These kinds of attacks to our comrades are completely unacceptable, we know this is not the first time for our comrades to be attacked, as much as previously they were attacked by group of unknown people but the current attacks at Kennedy road clarifies that the ANC had been behind these attacks with a view to push our strong comrades out of mobilized communities so that they can reclaim the leadership of those communities. Read the rest of this entry »
AbM-WC: In Solidarity of Abahlali Leaders at Durban Kennedy Road
28 09 2009
Solidarity Statement by Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape
28 September 2009
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Tags: African National Congress, anc, armed mobs, Kennedy Road, Lindela Figlan, paramilitary, pogroms, S'bu Zikode
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AbM: The Attacks Continue Now in the Presence of the Police and Senior ANC leaders
28 09 2009Emergency Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Sunday 27 September 2009, 22:40
There are now senior ANC leaders in the Kennedy Road Community Hall. In their presence the homes of the elected Kennedy Road leadership continue to be demolished and burnt by the same small group of well armed people who have been carrying out attacks with impunity for 23 straight hours. None of the people that launched the surprise, unprovoked and heavily armed attack on the KRDC last night have been arrested and yet most of the KRDC is locked up in the Sydenham Police station (including those who were publicly performing the imfene dance in Claremont at the time of the attack).
The police are currently on the scene and are doing nothing to stop the destruction. These are the same police who have, over the years, attacked a number of peaceful and legal marches with swift, shocking (and very effective) brutality. They are very well equipped and armed. They can get the riot police to support them in just a few minutes. They can get water cannons and helicopters in a few minutes. They can call in the army if they need to. It would be supremely easy for them to stop these attacks if they wished too. The police complicity in these attacks is now entirely beyond question. It is a matter of clear and obvious and undeniable fact.
We have just heard that S’bu Zikode’s house has been demolished and his goods have been stolen. He personally requested support from the police but received none. Should we be surprised given that these are the same police that tortured him in 2007 for the crime of trying to attend a radio interview?
There is no democracy for the poor in South Africa. Abahlali have been saying this for years. Now it must be obvious to everyone. It is time that we all stopped pretending that everything is ok in our country.
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Tags: Kennedy Road, Kennedy Road Development Committee, paramilitaries, party politics, police brutality, S'bu Zikode, Sydenham Police
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AbM: Death threats, rape, corruption and war on democracy in eShowe
18 08 2009Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Release
Abahlali Leaders Narrowly Escape Assassination; Councillor Warlords Violently Disrupt Branch Launch in Tin Town, eShowe; Abahlali Members in Exile; Sex for Houses Corruption Allegations at Sunnydale Housing Project
Breaking News: Warlords return to Tin Town today, 17 August, with weapons, searching for two exiled Abahlali members
A delegation of Abahlali baseMjondolo leaders from Durban narrowly escaped assassination this Sunday by local councillor warlords in Tin Town, Dinizulu township, eShowe.
Abahlali have been receiving calls daily from Tin Town shack-dwellers, excluded from an uMlalazi municipality housing project called Sunnydale, constructed by Umpheme Development Ptd (Ltd). Tin Town shack-dwellers are now undergoing mass forced eviction and being left homeless. Evictions have been backed with threats by Ward 13 councillor warlords. These threats have included threats of necklacing, razing people’s homes, suffocation and starvation in the boot of cars. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: democracy, eShowe, Reggie Ngema, S'bu Zikode, Tin Town, warlords, Zodwa Nsibande
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Meaningful Engagement
27 07 2009by Sbu Zikode
The Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits, are hosting a colloquium on the topic of ‘Meaningful Engagement’ today. The speakers were asked to prepare and circulate their papers in advance. This is S’bu Zikode’s contribution to the discussion.
I thank Lauren Royston and Kate Tissington for the opportunity to comment on the topic of meaningful engagement.
Our movement is always very happy to visit CALS. CALS is an important ally in the struggles of the poor and all our movements hold your organization in high respect. You have worked with us and not for us. You have not been scared to confront power whether it is the provincial government or a gangster landlord. We remember how Stuart Wilson sat taking instruction from Uncle James in Motala Heights while Ricky Govender’s thugs threw rocks at Uncle James’ house. We know how hard and how well Stuart and your team worked on the Slums Act case. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: CALS, meaningful engagement, S'bu Zikode
Categories : Archives, opinion / academic articles, Poor People's Alliance
World Cup 2010: football brings defining moment for South Africa
12 06 2009
David Smith Friday 12 June 2009 21.23 BST
Source: Guardian
The eyes of nearly a billion TV viewers are fixed on the vast Soccer City stadium. The winning team captain receives the trophy from a frail but radiant Nelson Mandela. The date is 11 July 2010 and, irrespective of what happened on the pitch, the true winners of the World Cup are the hosts.
This is the dream that South Africa hopes to realise a year from now. In staging the World Cup finals it will take on the biggest sporting showpiece on the planet. It has not enjoyed such a moment in the sun since the transition from apartheid to multiracial democracy in 1994. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: 2010 World Cup, Confederation Cup, evictions, Guardian, S'bu Zikode
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Videos about Abahlali baseMjondolo
28 05 2009
S’bu is calling.
The third force is the suffering of the poor. El poder es nuestro. May 25, 2009
The third force is the suffering of the poor. El poder es nuestro. May 25, 2009
Primera parte de un crimen atroz (1st chapter of another atrocity case)
Otra vez Siyanda, Uyishayile
May 27, 2009 Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: demolitions, eThekwini, KZN, Mashumi Figlan, Mazwi Nzimande, Mpume, S'bu Zikode, shacks, Siyanda
Categories : Archives, Espanol, isiZulu, Poor People's Alliance, Video
To Resist All Degradations & Divisions: An interview with S’bu Zikode
28 04 2009Click here to read an annotated version of this interview in pdf.
To Resist All Degradations & Divisions
An interview with S’bu Zikode
Tell me something about where you were born and who your family were.
I was born in a village called Loskop which is near the town called Estcourt. It is in the Natal Midlands. I was born in 1975. I have a twin sister, her name is Thoko. We are now the last born. I have two other sisters. I also had a brother who passed away so I am the only son. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Abahlali baseMjondolo, anc, Boy Scouts, Estcourt, Inkatha, Lexden, Loskop, Lucky Dube, Mzwakhe Mbuli, Natal Midlands, Richard Pithouse, S'bu Zikode, University of Durban-Westville
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