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IZWI LABAMPOFU 286 Kennedy Road, Clare Estate Durban 4098 South Africa December 06 Volume 1, Issue 1 Mahala Free: Please read and pass on IZWI LABAMPOFU 286 Kennedy Road, Clare Estate Durban 4098 South Africa www.abahlali.org Editorial Collective For This Issue: System Cele, M’du Hlongwa, Fazel Khan, VOICE of THE POOR Mnikelo Ndabankulu, Zama Ndlovu, Richard Pithouse, Antonis Vradis & Thoko Zikode, Special thanks to Daniel Bailey, COHRE. Newspaper of the Abahlali Basemjondolo Movement Thanks also to Anthony Collins for use of his house and eqipment. Funeral). Bazibophezele ukulwela Ngakusasa bavela e nkantolo belimele umhlaba nezindlu,ukususwa ngenk- ngenxa yokushaywa kanzima ama- Abahlali Bayanda! ani. Emashini eyasukela ku Foreman phoyisa. Unsumpa wale police station u Abahlali abawu 45.Sebeke bamenywa Glen Nayeger wathwetshulwa amanye Inhlangano yaBahlali baseMjondolo la kuKennedy wathi bakhathele ukudlala kwi nkulumo mpikiswano ne Meya ye amaphoyisa eshaya ngesihluku o Sbu no inhlangano enkulu yabantu abampofu amakhansela ebadayisa .etshela intatheli Theku u Obed Mlaba ku Asikhulume Philani ebangqubuza ezindongeni nokwa eNingizimu Afrika. Akusiyo inhlanga- u-Fred Kockott emva kwalokho Abahlali uhlelo olukumabonakude.Ngo Sep- holela ekutheni u Philani aquleke. Nase Mo- no yezepolitiki. Isebenzisana nabanye abawu1200 kuKennedy bamasha befuna themba 11, I GAGASI FM lamema u tala Heights kwenziwa isihluku esifanayo Abahlali baseMjondolo okubalwa kubo kudedelwe amalungu abo awu 14 kodwa Sbu Zikode no Philani Zungu kanye sokuhlukunyezwa kwabantu amaphoyisa, nabadayisi basemgwaqeni, Inamalungu avinjwa ngamaphoyisa ngezinja nesisa no Mnikelo Ndabankulu,ukuthi bacha- nakweminye imijondolo eminingi.Lolu emijondolo engu 34 eyehlukene .Ikhule esikhalisa unyembezi. Ngalobobusuku za kabanzi ngomzabalazo wabahlali. dlame olubhekiswe kwabampofu lusho ngokuqala kubhikishwe eKennedy Road uSbu Zikode owayengusihlalo ngaleso- .RGZD DEDEDQJH EHVD¿ND QJHQ[D ukuthi Abahlali Base Mjondolo basahlalel- ngoMashi 2005. Umhlaba abawuthen- sikhathi emhlanganweni womphakathi yamaphoyisa ase Sydenham police sta- we umsebenzi omkhulu wokususwa noku- jiswa ukuthi bazokwakhelwa kuwo wathi “Sisele Sodwa”. tion.Babavimba babathuka ngezikibha fudulwa kwabantu ngenkani ezindaweni bathola ukuthi usudayiselwe abace- ezibomvu babashaya,bahamba nabo e zabo.Abahlali basebenza kanzima beqoqa bile, Lokhu kwabenza bagana unwabu, Amamashi angekho emthethweni al- SROLFH VWDWLRQ ODSKR ED¿NH EDTKXEHND bafundise imphakathi ngamalungelo abo. baqonda lapho bavimba ukuthi kuqhut- andelwa amanye ayesemthethweni nokuba xhaphaza ngesibhaxu.UMnikelo Nokubhekana no Masipala ukuthi uma shekwe nokwakhiwa .Bamashela ku okwakumashelwa amakhansela an- bamkhumulisa isikibha sakhe esibomvu ebahlukumeza, kumele bamyise kanjani M19 bashisa amathayi lapho kwaboshwa gasebenzi. Yayinabantu abawu 5000 ngoba bethi asingeni e police station. eNkantolo. Umzabalazo uyaqhubeka. khona abawu 14. uAlfred Mdletshe ohla- .kwakungcwatshwa ikhansela (Mock Bathi bazosenza isikolobho sabo. worker, successfully kept the police from entering the settlement with barrages of stones. But although this was big news around the world the city kept their illegal ban on shack dwellers’ marches. They even went so far as to use the police to violently prevent Abahlali from taking up an invita- tion to send a representative to debate the mayor on Asikhulume. Another attempt was made to march into the city on 27th February. By this time the movement had grown to the point where 20000 people were expected. Sutcliffe issued another illegal ban and early on the morning of the 27th the police moved in on the three largest settlements in a military style operation using armoured vehicles and helicopters. They arrested and assaulted key people and blocked off all the exits from the settlements. But this time the Abahlali had the support of Abahlali Bayanda! Kennedy rd marches on Breyani Councillor Yakoob Baig top lawyers and could take Sutcliffe to the High Court. They won a quick victory and Abahlali baseMjondolo is the the 14 be released or else the entire com- areas. with the interdict in their hands marched largest movement of the poor in South munity be arrested because ‘If they are At the beginning of 2006 the into the city in triumph. Africa. It is not a political party. It is criminal then we are all criminal’. The elections for ward councillors were On the 11th of September (911), working for shack dwellers and other march was dispersed with more beatings, looming. It was decided to stage a collec- following a series of successful actions, poor people, like street traders. Abahlali dogs and tear gas. At a packed meeting tive boycott. The boycott was carefully Abahlali were invited to an interview on has members in 34 shack settlements in the Kennedy Road hall that afternoon thought about in a series of discussions Gagasi FM. S’bu Zikode, Philani Zungu across Durban and as far away as Piet- the chair of the Kennedy Road commit- that decided that there is a difference and Mnikelo Ndabanakulu were just about ermaritzburg and Tongaat. tee S’bu Zikode declared that ‘We are on between ‘party politics’ and ‘people’s to leave for the interview from Kennedy Abahlali grew out of a protest our own now’. politics’ and that while party politics is 5RDG ZKHQ RI¿FHUV IURP WKH QRWRULRXV organised from the Kennedy Road set- 7KH ¿UVW WZR LOOHJDO SURWHVWV often about the politics of ambition and Sydenham police station pounced. When tlement. On 18 March 2005 bulldozers from Kennedy Road were followed by a control people’s politics can be about they saw that Ndabankulu was wearing started digging up a piece of land next series of legal marches on the nearby local creating democracy where people live. one of the famous red Abahlali T-shirts to the Kennedy Road settlement which councillors, some involving more than It was decided to announce the election they pulled it off him, insulted him, pushed had long been promised for housing. 5000 people. In each of these marches boycott with a march from the Foreman him around, threw the shirt into the mud, People discovered from the workers on WKHSURWHVWRUVFDUULHGDPRFNFRI¿QDQG Road settlement into the city and on the made a great show of standing and spitting the site that this wasn’t the beginning of then staged a performance of a funeral mayor under the slogan ‘No Land, No on it and announced that ‘there will be no the long promised housing development IRUWKHFRXQFLOORURXWVLGHKLVRI¿FH2Q House, No Vote’. This was a step too more red shirts here’. Zungu and Zikode but that a brick factory was being built. 6 October 2005 17 men and 15 women far. Mike Sutcliffe, the city manager, il- were thrown into the police van. As they They gathered on the promised land, elected as representatives from 12 settle- legally banned the march by fax. left the police picked up Ndabankulu’s red stopped the construction and asked the ments that now had committees support- Two days later more than 3 000 shirt saying they were taking it ‘to use as a local councillor to come and explain ing the shack dwellers’ struggle met to people missed a day’s work and gathered mop in the station’. what was happening. He arrived with formally constitute themselves into a in the Foreman Road settlement which The next morning there were the police and demanded the arrest of his movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, and had been surrounded by riot police. The hundreds of Bahlali in red shirts in the constituents. They are, he said, criminal. to commit themselves to stand together Foreman Road committee explained Durban Magistrates’ court. The state, tell- That night there was a mass meeting in DQGWR¿JKWWRJHWKHUIRUSRSXODUGHPRF that marching would be very dangerous ing crazy lies, charged Zikode and Zungu the settlement. After long and careful racy and land and housing in the city. under these conditions. Speaker after ZLWK DVVDXOWLQJ D SROLFH RI¿FHU EXW WKH discussion a new course of action was Since then Abahlali have democratised speaker from the assembly replied that Magistrate released them without asking decided on. Early the next morning a the governance of settlements, stopped living in the settlements was just as dan- for bail. They were joyously carried out few hundred people barricaded a nearby evictions, won access to local schools, gerous and the 3000 set off up the steep of the court on the shoulders of their com- 6 lane road with burning tyres and held it won some victories around services like dirt track that leads out of the settle- rades. Both men had visible wounds and against the riot police for 4 hours suffer- water, toilets and refuse removal; got top ment singing Yonk’ indawo umzabalazo explained that they had been personally ing 14 arrests. Alfred Mdletshe told Fred class legal support and won a number uyasivumela. As they stepped onto the assaulted by Superintendent Glen Nayager .RFNRWWWKH¿UVWMRXUQDOLVWRQWKHVFHQH of victories in court; made the voice of tarred road that marks the beginning of who had hurled political abuse on them as that ‘We are tired of living and walking shack dwellers very strong in the media; the rich world they were attacked, shot he bashed their heads against the wall. A in shit. The council must allocate land set up crèches, a sewing co-operative at with pistols and rubber bullets and se- group of policemen had enthusiastically for housing us. Instead they are giving it and vegetable gardens; enabled collec- verely beaten. There were a number of photographed Nayager’s assault which to property developers to make money’. tive bargaining with the state and capital serious injuries, many with permanent only ended when Zungu was knocked un- The day after the road blockade and seriously challenged the city’s slum consequences, and 45 arrests. But the conscious and could not be revived. 1200 people staged an illegal march on clearance project that wants to move police violence could not break the spirit most shack dwellers out of the city and of the marchers. Protestors, led from the the police station where the 14 were be- (Continued to Page 8) ing held.
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