Another year another home burnt away
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Rebuilding the Morning After
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The always gentle M'du Hlongwa at the scene (when he should be in the queue to try & register at UKZN)
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M'du Mqgulunga, Kennedy Road Development Committee Chair from 2006 (and superb bass guitarist) also lost his home
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Everyone's helping
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M'du & Friend with relief from Gift of the Givers for shack fire victims
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M'du Hlongwa organising distribution of food & blankets to people left homless in the Kennedy Road fire
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A week ago M'du was in the cells of the Sydenham police station on another trumped up (and quickly dropped charge)
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After this Abahlali went straight into a WSF planning meeting.
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The slogan that made the SMI speak like the state (just with more slander)
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Joe Slovo lady at Kennedy for the WSF meeting
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She only has a little bit of land that the state wants back and a burnt down shack - but food tonight
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Zandile Nsibande (c) - last year her daughter, Zodwa, was badly burnt
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Lady from Joe Slovo, Zama, lady whose house burnt down.
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Fires are regular events in shack settlements. In Durban they are directly consequent to the city's 2001 decision to cease the electrification of the settlements. See http://abahlali.org/node/279 and “Shack Fire Takes Life, eThekwini Municipality Electrification Policy Takes Soul”
by Shantel Vachani http://abahlali.org/files/shantel.pdf
Also see:
'Shack Fire Leads to More Mass Action' by Kerry Chance (with pictures of the Baba Dhlomo Memorial):
http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/10998.php
The Lacey Road Fire:
http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/10308.php
The Jadhu Place Fire:
http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/10980.php
The Quarry Road Fire:
http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2006/07/10808.php
