Tricontinental An isolated individual may obstinately refuse to understand a problem, but the group or the village understands with disconcerting rapidity. It is true that if care is taken to use only a language that is understood by graduates in law and economics, you can easily prove that the masses have to be managed from…
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Abahlali baseMjondolo: Solidarity with Our Comrades in Brazil
For a number of years our movement has enjoyed close relationships with various movements in the left in South America. This has included the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST), known in English as the Landless Workers’ Movement, in Brazil. Many of our comrades have spent a lot of time with the MST in Brazil….
Abahlali baseMjondolo: Death Threats in Durban
Harry Stopes The last time I was in South Africa, in 2015, I met with members of Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), an organisation of informally housed people, based mainly in Durban and the surrounding KwaZulu-Natal region. The group’s name means ‘Shack Dwellers’. I was added to their mailing list. In the last few months the tone…
Abahlali baseMjondolo Continues its Struggle: Interview with Mqapheli George Bonono
Zoe PC On Monday, thousands of members of the organization Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers movement, along with their allies from the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and other movements, marched in Durban against state repression and attacks that they have suffered as a movement. Peoples Dispatch had the opportunity to speak with…
Abahlali baseMjondolo March Against State Repression, Threats and Assassinations
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Today, Abahlali baseMjondolo march against repression in Durban. Solidarity protests are also taking place in Cape Town, Johannesburg and New York. Since our movement was founded in 2005 we have faced waves of repression including assault, arrest, torture in police custody, organised campaigns of slander, the destruction of our homes, death threats,…
South Africa: Land Occupation Defies a Broken System
Xolisa Phillip Abahlali baseMjondolo Visit any black area in the Eastern Cape and you will find a section called eNdlovini. This has a double meaning: the first literal translation is “at the elephant/place of the elephant”. The second meaning is more nuanced and slightly loaded: “the place at which we charged in and settled”. The…
Popular Democratic Power is the Way to Challenge Inequality
Thapelo Mohapi Abahlali baseMjondolo Oslo, Norway Fighting Inequality – Talks on How to Change the World Greeting to all. I am Thapelo Mohapi the current elected General Secretary of the movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. I would like to begin by thanking our friends at Norwegian People’s Aid for the invitation to participate in this discussion. Abahlali…
Abahlali baseMjondolo: Fanonian Practices and the Politics of Space in Postapartheid South Africa
Nigel C. Gibson Article as Document: Abahlali baseMjondolo Abahlali baseMjondolo Franz Fanon: Wretched of the Earth | Les Damnés de la Terre “It is one thing if we are beneficiaries who need delivery. It is another thing if we are citizens who want to shape the future of our cities, even our country. It is…
