Scores of frustrated Enkanini residents from Cato Crest informal settlement marched to the Human Settlements office in Durban on Friday demanding to be included in the City’s development projects. Continue reading
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
March in Cato Manor on Friday
Tomorrow comrades from the eNkanini Land Occupation in Cato Crest will, together with comrades from all the other branches in Umkhumbane, march on the MEC for Housing.
The march is to demand services for the land that has been occupied, and held, despite severe state repression.
The MEC promised, on several occasions, to provide these services in Umkhumbane, with eNkanini as a pilot project. However, the promise has not been kept even though his office is so close to Umkhumbane. Continue reading
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
March in Cato Manor on Friday
Tomorrow comrades from the eNkanini Land Occupation in Cato Crest will, together with comrades from all the other branches in Umkhumbane, march on the MEC for Housing.
The march is to demand services for the land that has been occupied, and held, despite severe state repression. Continue reading
Thursday, 27 September 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
The Struggle Continues
The struggle against all the forces that vandalise human dignity has no borders. A human life is a human life where ever it may find itself. Just as we welcome comrades from other countries into our movement, and host comrades visiting from other countries in South Africa in meetings in our hall built in the eNkanini Land Occupation, we are also offered solidarity and hosted by comrades around the world, such as the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) in Brazil. Continue reading
New Frame
Abahlali baseMjondolo is a movement of shackdwellers and other impoverished people, such as street traders, that began in Clare Estate in Durban in 2005. It now has branches in five provinces, and is growing rapidly in the eastern part of the rural Eastern Cape. Continue reading
20 September 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Inkosi Thulani Mjanyelwa finally laid to rest
Inkosi Thulani Mjanyelwa, the chief in Mpondoland who was brutally killed by a mob of people on 26 August, was finally laid to rest in Bizana on the 15 September. It was a long struggle to be able to bury him at his own homestead.
There is bitter division in the area between those, many linked to the ANC, who support the international mining companies, and those who want the land to be held and managed by the people. Inkosi Mjanyelwa was clearly against those who want to give the land to the mining companies. He was committed to opposing the occupation of Mpondoland by an alliance between the ANC and the mining companies. Continue reading
20 September 2018 By Christopher Clark
Shack-dwellers in the Durban area who have been campaigning against evictions have been dealt with violently. Photo: Sam Reinders
Across the contested landscape of Durban and the sprawling informal settlements that surround it, Abahlali baseMjondolo and the ANC are locked in a bitter land conflict.
According to Abahlali, the social movement of shack-dwellers fighting for land and against evictions, more than ten of the group’s leaders have been killed since 2013. Some died in running battles with eThekwini’s notoriously violent anti-land invasion unit, others in circumstances that bear all the hallmarks of political hits. Continue reading
The Daily News understands that at least two people in the disbanded leadership were viewed as “traitors”. Continue reading
16 September 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Resolutions from the Special General Assembly Held in Durban Today
Abahlali baseMjondolo held a special general assembly, open to all members and branches in good standing, in Durban today. The assembly was very well attended and important resolutions were taken.
The general assembly was held to deal with some serious issues confronting the movement. As everybody knows our movement continues to suffer a wave of serious repression in KwaZulu-Natal, and now in the Eastern Cape too. People have been killed in both provinces, threats of various kinds, including death threats, are an everyday bread and a large number of people are sleeping outside their homes, and moving from different place to different place each night. Some people had to move to different provinces for their safety. S’bu Zikode has been completely underground since July. All of this puts a huge strain on our movement, and on the people, families and communities most directly affected by repression. Continue reading