Tag Archives | Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM)

  • Africa’s path to socialism

    Africa’s path to socialism

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on July 16, 2023 by Tanupriya Singh (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jul 18, 2023)

    200 delegates from 40 organizations are gathering in South Africa for the “Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism” conference. For the next four days, progressive movements and organizations will discuss the challenges posed by capitalism, and articulate the socialist way forward.

  • (EKhenana was founded as a land occupation in 2018 and has faced numerous violent and illegal evictions over the years. On December 27, 2019, the shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo won an interdict in the high court in Durban, preventing the municipality from continuing with illegal evictions. It was reaffirmed on April 20, 2020, after the municipality continued to evict and destroy the occupation, violating the court order and the government’s Covid-19 lockdown regulations. Since March this year, residents have also had to contend with the regular arrests of its leaders and killings. Three leaders of the Commune have been shot and killed by known suspects, and at times in broad daylight. (Caption and Photo by Nomfundo Xolo)

    An image of hope: Abahlali baseMjondolo’s fight for dignity and land, 17 years on

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 4, 2022 by Tanupriya Singh (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Dec 06, 2022)

    On November 17, a photo exhibition titled ‘Socialism or Death: Abahlali baseMjondolo on the Frontlines of Struggle’ opened at The Forge in Johannesburg. The work displayed chronicles the years-long struggle of South Africa’s shack dwellers movement to secure land and housing for the urban poor.