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EThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda said rapid population growth in rural areas over the past few years has led to increased demand for water, electricity and refuse collection services.

A lobby group representing informal settlement dwellers is slamming eThekwini's flat tax proposal.

Shack dwellers movement Abahlali Basemjondolo has rejected the proposed tax by eThekwini on rural households.

A lobby group representing informal settlement dwellers is slamming eThekwini's flat tax proposal.

Abahlali baseMjondolo face living and dying by their commitment to Umhlaba (land), Izindlu (housing) and Isithunzi (dignity). 

There has been government silence on the murder of Nokuthula Mabaso and organisations concerned with democratic rights have said nothing.

This week end the shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo buried another leader, Nokuthula Mabaso, murdered in front of her children. Abahlali claims ANC and state complicity and police have carried out no investigation of the crime scene. Alarmingly, not only is there government silence, but major organisations concerned with democratic rights have said nothing- a grave signal to the poor. On Saturday 14 May, Nokuthula Mabaso, an Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) leader was buried, after ...

ABAHLALI BaseMjondolo activist Nokuthula Mabaso was laid to rest in her home town on Saturday, 14 May.

Human rights are indivisible and being poor does not strip you of your right to human rights. We must defend this at all costs and at all times. No human life is less valuable than anyone else’s, so why do poor activists continue to be killed with few or no repercussions or sanction?

South Africa is staring at an acute housing crisis, especially in the two provinces where deadly floods were reported in last in recent weeks.