Protest at the South African Embassy in London on Wednesday 30 September

PICKET TOMORROW IN PROTEST AT VIOLENT ATTACKS ON ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

The London Coalition Against Poverty Picket the South African Embassy in London. Click here to see video footage of the protest.

*6pm* *Wednesday 30th September*

*South African High Commission*
South Africa House
Trafalgar Square
London WC2N 5DP

Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers’ movement in South Africa who sent representatives to the UK a couple of weeks ago, is under violent attack and fighting desperately to save their homes and their organisation from ANC supported “development” (ie demolition)- physical and political annihilation.

Is this what the shack dweller kids of Soweto brought apartheid to its knees for?

On Saturday night a group of about 40 men, heavily armed with guns, bush knives and even a sword, attacked a meeting of the Kennedy Road Development Committee (KRDC). The attacks have continued, causing 1000 people to flee the area.

The attacks are a concerted effort by the local ANC in collaboration with land-owners and ethnic fascists to shut the movement down. Key activists have been arrested or are in hiding under death threats.

More details of the attack:

Kennedy Road Development Committee Attacked – People Have Been Killed

and on the Abahlali baseMjondolo website: http://abahlali.org/////

Called by members of the London Coalition Against Poverty
www.lcap.org.uk

Update
Footage of protest here