Abahlali baseMjondolo

Press Release
Sunday, May 01, 2011

Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA will be marching to the Durban City Hall on
Monday, 21 March which is Human Rights Day.

On the 21 March 2011 Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape will have a mass rally at VE informal settlement at 10:00 till 13:00.

Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape Rejects DA Hypocrisy and Stands Firm for Press Freedom

As a movement we have become used to the blatant hypocrisy of the DA over the years.

People all over South Africa have been asking the leaders of Abahlali baseMjondolo as to why the government continues to ignore the demands of the shack dwellers.

In September 2009 attacks took place in the Kennedy Road settlement against the leadership of the shack-dwellers' movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo. Those attacks shook our society, and led some to observe that our hard won democracy was under attack.

On the 26th of September 2009 a group of forty armed men massed in the Kennedy Road shack settlement, chanted ANC and ethnic slogans and launched an attack on the elected leaders of the Kennedy Road Development Committee (KRDC), Abahlali baseMjondolo, their families, their comrades and all those

The political interference around this case continued in the lead up to the start of the trial today. The prisoners were not brought to court and the state witnesses were not summoned to appear in court making it impossible for the trial to begin.

PLEASE NOTE: AS WE SPEAK ABAHLALI BRANCH AT QQ ARE CURRENTLY BUSY BURNING TYRES AT LANSDOWN ROAD OPPOSITE QQ IN PREPARATION OF TOMORROW’S ACTION AND MEDIA URGENCIES ARE URGED TO RUSH TO THE SCENE. FOR DIRECTION AND COMMENTS PLEASE CALL Mbongeni Mkhaliphi at 076 981 6945