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Abahlali baseMjondolo is blaming the ANC for attacks on its leadership.

Leaders of shack dwellers' movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, have been forced to go underground after another assassination of one of their colleagues, Lindokuhle Mnguni, on Saturday.

A year since the July 2021 unrest that devastated parts of South Africa, we speak to Kwanele Thwala and Secretary-General of Abahlali BaseMjondolo, Thapelo Mohapi, on the

The Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education hosted a discussion on Tuesday to commemorate the first anniversary of the riots in KwaZulu-Natal that left more than 300 people dead. The Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education hosted a discussion on Tuesday to commemorate the first anniversary of...

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

ANGRY residents threatened to take the law into their own hands if ANC councillor Sephiri Liphoko is released from police custody.

Mandy Weiner interviews Thapelo Mohapi, the general secretary of Abahlali baseMjondolo, on the murder of an activist and land occupation leader.

Before Abahlali BaseMjondolo leaders Nokuthula Mabaso and Ayanda Ngila were killed, eKhenana had been envisioned as a ‘land of milk and honey’. Today, residents say it is a ‘Place of Weeping’ where blood is spilled constantly.

Twenty-three members of Abahlali baseMjondolo have been killed over 17 years as a result of the politics of land occupations. But, vowed Thapelo Mohapi, the organisation ‘we are not going to retreat’.