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200 Young South Africans – Bandile Mdlalose
Bandile Mdlalose
Secretary general: Abahlali baseMjondolo
For Bandile Mdlalose and over 12-million people living in shacks, the struggle is far from over. With forced evictions, zero service delivery and removals to out-of-sight “transit” camps, they are still not free. Courageous, eloquent, compassionate, 26-year-old Mdlalose is a bona fide freedom fighter.
After enduring political, then criminal violence in townships like KwaMashu, living in dark, inescapable poverty left her feeling powerless. She joined Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), the shack- dwellers’ movement, in 2009, to use her voice as her vote.