Abahlali baseMjondolo to Launch Two Branches in Gauteng this Weekend

Saturday 19 August 2017
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Abahlali baseMjondolo to Launch Two Branches in Gauteng this Weekend

This weekend Abahlali baseMjondolo will launch two branches in the province of Gauteng, both in Germiston, Ekurhuleni Municipality. The launch today in Daveyton is today at 10:00 am and the re-launch in Good Hope will be tomorrow at 10:00 am.

Our movement continues to grow under these difficult circumstances. There is a great support for the struggle for land, housing and dignity, and great demand for the movement to expand to other provinces. A struggle that started against exclusion and for dignity in the Kennedy Road settlement in Durban in 2005 has now grown throughout the city of Durban, and is also growing elsewhere in the province and the country. Today the movement has branches in good standing in four provinces that is the Eastern Cape, the Western Cape, Kwazulu-Natal and Gauteng.  Continue reading →

Abahlali to Launch a Branch in eMasenseni, Marianhill

Friday 13 August 2017

Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA. Press statement

Abahlali to Launch a Branch in eMasenseni, Marianhill

On Sunday 11th August 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo will be launching a branch in eMasenseni in Marianhill in the hostile ward 15. This is the very same area that became a war zone in June this year when the Anti-Land Invasion Unit killed 29 year old Samuel Hloele during an illegal and violent eviction.  Continue reading →

Building Women’s Power in Struggle

8 August 2017

Abahlali Women’s League Press statement

Building Women’s Power in Struggle

The Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League will be joining the women of South Africa to honour and celebrate our heroes who fought against racism and pass laws in 1956. They did so for all of us today, and they did so courageously and exceptionally. We will be celebrating this day by reclaiming and asserting our right to this land. We will be celebrating this day by building the power of women from below. We will be celebrating this day by building awareness, political and economic consciousness, unity and solidarity. And yes, we will be celebrating the Interim Court Interdict we have just been granted by the Durban High Court last week. Continue reading →

Breaking News: The eThekwini Municipality has been interdicted from evicting Abahlali baseMjondolo

Thursday, 27 July 2017

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Breaking News: The eThekwini Municipality has been interdicted from evicting Abahlali baseMjondolo

The Durban High Court has this morning granted Abahlali an interim interdict following ongoing vicious and illegal evictions by the eThekwini municipality.

The City is interdicted and restrained from demolishing, burning, removing or otherwise destroying and disposing of Abahlali housing structures or threatening to do so. Those whose homes have been destroyed have been given the right to rebuild them.  Continue reading →

Abahlali to seek a court interdict against the eThekwini Municipality

26 July 2017

Abahlali BaseMjondolo Movement SA Press Statement

Abahlali to seek a court interdict against the eThekwini Municipality

On Sunday the elected leaders of seven new Abahlali baseMjondolo branches were inducted into ubuhlali. The new branches are in Nagina (Phase 2), Metlock, eTafuleni, uMkomaas, Cato Crest and KwaNdengezi.

Tomorrow, on Thursday, 27th July, we will proceed to the Durban High Court to seek a court interdict against the evictions that are being carried by the eThekwini’s notorious Anti-Land Invasion Unit.  Continue reading →

IOL: Man fears for his life four years after dad’s assassination

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by Nkululeko Nene

Siphamandla Qumbelo described his father’s killing during political turmoil in Cato Crest. Picture: Sunday Tribune
Durban – Siphamandla Qumbelo’s life was shattered when his father, Thembinkosi Qumbelo, was assassinated four years ago. 

On Tuesday, the 20-year-old shared vivid memories of the night his father was killed. Thembinkosi was shot hours before he could attend a community meeting that was addressed by former eThekwini mayor James Nxumalo at a stadium in Mayville, Durban.

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Amakhansela ayingozi, sesiyawesaba: Zikode

Mhlengi Shangase, Isolezwe

UMENGAMELI waBahlali baseMjondolo, uMnuz S’bu Zikode
UMENGAMELI waBahlali baseMjondolo, uMnuz S’bu Zikode (osesithombeni), uthi sebeyawasaba amakhansela ngoba aseyingozi emphakathini. 

UZikode, obefakaza kwikhomishini ephenya ngokubulawa kosopolitiki eyajutshwa nguNdunankulu uMnuz Willies Mchunu, uthe akubona kuphela abahlali abasaba amakhansela kodwa nomphakathi ngoba asephenduke abantu abangenanembeza.   Continue reading →