Press Conference: Abahlali to announce our position on elections

Last year our membership audit in KwaZulu-Natal exceeded 55 000 members in good standing. Our movement has continued to grow since then, in KwaZulu-Natal and elsewhere in the country.

Since 2013 the ANC has regularly assassinated our leaders. As S’bu Zikode said in his UnFreedom address this year to vote for the ANC is to vote for our own grave diggers. 

Even now, just before the election, the ANC continues to attack impoverished black people in Durban. The Azania land occupation in Ward 29 in Mayville has come under serious attack from the local state. A total of 76 homes were demolished and burnt by the Anti-Land Invasion Unit yesterday. At the same time that people are promised a better life, and asked to vote, they are rendered homeless by a violent state acting outside of the law.

We will announce the full details of the decision that we have taken with regard to the election at a press conference to be held at our offices at the Diakonia Centre, at 20 Diakonia Avenue in central Durban, tomorrow, May 7, at 13:00.

George Bonono 073 067 3274
S’bongiseni Zwane 083 545 1032