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Ayanda Kota, who founded the Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) in 2009, has died of cancer. He was born in Grahamstown in 1976, now Makhanda, and died here. It was in Makhanda and Cape Town that he dedicated his life to fighting for the rights of poor people. He went to Nombulelo Secondary School in Makhanda’s Joza location.
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Activist Ayanda Kota died in Cape Town on Thursday at 48. He has been hailed as a leader determined to empower and liberate the poor, black working class.
About 300 Rhodes University students joined Makhanda residents and civil society movements on Monday to march to City Hall to protest against the ongoing water crisis.
About 300 students joined Makhanda residents and civic movements in a march to City Hall to demand an end to the water crisis