Abahlali baseMojondolo write on the solidarity being shown in the face of State and capital’s violence against impoverished South Africans.
Organise or Starve: Life under lockdown in South Africa’s shackdweller movements
Tag: Durban
South Africa: Evictions mark first day of national lockdown
Even as police let loose with rubber bullets and beatings against shoppers yesterday in an effort to enforce the new national Covid-19 lockdown, in…
South Africa: ANC deploys Apartheid-era tactics against land occupation
The eThekwini Municipality is expecting delivery of four Casspirs – armoured vehicles originally deployed during Apartheid to repress black c…
Durban: 67 years after Apartheid evictions, ANC violently attacks Cato Manor occupation
Two people have been blinded this week in violent reprisals from State and local ANC-linked thugs as they try to push land occupiers out of Cato Ma…
South Africa: Shack dwellers besiege police station after cops kill baby in assault on settlement
A furious, mourning community marched on Sydenham police station in Durban today after a police assault on the city’s Foreman Road shack sett…
South Africa: Durban and the rule of lies
Shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo reports on the Bhambayi protests which have hit north Durban as the city’s new administratio…
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