is happening in the People's Office that has been set up next to the Councillor's Office, in Ward 88, Umlazi. More >>
