Abahlali baseMjondolo - Emergency Press Release
19:22 Friday 20 November 2009

Demolitions Continue in Kennedy Road

The same mob that attacked Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Kennedy Road Development Committee on 26th September; that trashed the Abahlali office and systematically destroyed the homes of Abahlali leaders while police and politicians looked on on 27 September; and that followed the violent purge of Abahlali from the settlement by installing an ANC committee is, right now, demolishing Mondli Mbiko's home in the Kennedy Road settlement. A short while ago they demolished Mzwake Mdlalose's home.

Sunday 10:30 a.m. 11 October
Emergency Press Release

The ANC Attack on AbM Continues in Kennedy Road

The ANC is currently holding a meeting in the Kennedy Road Community Hall.

The meeting was called by Ma Mjoli who is from the Foreman Road settlement and is the secretary of the BEC of the ANC in Ward 25. There are also big men from the ANC there in their fancy cars.

A decision has been taken to demolish two more shacks after the meeting. These shacks both belong to AbM members - they are both women. The decision has been justified on the grounds that:

1. They are known AbM activists.

Click here for pictures of the rebuilding after the fire.

8 July 2009, 3:44 a.m.
Emergency Press Statement from Abahlali baseKennedy

Kennedy Road is Burning Again - The Fires Must Stop, the Settlements Must be Electrified Immediately

Our settlement is burning again. More than twenty shacks have been lost. It's too early to say if anyone has been hurt or killed in this fire.

The cause of the fire was, again, a paraffin stove which means that, in reality, the cause of the fire was again the eThekwini Municipality's inhumane refusal to provide electricity to shack dwellers or to allow us to access electricity on our own.

16 June 2009
Press Statement from Abahlali baseKennedy

Fire Devastates the Kennedy Road Settlement – At Least One Hundred Homes Destroyed

The Red Devil Must be Defeated

Today is the 16 June, Youth Day, the anniversary of the 1976 Soweto Uprising. In Johannesburg and Cape Town our comrades are struggling for the people to take this day back from the politicians.