Eric Naki, The Citizen
At least 16 activists aligned to Abahlali BaseMjondolo have been killed since 2013, with seven shot dead between November last year and now.
Civic leader S’bu Zikode is in “exile” in his own country, in hiding for the second time in as many years.
The president of the Durban-based shack-dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, and some of its other leaders live in constant fear as many of them have been gunned down over the years for standing for the rights of shack-dwellers and landless people in eThekwini and the surrounds.
Zikode fears he too may be murdered. Continue reading