Shacks destroyed as fire services arrive late
Residents say cooking accident started blaze.
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Land Occupation by Abahlali Good Hope takes a political turn
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.”
Metro police fire rubber bullets at residents in Ekurhuleni’s Good Hope settlement
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.
‘Without overtime there is no life’ – living on the impending R20 minimum wage
Research shows that millions of people working at the wrong end of South Africa’s deeply unequal wage structure are earning inadequate wages.
Overcrowding leads to Ekurhuleni land occupation
New settlement named after Abahlali baseMjondolo president S’bu Zikode.
When homes are built in the dark and demolished in daylight
Recently burnt veld crunches under foot. Beneath the ash, green shoots are beginning to reappear. But the grass is not the only new
The Scars of Labour: A Bitter Harvest in Harrismith
Harrismith workers’ assembly highlighted a countryside in deep crisis. Many at the meeting criticised what they believed to be collusions
Unions divided on Workers’ Day
Rival events held on 1 May show unequal support for Saftu and Cosatu.
Freedom a figment of elite imagination, say 50 000 shack dwellers
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.