Sne Maseku, Daily News
Durban – The president of shack dwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo on Sunday outlined the plans for the year during its General Assembly, and topping the list was the invading of vacant land so that they could have a roof over their heads.
Sbu Zikode addressed hundreds of delegates, saying this was not the year for cowards.
He said it was clear that the land would not be given to them, but instead they must take it. Continue reading
Sunday, 4 February 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
First General Assembly for 2018
Today, the 4th of February, the movement of Abahlali baseMjondolo will hold our first General Assembly of the year at the Prince Edward Hall, also known as the Surat Hindoo Association Hall.
The first Assembly of the year will discuss and plan the way forward for year ahead. This last three months of 2017 were tough for the movement. In Solomon Mahlangu Sandile Biyela died while running away from the police. Two comrades were murdered: S’bonelo Mpeku, the chairperson of Sisonke Village and member of the Provincial Council of KwaZulu-Natal, and Soyiso Nkqayini, the Youth league organiser of the new land occupation in eNkanini in Cato Manor. Continue reading
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Death Threats at the eNkanini Land Occupation in Cato Manor
We continue to face serious intimidation and repression in our land occupations in Durban. Yesterday men driving Metro police vehicles, but not wearing police uniforms, arrived at the eNkanini Land Occupation in Cato Manor. They issued clear death threats.
The men were targeting our chairperson in the branch. They called his name and when he came out they told him that he will not last. They said that he needs to be killed in order to stop the occupation. Continue reading
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Abahlali Return to the High Court Tomorrow as Repression & Intimidation Continue
On 27 July last year our movement obtained a court order from the Durban High Court. It prevented the ANC led municipality from continuing with illegal and brutal evictions in seven land occupations. However the municipality continued with evictions in Cato Manor and New City, violating the court interdict because the middle classes did not want impoverished people living near to them. Many people were injured as a result of being shot at by the Anti-Land Invasion Unit. Continue reading
After a long trial, Cato Manor police officer Phumlani Ndlovu was sentenced on Tuesday to ten years in prison for killing teenager Nqobile Nzuza in 2013. But for Nqobile’s mother, Cabangile Ngidi, it is not enough punishment for taking her daughter’s life.
The five-year trial came to an end at the Durban Magistrates’ Court yesterday when Magistrate Anand Maharaj sentenced Ndlovu. Continue reading
Monday, 15 January 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Police Officer Sentenced to Ten Years Imprisonment for the Murder of Our Comrade, Nqobile Nzuza
Today Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA came in numbers to the Durban Magistrate’s Court to witness as Phulani Ndlovu, the police officer who murdered our 17 year old comrade, Nqobile Nzuza, in 2013 was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
Leave to appeal was granted but the Magistrate refused to give bail. The police officer does not show any remorse and he maintained his innocence even though ballistic results proved that that it was his gun that shot Nqobile from behind. Continue reading
12 January 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Another Comrade Has Fallen in the Struggle for Land
Our movement has been facing a lot of brutality in the last three months. On 19 November our chairperson in the Sisonke Village land occupation in Lamontville, Sibonelo Mpeku, was kidnapped and murdered. On 17 December 2017 Soyiso Nkqayini and Smanga Mkhize, were shot by unknown men in the eNkanini land occupation in Cato Manor. Comrade Smanga was seriously injured and Comrade Soyiso passed away. Continue reading
3 January 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Justice for Nqobile Nzuza
Nqobile Nzuza was murdered by a police officer on a road blockade in Cato Crest on 30 September 2013. She was seventeen years old and doing her matric. She joined the road blockade in protest against the brutal attacks on the Marikana Land Occupation in Cato Manor by the eThekwini Municipality.
When impoverished people struggle for land and housing we are taken as criminals, as people who are beneath the law. We are treated as people who do not count, as people whose homes and property can be destroyed, and as people who can be subject to slander, assault, torture and murder with impunity. Continue reading
Friday, 22 December 2017
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
eNkanini to honour Comrade Soyiso Nkqayini
The murder of Comrade Soyiso Nkqayini, one of the leading militants in the eNkanini land occupation in Cato Manor, and the organiser of our Youth League, has come as a shock at the time when our movement is still fresh from mourning the death of Sbonelo Mpeku who was abducted and killed in the Sisonke Village land occupation in November.
Tomorrow we will gather in eNkanini to honour and respect a cadre who was in the forefront of the struggle for land. Soyiso Nkqayini was a fearless militant who was always courageous and vocal during the tense times when the eNkanini land occupation came under violent attack for the Anti-Land Invasion Unit. He endured a lot in the struggle for the dignity of the impoverished and oppressed. He was a young leader with a lot of potential to become the kind of honourable and brave leader that our country so lacks. Continue reading
