End Attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo! Stop the shootings! Free Bandile Mdlalose!
3 October 4:30 pm until 7:00 pm
South Africa House, Trafalgar Square
Demonstration in solidarity with our partner, Abahlali baseMjondolo, following the killing of its members and the arrest of the Secretary General.
South African Police have shot dead a 17 year old girl, Nqobile Nzuza and arrested the Secretary General of War on Want partner, Abahlali baseMjondolo, Bandile Mdlalose.
Nqobile was shot twice from behind at 5am on Monday 30 September. Two other women were also shot and are in hospital. Bandile was arrested whilst coming to offer her condolences to the family.
The crime of those shot was to protest against being forcefully removed from their homes and to be supporters of the shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo. Nqobile is the third person killed in the settlement, Cato Crest in Durban, this year.
Bandile appeared in court the following day, but was denied bail. Yet no arrests or investigations have been made into the three killings in the settlement this year.
This is just the latest outrage perpetrated against the urban dispossessed of South Africa, Marikana being just one horrific example.
Abahlali baseMjondolo Solidarity UK and War on Want call on all those who supported the struggle against apartheid, all who are against forced evictions, and those who are angered by police brutality to join our solidarity demonstration on Thursday 3 October, outside South Africa House at 4:30pm until 7pm.