Thousands of members and supporters of the shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo marched through the streets of Durban to mark “Unfreedom Day”

Solidarity with the people of Palestine and the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were central to this year’s Unfreedom Day actions with protestors marching with flags calling for an immediate end to apartheid and genocide.

Several mass rallies have been planned to mark UnFreedom Day in South Africa to commemorate the unfulfilled promises of South Africa’s freedom from apartheid and reject the current Government of National Unity

The Pan Africanism Today Secretariat sat down with S’bu Zikode, the Abahlali baseMjondolo elected President to find out how Unfreedom Day will be commemorated this year.

Abahlali baseMjondolo’s General Secretary Thapelo Mohapi talks about the true meaning of freedom for the masses of South Africa

South Africa held its first democratic elections post apartheid on April 27, 1994. While the day is observed as ‘Freedom Day’, movements including Abahlali baseMjondolo have used it to highlight the continued repression and inequality faced by poor communities in the country

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.

Abahlali, a movement that fights for land, housing and dignified living, organized a commemoration of ‘Unfreedom Day’ to draw awareness to the injustices and inequalities still faced by the masses in South Africa

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Ahead of the national holiday commemorated for the 1994 democratic elections in South Africa, a leader of the shack dwellers movement declared, “We are burning because of the conditions we live under.”