The news that at least 73 people have died in the terrible fire in downtown Johannesburg has left all people of good…

On Monday 31 July, a road blockade – the strike of the poor – was organised by residents of the Slovo Park…

Democracy is not just about elections. It is also about everyday practices, and democratic governments engage their people democratically, especially when they…

Impoverished people are not free, and when the ANC and the government lie to us and tell us that we are free…

The attempt by the local ANC – working with the police, private security, the anti-land invasion unit and forces within the prosecuting…

The struggle for dignity, for land and autonomy, continues to mean death. Our hearts are broken

Today we look forward to real freedom, to a time when we as black people are no longer murdered for insisting on our human dignity

We hope that the demands that we have raised as a mass democratic movement of the poorest of the poor will be taken into consideration in today’s State of the Nation Address

We will never accept that we should be sent to ‘transit camps’, as if we were animals. Our humanity is non-negotiable

On Thursday morning residents of the Jika Joe settlement in the Msunduzi Municipality blockaded the roads leading into Pietermaritzburg, the capital city of KwaZulu-Natal. They shut down the city