Residents of Goodhope informal settlement, tired of years of empty promises from the metro, took to the streets on Wednesday night, continuing into Thursday morning, to demand that things change and the metro delivers on its promises. Continue reading
1:32 a.m., Thursday, 17 May 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Emergency Press Statement
Unprovoked police attack on the Good Hope Settlement in Germiston
Yesterday afternoon all the shacks on the Zikode Extension Land Occupation were demolished again. Tonight a large number of police officers, from various units, including a SWAT team, launched an unprovoked, violent and brutal attack on the nearby Good Hope Settlement in an attempt to prevent people from moving back to the occupied land. Rubber bullets were fired and tear gas was used. Individuals were targeted and threatened. There has been at least one confirmed arrest. Continue reading
12 May 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
A New Land Occupation in Germiston
Last night more than two hundred people occupied unused land in Germiston, on the East Rand in Gauteng. We laid out our design for the occupation in the afternoon, built throughout the night and slept on the occupied land. Around 350 stands have been marked out via a democratic and carefully planned process. The new occupation has been named the Zikode Extension in honour of S’bu Zikode. Continue reading
28 February 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Good Hope Settlement in Germiston is Ready to Occupy if We Continue to be Ignored
Our movement now has five branches on the East Rand in Gauteng. We will be launching a sixth branch soon.
The Good Hope Settlement in Germiston is now twenty-two years old. Some people have lived their whole lives in the settlement waiting for the promises of land and housing to be fulfilled. Continue reading
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