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southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday January 21, 2010 - 14:14 by Blikkiesdorp AEC
At 4pm today, 48 law enforcement officers from the City of Cape Town invaded the city's Temporary Relocation Area, Blikkiesdorp, and removed about 60 people from the one roomed dwellings. This was done completely unlawfully without any high court eviction order, without any explanation, and even more inexplicably by the same city officials who installed the people in the first place. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday January 18, 2010 - 14:42 by CoZop
This is a good analysis of the growing political crisis in South Africa. There are some important corrections though: 1. In the initial confusion it was thought that four had been killed in the attacks on AbM on 26 September 2009 but two badly wounded comrades were later found alive in hospitals. 2. The attack started at 11:00 p.m. on 26 September. The mob attacked Phondo people and AbM members and set about systemically destroying and looting the homes of AbM members. They were also looking for AbM leaders S'bu Zikode & Mashumi Figlan and promising to kill them. The police refused all calls for help. At about 3 a.m. resistance to the attack was organised from within the community by a group of Phondo men. There were causalities on both sides. 3. The police arrived, stopped the resistance, and arrested AbM members. Then, in their presence and that of local ANC leaders, around 30 homes of AbM leaders were destroyed. These corrections and additions are taken from information on the AbM site, the Pambazuka site and emails from local activists who are concerned that some of the solidarity work has ignored the fact that there was (entirely appropriate) resistance to the fascist ANC mob. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Friday January 15, 2010 - 14:32 by Anti-Privatisation Forum
On Monday (11th January) over 1000 families in two sections of the Itireleng shack settlement, situated between Atteridgeville and Laudium in the Tshwane region, were brutally evicted by a combined force of Red Ants and the Tshwane Metro Police. During the eviction, the residents were attacked with batons, rubber bullets and some residents reported that live ammunition was also used. As a result, 49 people were injured, several seriously. All the evicted residents were left without any shelter and the majority have been camping by the side of the road for the last two days. ... read full story / add a comment
africa meridionale / lotte sul territorio / stampa non anarchica Tuesday December 29, 2009 - 20:59 by .
IL SUDAFRICA DEL DOPO APARTHEID È DIVISO IN DUE. DA UNA PARTE C’È LA VERITÀ UFFICIALE DELL’ANC, IL PARTITO-STATO, AUTORITARIO E NEOLIBERISTA. DALL’ALTRA, IL NUOVO MOVIMENTO DELLE TOWNSHIP, ABAHLALI, CHE ORGANIZZA LA POLITICA DAL BASSO. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Friday December 18, 2009 - 19:15 by Raj Patel
Looking back on the September attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo members in Kennedy Road, Durban, Raj Patel profiles the views of key Abahlali activists including S’bu Zikode, Zodwa Nsibande and Mazwi Nzimande. Though strongly disrupted by the African National Congress-led (ANC) attack in September, Abahlali has continued to meet, while the absence of its leaders from the Kennedy Road settlement has illustrated the deficiencies of the ANC. ... read full story / add a comment 
north america / mexico / community struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday December 16, 2009 - 02:49 by Dana Gabriel
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The giant security apparatus being assembled for the Games has translated into many police state measures which are being used to suppress free speech. There is no doubt that the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games must provide a safe and secure environment for athletes, spectators, officials, local residents and all others involved. This should not be at the expense of those who seek to engage in anti-Olympic protests or other forms of peaceful activism and they should be free to do so without intimidation and fear. ... read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Friday December 11, 2009 - 21:31 by Michael Neocosmos
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A new essay by Michael Neocosmos on the political significance of the attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo and the state of democracy in South Africa. He also develops an interesting (and non-economistic) periodisation of the failures of post-apartheid democracy. ... read full story / add a comment 
italia / svizzera / lotte sul territorio / altra stampa libertaria Thursday December 03, 2009 - 19:37 by movimenti per il diritto all'abitare
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Centri sociali e movimenti per il diritto all'abitare dicono "Mo basta!" alle politiche capitoline sugli spazi, e convocano un corteo cittadino per venerdì 4 dicembre, giornata nazionale contro gli sfratti e la rendita. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday November 26, 2009 - 18:49 by Abahlali baseMpola
The eThekwini Municipality is currently illegally evicting families at
gunpoint in Mpola. Thirty people
already have been left homeless. The community requests all press to rush
to the scene and to witness the rampant criminality of the eThekwini
Municipality for themselves.
... read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday November 23, 2009 - 20:35 by Abahlali baseMjondolo
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The same mob that attacked Abahlali
baseMjondolo and the Kennedy Road Development Committee on 26th September;
that trashed the Abahlali office and systematically destroyed the homes of
Abahlali leaders while police and politicians looked on on 27 September; and
that followed the violent purge of Abahlali from the settlement by
installing an ANC committee is, right now, demolishing Mondli Mbiko's home
in the Kennedy Road settlement. A short while ago they demolished Mzwake
Mdlalose's home.
... read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Monday November 23, 2009 - 20:30 by Kennedy Road | The Kennedy Six Diakonia Council of Churches
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Diakonia Council of Churches condemns the ongoing attacks and targeting of homes, property and lives of members of Abahlali baseMjondolo ... read full story / add a comment 
north america / mexico / community struggles / non-anarchist press Friday November 20, 2009 - 13:55 by Anti-Eviction Campaign
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The eviction blockade was a big success, thanks to everyone who turned out. But the struggle is far from over for Lenise and the rest of the families facing eviction this holiday season. Though CHA had indicated on Tuesday that they would ask management to work out a payment plan, now they are denying this and we may have to set the blockade back up at a moment’s notice. ... read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday November 12, 2009 - 14:31 by Anti-Eviction Campaign
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Yesterday morning, two Mandela Park residents were assaulted by four Chippa security guards at the instruction of the local SANCO chairperson. The two residents along with 7 witnesses went to the police station to lay a charge against the guards. As retribution, the local SANCO chairperson laid a counter charge of intimidation against one of the residents who he ordered to be assaulted - backyarder Khaya Xintolo. Khaya was then arrested and kept in police custody for more than 11 hours even though the detective himself admitted that there was no case against Khaya. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / other libertarian press Saturday October 24, 2009 - 22:37 by Various
On 28 September 2009 the Kennedy Road commune, one of 14 shack settlements in Durban governed autonomously and democratically by Abahlali baseMjondolo was attacked by a militia chanting fascist slogans against non-Zulus. Their stated aim was to kill Abahlali baseMjondolo leader S'bu Zikode. There was spontaneous resistance to the militia and after a 23 hour battle they were decisively routed. The police then stepped in and arrested key AbM leaders while, under police protection, the militia systematically destroyed the homes of more than 30 Abahlali leaders. Local ANC leaders from outside of the settlement then took control of it with full backing of the police and senior politicians. Attacks, death threats and have now spread to nearby settlements and it is crystal clear that there is a major state backed attack on the largest poor people's movement in Africa. Attacks and threats have ... read full story / add a comment
venezuela / colombia / community struggles / non-anarchist press Sunday October 18, 2009 - 10:50 by Coalición de Movimientos y Organizaciones Sociales de Colomb
COMOSOC *Democracia y paz en Colombia ... * /*¡Para expresarnos sin que nos cueste la vida!*/ *JORNADAS DE MOVILIZACIÓN OCTUBRE DE 2009* ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Tuesday October 06, 2009 - 17:25 by Anti-Privatsation Forum
The first few months of the Zuma Presidency has not interrupted the war on the poor. What took place last week in Kennedy Road, Durban, is rather signalling that the violence deployed against organisations of the poor is being escalated. A meeting of the Abahlali baseMjondolo (ABM) affiliate, Kennedy Road Development Committee (KRDC), on Sunday September 27th , was attacked by a militia, killing comrades Mthokozisi Ndlovu and Ndumiso Mnguni. The office of Abahlali and fifteen homes belonging to leading members of the movement were demolished before the attack and several of the ABM’s leaders remain in hiding. Over a thousand, mostly Xhosa-speaking residents, were also forced to flee their homes. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Sunday October 04, 2009 - 19:34 by Abahlali baseMjondolo - Rural Network
Just two days before Abahlali baseMjondolo was violently attacked in Kennedy Road, the movement was in celebratory mood as hundreds of shackdwellers crowded into the eMmause Community Hall on Heritage Day, 24th September, for the launch of a new booklet, Living Learning.
... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Sunday October 04, 2009 - 19:11 by Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
The armed ANC takeover of Kennedy Road (including the death of at least 4 people and the exiling of 1,000 residents) has now been condemned all over South Africa and all over the world. This is a new era in South Africa. No longer can we pretend to be a 'rainbow nation' when political parties are actively supporting armed militia in attacks against independent social movements. But we do have an advantage: In the long run, we are doing what is right and therefore we will win. Below you will find a huge list of statements, articles and blogs. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday September 30, 2009 - 22:24 by Nokuthula Mthimunye
Statement on Kennedy Road Informal Settlement by AFRA ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / community struggles / non-anarchist press Wednesday September 30, 2009 - 16:43 by Abahlali baseMjondolo
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New video has been put together from the scene at Kennedy Road. Eyewitnesses to the menacing mob on Saturday night directly contradict both the official ANC story that 'Abahlali-connected people' perpetrated the attack and the ridiculous comment by Ward Councilor Yakoob Baig that the community is 'terrified of Abahlali'. The slightest scrutiny reveals that in fact Abahlali was the target of the vicious 36 hours plus of deadly mob violence. ... read full story / add a comment |
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