Abahlali baseMjondolo, like its members, clings to life...
Abahlali baseMjondolo face living and dying by their commitment to Umhlaba (land), Izindlu (housing) and Isithunzi (dignity).
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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’.