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Tag: South Africa
18 years of Abahlali baseMjondolo
In 2005, the movement was established because the impoverished, the marginalised and the shack dwellers of South Africa were continuously rejected …
ANC profits while KwaZulu-Natal residents thirst
The ANC does not care about poor black people.
Radical Reprint: The Labour War in South Africa
A historical tale in which South African miners strike while Herbert Gladstone fiddles.
Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League celebrate Women’s Day
Today we celebrate Women’s Day, which is held on the anniversary of the Women’s March in 1956 when 20 000 women marched against the “pass laws”…
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.
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.
Organise or Starve: Life under lockdown in South Africa’s shackdweller movements
Abahlali baseMojondolo write on the solidarity being shown in the face of State and capital’s violence against impoverished South Africans.
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…
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