Tuesday, 21 May 2019
Nation Nyoka writes with the hope of effecting social change in the interests of the marginalised. Social justice, politics and the advancement of the African continent and her people are high on her agenda.
Three thousand expanded public works programme workers say that they were unfairly dismissed by the Ekurhuleni Metro municipality.
“When you see police or those Home Affairs officials, you just want to die.”
City says it is committed to building houses on the land
The party is in talks with the municipality over a land occupation in Tembisa
“Why are people still living here despite the countless promises to move them?” asks activist.
Why it is that the political killings of party members and councillors receive notable public attention, while the murders of activists in a large and sustained movement of impoverished people are often passed over in silence?
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.
New settlement named after Abahlali baseMjondolo president S’bu Zikode.
Rival events held on 1 May show unequal support for Saftu and Cosatu.