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Abahlali baseMjondolo Takes the Minister of Police to Court to Account for Police Repression in Durban

4 December 2012
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Abahlali baseMjondolo Takes the Minister of Police to Court to Account for Police Repression in Durban

On the 12th of September 2006 S'bu Zikode and Philani Zungu, then the chairperson and deputy chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo, were arrested on their way to a radio interview and subject to severe assault in the Sydenham Police Station. When people in the nearby Kennedy Road shack settlement rallied in support of Zikode and Zungu they were attacked by the police and Nondumiso Mke was shot in her knee with live ammunition. The arrest and assault from police at the hands of the police was highly politicised and followed intimidation from senior politicians that including a warning that the movement must stop its communication with the media. For background to this see the statement online at http://abahlali.org/node/72

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12 & 13 September 2006: S'bu Zikode & Philani Zungu arrested, bound and beaten by Nayager and released

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Wed, 2007-06-13 23:15. Glen Nayager | Nondumiso Mke | Philani Zungu | police | S'bu Zikode

12 & 13 September 2006: S'bu Zikode & Philani Zungu arrested, bound and beaten by Nayager and released

Update: Click here to see Niren Tolsi's article in the Mail & Guardian

http://www.sundaytribune.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3440988

Democracy Takes a Beating in Durban
(Sunday Tribune, 17 September 2006)

Abahlali baseMjondolo is the shackdwellers’ movement that grew out of a protest organised from the Kennedy Road settlement in Clare Estate on Saturday 19 March 2005. The protest was organised after a piece of nearby land long promised for housing was suddenly sold off to a developer. On that day Alfred Mdletshe told Fred Kockott, the first journalist on the scene, that ‘We are tired of living and walking in shit. The council must allocate land for housing us. Instead they are giving it to property developers to make money’. The movement that grew out of this first protest quickly spread to nearby settlements, and then across Durban and on to Pinetown and Pietermaritzburg. Abahlali now have members in more than 30 settlements.

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Democracy Takes a Beating in Durban

Democracy Takes a Beating in Durban

Richard Pithouse, Sunday Tribune, 3 September 2006

Abahlali baseMjondolo is the shackdwellers’ movement that grew out of a protest organised from the Kennedy Road settlement in Clare Estate on Saturday 19 March 2005. The protest was organised after a piece of nearby land long promised for housing was suddenly sold off to a developer. On that day Alfred Mdletshe told Fred Kockott, the first journalist on the scene, that ‘We are tired of living and walking in shit. The council must allocate land for housing us. Instead they are giving it to property developers to make money’. The movement that grew out of this first protest quickly spread to nearby settlements, and then across Durban and on to Pinetown and Pietermaritzburg. Abahlali now have members in more than 30 settlements.

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