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South Africa:
The Underside of South African Democracy
SACSIS, 26 July 2011
The shacks that ring the towns and cities of the global South are a concrete instantiation of both the long catastrophe of colonialism and neocolonial 'development' and the human… Read more »
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South Africa:
Court Acquits Durban Activists
SERI, 18 July 2011
Twelve members of Abahlali baseMjondolo - a shackdwellers movement based in Durban - brought to trial on spurious charges ranging from public violence to murder, were acquitted… Read more »
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South Africa:
Freedom Not Yet
Fahamu, 29 April 2010
The assumption that political freedom begins and ends with the right to vote runs a real risk of overlooking escalating grassroots repression, the general conflation of the party… Read more »
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South Africa:
Bring Back the Truth and Dignity From 1976
Fahamu, 16 June 2011
On 16 June 1976, the youth died for Freedom, yet today while we are told that we are free it is clear that we are not free,' writes South African shackdwellers movement Abahlali… Read more »
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South Africa:
Voices of Poor Must Be Heard
Business Day, 25 October 2010
THE increase in township service delivery protests across SA, and their tendency to descend into chaos and violence, has generally been interpreted as a wake-up call for the… Read more »
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South Africa:
Abahlali Basemjondolo - Full and Independent Enquiry Vital
Fahamu, 29 July 2010
Over the past months we have continued to receive strong support for our intention to convene an independent commission of enquiry into the awful violence that was visited on the… Read more »
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South Africa:
A Bishop's Pursuit of Justice for Shack Dwellers
Fahamu, 10 June 2010
The first black South African to hold the position of bishop of the Anglican diocese of Natal, and chairman of the KwaZulu-Natal Christian Council (KZNCC), Rubin Phillip, is… Read more »
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South Africa:
Poor People's Movement Draws Government Wrath
UNIRIN, 21 April 2010
The rise of an organized poor people's movement in South Africa's most populous province, KwaZulu-Natal, is being met with increasing hostility by the ruling African National… Read more »
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South Africa:
Attacks on Shackdwellers - A Failure of Citizenship?
Fahamu, 10 December 2009
The background and consequences of the recent violent destruction of the Kennedy Road organisation of the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) movement of shack dwellers by a combination of… Read more »
