Category Archives: Zandile Mdletshe

Ayikho impunga yehlathi

Press Statement from Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA.
Wednesday, 9 March 2011

 


Ayikho impunga yehlathi

 


(There is no place to hide in the world)

 

 

The truth shall conquer; we will destroy all kinds of propaganda and attacks on our movement with the truth.

We wish to welcome the outcome of the report of the Auditor General and to salute the work of Ngubane and Company in responding to the calls made by our movement and by fellow South Africans over many years to rescue our city from corrupt politicians and officials.

Across South Africa so-called ‘housing delivery’ has become a way for politicians, party members and their friends and families to enrich themselves. Across South Africa poor people are in rebellion again this corruption of the promise that there shall be land and housing for all. Across South Africa poor people are in rebellion against this corruption of democracy. A refusal to accept corruption is often a main reason why people take to the streets.

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The Intimidation of Grassroots Activists Continues in Kennedy Road & Motala Heights

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Tuesday 8 March 2011

The Intimidation of Grassroots Activists Continues in Kennedy Road and Motala Heights

At about 10:30 a.m. on Sunday the 20th of February Nozuko Hulushe, the chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo in the Kennedy Road settlement, went to fetch water. She was accosted by a man that she had never seen before. He rudely and aggressively demanded to wash his face in her bucket of water and she refused. After she finished he washed his face at the tap and then insulted her and assaulted her.

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Urgent Call for Journalists to Rush to Kennedy Road as Tensions Rise Again

Update: 15/01/2011 Zandile Mdletshe and the Kennedy Road ANC did not pitch up to the mass meeting on Wednesday. The new KRDC then sought and obtained a meeting with Yakoob Baig and Jackson Gumede who said that development projects had always been allocated through the area committee of the ANC but they agreed (clearly aware of the popular pressure and the collapse in any significant support for the Kennedy Road ANC) to let the Kennedy Road community decide. The new KRDC called another mass meeting the following evening and invited the police to attend it and to witness it. At that meeting it was decided that the project must stop pending a resolution to allow democratic decision making about this and other development projecets.

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ANC Intimidates Witness X, More Intimidation and More Killing in Kennedy Road

23 December 2010
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

ANC Intimidates Witness X, More Intimidation and More Killing in Kennedy Road

The attack on Abahlali baseMjondolo in the Kennedy Road settlement in September last year was followed by serious intimidation against the movement in the settlement. People were forced to denounce the movement, any support for the movement put people at serious risk and organising in the settlement had to go underground. Homes continued to be destroyed until July this year and people had to be able to show ANC cards to access food vouchers for senior citizens and social relief as well as the building materials that, after the struggle of our movement, are now made available to people after shack fires. Building material was even given to ANC members whose shacks hadn’t burnt. Death threats were made against numerous people including AbM leaders not living in Kennedy Road. These death threats were often issued in public, such as at the court appearances for the Kennedy 12 (who were at first the Kennedy 13).

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