http://www.spectacle.co.uk/archive_production.php?id=493

Presentation by Mnikelo and Zodwa from Abahlali baseMjondolo the South African shackdwellers' movement talking about the negative effects of the 2010 World Cup on South Africans.

Credits

Date: 30 August 2009
Location: - Climate Camp Blackheath
City: London
Original Format - colour, mini DV, 14 mins

Click here to see this video at the Spectacle site.

http://media.www.thesimmonsvoice.com/media/storage/paper829/news/2009/09/17/Features/ShackDwellers.Cant.Find.A.Simple.Answer-3773711.shtml

Shack-dwellers can't find a simple answer

Michelle Geoffroy
Issue date: 9/17/09

DURBAN, South Africa-Chickens, dogs and barefoot children play in the streets. The roads are little more than dirt pathways, embedded with a mosaic of broken glass glinting sharply in the afternoon sun.

http://www.lcap.org.uk/?p=158

‘Talk to us not about us’

Posted on | August 22, 2009 |

Abahlali baseMjondolo the shack dwellers movement from South Africa visit Hackney

BENEFIT Fri 4 Sept 7.30pm-2am@ the Belgrade Social Centre, 2a Belgrade Rd, London N16 8DJ

Films and discussion with representatives from the South African shack dwellers’ movement, followed by uplifting African music from Jally Kebba Susso (kora master), Kodjovi Kush from the Soothsayers, Jah Warrior and Bubble-Wap featuring Isa GT.

Zodwa Nsibande

Zodwa Nsibande was elected as the first General Secretary of the Abahlali baseMjondlo Youth League on 16 June 2008 and re-elected on 16 June 2009. She is also the National Administrator of the movement working out of the office in the Kennedy Road settlement. She is 25.

Zodwa has been involved in all the activities of the movement but has played a particularly important role in the annual Back to School Campaigns, the University of Abahlali baseMjondolo, resistance to evictions, resistance to xenophobica, solidarity with comrades who have been arrested, Haiti solidarity, UnFreedom Day Campaigns, the 2008 City Wide Shack Fire Summit and preparing for the movements Annual General Meetings.

The Police & Abahlali baseMjondolo

A List of Key Incidents of Police Harassment Suffered by Abahlali baseMjondolo
- compiled by Stephanie Lynch and Zodwa Nsibande

Please note that this list of the main instances of police harassment suffered by Abahlali baseMjondolo does not include the day to day police harassment suffered by shack dwellers in general which is clearly most acute in the areas under the jurisdiction of the Sydenham Police station. Day to day harassment includes racial abuse, racialised stop and search practices, casual violence, 'raids' in which bribes are demanded on the pain of arrest, men are randomly forced to do press ups on the threat of assault and in which electronic goods without a purchase receipt are simply confiscated by the police on the grounds that they must be 'stolen'. At times this generalised day to day abuse poses serious risk to the safety of shack dwellers. For instance an unarmed 17 year old boy visiting family at the Foreman Road settlement was shot in the knee on New Year's Eve 2006 for urinating in public. However it should be noted that not all officers at the Sydenham Police station take part in this abusive behaviour and that some have sought to meet with Abahlali baseMjondolo to express their concerns. Indeed Abahlali has good relationships with certain officers, African and Indian, and settlement committees work with those officers against crime.