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September 17, 2006

Abahlali baseMjondolo is the shackdwellers' movement that grew out of a protest organised from the Kennedy Road settlement in Clare Estate on Saturday, March 19, 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 the Sunday Tribune's Fred Kockott, the first journalist on the scene, "We are tired of living and walking in shit. The council must allocate land for housing us. Instead, they are giving it to developers to make money."