Category Archives: KwaNdengezi

M&G: The assassination surge on those fighting corruption

On Monday evening, not long after the sun went down, a man with a gun stepped out of the dark and into the everyday domestic routine in Thuli Ndlovu’s home in KwaNdengezi, Durban. He shot Ndlovu seven times, and her neighbour’s teenage son twice. Ndlovu died on the spot. Her neighbour’s son is in a critical condition.

Ndlovu was the chairperson of the KwaNdengezi branch of Abahlali baseMjondolo. Like Nkululeko Gwala, a member of the same organisation, who was assassinated in Cato Crest, also in Durban, in June last year, she had been subject to serious intimidation for some time and had told her family and comrades that she expected to die. Continue reading →

M&G: Tensions flare after ‘hit’ on shack official

Fatima Asmal, Mail & Guardian

The South African shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo has alleged the fatal shooting of its KwaNdengezi chairperson, Thuli Ndlovu, was a political assassination.

Ndlovu was killed on Monday evening by a gunman who shot her seven times while she was watching television.

According to an Abahlali press release, Ndlovu had been threatened and intimidated by an ANC official.

Ndabo Mzimela, the secretary general of Abahlali, told the Mail & Guardian that Ndlovu had received a phone call from an unknown individual shortly before the incident.

Mzimela said Ndlovu had opened a case of intimidation with the police, which he said had not been investigated. Continue reading →

The Mercury: Housing activist shot dead

Note: AbM is not aligned to the DA. A tactical decision was made to vote for the DA in the last election in response to the murder of AbM activists. AbM is not aligned to any party.

Sihle Manda, The Mercury

Durban – A woman was shot and killed in an attack at her house in KwaNdengezi on Monday.

Thuli Ndlovu, 36, chairwoman of the KwaNdengezi branch of the shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, was killed a few hours after telling her mother, “today we are going to be shot”. She had been suspicious of a car driving past her house in the afternoon.

Ndlovu’s teenage daughter, Slindile, was unharmed, but her maths tutor, Sphe Madlala, 18, was shot and seriously injured. Continue reading →

GroundUp: Another Abahlali baseMjondolo member assassinated

by Daneel Knoetze, GroundUp

Shortly after returning to KwaZulu Natal from the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) Western Cape relaunch, Thuli Ndlovu, a branch chairperson in the shackdwellers’ movement, was gunned down in her shack.

Thirty-six-year-old Ndlovu, the movement’s chairwoman in KwaNdengezi, was one of the delegates to counsel AbM’s newly elected Western Cape board.

AbM Western Cape was relaunched in Sweethome Farm informal settlement on Saturday.

“We have so much to learn from those comrades,” said newly re-elected Western Cape chairman Siyamboleka James. Continue reading →

Another political eviction in Sisonke Village, near Lamontville

1 October 2014

Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement

Another political eviction in Sisonke Village, near Lamontville

On Sunday 28 September 2014 the ANC Ward 74 councillor Nolubabalo Mthembu called an ANC meeting to discuss ways of replacing the Land Invasion Unit with an ANC demolition team. This meeting took place at the Lamontville Community hall in the afternoon at around 1pm. The Task Team Committee was launched to carry out the illegal eviction of the nearby Sisonke settlement. Sisonke Village, formerly known as Madlala Village, made headlines early this year when they approached the Constitutional Court after they had been subjected to more than 24 illegal evictions. Continue reading →