The photo albums are immediately below and the films are further down. There is also an external collection of films on Abahlali here.
Archived Photos from Abahlali's past, including
- Protest Against Councillor Baig, 13 May 2005
- Protest Against Councillor Baig, 14 September 2005
- Protest Against Councillor Bachu, 4 October 2005
- Legal and Peaceful Foreman Road Protest Brutally Repressed By Police, 14 November 2005
- Izimpilo zethu/Our Lives – Photography by Abahlali women
- Banned and then Unbanned March on M.E.C. for Housing Mike Mabuyakulu at the City Hall – 28 February 2006
- UnFreedom Day, 27 April 2006 photos and Video
- S'bu Zikode's July 2006 Wolpe Lecture
- Quarry Road Fire, 28 July 2006
- Baba Dhlomo's Funeral August 2006.
- Abahlai Deliver their PAIA Request – 4 September 2006
- S'bu Zikode & Philani Zungu arrested, bound and beaten by Nayager and released – 12 & 13 September 2006
- Emaus cracks, and Joins Abahlali, 2 October 2006
- Seventeen Seconds of Azania, video from an Abahlali/Anti-Eviction Campaign meeting, 2 December 2006.
- Ricky Govender gets his demolitions at Motala Heights (3 years ahead of the City's schedule)
- High court 22 Nov 2006 for Motala Evictions case
- The first Abahlali meeting in Glenwood, November 2006
- Abahlali's November 2006 Annual General Meeting
- December 2006 Housing Rights Workshop
- Victims of Police Brutality in Siyanda, December 2006
- Motala Heights on 12 December 2006, the day before an eviction
- Victory in Motala Heights 13 December 2006
- Evictions in Juba Place, 18 December 2006
- Shack Fire in Kennedy Road, 14 January 2007
- Abahlali at the World Social Forum, January 2007, in Nairobi
- Cosmos Bhengu's Memorial Service, 1 February 2007
- Abahlali Event for International Day of Action in Support of the Haitian People, 7 February 2007
- Settlement Leaders' Meeting, Jadu Place, 10 February 2007
- Abahlali meeting, Motala Heights, 24 February 2007
- Abahlali computer training, 10 March 2007
- Shack cinema, Motala Heights, 11 March 2007
- In Court for the Kennedy Road 5
- Tembalihle photos April 2007
- Against Police Brutality – March Against Glen Nayager, 10 April 2007
- Outside the Bail Hearing for the Kennedy Road 5, 13 April 2007
- Visit by the UN Special Rapporteur on Housing to Abahlali, LPM and 'Maritzburg Flat Dwellers' Movement 20 April 2007
- Mondli Mbiko, released from custody on bail, 23 April 2007
- UnFreedom Day, 27 April, 2007 eMaus, Pinetown
- The Morning After the Worst Fire to Ever Hit Kennedy Road – 29 April 2007
- "No Land, No House, No Vote, No Bill!", 4 May 2007
- iPolitiki ePhilayo: Motala Heights Development Committee AGM emZabalazweni, Motala Heights Settlement, 20 May 2007
- Kennedy Road 6 Banning Order Overturned in Court, 24 May 2006
- AbM Film Screening & Discussion at Camberwell Squatted Social Centre, London, 10 June 2007
- People's Rights Forum, Istanbul 8-10 June 2007
- Combined Harare Residents' Association Visit to Abahlali, mid June 2007
- Johannesburg protests, 14 June 2007
- Building the Abahlali offices, 14 June 2007
- Abahlali province wide celebration (& launch of new film), June 16 2007
- Four Homes Destroyed in Foreman Road, 11 July 2007.
- Eliminate the Slums Bill – A line by line reading & discussion, 11 July 2007.
- 13 July 2007, Meeting to Build a Coalition Against the Slums Bill
- Daily Sun, July 2007
- Motala Heights, 2 August 2007. The day after Govender promised to bulldoze Uncle Jame's house by the end of the month
- Arnett Drive, Discussion About Forced Removals, 4 August 2007
- New shacks in Pemary Ridge, 4 August 2007
- Motala Heights, Meeting Against Evictions, 4 August 2007
- "Motala Heights, Indian shacks" – pictures by Shamita Naidoo, 6 August 2007
- New Pemary Ridge Shacks Still Standing, 7 August 2007
- Women's Day Arrests, Sydenham Police Station, 9 August 2007
- Solidarity: QQ Section, Khayalitsha, Cape Town 17 August 2007
- University of Abahlali baseMjondolo Graduation 18 August 2007
- Inkonzo yeskhumbuzo ka Comrade Lungisani Colin Jama, 30 August 2007
- The morning after 4 tin shacks burnt in Motala Heights, 10 September 2007
- Solidarity: Joe Slovo Road Blockade, Cape Town, 10 September 2007
- Izimbokodo, Joe Slovo (Durban) 12 September 2007
- Park Gate, 13 September 2007: 'We were taken from Canaan to Egypt'
- University of Abahlali baseMjondolo, Seminar 22 September 2007
- Ukuhlupheka kuyanda eMaritzburg kanye Abahlali bayanda! 23 September 2007
- Another March on Mlaba violently attacked by police, 28 September 2007
- AbM meeting with church leaders in the wake of the police attack on the March on Mlaba 9 October, 2007
- Isolezwe: Basale benkemile bedilizelwa imijondolo Evictions Terror Hits Sea Cow Lake Again – 6 November 2007
- Abahlali baseMjondolo Annual General Meeting (& Election) 25 November 2007
- Baba Ntombela (Bhambata kaMancinza's grandson), an Umhlali from the Jadhu Place settlement, at court to support the Sydenham 14 28 November 2007
- Shannon Drive Evictions (Successfully halted), November 2007
- Isolezwe: Basale dengwane bedilizelwa imijondolo 4 December 2007
- Second University of Abahlali baseMjondolo graduation 8 December 2007
- Christmas Eve Evictions in Delft 24 December 2007
- Basale dengwane kusha imijondolo, Isolezwe, 24 December 2007
- Flood in Ash Road 17 January 2008
- Arnett Drive Evictions 14 29 January 2008
- Charges dropped against the Abahlali 14 29 January 2008
- 3rd Annual UnFreedom Day Commemoration, 27 April 2008
- Jacques Depelchin's visit to Abahlali baseMjondolo 3 May 2008
- Ash Road(Relocation to a transit camp looms….) 19 May 2008
- Bishop Rubin Philip's UnFreedom Speech in Anglican News, May 2008
- Building a United Front in Support of Participatory Upgrades in the Cities & Against Forced Removals to Rural Dumping Grounds, June 2008
- Abahlali baseMjondolo, Anti-Eviction Campaign and Landless People's Movement in Jo'burg, June 2008
- Sixth Kennedy Road fire so far in 2008, 1 August 2008
- At the High Court for the Arnett Drive eviction matter, 7 August 2008
- Launch of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Women's League, 9 August 2008
- Matt Birkinshaw's Pictures of Kennedy Road and Foreman Road, August 2008
- iSolidarity ePhilayo: Meeting of AbM, AEC, LPM & the Rural Network, 21 September 2008
- Shack Fire Summit, 22 September 2008
- Children at the Abahlali creche, Kennedy Road, 17 October 2008
- Abahlali baseMjondolo march on Stocks & Stocks in Cape Town, 22 October 2008
- The Motala Diggers, 31 October, 2008
- Landless People's Movement, Protea South, Jo'burg, 4 November 2008
- Outside the Durban High Court (Slums Act Case), 6 November 2008
- March in Siyanda, 10 November 2008
- Abahlali baseMjondolo Annual General Meeting, Kennedy Road, 23 November 2008
- eMacambini March Against S'bu Ndebele, Ruwaad Holdings & AmaZulu World, 26 November 2008
- Injuries from police violence against eMacambini Road Blockades, 5 December 2008
- Siyanda, Report Back from the High Court, 9 January 2009
- Khayelitsha and Delft, January 2009
- Mashumi Figlan & Mzonke Poni at the WSF in Belem, Brazil, January 2009
- AGM, Arnett Drive settlement, February 2009
- AGM, Pemary Ridge Settlement, February 2009
- Siyanda Eviction to Richmond Farm Transit Camp on 17 March 2009 (and under judicial oversight……), March 2009
- Delt 'Temporary Relocation Area' (aka Transit Camp, aka Decant Centre, aka amatins, aka blikkies, aka government shacks, March 2009
- Siyanda (A&B) March, Siyanda to Downtown KwaMashu, 14 April 2009
- John Minto Meets Abahlali baseMjondolo at the Kennedy Road Settlement, 17 April 2009
- National Meeting of the Poor People's Alliance, Kennedy Road Settlement, 25 April 2009
- UnFreedom Day, Kennedy Road Settlement, 27 April 2009
- University of Abahlali baseMjondolo Film School, May 2009
- The Poor People's Alliance at the Constitutional Court, 14 May 2009
- Siyanda protest and repression, 19 May 2009
- Macassar Village Occupation – after another illegal demolition, 23 May 2009
- Macassar Village Occupiers Protest in Down Town Cape Town, 25 May 2009
- eThekwini Municipality Illegally Demolishes Mpume Nompumelelo's shack in Siyanda, Section B, Durban, 27 May 2009
- Protea South Transit Camp, Soweto, Johannesburg, May 2009
- Macassar Village Road Blockade, 1 June 2009
- Kennedy Road Burns Again, 14 June 2009
- Macassar Village land Occupation, 15 June 2009
- The Poor People's Alliance Retrace the Route of the 1976 Soweto Uprising,16 June 2009
- Tin Town and Sundale, eShowe, 13 July 2009
- AbM Western Cape March on Dan Plato, 20 July 2009
- Siyanda Community Meeting, Siyanda Section B, After 16 Boy Dies from Electrocution, 30 July 2009
- Memorial Service for 16 Year Old Sakhephi Emmanuel Zenda, 31 July 2009
- 26 Families to be Evicted at Motala Heights Lot 35, 6 August 2009
- Women's Day, 9 August 2009
- More Evictions in Mpola, 15 September 2009
- Heritage Day, New eMaus, Pinetown, 24 September 2009
- The Abahlali Office Hours Before it was Dismantled and Ransacked, 27 September 2009
- Solidarity Protest, Rhodes University, 5 October 2009
- Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Conference, held at the offices of the South African Unemployed People's Movement, 7 October 2009
- At Court for the Kennedy Eight, 8 October 2009
- Picture the Homeless Protest, New York City, 9 October 2009
- Screening of A Place in the City, Musgrave Centre, 10 October 2009
- Victory in the Constitutional Court, 14 October 2009
- Victory Against the Slums Act in the Constitutional Court, 14 October 2009
- A Memorial Service for Bongo Dlamini at the Motala Heights Creche, 23 October 2009
- Savage Police Attack on the Pemary Ridge Settlement, 13 November 2009
- Prayer Meeting Outside the Durban Magistrate's Court Before the 6th Bail Hearing for the Kennedy Thirteen, 18 November 2009
- At Court for the Kennedy 13 on 27 November 2009: 7 Released on Bail, 1 Released All Charges Dropped, 5 Remain in Custody
- Solidarity March in Johannesburg, 5 December 2009
- Order of the Holy Nativity Awarded to S'bu Zikode, 16 December 2009
- Riverside Transit Camp, 27 December 2009
- Ridge View Transit Camp in Chesterville, February 2010
- AbM Meeting at the Richmond Farm Transit Camp, Siyanda, 21 February 2010
- AbM Meeting in Tumbleweed Farm – Howick, 24 February 2010
- Community Meeting in Motala Heights, B Section, 28 February 2010
- River Side Tranist Camp, February 2010
- AbM Meeting at the Richview Transit Camp, Sunday 14 March 2010
- AbM Meeting at the Riverside Transit Camp, Sunday 14 March 2010
- There are pictures of the March on Jacob Zuma here, here and here, 22 March 2010
- Mondiali al contrario – Il social tour di Abahlali, May 2010
- AbM AGM, 26 June 2010
- Solidarity Protest in Support of AbM at the South African Embassy in Moscow, 9 July 2010
- The Kennedy Five Released on Bail, 12 July 2010
- Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League Camp, 30-31 July 2010
- S'bu Zikode's Chicago Visit, November 6th to November 9th 2010
- S'bu Zikode's Visit to New York City, November 2010
- Ricky Govender Bulldozes the Shembe Temple in Motala Heights, 16 January 2011
- Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League, Youth Day Event, Motala Heights, 16 June 2011
- Victory in Court for the Kennedy 12!, 18 July 2011
- AbM Women's League AGM, eMmaus, 9 August 2011
- AbM Sixth Anniversary Celebration, 27 August 2011
- The Rebellion of the Poor Comes to Grahamstown: A photographic essay on the UPM by Tim Gabb, September 2011
- March on the Mahogany Ridge 2 Property Owners Association, eMmause, Pinetown, 19 October 2011
- March to Demand the Resignation of Nigel Gumede, 5 November 2011
- Second March to Demand the Resignation of Nigel Gumede, 24 November 2011
- Kennedy Road Burns Again – 3 April 2012
- Thembi Zungu (RIP), April 2012
- Election of an Interim Committee for AbM Western Cape, QQ Section, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, Sunday 22 April 2012
- Umlazi Protest, 8 June 2012
- Youth Day Sports Event, 16 June 2012
- Repression in Umlazi, June 2012
- Community Meeting, Zakheleni Shack Settlement, Umlazi, Saturday 30 June
- Abahlali rises up to stop corruption and forced removals in Langa TRAS, 6 July 2012
- Marikana Massacre Memorial Service, Emmanuel Cathedral, Durban 25 August 2012
- KwaNdengezi Protest to Councillor Ngcobo of Ward 12, 31 August 2012
- Residents of Joe Slovo and Langa TRA erupt in protest against corrupt housing officials and community leaders, 6 September 2012
- Heritage Day, 24 September 2012
- Launch of the KwaNdengezi Abahlali baseMjondolo Branch, 18 November 2012
- AbM Women's League Marches into the Durban City Hall, 6 March 2013
- Welcome to Hell: A march through the SA townships – Cape Town, 30 March 2013
- Inauguration of the new branch committee of Khakhama in Dududu, 14 April 2013
- UnFreedom Day 2013 in Cape Town, 27 April 2013
- UnFreedom Day 2013 in Durban, 28 April 2013
- The Marikana Land Occupation Evicted, 28 March 2013
- The Marikana Land Occupation – evicted again, (Workers Day – 1 May, 2013)
- Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League – launch of the Palmiet Branch, Ward 23, 5 May 2013
- March on Parliament in Protest at the Illegal and Violent Destruction of the Marikana Land Occupation, 9 May 2013
- The Marikana Land Occupation, 16 May 2013
- Abahlali baseMjondolo meeting, Kennedy Road Shack Settlement, Clare Estate, Durban, 11 June 2013
- Protest in Support of Turkish Democrats, 14 June 2013
- Abahlali baseSiyanda March Again, 12 July 2013
- March on the Durban City Hall to Defend Dignity and Demand Land & Housing, 16 September 2013
There are also some miscellaneous photos, beginning with No Land No House No Vote – first in a large album of photos.
Aoibheann O'Sullivan produced the first documentary about Abahlali, a 16 minute film, back in 2005. You can watch "Kennedy Road and the Councillor" by clicking here.
For raw footage of the 3 December 2006 protest against the NGO take over of the Social Movements Indaba shot by Antonis Vradis click here. Fazel Khan and Sally Gilles also have many hours of footgage from the 2005 meeting and Khan and Vradis are working on a film about Abahlali and the SMI.
Also, check Giles and Khan's 21 minute documentary – Breyani and the Councillor – and these clips from local news.
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Giles and Khan's most recent film is Nayager Falls, Abahlali Rises, and it's available below. This version doesn't include the wonderful footage of the release of the Kennedy 6 (on bail) but that will be added soon. Since this march on Nayager there has been a marked improvement in the behaviour of the Sydenham police.
Ben Cashdan, South Africa's acclaimed documentarist, has made a film for the Open Democracy Advice Centre about Abahlali baseMjondolo's attempts to find out what the city has in store for them. Watch all three parts of the video here.
NEW: Click here, to watch Dear Mandela at YouTube, a six minute film by the lovely people at Sleeping Giant Films, 17 February 2008, or click on the \'play button below to watch it here. (You can also click here to watch a slightly longer version at YouTube.)
Kennedy Road Fire 1 August 2008
Jenny Morgan's film, A Place in the City (November, 2008) is available from Fahamu and an excerpt is available at YouTube.
On May 14, Abahlali baseMjondolo traveled from the shacks of Durban to South Africa's Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. In a landmark case they argued that a provincial law known as the 'Slums Act' violates the constitution. They were joined at the court by the Anti-Eviction Campaign, the Landless Peoples Movement, the Rural Network and AbM Western Cape.
This is a mobile update from Christopher Nizza and Dara Kell, who are in South Africa on their first production shoot for the feature documentary film 'Dear Mandela'.
Music by Cupha Mbonambi.
Sleeping Giant 2009
Elkartasun Bideak has made a whole collection of short films on Abahlali baseMjondolo (and other movements here and around the world – like the Rural Network and MST). Click here and here to see some more of his work. He has also completed a recent film on the eMacambini project. Two of his films on AbM are below.
Txaboletan bizi direnak from elkartasunbideak on Vimeo.
New video has been put together from the scene at Kennedy Road. Eyewitnesses to the menacing mob on Saturday night directly contradict both the official ANC story that 'Abahlali-connected people' perpetrated the attack and the ridiculous comment by Ward Councilor Yakoob Baig that the community is 'terrified of Abahlali'. The slightest scrutiny reveals that in fact Abahlali was the target of the vicious 36 hours plus of deadly mob violence. In the 3 days since at least 4 people have been killed, many injured and over 1,000 have been displaced from the settlement under threats of violence. Their safe return has no secure guarantee and has not even been addressed by the ANC or police. The ANC's persistent support and connection to the actual attackers proves that the government is at a minimum complicit in the violence. At the moment no member of the armed mob these witnesses were threatened by has been arrested while 8 unarmed members of the Kennedy Road safety committee, which was protecting Abahlali members that night, are in police custody facing possible murder charges. Abahlali President S'bu Zikode and Vice President Lindela Figlan remain refugees, unable to return to their homes at Kennedy Road while the armed mob holding death threats over their heads roams free to terrorize the remaining residents at the settlement. In fact anyone with even the most cursory connection to Abahlali, for example the ladies who cook for children in the crèche near the Abahlali office are being threatened and forced to leave. Please watch this video as it is an important counter to the blatant lies being peddled by the ANC and swallowed whole by much of the South African media. You can watch on YouTube here.
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