http://ysa2013.mg.co.za/mnikelo-ndabankulu/

Mnikelo Ndabankulu

Mnikelo Ndabankulu is one of 12-million South Africans who “abahlali baseMjondolo” (“live in shack dwellings”), which often lack electricity, sanitation and refuse collection. In 2004 Ndabankulu migrated from the Eastern Cape to Durban in pursuit of a better life. Appalled by the squalor to which South Africa’s urban poor have been relegated, he cofounded the now national Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement (AbM).

On October 11, 2012, United Workers, the Public Justice Center, Baltimore Occupy Our Homes, and the Baltimore Right to Housing Alliance hosted a screening in Baltimore of the new documentary "Dear Mandela." The film tells the story of Abahlali baseMjondolo, South Africa's shack dweller's movement, and their fight for their homes, challenging state evictions on the streets and in the courts.

After the screening, two members of Abahlali baseMjond

Marikana Memorial Service: Praying for a Just Peace

Presider: Bishop Ebenezer Ntali
Preacher: Prof. Barney Pityana

The Cathedral of St. Michael & St. George, Grahamstown, 30 August 2012

Excerpt from The Prayers of the People

Help us to shatter the structures
which prosper the rich at the expense of the poor
so that all people of this land
may experience economic emancipation

The service was followed by a march on the local police station.

Isolezwe, 14/01/2011

Abaxoshwe ovilavoco abasincisha izindlu zemixhaso

MHLELI: Ngiphe ngiphawule esitatimendeni esikhishwe uNgqongqoshe woMnyango Wezokuhlaliswa kwabantu kuzwe lonke uMnuz Tokyo Sexwale mhla zingu-11 kwephezulu, malunga nodaba lwezifundazwe ezihlulekile ukusebenzisa izimali zokwakhelwa abantu izindlu.

Kulezi zifundazwe kubalwe iKwaZuluNatal, iWestern Cape, Free State ne-Eastern Cape.

I-KwaZulu-Natal ingenye yalezi zifundazwe ezine ezihlulekile ukusebenzisa imali zaze zayibuyisela emuva kuhulumeni omkhulu noma zihlulekile ukuletha amapulani aphusile asho ukuthi ahlele ukuyithuthukisa kanjani imiphakathi ngezindlu.

Ivangeli Akuyona Into Yokuzicebisa

Mhleli ngithintwa isikhalo sabanye babazalwane malunga nodaba lweNtsunami (N.J. Sithole) neZakhe. Engifuna ukukuveza nami ngingumzalwane kodwa uma abazalwane bethatha isiqumo sokuqalekisa Ilanga nezintatheli lokho ngabe kungcono uma i argument yabo ithi ilanga linamanga hayi ngoba libhale iqiniso abangahambisani nalo yingakho siwumphakathi singahambisani nokuthi izintatheli ziqedelwe ilungelo lokuzimela ngale midia tribunal ngoba siyakuthokozela ukuzwa amaqiniso ngezinto zonke ezenzeka ezweni sakhile noma usopolitiki noma usomabhizinisi noba umfundisi iqoba nje uma lingasiqambeli amanga. Odabeni lomnikelo ka R78000 ivangeli alihambisani nakho njengoba lemali ingangenanga ebadleni kodwa ingene ephaketheni lakhe incwadi yabasekorinte besibili isahluko 9 ivesi 7 ikubeka kucace bha ukuthi yilowo nalowo anikele njengalokho azikhethele khona enhliziyeni yakhe kungabi ngokudabuka nangokucindezelwa ngokuba uNkulunkulu uyamthanda onikela ethokoza manje kuloludaba angikuboni ukuthokoza ngoba kwakuyimali yokugcina ethembe ukuthi umkhuleko kaMfundisi ungamsiza lapho awukathokozi uma lowo msebenzi oshiwoyo awukawutholi intokozo uyiyithola uma usuthole omunye umsebenzi. Udaba lokuqalekisa izintatheli zephepha akuhambisani nezimfundiso zikaJesu ngoba encwadini kaLuka 23 verse 34 lapho ithi khona Baba bathethelele ngoba abakwazi abakwenzayo bangaqalekisi. Okunye izinceku zami ezikukhohlwayo ukuthi iLanga lizibhalile nendaba ezihle ngo N J Sithole lapho beveza idlela abewakhipha ngayo amadimoni ezikoleni nangesikhathi ewasha bonke abafundisi abaphekwa uyena ebageza izadla njengoJesun esehamba konke lokho alinconywa ilanga ngakho. Bazalwane ivangeli phambili imali emuva imali yeminikelo ayenze imisebenzi yebadla hayi ukuthenga izimoto eziphambi namasudi abizayo. Akucace ukuthi umuntu ubizelwe ukushumayela ivangeli noma imali.

Presentation at the Development Action Group Workshop
Cape Town, 18 November 2009

by Mnikelo Ndabankulu

We Want the Full Loaf (not just a child support grant)

The Slums Act

The Slums Act first came to our ears as a Bill in 2006. The information about this Bill came to us indirectly through our sources.

It was clear that we needed to discuss this Bill as Abahlali. M'du Hlongwa and I both went to the Government Communications to ask a copy. We had two copies and we shared these copies and we analysed the Bill. We had a number of meetings where we read the Bill together going one line by one line.

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/58602

Accountability and keeping promises
An interview with Abahlali baseMjondolo
Abahlali baseMjondolo with Sokari Ekine
2009-09-10, Issue 447

Sokari Ekine recently met in London with two members of the South African shackdwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, Mnikelo Ndabankulu, a founding member and spokesperson, and Zodwa Nsibande, the general secretary of the Abahlali Youth League. In their interview they were joined by David Ntseng of the Church Land Programme, an NGO based in KwaZulu-Natal province which works on land rights issues. They discuss a range of issues from movement building and successes and the 2008 'Slums Act', to the decision not to vote in national elections and combating xenophobia in South Africa.

http://www.isolezwe.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3885242

Abasezikhundleni sebesikhohliwe

June 15, 2007 Edition 1

MHLELI: Esikhathini esingaka izwe lethu lathola inkululeko kodwa kuyacaca kahle kamhlophe ukuthi uma ungumuntu odla imbuya ngothi, unezinselelo eziningi zokuthi uzabalaze.

Lokhu ngikusho ngoba uma ubuka abaholi babahlali basemjondolo nabadayisi emgwaqeni, uthola ukudumala okukhulu.

Yibo laba bantu ababezibandankanye no-UDF (United Democratic Front) belwa nohulumeni wobadlululo. UNkulunkulu emkhulu banqoba.