Saturday, 16 January 2021
Leader claims that the problem is that politicians see Abahlali as political which it is not, they do not understand them. “Members join voluntarily and the movement has no political affiliation.”
Residents of the Good Hope settlement in Germiston have occupied vacant land on the border of Germiston and Boksburg, partly in response to lack of space at the existing settlement. On Thursday morning, Ekurhuleni Metro Police dispersed them with rubber bullets.
Research shows that millions of people working at the wrong end of South Africa’s deeply unequal wage structure are earning inadequate wages.
New settlement named after Abahlali baseMjondolo president S’bu Zikode.
Recently burnt veld crunches under foot. Beneath the ash, green shoots are beginning to reappear. But the grass is not the only new
Harrismith workers’ assembly highlighted a countryside in deep crisis. Many at the meeting criticised what they believed to be collusions
Rival events held on 1 May show unequal support for Saftu and Cosatu.
Abahlali used its UnFreedom Day rally to repeat a call for progressive political movements in South Africa to transcend the limits of the factory floor or the shack settlement.