Category Archives: Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League

Women’s Assembly to Build Women’s Power

08 August 2015

Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League Statement on Women’s Day

The Abahlali Women’s League will be honouring the power of those women who organised a march to fight for the rights of all women in 1956. We wish to salute the women who said “enough is enough” and ‘no more dompass woza ID’. Now is our time to make a difference. We will honour the women who marched in 1956 by holding an assembly of the women to build women’s power in our communities, in the struggle and in society.

The assembly of the women will be held at 9:00 on Monday 10 August at the Hindu Surat Hall in Prince Edward Street. Each branch has been invited to elect 15 women to attend. Continue reading →

Women are human beings even when they find themselves in shacks or transit camps

Friday, 9 August 2013
Abahlali baseMjondolo Womens' League Press Statement

 

Women are human beings even when they find themselves in shacks or transit camps

Today women of the shack settlements just like women of Sandton, Sea Point and Umhlanga Rocks will be commemorating Women’s Day. We are human beings and we are women where ever we find ourselves. We are still women in the shacks and we are still women in the transit camps and in the streets. We believe it is shack women’s responsibility to bring about change in their own lives, in our communities and in our society as a whole. Continue reading →

Letter to the Head of Community Participation in the eThekwini Municipality on International Women’s Day

8 March 2013
Women’s League Press Statement
(See letter to the Municipality attached)

Letter to the Head of Community Participation in the eThekwini Municipality on International Women's Day

Today’s is the International Women Rights day, dedicated to affirming and demanding rights for woman around the world; we as the Abahlali BaseMjondolo Women's League do the same. It is nice that we have these rights on paper but it remains a shame in our country that such important rights are not respected and are routinely violated. It is disappointing that we as women have such rights, but are still abused by the government are forced to live without basic services like water, electricity and access to housing. Moreover, women and children being sexually and physically abused everyday.

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Protocols are a waste of time for the poor; Appointments are delaying tactics while we suffer

6 March 2013
Woman’s League Press Statement

Abahlali baseMjondolo Women's League Marched into the Durban City Hall Today

Protocols are a waste of time for the poor; Appointments are delaying tactics while we suffer.

On Saturday 2 March 2013, Abahlali baseMjondolo Woman’s League had its General Meeting. The KwaNdengezi branch was present and shared their painful story of living under constant threat from their Ward 12 councillor and that they are not even sleeping in their own homes due to threats.

 




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