The Steep Price Of Being Family To Abahlali’s Most Famous Activist By Lizeka Maduna On Sep 14, 2018 S’bu Zikode, the founding president of the radical shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo has had to be in hiding numerous times after threats were made against him for his fight for landless peoples and shack dwellers. His wife Sindi Mkhize […]
New Frame By Jan Bornman Photography Madelene Cronje 28 August 2018: Rajabu Mwinyi in his shop in the Durban CBD. Several xenophobic political parties are emerging in Durban, causing migrants around the city to live in fear. Sitting behind security bars in his shop in McArthur Street in the Durban CBD, 36-year-old Hassan Bikorwa says […]
The Guardian Raj Patel Mon 27 Aug 2018 03.24 Hundreds of indigenous Hondurans march in 2016 in demanding justice for the murder of indigenous environmentalist Berta Caceres. Photograph: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images The first time Donald Trump tweeted about Africa, he agonised over white people. After watching Fox News’ coverage of the South African land debate last […]
Friday, 6 July 201 Phumula Mqashi Land Occupation Press Statement Illegal Attacks on the Phumula Mqashi Land Occupation in Tembisa On 13 February 2018 a large tract of empty land was occupied in Tembisa, on the East Rand. During apartheid the land was used by the army. Since then it has remained unused. There were more […]
Daily Maverick 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.