Message of Solidarity from Njabulo Ndebele
I send my deepest sympathies to the family of Ms Thuli Ndlovu for their sad and most unnecessary loss. Abahlali baseMjondolo have equally lost a valuable member. Such assassinations do not belong in a democracy. I join in condemning this assassination without reservation. The SAPS are called upon to do all they can to find the murders and arrest them.
Meanwhile, I send my good wishes to an organisation that is doing so much to highlight the plight of the homeless.
M&G: The assassination surge on those fighting corruption
by Richard Pithouse, Mail & Guardian
On Monday evening, not long after the sun went down, a man with a gun stepped out of the dark and into the everyday domestic routine in Thuli Ndlovu’s home in KwaNdengezi, Durban. He shot Ndlovu seven times, and her neighbour’s teenage son twice. Ndlovu died on the spot. Her neighbour’s son is in a critical condition.
Ndlovu was the chairperson of the KwaNdengezi branch of Abahlali baseMjondolo. Like Nkululeko Gwala, a member of the same organisation, who was assassinated in Cato Crest, also in Durban, in June last year, she had been subject to serious intimidation for some time and had told her family and comrades that she expected to die. Continue reading
Thuli Ndlovu (RIP)
M&G: Tensions flare after ‘hit’ on shack official
Fatima Asmal, Mail & Guardian
The South African shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo has alleged the fatal shooting of its KwaNdengezi chairperson, Thuli Ndlovu, was a political assassination.
Ndlovu was killed on Monday evening by a gunman who shot her seven times while she was watching television.
According to an Abahlali press release, Ndlovu had been threatened and intimidated by an ANC official.
Ndabo Mzimela, the secretary general of Abahlali, told the Mail & Guardian that Ndlovu had received a phone call from an unknown individual shortly before the incident.
Mzimela said Ndlovu had opened a case of intimidation with the police, which he said had not been investigated. Continue reading
UPM: Statement of Solidarity with Abahlali base Mjondolo
October 03, 2014
Press Statement from the Unemployed People’s Movement
Statement of Solidarity with Abahlali base Mjondolo
Abahlali base Mjondolo’s brief period of existence is similar to the history of the Black Consciousness Movement in this country, a history written in blood, pain and suffering. This week, Thuli Ndlovu, a leader in this movement, was assassinated.
Since its inception, the ruling party and the state have responded with violence to the democratic demands of this noble movement.
In 2006 they were forced out of their homes, charged with killings. They won the case. Continue reading
Joint statement on the murder of Thuli Ndlovu near Durban
Statement issued by EE, TAC, SJC, EE Law Centre, Section27, Ndifuna Ukwazi
On Monday night, 29 September 2014, Thuli Ndlovu, Chairperson of the KwaNdengezi branch of the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) shack-dwellers movement, was murdered in her home. KwaNdengezi is a peri-urban settlement near Pinetown, part of the eThekwini Municipality. Ndlovu’s children were on the property at the time she died. Her daughter’s 18-year old maths tutor, Sphe Madlala, was shot, and was taken to hospital in critical condition.
AbM, in their press statement, have described this murder as an assassination. Given their experience of intimidation and violence in KwaZulu-Natal, this view is not unreasonable. Continue reading
The Mercury: Housing activist shot dead
Note: AbM is not aligned to the DA. A tactical decision was made to vote for the DA in the last election in response to the murder of AbM activists. AbM is not aligned to any party.
Sihle Manda, The Mercury
Durban – A woman was shot and killed in an attack at her house in KwaNdengezi on Monday.
Thuli Ndlovu, 36, chairwoman of the KwaNdengezi branch of the shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, was killed a few hours after telling her mother, “today we are going to be shot”. She had been suspicious of a car driving past her house in the afternoon.
Ndlovu’s teenage daughter, Slindile, was unharmed, but her maths tutor, Sphe Madlala, 18, was shot and seriously injured. Continue reading
GroundUp: Another Abahlali baseMjondolo member assassinated
by Daneel Knoetze, GroundUp
Shortly after returning to KwaZulu Natal from the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) Western Cape relaunch, Thuli Ndlovu, a branch chairperson in the shackdwellers’ movement, was gunned down in her shack.
Thirty-six-year-old Ndlovu, the movement’s chairwoman in KwaNdengezi, was one of the delegates to counsel AbM’s newly elected Western Cape board.
AbM Western Cape was relaunched in Sweethome Farm informal settlement on Saturday.
“We have so much to learn from those comrades,” said newly re-elected Western Cape chairman Siyamboleka James. Continue reading
Another political eviction in Sisonke Village, near Lamontville
1 October 2014
Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement
Another political eviction in Sisonke Village, near Lamontville
On Sunday 28 September 2014 the ANC Ward 74 councillor Nolubabalo Mthembu called an ANC meeting to discuss ways of replacing the Land Invasion Unit with an ANC demolition team. This meeting took place at the Lamontville Community hall in the afternoon at around 1pm. The Task Team Committee was launched to carry out the illegal eviction of the nearby Sisonke settlement. Sisonke Village, formerly known as Madlala Village, made headlines early this year when they approached the Constitutional Court after they had been subjected to more than 24 illegal evictions. Continue reading