We March on the Durban City Hall on 26 June 2017
14 June 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement We March on the Durban City Hall on 26 June 2017 When the new mayor, Zandile Gumede, took office last year we were promised a new era in the City’s...
View ArticleAbahlali baseMjondolo Youth League to Commemorate Fallen Comrades on Youth Da
Thursday 15 June 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League Press statement Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League to Commemorate Fallen Comrades on Youth Day The movement of Abahlali baseMjondolo will hold...
View ArticleThe Memorial Service for Samuel Hloele Will be Held in eMansenseni on 22 June
Wednesday, 21 June 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement The Memorial Service for Samuel Hloele Will be Held in eMansenseni on 22 June On 13 June 2017 the Land Invasions Unit murdered Samuel...
View ArticleVOCFM: Selective responses to disaster by the middle classes
By Imraan Buccus, VOCFM The fires in Knysna and elsewhere in the Eastern Cape are a terrible disaster. People have lost their homes and all their worldly goods and been traumatised. The outpouring of...
View ArticleAbahlali to March in Durban and Bizana on Monday
Saturday, 24 June 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Abahlali to March in Durban and Bizana on Monday Abahlali baseMjondolo will march to the Durban Mayor Cllr Zandile Gumede on Monday, 26 June...
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Memoranda of demands from the branches for the march on 26 June 2016
Tomorrow we march in Bizana and in Durban. Our mass protest task team for the Durban march have been busy preparing, and today we were finalising and compiling all the memoranda from our branches into...
View ArticleUn-Independence Day 2017: Congo still struggles for real Independence
26 June 2017 CONGOLESE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN PRESS STATEMENT Un-Independence Day 2017: Congo still struggles for real Independence On the 29th June 2017, the Congolese Solidarity Campaign “CSC”, a...
View ArticleMemorandum of Demands to the MEC For Cooperative Governance and Traditional...
Memorandum of Demands to the MEC For Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Honourable Nomusa Dube-Ncube, Monday, 26 June 2017, 12:00pm We, Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA, are democrats...
View ArticleMemorandum of Demands to the Mayor of eThekwini, Her Worship Cllr Zandile...
Memorandum of Demands to the Mayor of eThekwini, Her Worship Cllr Zandile Gumede, Monday, 26 June 2017, 12:00pm We, Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA, are democrats committed to the flourishing of this...
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News 24: eThekwini mayor snubs ‘angry’ Abahlali shack dwellers
Mxolisi Mngadi, News24 Abahlali baseMjondolo march to the Durban City Hall demanding an end to evictions. Durban – eThekwini Mayor Zandile Gumede snubbed thousands of shack dwellers who had wanted to...
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Daily News: City defends move to purchase casspirs amid outcry
Bheki Mbanjwa, The Daily News Shackdwellers movement Abahlali BaseMjondolo has slammed the purchase of casspirs by the eThekwini municipality saying this amounted to the militarisation of the metro...
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M&G: March on Durban city hall: ‘As shack dwellers we deserve some dignity’
Thousands of people marched to the Durban City Hall on Monday against alleged violent evictions of shack dwellers in different informal settlements around Durban. The protestors, marching in solidarity...
View ArticleA Call to the eThekwini Municipality: Do not buy Casspirs
PRESS STATEMENT: A Call to the eThekwini Municipality: Do not buy Casspirs We are outraged at the plan for the City of Durban to purchase militarised vehicles to deal with protests by the people of the...
View ArticleAbahlali are under armed attack from the eThekwini Mayor
Thursday, 6 July 2017 Abahlali urgent press statement Abahlali are under armed attack from the eThekwini Mayor On 26 June we marched, in our thousands, on the Mayor of the eThekwini Municipality and...
View ArticleBrutal Evictions and Road Blockades are Continuing
Friday, July 7, 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Brutal Evictions and Road Blockades are Continuing As we explained in our statement yesterday we marched, in our thousands, on the Mayor of...
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The Mercury: City, Abahlali stand-off and eviction protests continue
by Thami Magubane, The Mercury Abahlali baseMjondolo protesters marched to Durban City Hall Picture: Bongani Mbatha Attitudes have hardened between Abahlali BaseMjondolo and eThekwini Municipality as...
View ArticleJustice for Nqobile Nzuza: Police Officer Convicted of Murder
14 July 2017 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Justice for Nqobile Nzuza: Police Officer Convicted of Murder On 30 September, 2013 Nqobile Nzuza was murdered by the South African police in Cato...
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GroundUp: Red Ants accused of firing rubber bullets
GroundUp Red Ants accused of firing rubber bullets Residents also claim their belongings were stolen during evictions Residents sit with their belongings after being evicted by the Red Ants. Photo:...
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