http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/squatter-movements-vaal-triangle-audio
Click here to listen to this lecture by Noor Nieftagodien on squatter movements in the Vaal Triangle in the 1940s.
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/squatter-movements-vaal-triangle-audio
Click here to listen to this lecture by Noor Nieftagodien on squatter movements in the Vaal Triangle in the 1940s.
by Noor Nieftagodien, South African Labour Bulletin, July 2011
Last year Abahlali baseMjondolo in the Western Cape was strongly criticised by other activist organisations for calling a week-long strike. Noor Nieftagodien argues that such top-down disciplining removes the essence of activism, which is to contest ruling powers. He also contends that the anti-apartheid struggle shows us that there is no one blue-print for activism.
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