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Photo Albums and Films (scroll down for the films)

Submitted by abahlali on Mon, 2006-11-06 21:48. |

The photo albums are immediately below and the films are further down.

Archived Photos from Abahlali's past, including

In the first of what is hoped will be many audio segments, from across the movement, Mnikelo Ndabankulu introduces Abahlali baseMjondolo in mp3.

There are also some miscellaneous photos, beginning with No Land No House No Vote - first in a large album of photos.

Aoibheann O'Sullivan produced the first documentary about Abahlali, a 16 minute film, back in 2005. You can watch "Kennedy Road and the Councillor" by clicking here.

For raw footage of the 3 December 2006 protest against the NGO take over of the Social Movements Indaba shot by Antonios Vradis click here. Fazel Khan and Sally Gilles also have many hours of footgage from the 2005 meeting and Khan and Vradis are working on a film about Abahlali and the SMI.

Also, check Giles and Khan's 21 minute documentary - Breyani and the Councillor - and these clips from local news.



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Giles and Khan's most recent film is Nayager Falls, Abahlali Rises, and it's available below. This version doesn't include the wonderful footage of the release of the Kennedy 6 (on bail) but that will be added soon. Since this march on Nayager there has been a marked improvement in the behaviour of the Sydenham police.

Ben Cashdan, South Africa's acclaimed documentarist, has made a film for the Open Democracy Advice Centre about Abahlali baseMjondolo's attempts to find out what the city has in store for them. Watch all three parts of the video here.

NEW: Click here, to watch Dear Mandela at YouTube, a six minute film by the lovely people at Sleeping Giant Films, 17 February 2008, or click on the 'play button below to watch it here. (You can also click here to watch a slightly longer version at YouTube.)

Kennedy Road Fire 1 August 2008


  • Jenny Morgan's film, A Place in the City (November, 2008) is available from Fahamu and an excerpt is available at YouTube.


    On May 14, Abahlali baseMjondolo traveled from the shacks of Durban to South Africa's Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. In a landmark case they argued that a provincial law known as the 'Slums Act' violates the constitution. They were joined at the court by the Anti-Eviction Campaign, the Landless Peoples Movement, the Rural Network and AbM Western Cape.

    This is a mobile update from Christopher Nizza and Dara Kell, who are in South Africa on their first production shoot for the feature documentary film 'Dear Mandela'.

    Music by Cupha Mbonambi.
    Sleeping Giant 2009

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