Shack Dwellers’ Movement
Abahlali baseMjondolo reaffirms people’s democracy in its National Elective Congress

The shack dwellers movement elected a new leadership body and reaffirmed their struggle against neoliberalism and for dignity.

Abahlali baseMjondolo condemns forced evictions in South Africa

100 days into the Government of National Unity, the shack dwellers movement condemns a sharp uptick in forced evictions in informal settlements

Abahlali baseMjondolo holds Women’s League Electoral Congress

With more than 60% of membership of the entire organisation being women, the Congress held on 9 August, South Africa’s National Women’s Day was an important part of the movement’s commitment to building women’s power from below.

AbM South Africa A year after the assassination of its leaders, South Africa’s Abahlali baseMjondolo continues to advance

Lindokuhle Mnguni, the chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo’s eKhenana commune, was killed in August last year, only months after the murder of its deputy chairperson Ayanda Ngila, and that of another activist, Nokuthula Mabaso. The commune and the movement keep their memory alive by consolidating their work

Abahlali baseMjondolo vows to continue struggle for justice following sentencing of Ayanda Ngila’s killer

On July 24, a court in Durban, South Africa sentenced the man who killed the deputy chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo’s eKhenana Commune, Ayanda Ngila, last March. Ngila was among four leaders of the shack dwellers movement who were assassinated in 2022 alone.

“South Africa’s freedom serves the interest of a few while the majority lives in deep poverty”

S’bu Zikode, President of Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), South Africa’s shack dwellers’ movement, talks about UnFreedom Day which is marked by the organization in April every year.

AbM_leaders_released Abahlali baseMjondolo and the fight of the organized poor against a hostile justice system

Months after being imprisoned on a murder charge, three leaders of the eKhenana Commune of Abahlali baseMjondolo have been finally granted bail. Their arrests are part of a lengthy history of violent persecution of the shack dwellers’ movement

eKhenana AbM South Africa An image of hope: Abahlali baseMjondolo’s fight for dignity and land, 17 years on

On November 17, a photo exhibition titled ‘Socialism or Death: Abahlali baseMjondolo on the Frontlines of Struggle’ opened at The Forge in Johannesburg. The work displayed chronicles the years-long struggle of South Africa’s shack dwellers movement to secure land and housing for the urban poor

Lindokuhle Mnguni is third Abahlali baseMjondolo leader to be killed this year

28-year-old Lindokuhle Mnguni, the chairperson of the eKhenana commune of South African shack dwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), was gunned down at his home in Durban on August 20.

“A fearless leader”: South African shack-dwellers’ leader, Lindokuhle Mnguni, assassinated in Durban

Chairperson of the eKhenana commune of Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), who was out of prison on bail, was gunned down at his home two days before he was to appear in court. This is the third murder of AbM leaders in eKhenana commune in Cato Crest this year.

Attacks against shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo continue in South Africa

On May 5, Nokuthula Mabaso, a militant land rights activist of Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa was assassinated.

SA-Abahlali murder Another leader of South Africa’s shack dwellers movement murdered in Durban

Nokuthula Mabaso – a 40 year old mother of four leading AbM’s eKhenana commune – was gunned down the evening before she was supposed to appear in court to oppose the bail of the local ANC chief’s son, who is accused of murdering another eKhenana leader in March