In 2005, the movement was established because the impoverished, the marginalised and the shack dwellers of South Africa were continuously rejected …
18 years of Abahlali baseMjondolo
Tag: shack dwellers
Statement on the police killing of Karabo Chaka
Karabo Chaka was shot dead by the police while in the yard of his family home in Slovo Park.
UnFreedom Day held by Abahlali baseMjondolo
We were made poor so that others could be made rich and we are kept poor so that others can remain rich.
Celebrating victory and justice for South Africa’s Abahlali baseMjondolo
Freedom continues its coverage of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African movement of shack dwellers who organise land occupations and communes: In …
Justice delayed and denied for Abahlali baseMjondolo
Freedom continues its coverage of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African movement of shack dwellers who organise land occupations and communes: The…
Abahlali baseMjondolo organise against systemic violence against women in South Africa
Freedom introduces the Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African movement of shack dwellers who organise land occupations and communes.
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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