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/ 21 November 2024

Durban shack and hostel dwellers disrupt Nersa electricity tariff hearings

Ratepayers and activists sided with the protesters who were excluded from the meeting because of a last-minute switch to a much smaller venue

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By Lyse Comins

Feature

/ 23 October 2024

This promised land is a battleground: Inside an eThekwini informal settlement

Murder and fear stalk eKhenana shack dwellers in Cato Manor

By Greg Ardé

Columns

/ 5 August 2024

Blue lies: Police killings must always be carefully interrogated

South Africa is a terrifyingly violent country, but giving the police licence to kill can only make things worse

By Richard Pithouse

Thought Leader

/ 17 July 2024

Realigning the left: Navigating corruption scandals like VBS and building a mass-based movement

The shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, in a mass meeting recalled and expelled senior members who made a deal with a funeral association linked to Jacob Zuma and VBS Bank

By Imraan Buccus

Opinion

/ 1 May 2024

Abahlali baseMjondolo’s elections choice comes from no choice

The political strategy of the socialist shack dwellers’ movement is grounded in two decades of activism against oppression and for land

By S’bu Zikode

Opinion

/ 29 April 2024

Abahlali baseMjondolo’s tactical EFF vote allows us to reimagine democracy

There are good reasons why a social movement would back an opportunistic political party

By Minhaj Jeenah

Opinion

/ 24 April 2024

Abahlali baseMjondolo has made a terrible tactical error by backing the EFF

The large socialist shack dwellers’ movement, in its bid to oust the ANC, may face the prospect of the Economic Freedom Fighters going into a coalition with the uMkhonto weSizwe party in KwaZulu-Natal

By Imraan Buccus

Politics

/ 23 April 2024

Shack-dwellers’ movement Abahlali BaseMjondolo backs EFF for 2024 elections

Abahlali has previously backed the Democratic Alliance and the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party

By Paddy Harper

National

/ 26 October 2023

The Last Afternoon in the Garden | Episode 4 – What about a conviction?

In this fourth episode of The Last Afternoon in the Garden we go back to the communal garden one last time to reflect on everything that has happened. We seek out experts to try and explain the violence and confront a person from the past who has a different version of events.

By Paul McNally

National

/ 19 October 2023

The Last Afternoon in the Garden | Episode 3 – It’s a Dirty War

In this third episode of The Last Afternoon in the Garden we are struck by incredible tragedy, but everyone involved pulls together, gets sensible and builds a strategy so they can win.

By Paul McNally

National

/ 12 October 2023

The Last Afternoon in the Garden | Episode 2 – Gathering the testimonies

In this second episode of The Last Afternoon in the Garden we get deeper into the work of Mbale Kubheka, the determined attorney who is working to get a conviction for the assassination of Ayanda Ngila.

By Paul McNally

National

/ 5 October 2023

The Last Afternoon in the Garden | Episode 1 – Fighting for water

My investigation started as looking into an assassination, but became about land ownership in South Africa. I became increasingly aware of what it takes to achieve even small victories against powerful, established forces.

By Paul McNally

National

/ 3 October 2023

The Last Afternoon in the Garden | Introduction

Ayanda Ngila was assassinated in the Ekhenana communal garden in Durban, South Africa, on the 8th of March, 2022. Ayanda was 30 years old and shot in broad daylight in the middle of the afternoon. He was fixing a water pipe in front of women and children and as he went down he yelled for […]

By Paul McNally

Opinion

/ 20 January 2023

How Cabral, Fanon and Freire shaped the struggle against apartheid South Africa — and still inspire

Amílcar Cabral was assassinated 50 years ago today. His thought, which sometimes arrived in South Africa via a circuitous route, speaks to our current crisis with undiminished power.

By Richard Pithouse

Opinion

/ 3 January 2023

The left must break away from the ANC now

Excluded from power in the ruling party, Cosatu and the SACP need to rethink their strategy

By Imraan Buccus

Opinion

/ 8 October 2022

Cosatu’s rows is hope for the left

Cosatu, Numsa, Abahlali baseMjondolo and SACP can bring a pro-worker movement

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By Imraan Buccus

Opinion

/ 14 September 2022

Civil society calls for urgent national intervention to protect Abahlali baseMjondolo

The government must act to protect members of shack dwellers’ movement from violence and harassment

By Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa

Opinion

/ 23 August 2022

The unseen massacre of Durban shack dwellers

Over the past 15 years, 24 leaders of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the largest independent social movement in South Africa, have been assassinated

By Jared Sacks

Opinion

/ 27 June 2022

Where are the anti-racism accountability bodies?

The field of such NGOs is crowded but who and what are they holding to account and who are they mollycoddling?

By Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh

Opinion

/ 19 June 2022

State is putting us at peril, say activists

Members of social movement Abahlali baseMjondolo allege that the state monitors their phones and emails, tracking their movements and putting them in constant danger

By Naledi Sikhakhane

National

/ 14 April 2022

Perfect storm: Heavy rainfall in KwaZulu-Natal exposes reality of poor planning

In the face of climate change, inadequate urban planning in eThekwini exacerbates flooding and poor road maintenance in KwaZulu-Natal and the rest of South Africa affects food security

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By Kimberley Schoeman and Sheree Bega

National

/ 15 March 2022

Another Abahlali member shot dead, allegedly in police raid

Bongamusa Manqele was shot from behind while running from the police

By Paddy Harper

National

/ 7 December 2021

Going back to the future of KwaZulu-Natal politics

The past is helpful in understanding the predatory and violent nature of political factionalism in the province. But it doesn’t answer the question of how to fix it.

By Ryan Brunette

The Green Guardian

/ 13 September 2020

Q&A Sessions: ‘Nobody will be able to stop us’ — Desmond D’Sa

Desmond D’Sa, winner of the coveted Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014, tells Paddy Harper how being forcibly removed from his home at the age of 10 taught him to fight for his rights

By Paddy Harper

Opinion

/ 27 August 2020

Rich vigilantes have no fear of consequences

The City of Cape Town tacitly condones it when wealthy landowners behave illegally, something that is not the case if you’re poor

By Jared Sacks

Article

/ 22 January 2020

Where will neoliberalism end?

LONG READ As the world was overtaken by upheaval last year, one photo emerging from the uprisings depicts a protestor bearing a promise: “Neoliberalism was born in Chile and will die in Chile.” Spilling over into the new year, the revolts in Chile, Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, Hong Kong, Algeria, Uganda, France and elsewhere have led […]

By William Shoki