Advocacy & Campaigns

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9 July 2013

Last night, and again this morning, hundreds of us blocked the road around the Kennedy Road shack settlement with burning tyres. There is still a heavy police presence in the settlement.

Last night Nkululeko Gwala, an Abahlali baseMjondolo member and a well-known and respected housing activist, was murdered in Cato Crest. Twelve shots were fired.

This is calling on the government of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun State to immediately commence the payment of outstanding pension and pension arrears of retirees in the state.

(Kampala) Today June 6, 2013 a coalition of civil society organizations fighting for realization of the right to health in Uganda issued the following statement in reaction to President Museveni's State of the Nation Address:

Alliance Française,
Loita/Monrovia Street,
Nairobi, Kenya.

To the Alliance Française, June 6, 2013

RE: The Nairobi Israeli Film Festival, 2013

The Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity (NPAS) stands firmly in solidarity with the Transitional Year Programme (TYP) and the Transitional Year Programme Preservation Alliance (TYPPA).

What an uncanny assault on the senses! An unfamiliar stench saturates the air around and if I weren’t looking I don’t think I could have quite told what it was. What smells like a fertilizer experiment gone bad – manure-ish-blood!

May 12, 2013

His Excellency President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
The Presidency
Union Buildings
Private Bag X1000
Pretoria, 0001

Via email: [email][email protected]

Dear President Zuma:

As the homeless residents of Marikana, we are here because we do not have anywhere else to go. We are also now jobless which means we cannot afford to pay rent to live in someone's backyard. We always voted for this government but they always treat us like dogs in our own country.