Poor Peoples’ Alliance to Re-enact June 1976 Soweto Uprising March
The Poor Peoples’ Alliance (PPA), made up of radical community-based organisations across South Africa, is to march from Morris Isaacs High School to the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto on the 16th June 2009 to re-enact the 1976 march.
Emergency Update (18h15 on 1 June):
Mzonke Poni has been charged with public violence and will appear in court on Tuesday with the mother of the 1 year old baby. We would like to thank everyone who called in for helping prevent further assaults and beatings.
Emergency Update (17h15 on 1 June):
1. mzonke sent an sms moments ago to say that a women has also been arrested and that she has a one year old baby.
2. immediately after that mzonke’s phone was taken from him while he was on the line to david ntseng of the church land programme.
its time to face up to the fact that in cape town the local state is habitually violent and criminal. moreover when the courts extend some protection to the poor that are also treated with utter contempt Read the rest of this entry »
Landless People’s Movement Press Statement
27 May 2009
The Landless People’s Movement in Gauteng will march from the Maurice Issacs High School to the Hector Peterson Museum in Soweto on the 16th June 2009 to repoliticise the meaning of the 1976 Soweto Uprisings.
We, as the Landless People’s Movement, met with different social movements in Gauteng on 18 May 2009. Decisions were taken that the march should be done as a coalition, under the banner of the Poor People’s Alliance. We took this decision as we are trying not to own this march as the LPM. We are trying to revive the history of 1976. As part of this we will be holding workshops with the youth communities in Soweto.
For more information contact:
Bongani Xezwi – youth Coordinator LPM Protea South Branch – 071 043 2221
Maureen Msisi – LPM Gauteng Chairperson – 082 337 4514
Or by email: bongani.xezwi@gmail.com
For more information on this march, see our previous press release (below):
http://abahlali.org/node/5135
Abahlali baseMjondolo will be taking the struggle against the internationally notorious KwaZulu-Natal Slums Act to the Constitutional Court 14 May 2009. We will be travelling overnight from Durban and Cape Town (with our comrades from the Anti-Eviction Campaign) to arrive at the court tomorrow morning. Our comrades from the Landless People’s Movement in Johannesburg will join us at the court.
Below you can find a lot of information about this Act.
Further queries can be forwarded to:
Mnikelo Ndabankulu ABM-KZN 079 745 0653
Mbhekiseni Mavuso Rural Network KZN 072 279 2634
Mzonke Poni ABM Cape Town 073 256 2036
Ashraf Cassim AEC Cape Town 076 186 1408
Maureen Mnisi LPM-Gauteng 082 337 4514
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Recent Articles and press releases on AbM’s challenge to the Slums Act:
The Shack Dwellers’ Road to the Constitutional Court
Abahlali baseMjondolo will once again climb another high mountain for the first time when our struggle for the safety, dignity and equality of the poor ascends to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa. In 2005 when we formed our movement we committed ourselves to do whatever it takes to protect the rights, lives and future of the shack dwellers and the poor in South Africa. We are determined to defend our children, without compromising our future generation. Read the rest of this entry »
Note: AEC coordinators will be joining Abahlali in Durban. In Cape Town, many AEC communities will be mourning Unfreedom Day in their own communities. Symphony Way, for instance, will be having a number of events including a netball game and a play put on by the children.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Walala Wasala, Wavuka Usuhlala ema-Thini
Monday 27 April will mark the 15th anniversary of the first democratic elections in South Africa. Once again the poor will be herded into stadiums so that the politicians can tell the people to celebrate their freedom. Once again Abahlali baseMjondolo will be decelebrating. We will be holding our fourth annual UnFreedom Day.
On the Sunday before unFreedom Day we will launch the beautiful new crèche that has been built in the Motala Heights settlement.The Motala Diggers have already been running a large community garden for sometime and the community have now decided to take the initiative and to build and run their own crèche.
On unFreedom Day a major announcement will be made about the next step in the movement’s ongoing struggle with the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Housing and their notorious Slums Act.
The unFreedom Day event will begin at 9:00 a.m. and will be held in the Kennedy Road settlement in Clare Estate, Durban. We will be joined by comrades from all of the organisations that make up the Poor People’s Alliance – Abahlali baseMjondolo in KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape, as well as the Rural Network from KwaZulu-Natal, the Landless People’s Movement from Gauteng and the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign. The eMacambini Anti-Removal Committee will also attend the event and participate in all the discussions leading up to it. Read the rest of this entry »
Case no. 1874/08 Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA.
Abahlali baseMjondolo have been to the Durban High Court this morning to hear the judgment being handed dawn by the KwaZulu-Natal President, Judge Vuka Shabalala. On the 6 November 2008 the Movement had applied to the Durban High Court for the KwaZulu- Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-Emergence of Slums Act 2007 to be declared unconstitutional. Full details of the Act, and the reasons for our opposition to it, and can be found on the Movement’s website at http://abahlali.org/node/1629/
The Judge President had decided that the judgment would be handed down today at 9:30 am; however the judge did not come himself and sent another judge to give his judgment. Read the rest of this entry »
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