This statement has also been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian and Italian.

Landless People's Movement Press Statement
8 July 2010

The LPM Welcomes the Independent Research Report into Political Violence Against our Movement

As the Landless People's Movement in Gauteng we welcome the independent research report by Jared Sacks into political violence against our movement in Gauteng.

Saturday, 12 June 2010
Landless People’s Movement Press Statement

The Repression of the Landless People’s Movement Spreads to the Harry Gwala Settlement

The repression that the Landless People’s Movement (LPM) has been facing in Protea South and eTwatwa has now spread to the Harry Gwala settlement near Wattville in Benoni in Ekurhuleni.

Landless People's Movement Press Statement
8 June 2010

The Protea South Five & the eTwatwa Twelve Have Been Released

All of the Protea South Five, arrested after the electricity war in Protea South, Soweto, have been released on the grounds that 'there is no evidence against them'. None of the five were harmed while in detention. A sixth person from Protea South (who is not an LPM member) has now been arrested and charged with burning the transformer. There are currently conflicting reports at to whether or not there has been an arrest for the murder of the LPM activist shot by the Homeowners' Association in Protea South.

Friday, 04 June 2010
Landless People’s Movement Press Statement

The Attack on the Landless People’s Movement Continues
Five More People have Been Arrested in Protea South

Last night the police went from door to door with an informer in the shacks of Protea South, Soweto. They arrested five members of the Landless People’s Movement (LPM). Three of the people that they arrested are children of Maureen Mnisi, chairperson of the LPM in Gauteng. The other two are her neighbours.

Update on 1 June 2010: There has been another arrest. Click here to read more.

Landless People's Movement eTwatwa
Emergency Press Statement Sunday 30 May 2010

The Homes of Two LPM Leaders are Burnt in eTwatwa as the Police Look On

Early this morning the shacks of two members of the Landless People's Movement (LPM) Executive Committee in eTwatwa, Ekurhuleni, were burnt down.

After the police attacked the LPM yesterday, killing one person and seriously injuring another. David Mathontsi, chairperson of the new LPM branch on eTwatwa, went to the Far East Hospital to visit the wounded. While he was away from his home the supporters of the local ward councillor went to his shack looking for him and his wife. They pointed at his children with a gun. David did not return to his shack and managed to get his children out.

Update: Sunday 30 May 2010 - Two shacks belonging to LPM leaders in eTwatwa were burnt down early this morning as the police looked on. The attack on LPM is now turning into an ethnic attack on Tsonga people. Click here to read more.

Saturday, 29 May 2010
Landless People’s Movement Press Statement

Police Attack the Landless People’s Movement in eTwatwa, Ekurhuleni
One Person is Dead and another Seriously Injured

On Sunday 23 May residents of the bond houses in Protea South, Soweto, attacked the Landless People’s Movement (LPM) in the shacks in Protea South. They went around disconnecting us from electricity and beating those who had been connected to electricity. They tried to burn down Maureen Mnisi’s shack and two people were shot. One died on the scene.

The police at the March on Jacob Zuma, Human Rights Day, 22 March 2010

There are more pictures here, here and here. And the memorandum is here.

http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5399848

What about human rights for the people of KwaShembe, Mangete and Kennedy Road?

March 22, 2010 Edition 1

Mary De Haas

As we celebrate yet another Human Rights Day recent events in KwaShembe (an informal settlement in Clermont), Mangete and adjoining Macambini, near Mandeni, and Kennedy Road informal settlement in Durban show the lack of progress we have made in ensuring people's rights to freedom of political association.

Yesterday morning a number of Cope supporters' dwellings were burnt down and vandalised in the kwaShembe informal settlement area of Clermont.

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
3 March 2010

The Third Force is Gathering its Strength

The goal that our attackers wanted to achieve when they ambushed us on the night of 26 September 2009 has not been achieved. A surprise attack was launched against our movement, the spontaneous resistance to the attack was broken by the police, our office was destroyed, hundreds of our members and supporters were chased from Kennedy Road, thirteen of our comrades were jailed and illegally detained and we have been banned from openly organising in the settlement where our movement was founded. But our movement was never just in Kennedy Road. Before the attack there were fifteen settlements affiliated to our movement in Durban and more than 50 branches across Durban, Pinetown, Tongaat, Howick, Pietermaritzburg and Cape Town. The goal of the attack was to destroy our movement to punish us for our victory against the Slums Act, to deny us the victory that we had won to have the Kennedy Road settlement upgraded where it is and to neutralise us before 2010. But our movement still exists. In fact it continues to grow. Since the attack we have launched four new branches and we will launch another four new branches soon.

Click here to read this statement in French.

30 November 2009
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

All We Want is Justice

The Kennedy Thirteen were back at court on Friday for their 6th attempt at requesting bail. After two months in detention all charges were dropped against one of the thirteen, six were given bail and the other five were remanded in custody to give the police one more chance to bring some evidence against them to the court. The next court date has been set for 11 December 2009. This will be the 7th opportunity given to the police to provide some evidence of guilt.