Abahlali baseMjondolo
Meeting in Pietermaritzburg this weekend
Meeting in Pietermaritzburg this weekend
Women’s League Meeting – 5 July 2015
Abahlali baseMjondolo Responses to the Fraudulent Article Published in Politikon
July 06 2015
Abahlali baseMjondolo Responses to the Fraudulent Article Published in Politikon
In 2006 Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign walked out of a NGO controlled meeting [The Social Movements Indaba – SMI] hosted by the Centre for Civil Society, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The two grassroots movements were excluded from planning and formulating the agenda of the meeting, something that had been very common among the NGOs for a long time. Instead we were just bussed in as nothing more than spectators to meetings organised in the name of our lives and struggles. We decided to walk out of the meeting because we wanted to be in control of our own struggles as autonomous movements. The response from the NGOs and academics linked to the SMI was very similar to how the state responds when poor people want to think and organize for ourselves. For instance Mondli Hlatshwayo, the boss of the SMI who was working at an NGO known as Khanya College at the time, publicly referred to us as criminals. In the nine years since our walk-out there has been ongoing defamation and slander against Abahlali baseMjondolo, and people who have supported our movement, from within and around the Centre for Civil Society. There have also been incidents of intimidation, harassment, and attempts at censorship. Continue reading
Attachments
Politikon Draft 1
Politikon Draft 2
Politikon Draft 3
There is an article on Abahlali baseMjondolo in the new Move! magazine.
There is an article on Abahlali baseMjondolo in the new Move! magazine.
The Creche at the Marikana Land Occupation – 3 July 2015
The Creche at the Marikana Land Occupation – 3 July 2015
M&G: Journal publishes and is damned
Marie Huchzermeyer, Mail & Guardian
An academic row is unfolding around the editorial approach of the official journal of the South African Association of Political Studies, Politikon. On its board are renowned academics and public intellectuals including Adam Habib, Tom Lodge and Susan Booysen. Leading political analyst and public intellectual Steven Friedman has made it clear he will have nothing more to do with the journal. Those on his side include Xolela Mangcu, Jane Duncan and Raymond Suttner. How did it come to this? And why should it be of interest to the public at large? Continue reading
The Mercury: Speaker refuses to suspend councillors
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/speaker-refuses-to-suspend-councillors-1.1879390#.VZksEBuqqkp
July 2 2015
By Sihle Manda
Durban – Two ANC eThekwini councillors continue to perform public duties despite facing possible jail time for the alleged murder of a civil rights activist.
Council Speaker Logie Naidoo is standing by his comrades, vowing not to suspend the two.
His stance appears to be at odds with that of the ruling party, which said it had suspended the two.
Naidoo’s position on the matter has sparked the wrath of opposition parties, who have urged him to immediately suspend the two until the matter has been finalised in the Durban High Court. Continue reading