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Abahlali baseMjondolo
Abahlali baseMjondolo (The Residents of the Shacks) is a movement of the poor in South Africa. Abahlali is an autonomous, democratic, membership-based social movement comprising more than 150,000 members, operating in 93 branches in 4 provinces. Their politics are rooted in a universal commitment to affirming and defending human dignity as they struggle for land and housing, to foster communities of care, self-nourishment, and solidarity.
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
We will continue to support progressive forces that occupy land for living and creating food sustainability
The ANC, DA and EFF will all leave the poor to continue to be poor. There is no hope from these parties. The only hope that we have is ourselves