Paddy Harper, Mail & Guardian
None of the residents of Barcelona 2, an eThekwini municipality transit camp in Lamontville in South Durban, wants to be there. Continue reading
Not wanted here, there or anywhere
Dying for land and still overlooked – the other side of the coin
Why it is that the political killings of party members and councillors receive notable public attention, while the murders of activists in a large and sustained movement of impoverished people are often passed over in silence? By Nation Nyoka for New Frame.
Unrelenting in face of harassment, Shack-dwellers’ movement wins in court
Durban court orders municipality to reinstate 40 families that were evicted from a transit camp
Pavan Kulkarni / The Dawn News / June 20, 2018
Resisting eviction in the face of threats from ANC leaders and violence by Security Management Unit, the residents of a transit camp in the town of Lamontville in South Africa, organized by Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shack-dwellers movement), won a victory against the eThekwini Municipality after Durham court ordered it on June 14 to reinstate the 40 families that were illegally evicted over the past few days. The court has also ordered the municipality to stop further evictions. Continue reading
Movimento de moradia denuncia ameaças do governo contra lideranças na África do Sul
Desde novembro foram assassinadas ao menos três lideranças do maior movimento de moradores de favelas do país
O movimento de favelas sul-africano Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) denunciou o que considera declarações “antidemocráticas, autoritárias e ameaçadoras” feitas pela prefeita de eThekwini, Zandile Gumede, e pela líder da bancada do partido no legislativo, Nelly Nyanisa, durante audiência realizada na semana passada. “Diante do clima de intimidação e violência [na província de] KwaZulu-Natal, que inclui o assassinato de várias de nossas lideranças, recebemos essas ameaças com máxima seriedade”, declarou a organização em nota Continue reading
Court allows Durban evictees to return to their homes
Lamontville Transit Camp residents were evicted on Friday by the City of eThekwini
Residents of Lamontville Transit Camp were evicted by the City of eThekwini’s Security Management Unit and the Department of Human Settlements, in Lamontville South of Durban on Friday. The Durban High Court allowed them to return in a court ruling on Monday. Photo: Rethabile Phakisi for New Frame Continue reading
The Social Justice Coalition condemns threats & violence against our Abahlali baseMjondolo comrades in KZN!
The Social Justice Coalition (SJC) condemns threats and intimidation by ANC leaders in eThekwini against Abahlali baseMjondolo.
The reports in the past week about eThekwini Mayor Zandile Gumede and Councillor Nelly Nyanisa are very disturbing and must be condemned. Mayor Gumede labeled comrades of Abahlali as being used by a “third force”, and Councillor Nyanisa made a threat saying “we will deal with them”. These are very dangerous statements in an already politically violent environment in KZN. Continue reading
Victory in Court!
18 June 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Victory in Court!
On Friday, beginning at around 10 am, the notorious Security Management Unit illegally, brutally and violently evicted more than 40 families in the Barcelona 2 ‘transit camp’. The eviction was carried out until 1 am in the morning on Saturday. A number of people were wounded during the attack.
This morning Abahlali baseMjondolo went to court in defence of our members. We defeated the eThekwini Municipality in court. The movement has obtained a spoilation order to reinstate our members who have been illegally evicted by the Municipality. The court ordered that those who were illegally evicted in Barcelona 2 must be reinstated, and that the municipality does not carry out any further evictions in the area Continue reading
The Rot Exceeds the Question of Corruption
Published in Business Day.
The Rot Exceeds the Question of Corruption
Richard Pithouse
Day after day, and year after year, the news in South Africa carries reports of people declaring that they are not animals. A migrant at the fundamentally corrupt and abusive ‘reception centre’ in Marabastad, Pretoria, says that “They treat us like a dog, they don’t do right. They just want money.” A report on an even more abusive prison in Bloemfontein notes that a leaked video shows an inmate shouting “No! I am not a donkey” before being injected with anti-psychotic drugs. People making their lives in shacks repeatedly declare that they are ‘living like pigs in the mud’, or that ‘we live like rats’. When the police open fire on a road blockade, or hurl teargas into a shack settlement, people are often say that they have been treated ‘like dogs’. Continue reading
Court victory for shack dwellers’ movement
Squatters square off with municipality over evictions
Bongani Mthethwa
Shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo approached the Durban High Court on Monday to stop the eThekwini municipality from carrying out evictions after residents were allegedly evicted from a “transit camp” on Friday.
According to an Abhalali statement‚ the eThekwini municipal Anti-Land Invasion Unit descended on the Barcelona 2 area in Lamontville on Friday and “violently and unlawfully evicted the residents from the disgraceful ‘transit camps’ that were forcefully imposed on them seven years ago for the FIFA World Cup.” Continue reading