Sindy Mkhize speaking at the Women’s Assembly to Build Women’s Power – 10 August 2015
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The Con: Broken Heart(h)s and Lives
http://www.theconmag.co.za/2013/09/29/broken-hearths-and-lives/
Sindy Mkhize on the September 2009 attack on Abahlali baseMjondolo in the Kennedy Road settlement.
My family still carry the attack on Abahlali baseMjondolo in the Kennedy Road shacks on September 26 2009 in our broken hearts. I never thought it would take this long to put our lives together. It is difficult to live in such an unstable situation. It feels like being in prison, a prison where the walls are made of fear and worry.
We lost everything we owned during the attack. We have had to move from one place to another for security reasons. We have had to move from one place to another for rent reasons. We are still living a miserable life, paying inflated rent. There are still death threats against my husband. We still don’t feel secure. It burns our hearts that our children have had to grow up like this. It is not just us. None of the people who were displaced from Kennedy are stable.
Sindy Mkhize Interviewed on Pambazuka News
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Mobile phone activism in South Africa
6th July 2007
Sindy Mkhize of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Shackdwellers Movement of Durban speaks to Sokari Ekine of Pambazuka at the Pan African Mobile Activists workshops held in Nairobi in June. Sindy who is a member of the Abahlali Women’s League discusses the pressure of living under constant attack from local government and local police and also the recent detention of members of the Kennedy Road location on charges of murder. Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement is the largest organisation of the militant poor in post-apartheid South Africa and is presently engaged in fighting the proposed “KwaZulu-Natal Elimination & Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Bill”.
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