Kennedy Road 12 taste freedom

29 07 2011

NIREN TOLSI – Jul 29 2011 13:58 – Mail and Guardian

Outside the Durban magistrate’s court last week members of the “Kennedy Road 12″ 12 members of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a shackdwellers movement based in Durban — stood blinking in the sunlight, almost un­able to believe their fate.

“I’m just too happy. I can’t believe I am outside again,” said 24-year-old Sibulelo Mambi, one of them.

An hour earlier, a nightmare that had begun almost two years ago for the 12 finally ended when magistrate Sharon Marks acquitted them of charges ranging from murder to public violence. Read the rest of this entry »





Opinion: Freedom’s prisoners

23 12 2009

NIREN TOLSI | DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – Dec 23 2009 06:00

Among the debris of the Abahlali base­Mjondolo president’s destroyed home lie the remains of freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights.

Almost three months ago Sbu Zikode had to flee his shack in Durban’s Kennedy Road after armed mobs rampaged through the settlement in a frenzy of ethno-political cleansing that left two people dead. Read the rest of this entry »





M&G article on AbM’s challenge to the Slums Act

23 05 2009

Source: M & G

Abahlali baseMjondolo was joined by the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign and other Poor Peoples Alliance members at the Constitutional Court.  Down with the Slums Act, Down!  Forward to Abahlali, Forward!

2009_05_22 M&G Slums Act AbM





Media: Pooh-slinging Slums Act showdown at Con Court

16 05 2009
NIREN TOLSI | DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA
May 16 2009 05:55
Source: M&G

Winnie the Pooh references jostled with rigorous examination of the constitutionality of KwaZulu-Natal’s Prevention and Elimination of Slums Act at the Constitutional Court on Thursday.

If it survives the challenge by shack-dwellers’ organisation Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Act could serve as a model for similar measures in other provinces. Read the rest of this entry »








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