Category Archives: The Attack on AbM in Kennedy Road

Kennedy Road Trial Resumes Tomorrow, Another Attack on the Azania Occupation

Tuesday, 18 June 2019
Abahlali baseMjondolo Pres Statement

Kennedy Road Trial Resumes Tomorrow, Another Attack on the Azania Occupation

Today the Azania land occupation was attacked again. Twenty-six homes that had been rebuilt after the last attack were demolished and the building materials burnt. Around one hundred and fifty people will have to sleep in the open tonight. The struggle to hold the land continues despite the repeated armed and violent attacks from the state.

We repeat that the ongoing attacks on the Azania land occupation are illegal and, in law, criminal acts perpetrated by an armed and violent state against impoverished people. The comrades will rebuild once again. The land will be held. Continue reading →

The trial for our damages claim from the 2009 attack in Kennedy Road begins at the Durban High Court today

Monday, 11 March 2019

Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement

The trial for our damages claim from the 2009 attack in Kennedy Road begins at the Durban High Court today

From the moment when our movement was formed in 2005 the ANC claimed that we were ‘the third force’ and treated us as illegitimate. We faced constant repression. Our protests were illegally banned, and attacked when they went ahead in defiance of bans. Numerous people were assaulted and arrested by the police. The police even used force, including serious violence, to prevent us from participating in radio and television talk shows.  Continue reading →

Serious Threats Made Against our Movement by Leaders in the eThekwini ANC

Thursday, 14 June 2018

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Serious Threats Made Against our Movement by Leaders in the eThekwini ANC

At the Executive Committee meeting of the eThekwini Municipality on Tuesday, 12 June, the Mayor and the Chief Whip made disturbingly undemocratic, authoritarian and threatening statements about our movement, and about S’bu Zikode. In light of our past experiences, and the current climate of intimidation and violence in KwaZulu-Natal, which includes the ongoing murder of our leaders, we take these threats very seriously. We are sending out an urgent call for solidarity, and for urgent action to be taken against the senior leaders in eThekwini ANC who are a serious threat to democracy, and our safety. Continue reading →

Another political eviction in Sisonke Village, near Lamontville

1 October 2014

Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement

Another political eviction in Sisonke Village, near Lamontville

On Sunday 28 September 2014 the ANC Ward 74 councillor Nolubabalo Mthembu called an ANC meeting to discuss ways of replacing the Land Invasion Unit with an ANC demolition team. This meeting took place at the Lamontville Community hall in the afternoon at around 1pm. The Task Team Committee was launched to carry out the illegal eviction of the nearby Sisonke settlement. Sisonke Village, formerly known as Madlala Village, made headlines early this year when they approached the Constitutional Court after they had been subjected to more than 24 illegal evictions. Continue reading →

The Con: Broken Heart(h)s and Lives

http://www.theconmag.co.za/2013/09/29/broken-hearths-and-lives/

Sindy Mkhize on the September 2009 attack on Abahlali baseMjondolo in the Kennedy Road settlement.

My family still carry the attack on Abahlali baseMjondolo in the Kennedy Road shacks on September 26 2009 in our broken hearts. I never thought it would take this long to put our lives together. It is difficult to live in such an unstable situation. It feels like being in prison, a prison where the walls are made of fear and worry.

We lost everything we owned during the attack. We have had to move from one place to another for security reasons. We have had to move from one place to another for rent reasons. We are still living a miserable life, paying inflated rent. There are still death threats against my husband. We still don’t feel secure. It burns our hearts that our children have had to grow up like this. It is not just us. None of the people who were displaced from Kennedy are stable.

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