Occupy ALL Streets
By Kwadwo Kari-Kari “All day, all week, we sleep on London’s freezing streets.” – Occupy LSX placard Let me start with a confession: I have not spent a single night sleeping at any of the occupations....
View ArticleActivist from South Africa’s Direct Action / Shack Dwellers Movement Comes to...
Mzonke Poni (leading member of Abahlali Western Cape) “[Mzonke Poni is the] face of an ANC nightmare – an angry activist mobilising the township masses to protest at what he calls the government’s...
View ArticleFree Event: Dear Mandela – Awarding Winning Film Showing at War on Want
Dear Mandela – An Award Winning Film about the first post-apartheid generation of South Africa With Question and Answer session with a South African Speaker Free Entry When their shantytowns were...
View ArticleFreed General Secretary of Abahlali baseMjondolo Speaks: My Thoughts in...
By Bandile Mdlalose On June 3, 2010 when I became the General Secretary of Abahlali BaseMjondolo Movement S.A. I vowed to die where Abahlali members die. I vowed to protect my country. I vowed to be...
View ArticleAbahlali: We were promised homes for all, not just for ANC party members
By Abanali baseMjondolo / @Abahlali_ABM “If the ANC does to you what the Apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the Apartheid government.” – Nelson Mandela,...
View ArticleMandela’s uncertain legacy in South Africa
By Abahlali baseMjondolo Solidarity UK Mandela has been mourned across the world, his heroic words and deeds did far more than help end the racist apartheid system, his calm influence perhaps...
View ArticleANC leaders are demolishing Marikana families’ homes just before Christmas
By Abahlali baseMjondolo / @Abahlali_ABM Christmas is often the time of evictions in Durban. The Municipality knows that many people are away at their rural homes and that it is difficult to get...
View ArticleNew Year’s Eve in South Africa: An Occupation, Police Violence, Arrests and Fire
By Abahlali baseMjondolo / @Abahlali_ABM Just after three this morning the River View Flats in Cato Manor were occupied. Some of the occupiers had previously been evicted from this block of flats and...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Largest Social Movement Declares 2014: “A Year For Change”
By Abahlali Solidarity UK National elections are being held in South Africa this year. In the UK, a new High Commissioner, Obed Mlaba, has just been installed in South Africa House. Mlaba has a failed...
View Article3 International Cities Protest for #HandsOffAbahlali
“We will build houses for you, it is not something we can achieve overnight” – Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, 1994 [link to video] “We have learned that by demanding decent housing we make...
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